The New Tsar

✏Book Title : The New Tsar
✏Author : Steven Lee Myers
✏Publisher : Simon and Schuster
✏Release Date : 2015-09-24
✏Pages : 592
✏ISBN : 9781471130656
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The New Tsar Book Summary : An epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders. Former New York TimesMoscow Bureau Chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Putin since well before the recent events in the Ukraine, and gives us the fullest and most engaging account available of his rise to power. A gripping, page-turning narrative about Russian power and prestige, the book depicts a cool and calculating leader with enormous ambition and few scruples. As the world struggles to confront a newly assertive Russia, the importance of understanding Putin has never been greater. Vladimir Putin rose out of Soviet deprivation to the pinnacle of influence in the new Russian nation. He came to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes and expanding property rights, bringing a measure of order and eventually prosperity to millions whose only experience of democracy in the early years following the Soviet collapse was instability, poverty and criminality. But soon Putin orchestrated the preservation of a new kind of authoritarianism, consolidating power, reasserting his country's might, brutally crushing revolts and swiftly dispatching dissenters, even as he retained the support of many.

✏Book Title : Vladimir Putin Biography The Rise of the New Tsar How Putin Will Rule The World and The New Russian Empire The Glory of Vladimir Putin The Glory of Russia
✏Author : Chris Dicker
✏Publisher : Chris Dicker
✏Release Date :
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✏Vladimir Putin Biography The Rise of the New Tsar How Putin Will Rule The World and The New Russian Empire The Glory of Vladimir Putin The Glory of Russia Book Summary : There's hardly a person who does not heard of Vladimir Putin. Most of the Western media describe him as an aggressor, dictator and autocrat. We are going to eliminate some of the common myths about Putin and see the real Putin behind the scenes...

✏Book Title : Tsar
✏Author : Ted Bell
✏Publisher : Simon and Schuster
✏Release Date : 2009-08-06
✏Pages : 640
✏ISBN : 9781847399533
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Tsar Book Summary : Somewhere in Russia is a man so powerful that no one even knows his name. Yet though he is all but invisible, he is pulling strings - and pulling them hard. For suddenly Russia is a far bigger threat than even the most devoted Cold War warriors ever thought possible. With her finger on the switch to the European economy and her sights on the American jugular, Russia gains a new leader. Not just a president, he has been appointed Tsar, a signal to the world that the old imperial power is back - and plans to have her day. At the same time, a mysterious killer brutally murders an innocent American family, literally blowing up the small midwestern town in which they lived. Just a taste, according to the new Tsar, of what will happen if America does not step aside in preventing Russia's plans to 'reintegrate' her rogue states. Onto this nightmarish stage steps special agent extraordinaire Alex Hawke, the only man - both the British and Americans agree - who can stop the madness.

✏Book Title : Short History of Russia s First Civil War
✏Author : Chester S. L. Dunning
✏Publisher : Penn State Press
✏Release Date : 2010-11-01
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 0271045132
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Short History of Russia s First Civil War Book Summary : This book is the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of Troubles.

✏Book Title : Count Sergei Witte and the Twilight of Imperial Russia
✏Author : Sidney Harcave
✏Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
✏Release Date : 2004
✏Pages : 323
✏ISBN : 0765614227
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Count Sergei Witte and the Twilight of Imperial Russia Book Summary : "Witte's spectacular rise during the reign of Alexander III was followed by a more troubled relationship with Nicholas II, who ultimately broke with his premier in 1906. Having negotiated the Portsmouth Treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War and drafted the October Manifesto that made Russia a constitutional monarchy, Witte had worn out his welcome in the imperial court. He withdrew into an embittered retirement, worked on his memoirs, and spent his last decade - in Bernard Pares's words - "watching a set of fools demolish a mighty empire." This is the first full-scale biography of Witte in English, by the historian who edited and translated Witte's memoirs."--BOOK JACKET.

✏Book Title : Russia s First Civil War
✏Author : Chester S. L. Dunning
✏Publisher : Penn State Press
✏Release Date : 2010-11-01
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 0271043717
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Russia s First Civil War Book Summary : "Based upon exhaustive research, Russia's First Civil War is a mix of social and military history, firmly placing the Time of Troubles in the context of the waves of wars and rebellions that swept through early modern Europe and Asia."--BOOK JACKET.

