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Author : Miklos Peti
Publisher : Literature and Translation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1787358542
Author : Miklós Péti
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781787358539
Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain provides a detailed survey of the key responses to Milton’s work in Hungarian state socialism. The four decades between 1948 and 1989 saw a radical revision of previous critical and artistic positions and resulted in the emergence of some characteristically Eastern European responses to Milton’s works. Critical and artistic appraisals of Milton’s works in the communist era proved more controversial than receptions of other major Western authors: on the one hand, Milton’s participation in the Civil War earned him the title of a ‘revolutionary hero,’ on the other hand, religious aspects of his works were often disregarded and sometimes proactively suppressed. Ranging through all the genres of Milton’s oeuvre as well as the critical tradition, the book highlights these diverging responses and places them in the wider context of socialist cultural policy. In addition, the author presents the full Hungarian script of the 1970 theatrical performance of Milton’s Paradise Lost, the first of its kind since the work’s publication, including a parallel English translation, which enables a deeper reflection on Milton’s original theodicy and its possible interpretations in communist Hungary.
Author : Robert F. Ober
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781425778460
"Readers will discover the failures of Kissinger ́s policy of detente in the early 1970s, the mistaken departure from Carter ́s balanced policy toward China and the USSR, and the near-collapse of the embassy due to intelligence failures"-Foreign Service Journal. "Ober ́s book recounts it all, along with the personalities and events of the time now mostly forgotten: dissidents and refuseniks, Victor and Jennifer Louis, Nina and Ed Stevens, U.S.-Soviet summits, microwaves, bugged buildings and typewriters, fires, spy dust and spy mania . . . It ́s all there, the pageant of U.S. Embassy Moscow 1970-90, a place so unlike today ́s walled air-conditioned, high-rise embassy fortress a block away as to beggar the imagination."-Richard Gilbert, AmericanDiplomacy.org "You have wonderfully captured the way things were in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ́80s. I don ́t know anyone who has done it better."-Donald Connery, former Time-Life correspondent, Moscow. "Together with much wisdom about American diplomacy, this rich memoir provides keen insight into Russian thinking and behavior"-George Feifer, "The Girl from Petrovka".
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015035993958
Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104236221
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Mutual security program, 1951-
ISBN : MINN:31951D035901131
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1764 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Mutual security program, 1951-
ISBN : UCAL:B3637002
Author : Antonina Duridanova
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781649521101
Burning with desire to share the value of freedom, Antonina takes you from her plight in communist Bulgaria to the free shores of America. Following unfortunate events of life in a totalitarian regime in Bulgaria, Antonina bids goodbye to her homeland and flees to the Western world. She provides true experiences and observations of what life is in a communist society-her family's lands and cattle being confiscated by the agricultural labor cooperatives; the censorship of the press and any literal, artistic, and scientific works from the West; religion being prohibited; and any deviation from the norm leading to detention in a labor camp. Her last crossing of the Bulgarian-Yugoslavian border almost costs Antonina her life and makes up her mind to never go back. She describes her life as an immigrant at the refugee camp in Traiskirchen, Austria, while waiting for an American visa. Antonina is ecstatic when the plane cruises over the Statue of Liberty and lands in the most amazing city in the world-New York. She describes how she could taste, smell, feel, and touch freedom as she gets off the plane, ready to embark on new adventures. Antonina gets educated and becomes a good specialist in taxation, working for the United States Treasury Department. Ultimately, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she is invited to go back to Bulgaria and fix a broken tax system as a representative of the United States government. Her work in the newly democratic society of Bulgaria paved the way for the country to become a member of NATO, escaping Soviet influence, and later being accepted in the family of the European Union. 20
Author : Peter Sís
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0329643282
"I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side-the Communist side-of the Iron Curtain." Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news from the West slowly filtered into the country. Sís learned about beat poetry, rock 'n' roll, blue jeans, and Coca-Cola. He let his hair grow long, secretly read banned books, and joined a rock band. Then came the Prague Spring of 1968, and for a teenager who wanted to see the world and meet the Beatles, this was a magical time. It was short-lived, however, brought to a sudden and brutal end by the Soviet-led invasion. But this brief flowering had provided a glimpse of new possibilities-creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed. By joining memory and history, Sis takes us on his extraordinary journey: from infant with paintbrush in hand to young man borne aloft by the wings of his art.--Publisher information.
Author : Carry van Bruggen
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781787353305
Eva, a 1927 novel by Dutch writer Carry van Bruggen, is an experiment in depicting a woman’s life from girlhood to marriage, and beyond, to sexual freedom and independence. At the same time, the narrative expresses Eva’s dawning sense of self and expanding subjectivity through a stream of consciousness told by a shifting narrator. Burdened all of her life by feelings of shame, at the end of the novel Eva overcomes this legacy of her upbringing and declares that it is ‘bodily desire that makes love acceptable’. Carry van Bruggen’s rich and varied language conveys Eva’s experience of the world. Powerful memories of an orthodox Jewish childhood pervade the novel with its fluid sense of time. As Eva puts it, ‘I let these years slip through my fingers like a stream of dry, glinting sand.’ Jane Fenoulhet makes this important modernist novel accessible to English readers for the first time. While it can be described as a becoming-woman of both Eva and her creator, so can the translation be seen as the translator’s own becoming, as Fenoulhet explains in the accompanying commentary, where she also describes the challenges of translating van Bruggen’s dynamic, intense narrative. For Fenoulhet, translation is more a matter of personal engagement with the novel than a matter of word choice and style. In this way, the emotional and intellectual life of the main character is re-enacted through translation.
Author : Malgorzata Fidelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197643402
The Sixties occupy a prominent place in popular culture and scholarship as an era of global upheavals, including the Civil Rights Movement, de-colonization, radical social movements, student and youth protests, and the Vietnam War. This pioneering book explores the seemingly isolated Eastern bloc and a non-capitalist context, demonstrating the impact of those global upheavals on young people in Poland in the form of international youth culture, protest movements, and counterculture.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. b Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCBK:C051765141
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Refugees
ISBN : LOC:00186593819
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Refugees
ISBN : UCSD:31822019216704
