The Russian Memoir
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The Russian Memoir
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Author : Beth Holmgren
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2003
The Russian Memoir written by Beth Holmgren and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The essays in this volume seek to appreciate the literary construction of the memoir, with its dual agendas of individualized expression and reliable reportage, and explore its functions as interpretive history, social modelling, and political expression in Russian culture. The memoirs under scrutiny range widely, including those of the private person (Princess Natalia Dolgorukaia), sophisticated high culture writers (Nikolai Zabolotskii, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky), cultural critics and facilitators (Lidiia Ginzburg, Avdot'ia Panaeva), political dissidents (Evgeniia Ginzburg, Elena Bonner), and popular artists (filmmaker Elidar Riazanov). It examines each memoir for its aesthetic and rhetorical features as well as its cultural circumstances. In mapping the memoir's social and historical significance, the essays consider a wide range of influences and issues, including the specific impact of the author's class, gender, ideology, and life experience on his/her witnessing of Russian culture and society.
Reflections On The Russian Soul
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Author : Dmitry S. Likhachev
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-06
Reflections On The Russian Soul written by Dmitry S. Likhachev and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This compelling and often traumatic book is the memoir of one of the most important figures in modern Russian history, Dmitry S. Likhachev, revered as ‘a guardian of national culture’. Reflections on the Russian Soul is an incredible account of an intellectual’s turbulent journey through twentieth century Russia. Likhachev re-counts the fortunes of people with whom he came into contact and reproduces the air of passed years in Russia. Likhachev vividly portrays his childhood years in St. Petersburg and continues into his student life at Leningrad University that led to an agonizing period of imprisonment and near death. He describes how a harmless prank caught the attention of the Secret Police, resulting in his exile and confinement within the infamous prison island of Solovki. He describes his first-hand experience of brutality in prison during the early Stalin years and the incident that not only saved him but also haunted him for the rest of his life. He reflects on the years after his release from prison and the events leading up to the Second World War. His powerful recollection of the blockade of Leningrad provides the reader with a horrific insight into the harsh effects of war, hunger and survival. Lichachev goes on to describe post-war Russia and how his own livelihood developed from literary editor to a return to Leningrad University as Professor of History. This compelling autobiography finishes with Likhachev’s poignant return to Solovki as a free man.
The Russia Hand
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Author : Strobe Talbott
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2007-12-18
The Russia Hand written by Strobe Talbott and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A rich and revealing account of the turbulent relationship between the U.S. and Russia during the first post-Cold War years. . . . Essential for any understanding of this critical and even dangerous period.”—Elizabeth Drew “A fascinating memoir of a weirdly unpredictable world.”—The New York Review of Books In the eight years Bill Clinton was president, as Russia lurched from crisis to crisis, each one more horrifying than the last, Clinton and his foreign-policy team found they faced no greater task than helping to keep Russia stable and at peace with herself and her neighbors. Strobe Talbott’s mesmerizing account of this struggle reveals what a close-run thing this was, and how much the relationship between George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin has been defined by the work of Bill Clinton. Written with a novelistic richness and energy, The Russia Hand is the first great book about war and peace in the post-Cold War world. It is also the one book anyone needs to understand Russia’s fateful transformation and future possibilities after ten years as a democracy.
Reflections On The Russian Soul
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Author : Dmitri? Sergeevich Likhachev
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Reflections On The Russian Soul written by Dmitri? Sergeevich Likhachev and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
"He reflects on the years after his release from prison and the events leading up to the Second World War. His powerful recollection of the blockade of Leningrad provides the reader with a horrific insight into the harsh effects of war, hunger and survival. Likhachev goes on to describe post-war Russia and how his own livelihood developed from literary editor to a return to Leningrad University as Professor of History. This compelling autobiography finishes with Likhachev's return to Solovki as a free man."--BOOK JACKET.
Last Boat To Astrakhan
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Author : Robert Haupt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Last Boat To Astrakhan written by Robert Haupt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Russia (Federation) categories.
"Russia is a land of swamps, bogs and eventually rich farm land.....a kind of cold Louisianna, with bears instead of alligators." Robert Haupt, a former editor and foreign correspondent was considered by many to be the best writer in Australian journalism. In 1990 he was sent to Russia to become the correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He fell in love with Russia and the Russian people. A 1995 journey which Haupt made down the Volga River to its source forms the core of the book. It was a journey taken as he tried to find a way to convey what was changing and what was stable about Russia at that tumultuous time. This book is also an expression of the love he felt for Russia and its people. "...the coup, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the suppression of parliament, the communist revival, all coming past like unleashed luggage on a storm-tossed ferry ." Robert Haupt died a young man on the day he delivered this book to his New York publisher. It is an extraordinary book and by anyone's standards an extremely accomplished and engaging piece of writing. SALES POINTS: * The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are right behind this book. Robert was one of theirs and his book will be very well supported. * Launch in Sydney with Robert's media colleagues gathering as a tribute. Lots of media coverage. Will be the first launch ever where the three editors of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Financial Review all speak * Prominent media friends of Robert's all prepared to speak on behalf of book (details being worked out). Some of those who have agreed to speak to media are jennifer Byrne, Max Walsh, Peter Smark, John Lombard and some who have been approached are Brian Johns, John Button, Gough Whitlam, Gareth Evans, and Mike Carlton * Brilliant piece of writing which will undoubtedly have excellent word of mouth coverage.