✏Book Title : Russia Under the Last Tsar
✏Author : Theofanis G. Stavrou
✏Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
✏Release Date : 1969-04
✏Pages : 265
✏ISBN : 9780816605149
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Russia Under the Last Tsar Book Summary : The reign of Russia?s last tsar, Nicholas II, from 1894 to 1917, constitutes a period of continuing controversy among historians. Interesting in its own right, it is also a time of great importance to an understanding of the cataclysmic events which follo.

✏Book Title : Pushkin s Ode to Liberty
✏Author : M.A. DuVernet
✏Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
✏Release Date : 2014-12-26
✏Pages : 530
✏ISBN : 9781499052930
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Pushkin s Ode to Liberty Book Summary : Alexander Pushkin is Russia’s most beloved poet. Pushkin is a decedent of a noble family on his father’s side and on his mother’s side the great-grandson of Peter the Great’s Blackamoor slave, who was presented with his freedom and became a general in the tsar’s Navy. Pushkin’s poem “Ode to Liberty” brought hope to the Russian people during a time when other countries were defining their democracy. He is considered to be the Shakespeare of Russian literature having inspired many other writers to follow him. He was revered for his masterpiece Eugene Onegin, and like the hero in his masterpiece became changed by the woman he loved. As a poet, he was also known as the patron saint of dueling having fought many duels during his short life, often over a matter of words or women. His last duel was surrounded with mystery involving an anonymous letter accusing his wife of being unfaithful. He fought this duel to defend his wife’s honor and the mystery of the anonymous letter was never solved, until now! Explore the poetry and letters of Pushkin and read about his fascination with dueling, issues with religion, his struggles with censorship, the years he spent in exile while still serving the autocracy, his tribute to his comrades who fought in the Decembrist Uprising and his search for happiness as he finds and marries the most beautiful woman in all of Russia. Author M. A. DuVernet tells a captivating story of a black poet in Russia during the 1800’s, a man who believed in himself and became a legend in spite of the powerful few who hated him.

✏Book Title : Romanov Riches
✏Author : Solomon Volkov
✏Publisher : Knopf
✏Release Date : 2011-02-22
✏Pages : 304
✏ISBN : 9780307595522
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Romanov Riches Book Summary : In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relationship between art and the royal family. Throughout the Romanov dynasty, Russia’s greatest artists and thinkers, painters and poets, composers and dancers, served two masters. Devotion to craft—or principle—could never wholly eclipse dependence on the tsars. Similarly, consumers of Russian culture could never respond without political consideration: Volkov recounts how, at the 1836 premiere of Glinka’s opera A Life for the Tsar, fashionable audiences watched Nicholas I in his private box to see how they ought to react. He wept, and they wept accordingly. In this spellbinding story, we watch the great figures of Russian history clash. Alexei, father of Peter the Great, befriended the writer Avvakum only to banish him; the next tsar, Fedor, had Avvakum burned alive. Using her notorious charms, Catherine the Great masterfully wielded political control over her culture industry. For his part, Pushkin became the first favored artist to resist the tsar’s influence. His poem “To Liberty” is cherished as a revolutionary work of dissent. But even Pushkin’s genius went unspared: Alexander tired of the poet’s literary and amorous freethinking and banished him from St. Petersburg. Romanov Riches is a work of epic scale that never sacrifices individual characters for broader themes. Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy are presented in a devilishly intricate dance with their royal patrons. A truly essential work for anyone who wants to understand Russia’s passionate devotion to its most important artists, it is the prequel to Volkov’s acclaimed work The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn. From the Hardcover edition.

✏Book Title : Nicholas and Alexandra
✏Author : Robert K. Massie
✏Publisher : Random House
✏Release Date : 2011-11-08
✏Pages : 640
✏ISBN : 9780307788474
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Nicholas and Alexandra Book Summary : The story of the love that ended an empire In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Robert K. Massie's Catherine the Great. Praise for Nicholas and Alexandra “A larger-than-life drama.”—Saturday Review “A moving, rich book . . . [This] revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events . . . but on the royal family and their evil nemesis. . . . The tale is so bizarre, no melodrama is equal to it.”—Newsweek “A wonderfully rich tapestry, the colors fresh and clear, every strand sewn in with a sure hand. Mr. Massie describes those strange and terrible years with sympathy and understanding. . . . They come vividly before our eyes.”—The New York Times “An all-too-human picture . . . Both Nicholas and Alexandra with all their failings come truly alive, as does their almost storybook romance.”—Newsday “A magnificent and intimate picture . . . Not only the main characters but a whole era become alive and comprehensible.”—Harper’s

✏Book Title : The Last Tsar
✏Author : Edvard Radzinsky
✏Publisher : Anchor
✏Release Date : 2011-03-30
✏Pages : 496
✏ISBN : 9780307754622
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Last Tsar Book Summary : Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.

