Moscow Unmasked
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Moscow Unmasked
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Author : Joseph Douillet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
Moscow Unmasked written by Joseph Douillet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Communism categories.
The Vory
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Author : Mark Galeotti
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
The Vory written by Mark Galeotti and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with History categories.
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment. The vory--as the Russian mafia is also known--was born early in the twentieth century, largely in the Gulags and criminal camps, where they developed their unique culture. Identified by their signature tattoos, members abided by the thieves' code, a strict system that forbade all paid employment and cooperation with law enforcement and the state. Based on two decades of on-the-ground research, Galeotti's captivating study details the vory's journey to power from their early days to their adaptation to modern-day Russia's free-wheeling oligarchy and global opportunities beyond.
Outlaw Music In Russia
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Author : Anastasia Gordienko
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2023-01-24
Outlaw Music In Russia written by Anastasia Gordienko and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-24 with History categories.
The Russian shanson can be heard across the country today, on radio and television shows, at mass events like political rallies, and even at the Kremlin. Yet despite its ubiquity, it has attracted almost no scholarly attention. Anastasia Gordienko provides the first full history of the shanson, from its tenuous ties to early modern criminals’ and robbers’ folk songs, through its immediate generic predecessors in the Soviet Union, to its current incarnation as the soundtrack for daily life in Russia. It is difficult to firmly define the shanson or its family of song genres, but they all have some connection, whether explicit or implicit, to the criminal underworld or to groups or activities otherwise considered subversive. Traditionally produced by and popular among criminals and other marginalized groups, and often marked by characters and themes valorizing illegal activities, the songs have undergone censorship since the early nineteenth century. Technically legal only since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the shanson is today not only broadly popular but also legitimized by Vladimir Putin’s open endorsement of the genre. With careful research and incisive analysis, Gordienko deftly details the shanson’s history, development, and social meanings. Attempts by imperial rulers, and later by Soviet leaders, to repress the songs and the lifestyles they romanticized not only did little to discourage their popularity but occasionally helped the genre flourish. Criminals and liberal intelligentsia mingled in the Gulag system, for instance, and this contact introduced censored songs to an educated, disaffected populace that inscribed its own interpretations and became a major point of wider dissemination after the Gulag camps were closed. Gordienko also investigates the shanson as it exists in popular culture today: not divorced from its criminal undertones (or overtones) but celebrated for them. She argues that the shanson expresses fundamental themes of Russian culture, allowing for the articulation of anxieties, hopes, and dissatisfactions that are discouraged or explicitly forbidden otherwise.
5 V Hearings Held In Washington D C New York City And Boston Mass
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
5 V Hearings Held In Washington D C New York City And Boston Mass written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Communism categories.
Investigation Of Communist Propaganda
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
Investigation Of Communist Propaganda written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Communism categories.
Investigation Of Communist Propaganda
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Communist Propaganda in the United States
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
Investigation Of Communist Propaganda written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Communist Propaganda in the United States and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Communism categories.
Pussy Riot Unmasked
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Author : Bert Verwelius
language : de
Publisher: TeNeues
Release Date : 2014
Pussy Riot Unmasked written by Bert Verwelius and has been published by TeNeues this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Photography categories.
As a result of their actions such as the Punk Prayer in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral and their subsequent trials, the girls of Pussy Riot were transformed into icons of protest.
Russia And The Low Countries
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Author : Roger Tavernier
language : en
Publisher: Barkhuis
Release Date : 2006
Russia And The Low Countries written by Roger Tavernier and has been published by Barkhuis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
"This bibliography contains everything that has been published in the West--except from Russia--about the relations between the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) and Russia--in every Western language"--P. [4] of cover.
Stalin S Agent
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Author : Boris Volodarsky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
Stalin S Agent written by Boris Volodarsky and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. There are almost certainly people who would like it never to be told. It is the story of General Alexander Orlov. Stalin's most loyal and trusted henchman during the Spanish Civil War, Orlov was also the Soviet handler controlling Kim Philby, the British spy, defector, and member of the notorious 'Cambridge Five'. Escaping Stalin's purges, Orlov fled to America in the late 1930s and lived underground. He only dared reveal his identity to the world after Stalin's death, in his 1953 best-seller The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes, after which he became perhaps the best known of all Soviet defectors, much written about, highly praised, and commemorated by the US Congress on his death in 1973. But there is a twist in the Orlov story beyond the dreams of even the most ingenious spy novelist: 'General Alexander Orlov' never actually existed. The man known as 'Orlov' was in fact born Leiba Feldbin. And while he was a loyal servant of Stalin and the controller of Philby, he was never a General in the KGB, never truly defected to the West after his 'flight' from the USSR, and remained a loyal Soviet agent until his death. The 'Orlov' story as it has been accepted until now was largely the invention of the KGB - and one perpetuated long after the end of the Cold War. In this meticulous new biography, Boris Volodarsky, himself a former Soviet intelligence officer, now tells the true story behind 'Orlov' for the first time. An intriguing tale of Russian espionage and deception, stretching from the time of Lenin to the Putin era, it is a story that many people in the world's intelligence agencies would almost definitely prefer you not to know about.
Among Others
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Author : Michael Frayn
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2023-04-11
Among Others written by Michael Frayn and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a brief word, looking back on life from his ninetieth year, about a few of the people who have formed his own particular world. Some were friends; some not; some more than friends. Some have had a profound effect; some only a passing one. Some you may know yourself; some you certainly won't. Some he now wonders if he ever really knew himself. The last of his subjects in this selection, and the longest and closest acquaintance of all, is his own body, a companion on life's road at least as idiosyncratic and puzzling as everyone and everything around it. Among Others is a patchwork memoir of a lifetime's encounters. Truthful and loving, sometimes elegiac, sometimes comic, it is a celebration of the endlessly intriguing otherness of others.