The Englishman From Lebedian

Author : J. A. E. Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1618112805

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The Englishman from Lebedian' by J. A. E. Curtis Pdf

After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history, despite the central role he had played in the cultural life of Russia’s northern capital for nearly twenty years. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, his writings have gradually been rediscovered in Russia, but with his archives scattered between Russia, France, and the USA, the project of reconstructing the story of his life has been a complex task. This book, the first full biography of Zamiatin in any language, draws upon his extensive correspondence and other documents in order to provide an account of his life which explores his intimate preoccupations, as well as uncovering the political and cultural background to many of his works. It reveals a man of strong will and high principles, who negotiated the political dilemmas of his day—including his relationship with Stalin—with great shrewdness.

Author : Julie A. E. Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1618116924

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The Englishman from Lebedian' by Julie A. E. Curtis Pdf

Author : Susan Smith-Peter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004353510

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Imagining Russian Regions by Susan Smith-Peter Pdf

This volume shows how ideas of civil society encouraged the growth of subnational identity in Russia before 1861.

Author : Yasha Klots
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501768989

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Tamizdat by Yasha Klots Pdf

Tamizdat offers a new perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story of the contraband manuscripts sent from the USSR to the West. A word that means publishing "over there," tamizdat manuscripts were rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication in the Soviet Union and were smuggled through various channels and printed outside the country, with or without their authors' knowledge. Yasha Klots demonstrates how tamizdat contributed to the formation of the twentieth-century Russian literary canon: the majority of contemporary Russian classics first appeared abroad long before they saw publication in Russia. Examining narratives of Stalinism and the Gulag, Klots focuses on contraband manuscripts in the 1960s and 70s, from Khrushchev's Thaw to Stagnation under Brezhnev. Klots revisits the traditional notion of late Soviet culture as a binary opposition between the underground and official state publishing. He shows that even as tamizdat represented an alternative field of cultural production in opposition to the Soviet regime and the dogma of Socialist Realism, it was not devoid of its own hierarchy, ideological agenda, and even censorship. Tamizdat is a cultural history of Russian literature outside the Iron Curtain. The Russian literary diaspora was the indispensable ecosystem for these works. Yet in the post-Stalin years, they also served as a powerful weapon on the cultural fronts of the Cold War, laying bare the geographical, stylistic, and ideological rifts between two disparate yet inextricably intertwined fields of Russian literature, one at home, the other abroad.

Author : Masha Karp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788317146

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George Orwell and Russia by Masha Karp Pdf

For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp – Russian Features Editor at the BBC World Service for over a decade – explores how Orwell's work was received in Russia, when it percolated into the country even under censorship. Suggesting a new approach to the controversial 'Orwell's list' of 1949, Karp puts into context the articles and letters written by Orwell at the time. She sheds light on how the ideas of totalitarianism exposed in Orwell's writing took root in Russia and, in doing so, helps us to understand the contemporary political reality. As Vladimir Putin's actions continue to shock the West, it is clear we are witnessing the next transformation of totalitarianism, as predicted and described by Orwell. Now, over 70 years after Orwell's death, his writing, at least as far as Russia is concerned, remains as timely and urgent as it has ever been.

Author : Yevgeny Zamyatin
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770487222

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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Pdf

Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel We is one of the great classics of dystopian fiction. Experimental and provocative in both style and content, it was the first major literary work to be banned in the Soviet Union. This critical edition features an entirely new annotated translation, as well as an introduction, contextual materials, and images related to the text.

Author : Vladimir Wozniuk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611461794

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The Annotated We by Vladimir Wozniuk Pdf

This new translation is the first and only fully annotated version of Evgeny Zamiatin’s classic novel We in English. The annotations scrutinize Zamiatin’s use of language, suggest many previously unacknowledged sources for his playfulness, and provide commentary about the broad array of diverse allusions in the novel.

Author : J.A.E. Curtis
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644692950

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A Reader’s Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita by J.A.E. Curtis Pdf

Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin’s Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty. Readers are often left tantalized but uncertain how to understand its rich meanings. To what extent is it political? Or religious? And how should we interpret the Satanic Woland? This reader’s companion offers readers a biographical introduction, and analyses of the structure and the main themes of the novel. More curious readers will also enjoy the accounts of the novel’s writing and publication history, alongside analyses of the work’s astonishing linguistic complexity and a review of available English translations.

Author : Adam Stock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317326922

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Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought by Adam Stock Pdf

Over the past few years, ‘dystopia’ has become a word with increasing cultural currency. This volume argues that we live in dystopian times, and more specifically that a genre of fiction called "dystopia" has, above others, achieved symbolic cultural value in representing fears and anxieties about the future. As such, dystopian fictions do not merely mirror what is happening in the world: in becoming such a ready referent for discussions about such varied topics as governance, popular culture, security, structural discrimination, environmental disasters and beyond, the narrative conventions and generic tropes of dystopian fiction affect the ways in which we grapple with contemporary political problems, economic anxieties and social fears. The volume addresses the development of the narrative methods and generic conventions of dystopian fiction as a mode of socio-political critique across the first half of the twentieth century. It examines how a series of texts from an age of political extremes contributed to political discourse and rhetoric both in its contemporary setting and in the terms in which we increasingly cast our cultural anxieties. Focusing on interactions between temporality, spatiality and narrative, the analysis unpicks how the dystopian interacts with social and political events, debates and ideas, Stock evaluates modern dystopian fiction as a historically responsive mode of political literature. He argues that amid the terrors and upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century, dystopian fiction provided a unique space for writers to engage with historical and contemporary political thought in a mode that had popular cultural appeal. Combining literary analysis informed by critical theory and the history of political thought with archival-based historical research, this volume works to shed new light on the intersection of popular culture and world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars in literary studies, cultural and intellectual history, politics and international relations.

