Soviet Adventures In The Land Of The Capitalists

Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009006231

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Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum Pdf

In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back accompanied only by their guide and chauffeur, a gregarious Russian Jewish immigrant and his American-born, Russian-speaking wife. They immortalized their journey in a popular travelogue that condemned American inequality and racism even as it marvelled at American modernity and efficiency. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs the epic journey of the two Soviet funnymen and their encounters with a vast cast of characters, ranging from famous authors, artists, poets and filmmakers to unemployed hitchhikers and revolutionaries. Using the authors' notes, US and Russian archives, and even FBI files, she reveals the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations as Ilf, Petrov and the immigrants, communists, and fellow travelers who served as their hosts, guides, and translators became creative actors in cultural exchange between the two countries.

Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : 1009009230

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Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum Pdf

"In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs their epic journey and their encounters with a vast cast of characters in order to reveal the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations between the two countries"--

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Resistance Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0909196842

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Imperialism by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin Pdf

Author : Chrystia Freeland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0316853607

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Sale of the Century by Chrystia Freeland Pdf

The final stage of the book chronicles the end of the first wave of Russia's capitalist revolution - the economic crisis which is currently rumbling through the country. This crisis, which has triggered a crash in the stockmarket and a huge devaluation of the rouble, marks the conclusion of the first foundation-laying stage of Russia's capitalist transition.

Author : Marina L. Levitina
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857727701

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Russian Americans' in Soviet Film by Marina L. Levitina Pdf

Certain aspects of American popular culture had a formative influence on early Soviet identity and aspirations. Traditionally, Soviet Russia and the United States between the 1920s and the 1940s are regarded as polar opposites on nearly every front. Yet American films and translated adventure fiction were warmly received in 1920s Russia and partly shaped ideals of the New Soviet Person into the 1940s. Cinema was crucial in propagating this new social hero. While open admiration of American film stars and heroes of literary fiction in the Soviet press was restricted from the late 1920s onwards, many positive heroes of Soviet Socialist Realist films in the 1930s and 1940s were partially a product of Soviet Americanism of the previous decade. Some of the new Soviet heroes in films of the 1930s and 1940s possessed traits noticeably evocative of the previously popular American film stars such as Douglas Fairbanks, Pearl White and Mary Pickford. Others cinematically represented the contemporary trope of the 'Russian American,' an ideal worker exemplifying the Stalinist marriage of 'Russian revolutionary sweep' with 'American efficiency. 'Russian Americans' in Soviet Film analyses the content, reception and underlying influences of over 60 Soviet and American films, the book explores new territory in Soviet cinema and Soviet-American cultural relations. It presents groundbreaking archival research encompassing Soviet audience surveys, Soviet film journals and reviews, memoirs and articles by Soviet filmmakers, and scripts, among other sources. The book reveals that values of optimism, technological skill, efficiency and self-reliance - perceived as quintessentially American - were incorporated into new Soviet ideals through channels of cross-cultural dissemination, resulting in cultural synthesis.

Author : L. Mekhlis,Eugen Varga,Vi͡acheslav Alekseevich Karpinskiĭ
Publisher : Moscow : Foreign Languages Publishing House
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : LCCN:39015411

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The U.S.S.R. and the Capitalist Countries by L. Mekhlis,Eugen Varga,Vi͡acheslav Alekseevich Karpinskiĭ Pdf

Author : Willi Dickhut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UCSC:32106016666726

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The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union by Willi Dickhut Pdf

Author : Ellen Brun,Jacques Hersh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349113835

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Soviet-Third World Relations in a Capitalist World by Ellen Brun,Jacques Hersh Pdf

Several aspects of Soviet Third-World relations in a capitalist world are looked at in this book. These include tracing the roots of the Third World within the Marxist tradition, and discussing Soviet attitudes to the capitalist world market as they have evolved from the Bolshevik era to today.

Author : William Z. Foster,Joe Henry Mitchell
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1451573022

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Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster,Joe Henry Mitchell Pdf

Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster. THERE is a great and growing mass demand in this country to know just what is the Communist party and its program. The masses of toilers, suffering under the burdens of the crisis, are keenly discontented and want to find a way out of their intolerable situation. They are alarmed at the depth, length and general severity of the crisis. They begin to realize that "there is something rotten in Denmark," that there are fundamental flaws in the capitalist system. Their growing realization of this is further strengthened as they see the spectacular rise of Socialism in the Soviet Union. The masses are beginning rightly to sense that Communism has an important message for the human race, and they want to know what it is. Capitalism is deeply anxious that the masses do not get this message. Hence, from the outset it has carried on a campaign of falsification of the Russian revolution entirely without parallel in history. There has been a veritable ocean of lies in the capitalist press against the U.S.S.R. The American Federation of Labor leadership and the Socialist party, defenders of the capitalist system, have outdone even the capitalists themselves in this wholesale vilification. The effort of the capitalists and their labor lieutenants has been to set off the Communists as willful enemies and destroyers of the human race. But the masses begin to see through this misrepresentation and they want to know the truth.