✏Book Title : Friedrich the Blacksmith
✏Author : Norman Fischbuch
✏Publisher : Trafford Publishing
✏Release Date : 2009-10-26
✏Pages : 328
✏ISBN : 9781426912962
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Friedrich the Blacksmith Book Summary : This story begins in the late 1890's and documents the life of an ambitious young man who grew up eagerly looking forward to a comfortable and sheltered life in an isolated community in Russia near the Polish border. In his youth this farm boy dreamed of becoming the best blacksmith in this community of ethnic German colonies in southern Russia. However, his plans for the future were interrupted when he was conscripted into the Russian Navy. Here he served as a stoker and rose in rank to become an astute marine engineer, and was decorated for bravery by Tsar Nicholas II in the disastrous Russo-Japanese naval Battle of the Yellow Sea, while he served on the flagship of Russia's First Pacific Squadron. Although he had diligently served his community, his country, and his Tsar, it is difficult to concieved how this dedicated citizen of a land which he loved and cherished, that he would end his life as a blind and destitute inmante in one of Stalin's slave labour camps.

✏Book Title : Mussorgsky s Boris Godunov
✏Author : Burton D. Fisher
✏Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
✏Release Date : 2002-06-01
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 9781102009221
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Book Title : Atrocitology
✏Author : Matthew White
✏Publisher : Canongate Books
✏Release Date : 2011-10-20
✏Pages : 640
✏ISBN : 9780857861252
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Atrocitology Book Summary : Was the twentieth century the most violent in history? Are religions or tyrants, capitalism or communism the cause of most human suffering? Has violence increased or decreased over the course of history? In this wholly original and remarkably ambitious work, 'Atrocitologist' Matthew White considers man's inhumanity to man across several thousand years of history. From the First Punic War and the collapse of Mayan rule, to the reign of Peter the Great and the cataclysmic events of the Second World War, White's epic book spans centuries and civilisations as it measures the hundred most violent events in human history. While sceptical of any grand theory for the causes of human violence, White does share three big lessons gleaned from his careful statistical analysis: one, chaos is more deadly than tyranny; two, the world is even more disorganised than we realise; and three, wars kill more civilians than soldiers (in fact, the army is usually the safest place to be). If we study history to avoid the mistakes of the past, then there can be no more important place to start than this eye-opening and entertaining book.

✏Book Title : The Origins of Autocracy
✏Author : Alexander Yanov
✏Publisher : Univ of California Press
✏Release Date : 1981-01-01
✏Pages : 339
✏ISBN : 0520042824
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Origins of Autocracy Book Summary : Traces the role of Ivan the Terrible in Russian history and the thinking of Russian historians, emphasizing the political actions and ideals of the sixteenth-century czar as they have shaped Russia's development through the present

✏Book Title : The Third Revolution
✏Author : Murray Bookchin
✏Publisher : A&C Black
✏Release Date : 2004-06-15
✏Pages : 416
✏ISBN : 0826450547
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Third Revolution Book Summary : Comprehensive account of the great revolutions that swept over Europe and America.

✏Book Title : Faberge s Eggs
✏Author : Toby Faber
✏Publisher : Pan Macmillan
✏Release Date : 2008-09-04
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 9780230713963
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Faberge s Eggs Book Summary : This is the story of Fabergé's Imperial Easter eggs – of their maker, of the tsars who commissioned them, of the middlemen who sold them and of the collectors who fell in love with them. It's a story of meticulous craftsmanship and unimaginable wealth, of lucky escapes and mysterious disappearances, and ultimately of greed, tragedy and devotion. Moreover, it is a story that mirrors the history of twentieth-century Russia – a satisfying arc that sees eggs made for the tsars, sold by Stalin, bought by Americans and now, finally, returned to post-communist Russia. There is also an intriguing element of mystery surrounding the masterpieces. Of the fifty 'Tsar Imperial' eggs known to have been made, eight are currently unaccounted for, providing endless scope for speculation and forgeries. This is the first book to tell the complete history of the eggs, encompassing the love and opulence in which they were conceived, the war and revolution that scattered them, and the collectors who preserved them.

