The Yawning Heights
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The Yawning Heights
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Author : Aleksandr Zinoviev
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1979
The Yawning Heights written by Aleksandr Zinoviev and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Literary Criticism categories.
"In his first published novel, Soviet philosopher Alexander Zinoviev chose to satirize and ridicule Soviet society in Yawning Heights, presented as the city/nation of Ibansk. Every Ibanskian citizen is named Iban Ibanovich Ibanov, and therefore goes by a nickname as Chatterer, Slanderer, Boss, Hog, Truthteller, Dauber, Sociologist, and many others. Truth Teller is obviously Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Boss is Stalin, Hog is Khrushchev. Lesser characters are more difficult to figure out. Ibansk roughly translates into English as 'Screw Town of (or for) all Ivans'. Their political religion is called the Ism (which is short for Soc-ism), and nobody really believes in it. When it was written the book was essentially a superlative description of the Soviet Union."--Goodreads
The Radiant Future
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Author : Aleksandr Zinoviev
language : en
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1980
The Radiant Future written by Aleksandr Zinoviev and has been published by Random House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Zinoviev's new book is less gargantuan (how could it not be?) than the enormous The Yawning Heights. And though it has a central metaphor--a crumbling, vandalized, massive sign placed in Moscow's Cosmonaut Square that reads "Long Live Communism--The Radiant Future of All Mankind"--realism and philosophy are more in evidence than comic allegory. The narrator is the Head of the Department of Theoretical Problems of the Methodology of Scientific Communism at The Human Sciences Institute of the Academy of Sciences. He has an estranged wife (with whom he lives, Moscow housing-arrangements being what they are), two teenaged children, a mother-in-law, and a burning itch to be elected an Academician. But, complicatingly, he also has friends, one who's trying to get an exit visa and another, Anton Zimin, who has written a book which postulates, for instance: "I believe that the brightest dreams and ideals of mankind, when they are realized in concrete form, produce the most disastrous consequences." Anton's totally subversive view of Soviet life is focused on the "horrifying normality" of it; he is totally non-ideological, hence clear-sighted enough to cause anything he looks at to shrivel up. And the narrator, egged on by his more or less dissident children, finds himself more and more in agreement with his dangerous friends: he never does make Academician, of course, as the complementary forces of his mediocrity and his self-disgust conspire to leave him stranded. The narrator's dilemma and his Russian schlemeil-dom, however, are the least distinctive aspects of this second, smaller, less exuberant Zinoviev book. What counts instead here is the pure play of ideas: weaving in great chunks of both official (canned) and truly biting social philosophy, Zinoviev has created a kind of divorced, muffler-ed intellectual comedy--which will be most clear and satisfying to veterans of The Yawning Heights."--Kirkus.
Reference Guide To Russian Literature
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Author : Neil Cornwell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-02
Reference Guide To Russian Literature written by Neil Cornwell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.
Zinoviev
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: ZINOVIEV.INFO
Release Date : 2010
Zinoviev written by and has been published by ZINOVIEV.INFO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Russia (Federation) categories.
Special edition in English of biannual Russian periodical published from 2007.
Homo Sovieticus
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Author : Aleksandr Zinoviev
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 1985
Homo Sovieticus written by Aleksandr Zinoviev and has been published by Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Fiction categories.
Alexander Zinoviev An Introduction To His Work
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Author : Michael Kirkwood
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1993-06-18
Alexander Zinoviev An Introduction To His Work written by Michael Kirkwood and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-06-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Zinoviev's twin themes are the nature of Soviet communist society and the West's inability to understand it. It is the purpose of this book to trace the development of his thinking via a chronological analysis of his most important works.
The Vexing Case Of Igor Shafarevich A Russian Political Thinker
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Author : Krista Berglund
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-02-29
The Vexing Case Of Igor Shafarevich A Russian Political Thinker written by Krista Berglund and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with Mathematics categories.
This is the first comprehensive study about the non-mathematical writings and activities of the Russian algebraic geometer and number theorist Igor Shafarevich (b. 1923). In the 1970s Shafarevich was a prominent member of the dissidents’ human rights movement and a noted author of clandestine anti-communist literature in the Soviet Union. Shafarevich’s public image suffered a terrible blow around 1989 when he was decried as a dangerous ideologue of anti-Semitism due to his newly-surfaced old manuscript Russophobia. The scandal culminated when the President of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States suggested that Shafarevich, an honorary member, resign. The present study establishes that the allegations about anti-Semitism in Shafarevich’s texts were unfounded and that Shafarevich’s terrible reputation was cemented on a false basis.
Conversations In Exile
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Author : John Glad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Conversations In Exile written by John Glad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 'Conversation In Exile, ' John Glad brings together interviews with fourteen prominent Russian writers in exile, all of whom currently live in the United States, France, or Germany. Conducted between 1978 and 1989, these frank and captivating interviews provide a rich and complex portrait of a national literature in exile.
Alexander Zinoviev As Writer And Thinker
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Author : Philip Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1988-06-18
Alexander Zinoviev As Writer And Thinker written by Philip Hanson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-06-18 with Philosophy categories.
The Soviet Invasion Of Czechoslovakia In 1968
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Author : Josef Pazderka
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-07-23
The Soviet Invasion Of Czechoslovakia In 1968 written by Josef Pazderka and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-23 with History categories.
The edited collection is the first attempt to take a more coherent look at the Russian perception of the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. The publication is therefore a collection of interviews, memoirs and academic studies focusing on Russian soldiers, dissidents and journalists involved in and affected by the Soviet invasion. The book begins with a focus on the Soviet soldiers who came to Czechoslovakia. It depicts their inner world and the mighty machinery of the Soviet propaganda to which they were exposed. The Archive supplement offers a fresh look at the role of KGB and the Soviet embassy in the Czechoslovak events of August 1968 by Russian historians Nikita Petrov and Olga Pavlenko. The second part presents the Soviet journalists living in Prague in 1968 who supported the Prague Spring and subsequently paid for their stance by being deported and losing their job. The last part of the book focuses on the kinship that the Soviet liberal intelligentsia and dissident movement, which emerged while Leonid Brezhnev was tightening the screws in the USSR in late 1960s, felt toward events in Prague, which for them represented one of the last hopes for change. It begins with the study of the Czech researcher Tomas Glanc exploring the different reactions on Prague Spring and August 1968 invasion among the Soviet inteligentsia. Interviews with former Soviet dissidents Lyudmila Alexeeva and Natalia Gorbanevskaya follow. As a supplement, the diary of the ordinary Soviet citizen Elvira Filipovich is included.