The Motherland Of Elephants

Author : Max Fram
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781326231583

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The Motherland of Elephants by Max Fram Pdf

'Russia is the motherland of elephants' - this phrase from a Soviet-era anekdot (a peculiar genre of Russian jokes, often political, or obscene, or both) takes the mickey out of historical propaganda. The phrase is symbolic of the somewhat light-hearted approach to history, which is quintessential to this book. This is not an official history but a series of sketches, often humorous, on various aspects of Russian life over the centuries, of people, institutions, natural and political phenomena and local products of interest. The book also offers glimpses of Russia's historical relations with the West, chequered, complex and fraught with chronic mutual misunderstanding.

Author : Hsien-Jung Ho
Publisher : Newidea Research Center
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789868631922

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The Motherland of Civilization is Taiwan by Hsien-Jung Ho Pdf

The continent of Atlantis and Mu-Land, the earliest civilization that disappeared by the great Flood, has never been found, according to my paper presented at an international academic conference in early September 2005: “Mega-tsunami in northeastern Taiwan at least 12,000 years ago”, just to find out the earliest civilization lost by mankind, it can be inferred from ancient cultural relics that these two are one Taiwan Island. Another 6,000 years ago, the explosion Volcano of the Seven-Star Mountain in Taipei lasted for several years, causing Taiwan's ancestors to flee and spread to the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, forming a vast territory of the Austronesian language family. Color version, 18K, 416 Pages, 420 pictures.

Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Elephants
ISBN : 0340770813

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Africa's Elephant by Martin Meredith Pdf

"Yet elephant history has been dominated by periods of brutality and persecution. African elephants were used in ancient times to fight in wars. The Romans threw them into gladiatorial games. But, above all, it was the demand for their ivory, prized for centuries as a badge of wealth and status and used in modern times to manufacture piano keys and billiard balls, that has made Africa's elephants one of the most vulnerable animals on earth. In the late twentieth century, the onslaught was so severe that the African elephant was placed on the list of endangered species."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Viktor Shklovsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501310386

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Viktor Shklovsky by Viktor Shklovsky Pdf

Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) was both patriarch and enfant terrible of Formalism, a literary and film scholar, a fiction writer and the protagonist of other people's novels, instructor of an armored division and professor at the Art History Institute, revolutionary and counterrevolutionary. His work was deeply informed by his long and eventful life. He wrote for over seventy years, both as a very young man in the wake of the Russian revolution and as a ninety-year old, never tiring of analyzing the workings of literature. Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader is the first book that collects crucial writings from across Shklovsky's career, serving as an entry point for first-time readers. It presents new translations of key texts, interspersed with excerpts from memoirs and letters, as well as important work that has not appeared in English before.

Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030516482

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The Travels of Robert Lyall, 1789–1831 by Gwyn Campbell Pdf

This book explores the life of Robert Lyall, surgeon, botanist, voyager, British Agent to the court of Madagascar. Born the year of the French Revolution, Lyall grew up in politically radical Paisley, Scotland, before studying medicine, in Edinburgh, Manchester, and subsequently St. Petersburg, Russia. His criticism of the Tsar and Russian aristocracy led to an abrupt departure for London where Lyall became the voice of liberalism and calls for political reform, before appointed British Resident Agent in Madagascar in 1827, representing the interests of the Tory establishment that he had hitherto so roundly castigated. However, Lyall discovered that the Malagasy crown had turned against the British alliance of 1820, his scientific pursuits alienated the local elite, and his efforts to re-establish British influence antagonized the queen, Ranavalona I, who accused Lyall of sorcery and forced him and his burgeoning family to leave for Mauritius where he died an untimely death, of malaria, in 1831.