Author : Michael Kort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : IND:30000045753500

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The Soviet Union by Michael Kort Pdf

Author : Vladimir Voĭnovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Russian fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015046850577

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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voĭnovich Pdf

A satirical novel about a Russian soldier during World War II, ridiculing numerous aspects of life in the Soviet Union.

Author : Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1635617278

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Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Ilich Lenin Pdf

Why do we fight an "endless war"? 100 years ago, V.I. Lenin answered: capitalism. In Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin explains how rich countries' thirst for profit leads to poor countries' suffering. When rival empires clash, war results. Influential and prescient, this book is integral to understanding modern foreign policy.

Author : Rimgaila Salys
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9798887193656

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The Russian Cinema Reader by Rimgaila Salys Pdf

This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volume consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. The arrangement is chronological: Volume one covers twelve films from the beginning of Russian film through the Stalin era; volume two covers twenty films from the Thaw era to the present. General introductions to each period of film history (Early Russian Cinema, Soviet Silent Cinema, Stalinist Cinema, Cinema of the Thaw, Cinema of Stagnation, Perestroika and Post-Soviet Cinema) outline its cinematic significance and provide historical context for the non-specialist reader. Essays are accompanied by suggestions for further reading. The reader will be useful both for film studies specialists and for Slavists who wish to broaden their Russian Studies curriculum by incorporating film courses or culture courses with cinematic material. Volumes one and two may be ordered separately to accommodate the timeframe and contents of courses. Volume one films: Sten’ka Razin, The Cameraman’s Revenge, The Merchant Bashkirov’s Daughter, Child of the Big City, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks, Battleship Potemkin, Bed and Sofa, Man with a Movie Camera, Earth, Chapaev, Circus, Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II. Volume two films: The Cranes are Flying, Ballad of a Soldier, Lenin’s Guard, Wings, Commissar, The Diamond Arm, White Sun of the Desert, Solaris, Stalker, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, Repentance, Little Vera, Burnt by the Sun, Brother, Russian Ark, The Return, Night Watch, The Tuner, Ninth Company, How I Ended This Summer. Authors: Birgit Beumers, Robert Bird, David Bordwell, Mikhail Brashinsky, Oksana Bulgakova, Gregory Carlson, Nancy Condee, Julian Graffy, Jeremy Hicks, Andrew Horton, Steven Hutchings, Vida Johnson, Lilya Kaganovsky, Vance Kepley, Jr., Susan Larsen, Mark Lipovetsky, Tatiana Mikhailova, Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Joan Neuberger, Vlada Petrić, Graham Petrie, Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova, Rimgaila Salys, Elena Stishova, Vlad Strukov, Yuri Tsivian, Meghan Vicks, Josephine Woll, Denise J. Youngblood

Author : Svetlana Kunin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1663206791

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Socialism and Capitalism Through the Eyes of a Soviet Émigré by Svetlana Kunin Pdf

Growing up in Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the 1950-60s, a period defined by Soviet leaders as time of "developed socialism", Svetlana believed in the greatness of socialism: fairness, equality and the benevolence of the communist leaders managing society's march toward progress. Gradually, disillusion set in as historical and contemporary events exposed the true reality behind the veil of empty words. The decision to immigrate wasn't easy. Parents, relatives, and friends were left behind. Then, in 1980, came the unexpected discovery of a new life in capitalist USA. This unusually personal story that starts in the Soviet Union and ends in the United States draws parallels between two economic and political systems and provides a missing perspective and commentary on parallels to life in the USA. In this book Svetlana makes the case for how a free market economy in the USA leads to a dramatically better life for a common person, than that of powerful centralized government as she experienced living in both the USA and the former USSR. Many articles that the author published in the Investor's Business Daily under "IBD Exclusive Commentary Series: Perspectives of a Russian Immigrant" are poignantly relevant today. They are included in the book with IBD's permission.

Author : Peter Binns,Tony Cliff,Chris Harman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014616232

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Russia by Peter Binns,Tony Cliff,Chris Harman Pdf

From Workers' State to State Capitalism.