✏Book Title : The Constitution of the Russian Federation
✏Author : Jane Henderson
✏Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
✏Release Date : 2011-05-04
✏Pages : 310
✏ISBN : 9781847317643
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Constitution of the Russian Federation Book Summary : This book provides a critical and contextual understanding of the current Russian Constitution. It comprises seven chapters: an introduction followed by substantive chapters covering specific aspects of Russia's constitutional history, structure and practice: the history and nature of the constitution; an overview of the current 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation and the background to its adoption by plebiscite; executive power, the role and accountability of the President as Head of State, and the formation and powers of the federal government; the legislature and its formation, elections and the methods for forming the two chambers (State Duma and Federation Council) of the legislature (Federal Assembly); the constitutional role of the courts, the way in which rights are defined in constitutional terms and methods for their enforcement; and finally a concluding chapter that focuses on characteristic features of Russian polity and constitutionality in the context of constitutional stability, reform and change. This is an essential work of reference for anyone who wishes to embark on studying Russian law and politics, and a reflective assessment of progress in the modern era.

✏Book Title : Political Symbols in Russian History
✏Author : Lee Trepanier
✏Publisher : Lexington Books
✏Release Date : 2010-02
✏Pages : 197
✏ISBN : 9780739117897
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Political Symbols in Russian History Book Summary : "This is a learned and cogent exploration of Russian theological and political order from its Kievan roots into the early twenty-first century. It utilizes the primary sources in an energetic way and grounds the core of its theoretical analysis in the philosophy of Eric Voegelin. The argument is complex yet lucid and illuminating at every turn. Lee Trepanier's book will be of great interest to all students of Russian history, church-state relations, literature, theology, and politics. Warmly recommended."---Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University "Despite the best efforts of the country's leading political figures, social institutions, and intellectuals, Russia has yet to develop a coherent set of political values and symbols around which its society can congeal. In this book, Lee Trepanier does the field a great service by applying Eric Voegelin's thought to the question of how this process has evolved historically and why it has failed so miserably."---Christopher Marsh, director, J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor University Political Symbols in Russian History is one of the few works that presents an analytical and comprehensive account of Russian history and politics between the years 988 and 2005. From Kievan Rus to Putin's Russia, this book traces the development, evolution, and impact that political symbols have had on Russian society. By using Eric Voegelin's "new science of politics" as the human search for order and justice, Lee Trepanier provides a fresh and unique approach to the studies of political culture and civil society. For those interested in Russian politics and intellectual history, Political Symbols in Russian History offers the most up-to-date scholarship on such political symbols and social institutions as the Russian Orthodox Church and the national government. This book presents an innovative approach to understanding symbols in the search for order and justice in Russian histor.

✏Book Title : Edward VII The Last Victorian King
✏Author : Christopher Hibbert
✏Publisher : St. Martin's Press
✏Release Date : 2007-06-12
✏Pages : 368
✏ISBN : 0230610757
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Edward VII The Last Victorian King Book Summary : A riveting biography that vividly captures the life and times of the last Victorian king. To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was "poor Bertie," to his wife he was "my dear little man," while the President of France called him "a great English king," and the German Kaiser condemned him as "an old peacock." King Edward VII was all these things and more, as Hibbert reveals in this captivating biography. Shedding new light on the scandals that peppered his life, Hibbert reveals Edward's dismal early years under Victoria's iron rule, his terror of boredom that led to a lively social life at home and abroad, and his eventual ascent to the throne at age 59. Edward is best remembered as the last Victorian king, the monarch who installed the office of Prime Minister.

✏Book Title : Imperial Russia 1801 1905
✏Author : Tim Chapman
✏Publisher : Psychology Press
✏Release Date : 2001
✏Pages : 149
✏ISBN : 0415231108
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Imperial Russia 1801 1905 Book Summary : Written specifically for the A level student, this book is a highly accessible introduction to the period, organised chronologically and looking at each tsar's reign in turn, comparing and contrasting them.