Stories Of The Soviet Experience
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Author : Irina Paperno
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-15
Stories Of The Soviet Experience written by Irina Paperno and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings, Irina Paperno explores this massive outpouring of human documents to uncover common themes, cultural trends, and literary forms. The book argues that, diverse as they are, these narratives—memoirs, diaries, notes, blogs—assert the historical significance of intimate lives shaped by catastrophic political forces, especially the Terror under Stalin and World War II. Moreover, these published personal documents create a community where those who lived through the Soviet era can gain access to the inner recesses of one another's lives. This community strives to forge a link to the tradition of Russia's nineteenth-century intelligentsia; thus the Russian "intelligentsia" emerges as an additional implicit subject of this book. The book surveys hundreds of personal accounts and focuses on two in particular, chosen for their exceptional quality, scope, and emotional power. Notes about Anna Akhmatova is the diary Lidiia Chukovskaia, a professional editor, kept to document the day-to-day life of her friend, the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Evgeniia Kiseleva, a barely literate former peasant, kept records in notebooks with the thought of crafting a movie script from the story of her life. The striking parallels and contrasts between these two documents demonstrate how the Soviet state and the idea of history shaped very different lives and very different life stories. The book also analyzes dreams (most of them terror dreams) recounted in the diaries and memoirs of authors ranging from a peasant to well-known writers, a Party leader, and Stalin himself. History, Paperno shows, invaded their dreams, too. With a sure grasp of Russian cultural history, great sensitivity to the men and women who wrote, and a command of European and American scholarship on life writing, Paperno places diaries and memoirs of the Soviet experience in a rich historical and conceptual frame. An important and lasting contribution to the history of Russian culture at the end of an epoch, Stories of the Soviet Experience also illuminates the general logic and specific uses of personal narratives.
Memories
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Author : Teffi
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2016-05-03
Memories written by Teffi and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A beloved 20th century writer’s painful and humorous memoir of leaving her home in post-revolutionary Russia forever, written with a poet’s sensitivity to tone and rhythm “Despite the backdrop of terror, war, death and loss, Teffi’s world becomes somewhere we do not want to leave”—Claire Kohda Hazelton, The Guardian Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author’s last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many of which have now resurfaced. In 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Teffi, whose stories and journalism had made her a celebrity in Moscow, was invited to read from her work in Ukraine. She accepted the invitation eagerly, though she had every intention of returning home. As it happened, her trip ended four years later in Paris, where she would spend the rest of her life in exile. None of this was foreseeable when she arrived in German-occupied Kiev to discover a hotbed of artistic energy and experimentation. When Kiev fell several months later to Ukrainian nationalists, Teffi fled south to Odessa, then on to the port of Novorossiysk, from which she embarked at last for Constantinople. Danger and death threaten throughout Memories, even as the book displays the brilliant style, keen eye, comic gift, and deep feeling that have made Teffi one of the most beloved of twentieth-century Russian writers.
A Radical Worker In Tsarist Russia
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Author : Semen Kanatchikov
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1986
A Radical Worker In Tsarist Russia written by Semen Kanatchikov and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Semën Kanatchikov, born in a central Russian village in 1879, was one of the thousands of peasants who made the transition from traditional village life to the life of an urban factory worker in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the last years of the nineteenth century. Unlike the others, however, he recorded his personal and political experiences (up to the even of the 1905 Revolution) in an autobiography. First published in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, this memoir gives us the richest and most thoughtful firsthand account we have of life among the urban lower classes in Imperial Russia. We follow this shy but determined peasant youth's painful metamorphosis into a self-educated, skilled patternmaker, his politicization in the factories and workers' circles of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and his close but troubled relations with members of the liberal and radical intelligentsia. Kanatchikov was an exceptionally sensitive and honest observer, and we learn much from his memoirs about the day-to-day life of villagers and urban workers, including such personal matters as religious beliefs, family tensions, and male-female relationships. We also learn about conditions in the Russian prisons, exile life in the Russian Far North, and the Bolshevik-Menshevik split as seen from the workers' point of view.
Living A Delusion
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Author : Olga Morozova
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Living A Delusion written by Olga Morozova and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is an account of living in a land that is more than foreign - a land founded on principles fundamentally different to our own.
Russian Memories
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Author : Olga Alekseevna Novikova
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-02
Russian Memories written by Olga Alekseevna Novikova and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Olga Alekseevna Novikova's 'Russian Memories' provides a captivating glimpse into the tumultuous history of Russia through the eyes of a seasoned observer. Written in a lyrical and evocative prose style, the book offers a rich tapestry of personal anecdotes, historical events, and cultural insights that paint a vivid picture of the Russian experience. Novikova's use of vivid imagery and detailed descriptions immerses the reader in the sights, sounds, and emotions of each memory, making the past come alive on the pages. This book is a valuable contribution to the genre of memoirs and offers a unique perspective on Russian history and society. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of Russia's past and present. Olga Alekseevna Novikova's intimate account of her experiences in Russia provides a compelling narrative that will both educate and entertain readers looking to explore the depths of Russian culture and history.