Author : Galya Diment
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783089925

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H.G. Wells and All Things Russian by Galya Diment Pdf

H. G. Wells and All Things Russian is a fertile terrain for research and this volume will be the first to devote itself entirely to the theme. Wells was an astute student of Russian literature, culture and history, and the Russians, in turn, became eager students of Wells’s views and works. During the Soviet years, in fact, no significant foreign author was safer for Soviet critics to praise than H. G. Wells. The reason was obvious. He had met – and largely approved of – Lenin, was a close friend of the Soviet literary giant Maxim Gorky and, in general, expressed much respect for Russia’s evolving Communist experiment, even after it fell into Stalin’s hands. While Wells’s attitude towards the Soviet Union was, nevertheless, often ambivalent, there is definitely nothing ambiguous about the tremendous influence his works had on Russian literary and cultural life.

Author : Anne de Courcy
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474617444

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Five Love Affairs and a Friendship by Anne de Courcy Pdf

Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the poets and novelists of the twenties. Born into a life of wealth and privilege, yet one in which she barely saw her parents, Nancy rebelled against expectations and pursued a life in the arts. She sought the constant company of artists, writers, poets and painters, first in London's Soho and Mayfair, and then in the glamorous cafes of 1920s Paris. This is the remarkable story of Nancy's Paris life, filled with art, sex and alcohol. She became a muse to Wyndham Lewis, Constantin Brâncusi sculpted her, Man Ray photographed her and she played tennis with Ernest Hemingway. She had many love affairs, the most significant of which are included in this book: the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous Huxley and Michael Arlen, the French poet Louis Aragon and finally and controversially the black American pianist Henry Crowder, with whom she ran her printing press in Paris. She was also shaped by her lifelong friendship with George Moore, her mother's lover. This tempestuous tale of passion and intrigue is as much a portrait of twenties Paris as it is the story of an extraordinary woman who defined her age.

Author : Zachary Kendal,Aisling Smith,Giulia Champion,Andrew Milner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030278939

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Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction by Zachary Kendal,Aisling Smith,Giulia Champion,Andrew Milner Pdf

Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction explores the ethical concerns and dimensions of representations of the future of global science fiction, focusing on the issues that dominate utopian, dystopian and science fiction literature. The essays examine recent visions of the future in science fiction and re-examine earlier texts through contemporary lenses. Across fourteen chapters, the collection considers authors from Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the UK and USA. The volume delves into a range of ethical questions of immediate contemporary relevance, including environmental ethics, postcolonial ethics, social justice, animal ethics and the ethics of alterity.

Author : Stephen Anthony Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198734826

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Russia in Revolution by Stephen Anthony Smith Pdf

The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1917 and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, to the end of the 1920s, when Stalin simultaneously unleashed violent collectivization of agriculture and crash industrialization upon Russian society. Drawing on recent archivally-based scholarship, Russia in Revolution pays particular attention to the varying impact of the Revolution on the various groups that made up society: peasants, workers, non-Russian nationalities, the army, women and the family, young people, and the Church. In doing so, it provides a fresh way into the big, perennial questions about the Revolution and its consequences: why did the attempt by the tsarist government to implement political reform after the 1905 Revolution fail?; why did the First World War bring about the collapse of the tsarist system?; why did the attempt to create a democratic system after the February Revolution of 1917 not get off the ground?; why did the Bolsheviks succeed in seizing and holding on to power?; why did they come out victorious from a punishing civil war?; why did the New Economic Policy they introduced in 1921 fail?; and why did Stalin come out on top in the power struggle inside the Bolshevik party after Lenin's death in 1924? A final chapter then reflects on the larger significance of 1917 for the history of the twentieth century - and, for all its terrible flaws, what the promise of the Revolution might mean for us today.

Author : Carol Ueland,Ludmilla A. Trigos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793618306

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Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia by Carol Ueland,Ludmilla A. Trigos Pdf

The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures in the series is a case study for continuities and changes in Russian national identity over time. Biography in Russia and elsewhere remains a most influential literary genre and the distinctive approach and branding of the series has made it the economic engine of its publisher, Molodaia gvardiia. The centrality of biographies of major literary figures in the series reflects their heightened importance in Russian culture. The contributors examine the ways that biographies of Russia's foremost writers shaped the literary canon while mirroring the political and social realities of both the subjects’ and their biographers' times. Starting with Alexander Pushkin and ending with Joseph Brodsky, the authors analyze the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narrative, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of political censorship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1737
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096618376

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The Englishman by Anonim Pdf