✏Book Title : Renegades Rebels and Rogues Under the Tsars
✏Author : Peter Julicher
✏Publisher : McFarland
✏Release Date : 2003-08-11
✏Pages : 318
✏ISBN : 0786416122
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Renegades Rebels and Rogues Under the Tsars Book Summary : In the Russia of the tsars, people who criticized or questioned the autocratic prerogatives of the sovereign were brutally suppressed and sometimes actively persecuted. So imbedded was this official hostility to anyone hoping to change or even influence government policy, that even the most high-minded reformers came to understand that the only way they could succeed was to overthrow the regime. The author describes the activities of the most important dissidents and agitators from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to Nicholas II and the Communist Revolution in 1917. Many of these fascinating individuals were serious activists endeavoring to improve society; others were opportunistic scoundrels and adventurers. The author explores the causes that provoked them and the consequences they faced, and explains how time and time again the tsars were goaded into mistakes and over-reaction.

✏Book Title : A History of Russian Christianity Vol IV
✏Author : Daniel H. Shubin
✏Publisher : Algora Publishing
✏Release Date : 2006
✏Pages : 196
✏ISBN : 9780875864457
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏A History of Russian Christianity Vol IV Book Summary : From the legendary visit of Apostle Andrew to the conclusion of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel Shubin presents the entire history of Christianity in Russia in a multi-volume series. The events, people and politics that forged the earliest traditions of.

✏Book Title : Securing the Indian Frontier in Central Asia
✏Author : Martin Ewans
✏Publisher : Routledge
✏Release Date : 2010-04-08
✏Pages : 208
✏ISBN : 9781136995378
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Securing the Indian Frontier in Central Asia Book Summary : Throughout the nineteenth century, Central Asia was the scene of periodic confrontations between Britain and Russia. Sir Martin Ewans provides a ‘history of thought' of this crucial period in Central Asia by examining of the strategic thinking and diplomatic discourse of the most intense decades of the confrontation.

✏Book Title : Pogroms
✏Author : John Doyle Klier
✏Publisher : Cambridge University Press
✏Release Date : 1992
✏Pages : 393
✏ISBN : 0521528518
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Pogroms Book Summary : Distinguished scholars of Russian Jewish history reflect on the pogroms in Tsarist and revolutionary Russia.

✏Book Title : Prisoner of Russia
✏Author : Юрий Дружников
✏Publisher : Transaction Publishers
✏Release Date :
✏Pages : 454
✏ISBN : 1412831873
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Prisoner of Russia Book Summary : As the central figure in Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin (17991837) has been claimed by nearly every political faction, right and left, in Russian cultural politics over the past two centuries, culminating in his official canonization under the Soviet regime. In Prisoner of Russia, Yuri Druzhnikov analyzes the distortions and misrepresentations of Pushkin's cultural appropriation by focusing on Pushkin's attempts at emigration and his attitudes toward Russia and Western Europe. Druzhnikov's semi-biographical narrative concentrates on Pushkin's attempts to leave Russia after his graduation from the Lyceum, through his period of exile, until his early death in a duel in 1837. The matter of emigration from Russia was a politically charged issue well before 1917; witness the hostile reception of all of Turgenev's novels from Fathers and Sons on. The emigr artist's cultural context is often used to assess his authenticity and stature as seen in the Western examples of Henry James, T.S. Eliot, or James Joyce. Druzhnikov sharply criticizes the omnipresent and reductive tendency in Russia (and the West) to define Russian cultural figures in terms of absolute essences and ideologies and to ignore the ambivalences that in fact help to define a writer's singularity. In the larger view, he argues, it is these that explain the variety and complexity of Russian culture. Druzhnikov's multidisciplinary approach combines literary and political history, with critical commentary arranged in chronological sequence. His interpretive apparatus ranges widely through nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, and provides the necessary intellectual context for nonspecialist readers. He also avoids the massive accumulation of trivial detail characteristic of so much Pushkinology. This accessible, valuable exercise in cultural history will be of interest to Slavic scholars and students, cultural historians, and general readers interested in Russian literature and culture. Yuri Druzhnikov is professor of Russian literature at the University of California, Davis. As a Moscow dissident, he was blacklisted in Russia for fifteen years. He continues to serve as vice president of the International PEN club, for writers in exile.