Author : Ben Lewis
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781780220758

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Hammer And Tickle by Ben Lewis Pdf

The book that immerses the Cold War in the warm bath of nostalgia. Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always 2-ply? A: Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow. Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the 80 years of political experimentation in Russia and Eastern Europe, known as Communism. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries - surrounded by an invisible network of secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labour, confronted by an economic system that left shops empty, and bombarded with ludicrous state propaganda - turned joke-telling into an art form. They used jokes as a coded way of speaking the truth. HAMMER AND TICKLE takes us on a unique journey through the Communist era (1917-1989), and tells its real history through subversive jokes and joke-tellers, many of whom ended up in the gulags. It is also illustrated with a combination of rare and previously unpublished archive material, political cartoons, caricatures, photographs and state-sponsored propaganda. Humorous, culturally poignant and historically revealing, this is the story of a political system that was (almost) laughed out of existence.

Author : Eliot Borenstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501769900

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Soviet Self-Hatred by Eliot Borenstein Pdf

Soviet Self-Hatred examines the imaginary Russian identities that emerged following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Eliot Borenstein shows how these identities are best understood as balanced on a simple axis between pride and shame, shifting in response to Russia's standing in the global community, its anxieties about internal dissension and foreign threats, and its stark socioeconomic inequalities. Through close readings of Russian fiction, films, jokes, songs, fan culture, and Internet memes, Borenstein identifies and analyzes four distinct types with which Russians identify or project onto others. They are the sovok (the Soviet yokel); the New Russian (the despised, ridiculous nouveau riche), the vatnik (the belligerent, jingoistic patriot), and the Orc (the ultraviolent savage derived from a deliberate misreading of Tolkien's epic). Through these contested identities, Soviet Self-Hatred shows how stories people tell about themselves can, tragically, become the stories that others are forced to live.

Author : Christopher Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735233980

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The Zoo by Christopher Wilson Pdf

Patrick deWitt meets Catch 22, when a guileless young boy gets mixed up in Stalin's inner circle. There are certain things that Yuri Zipit knows: 1. That being official food-taster for the Great Leader of the Soviet Union requires him to drink too much vodka for a twelve-year-old. 2. That you do not have to be an Elephantologist to see that the Great Leader is dying. 3. Yuri's father is somewhere here in the Dacha. 4. It's a crime to love your family more than you love Socialism, the Party or the Republic. 5. That, because of his damaged mind, everyone thinks Yuri is a fool. But Yuri isn't. He sits quietly through excessive state dinners and witnesses it all--betrayals, body doubles, buffoonery. He's starting to get the hang of this politics thing, but there's so much to learn. Who knew that a man could be in five places at once? That someone could break your nose as a sign of friendship? That people could be disinvented? The Zoo is a cutting satire, told through the refreshing voice of one gutsy boy who will not give up on hope.

Author : Valery Dunaevsky
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781503574908

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A Daughter of the "Enemy of the People" by Valery Dunaevsky Pdf

The title of my book A Daughter of the 'Enemy of the People' reflects a situation of the 1930's in the USSR when in the height of the Stalin purges millions of the innocent people were arrested and labeled 'The Enemies of the people.' My maternal grandfather happened to be one of the hapless victims of that witch hunt. In the book I am addressing the related events of the Stalin repressions, WWII, Holocaust, emigration from the USSR and immigration to the USA. The book is dedicated to my late mother, 19202010, and her life is shown in connection with mine and some of my other relatives. Particularly I am outlining there my maternal grandmother who was a free lance playwright and poetess. Also, the book gave me an opportunity to highlight the image of my maternal uncle Vitold Shmulian. He was a mathematics doctor who served as an artillery officer in the Soviet Army, and despite the hardship of war he was able to continue his mathematical studies. And literally from the trenches of war he sent his treatises back into the USSR academy of science. He was killed at the liberation of Warsaw. He is still well known in the mathematical circles. His name could be found in the Internet. (His name can also be found under the title The theorem of Krein-Shmulian). My mother was from Odessa and father was from Rostov-on -Don where they lived before the war. In October of 1941 they were able to escape the approaching German army. Rostov was taken by the Germans on Nov. 21 but in few days it was recaptured by the Soviet Army. During their stay in Rostov, the Nazis immediately initiated anti-Jewish actions, but they were small in scale. In July of 1942 Rostov fell to Germans the second time. At that time the mass atrocities were committed against Jewish population and against many other segments of civil population and prisoners of war. My book captures some of these events. One of the main goals of the book is to show interesting and good people (who happened to be my relatives) and who could serve as role models for younger generation.

Author : Vladimir Voinovich
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810126626

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A Displaced Person by Vladimir Voinovich Pdf

A Displaced Person follows a series of random events that brings Chonkin to the United States, where he becomes a farmer and, eventually, a member of a congressional delegation sent to the Soviet Union in 1989, during perestroika, to discuss agriculture with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Author : Max Fram
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780244998189

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Vipers of New Rome by Max Fram Pdf

This is an unconventional non-fiction story of the somewhat stereotypical 'evil empresses' of Constantinople Ð Eirene, Theophano and Zoe - presented in the historical context of the successively emerging, flourishing and declining Byzantine Empire. This is a thrilling tale of three ambitious women and, at the same time, a dark story of three highly controversial individuals, who may have loved their husbands and children but intrigued, betrayed, poisoned, maimed and killed for power. This is also the story of the imperial court and the Great Palace, of New Rome - Constantinople, medieval Europe's greatest metropolis, and its people. This is a study of Byzantine society and its dominant power players Ð the imperial family, the arrogant military, the fractious clergy and the ever-conspiring eunuch bureaucracy. More than anything, this book is about people who lived and breathed in early medieval times.

Author : Choi Chatterjee,Lisa A. Kirschenbaum,Deborah A. Field
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317221234

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Russia's Long Twentieth Century by Choi Chatterjee,Lisa A. Kirschenbaum,Deborah A. Field Pdf

Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia's Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history and encourages students to analyse the ways in which citizens learnt to live within its system and create distinctly Soviet identities from its structures and ideologies. Chronologically organised but moving beyond the traditional Cold War framework, this book covers topics such as the accelerating social, economic and political shifts in the Russian empire before the Revolution of 1905, the construction of the socialist order under Bolshevik government, and the development of a new state structure, political ideology and foreign policy in the decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The authors highlight the polemics and disagreements that energize the field, discussing interpretations from Russian, émigré, and Western historiographies and showing how scholars diverge sharply in their understanding of key events, historical processes, and personalities. Each chapter contains a selection of primary sources and discussion questions, engaging with the voices and experiences of ordinary Soviet citizens and familiarizing students with the techniques of source criticism. Illustrated with images and maps throughout, this book is an essential introduction to twentieth-century Russian history.

Author : Vladimir Rybakov
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780741425294

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Creature by Vladimir Rybakov Pdf

Andr has an ostensible job and identity and quite another in fact. He loves, but is not loved back. Corpses pile up. His destiny and that of several countries intertwine.

Author : Jack Churchward
Publisher : Ozark Mountain Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781886940178

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Lifting the Veil on the Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Men by Jack Churchward Pdf

A re-issue of the 1926 classic by James Churchward, The Lost Continent of Mu: Motherland of Men supplemented with fresh research and new material by the author's great-grandson. In the 1920s, James Churchward wrote a series of groundbreaking books about the lost continent of Lemuria which he called the land of Mu. The basic premises are these: • The Garden of Eden was not in Asia, but on a sunken continent in the Pacific Ocean. • The Biblical story of creation came not from the peoples of the Nile, but from this now submerged continent of Mu—the Motherland of Men. • Mu was an advanced civilization of 64 million inhabitants… He obtained the information by living with monks and translating unknown manuscripts. Over the years, his books have come to be considered occult classics. Now his great-grandson, Jack Churchward, has resurrected this valuable work and added his own research. Included: · The Lost Continent · The Land of Man’s Advent on Earth · Egyptian Sacred Volume, Book of the Dead · Symbols of Mu · North American’s Place Among the Ancient Civilizations · The Geological History of Mu · Ancient Religious Conceptions · Ancient Sacred Mysteries, Rites and Ceremonies

Author : Jerrold L. Schecter,Leona Schecter
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014307915

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Back in the U.S.S.R. by Jerrold L. Schecter,Leona Schecter Pdf