✏Book Title : Edge of Empires
✏Author : Donald Rayfield
✏Publisher : Reaktion Books
✏Release Date : 2013-02-15
✏Pages : 479
✏ISBN : 9781780230702
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Edge of Empires Book Summary : Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country of rainforests and swamps, snow and glaciers, and semi-arid plains. It has ski resorts and mineral springs, monuments and an oil pipeline. It also has one of the longest and most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, but no comprehensive, up-to-date account has been written about this little-known country—until now. Remedying this omission, Donald Rayfield accesses a mass of new material from recently opened archives to tell Georgia’s absorbing story. Beginning with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ending with the volatile presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, Rayfield deals with the country’s internal politics and swings between disintegration and unity, and divulges Georgia’s complex struggles with the empires that have tried to control, fragment, or even destroy it. He describes the country’s conflicts with Xenophon’s Greeks, Arabs, invading Turks, the Crusades, Genghis Khan, the Persian Empire, the Russian Empire, and Soviet totalitarianism. A wide-ranging examination of this small but colorful country, its dramatic state-building, and its tragic political mistakes, Edge of Empires draws our eyes to this often overlooked nation.

✏Book Title : The True Memoirs of Little K
✏Author : Adrienne Sharp
✏Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
✏Release Date : 2010-10-26
✏Pages : 384
✏ISBN : 9781429962858
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The True Memoirs of Little K Book Summary : Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs before all that she believes to be true is forgotten. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Now, as she looks back on her tumultuous life, she can still recall every slight she ever suffered, every conquest she ever made. Kschessinka's riveting storytelling soon thrusts us into a world lost to time: that great intersection of the Russian court and the Russian theater. Before the revolution, Kschessinska dominated that world as the greatest dancer of her age. At seventeen, her crisp, scything technique made her a star. So did her romance with the tsarevich Nicholas Romanov, soon to be Nicholas II. It was customary for grand dukes and sons of tsars to draw their mistresses from the ranks of the ballet, but it was not customary for them to fall in love. The affair could not endure: when Nicholas ascended to the throne as tsar, he was forced to give up his mistress, and Kschessinska turned for consolation to his cousins, two grand dukes with whom she formed an infamous ménage à trois. But when Nicholas's marriage to Alexandra wavered after she produced girl after girl, he came once again to visit his Little K. As the tsar's empire—one that once made up a third of the world—began its fatal crumble, Kschessinka's devotion to the imperial family would be tested in ways she could never have foreseen. In Adrienne Sharp's magnificently imagined novel, the last days of the three-hundred-year-old Romanov empire are relived. Through Kschessinska's memories of her own triumphs and defeats, we witness the stories that changed history: the seething beginnings of revolution, the blindness of the doomed court, the end of a grand, decadent way of life that belonged to the nineteenth century. Based on fact, The True Memoirs of Little K is historical fiction as it's meant to be written: passionately eventful, crammed with authentic detail, and alive with emotions that resonate still.

✏Book Title : Anton Rubinstein
✏Author : Philip S. Taylor
✏Publisher : Indiana University Press
✏Release Date : 2007-06-14
✏Pages : 376
✏ISBN : 9780253116758
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Anton Rubinstein Book Summary : The first modern biography in English of Russian composer-pianist Anton Rubinstein, this book places Rubinstein within the context of Russian and western European musical culture during the late 19th century, exploring his rise to international fame from humble origins in Bessarabia, as well as his subsequent rapid decline and marginalization in later musical culture. Taylor provides a balanced account of Rubinstein's life and his career as a piano virtuoso, conductor, composer, and as the founder of Russia's first conservatory. Widely considered the virtuosic heir to Liszt, and recognized internationally as an equivalent cultural icon, he performed with most leading musicians of the day, including Liszt himself, Joachim, Clara Schumann, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, Saint-Saens, and Ysaÿe.

✏Book Title : The Rough Guide to Opera
✏Author : Matthew Boyden
✏Publisher : Rough Guides
✏Release Date : 2002
✏Pages : 735
✏ISBN : 1858287499
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Rough Guide to Opera Book Summary : Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.