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Author : Suzanne Rosenberg
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Soviet Odyssey written by Suzanne Rosenberg and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marat Akchurin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 166320912X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Red Odyssey written by Marat Akchurin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Odyssey is a travel book written by Marat Akchurin for those who have a passion for reading good adventure and historical fiction. Through a kaleidoscope of individual perspectives, the author explores and describes the collective historical experience of a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional nation living in a crumbling totalitarian state. Red Odyssey is not a political treatise, sociological analysis, or history book about Central Asia during the former Soviet Union. It is rather a tale of adventures of a time traveler trying to survive in a surrealistic society permeated with hypocrisy. The ruling regime is captive to its own lies. So it falsifies the past, it falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. Imperial propaganda transforms reality into fiction. The goal of Red Odyssey is to reverse the fabricated verisimilitude of their false utopia into the harsh truth of reality. Akchurin's keen, perceptive eye, his taste for adventure, and his intimate knowledge of this fractured superpower—its history, cultures, legends, folklores, politics, and ethnicities—leave no stone unturned in his relentless exploration of places long ignored and misunderstood by the West.
Author : Morris Sharnoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (233 download)
Download or read book A Soviet Odyssey written by Morris Sharnoff and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Dews
Publisher : Abbott Press
ISBN 13 : 1458219666
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (582 download)
Download or read book The Russian Odyssey written by Roy Dews and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia and the Trans-Siberian Railroad had been a great interest of author Roy Dews for many years. He then learned his brother-in-law, Andy Anderson, shared the same interest. An adventure was born. In The Russian Odyssey, Dews recounts the details of the fifty-two day journey he and Anderson experienced beginning June 7 of 1993. In this travelogue, Dews narrates the ins and outs of trip that originated in Atlanta, Georgia, and took the pair to Warsaw, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland and culminated in a 5,810-mile trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Moscow to Vladivostok. Written in a diary format, Dews shares the highs and lows and the challenges and successes as the pair traversed through Europe and Russia. With photos included, The Russian Odyssey not only offers a recap of Dews experiences, but it provides insight into the history, culture, people, and sights and sounds of a travel abroad.
Author : Yuri Y. Karash
Publisher : AIAA
ISBN 13 : 9781563473197
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (731 download)
Download or read book The Superpower Odyssey written by Yuri Y. Karash and published by AIAA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korash has background in both space policy and international relations, has been a journalist in both Russia and the US, was considered a candidate for cosmonaut when the Soviet Union broke up, and was involved in the 1993 joint Shuttle-Mir missions. He traces the Soviet/Russian view of the shift from competition to cooperation with the US space program. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Charles Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999603208
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book In Russian Wonderland written by Charles Cole and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems every day we hear about Russia. But how much do we really know about that far off place? Travel back in time with the author and get a bird's eye view of life in the old Soviet Union - the society that spawned today's Russia and made indelible imprints on her history and culture. For over thirty years during the Cold War, the former United States Information Agency (USIA) sent cultural exchange exhibits to the Soviet Union and other Iron Curtain countries. This book describes in detail what it was like to serve as a Russian-speaking "guide" at the various cities in which the exhibit Research and Development in the USA was shown in 1972 and contains examples depicting the lives of average Soviet citizens of the time. This is what it's like to live in a society run by a large, omnipotent government. There can be no better time than now to look back at this history. Had the Soviet Union survived as a country, 2017 would have marked the 100-th anniversary of its founding. As we strive to understand Russia's current policies and actions, we need to look at her Soviet roots to fully understand them.
Author : Frederick Kempe
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Siberian Odyssey written by Frederick Kempe and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Berlin Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal--author of Divorcing the Dictator--comes a dramatic account of an expedition to an almost mythical place, the land of Russia's grandest dreams and cruelest nightmares. In a place where contradictions arise at ever turn, Kempe found not only an adventure but an unparalleled window into the Russian soul. 8 pages of photographs.
Author : Rock Brynner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Empire & Odyssey written by Rock Brynner and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yul Brynner, the mysterious and exotic Hollywood star, was one of four generations in his family to bear that name. His Swiss-born grandfather, Jules, arrived in Shanghai almost by accident about 1865, but within twenty years had become a leading industrialist in the Far East. His business association with Tsar Nicholas II built Vladivostok and the Trans-Siberian Railway, then triggered the Russo-Japanese War, contributing to the fall of the Romanoffs. Jules' s son Boris regained control of the family's mines, but his experiences in China, Manchuria, and North Korea rivaled the ordeals of Dr. Zhivago. Yul's childhood took him to China and then to France, where, as a teenager, he performed in nightclubs with Russian Gypsies while becoming a trapeze acrobat in the circus. He moved to America before he spoke English and within five years was starring on Broadway. His son, with a colorful life of his own, has written the family's history.--From publisher description.
Author : Elena Aleksandrovna Skrjabina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780887385117
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Siege and Survival written by Elena Aleksandrovna Skrjabina and published by . This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Polonsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429974907
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Molotov's Magic Lantern written by Rachel Polonsky and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was the ruthless apparatchik Vyacheslav Molotov, a henchman for Stalin who was a participant in the collectivizations and the Great Purge—and also an ardent bibliophile. In what was formerly Molotov's apartment, Polonsky uncovers an extensive library and an old magic lantern—two things that lead her on an extraordinary journey throughout Russia and ultimately renew her vision of the country and its people. In Molotov's Magic Lantern, Polonsky visits the haunted cities and vivid landscapes of the books from Molotov's library: works by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Akhmatova, and others, some of whom were sent to the Gulag by the very man who collected their books. With exceptional insight and beautiful prose, Polonsky writes about the longings and aspirations of these Russian writers and others in the course of her travels from the Arctic to Siberia and from the forests around Moscow to the vast steppes. A singular homage to Russian history and culture, Molotov's Magic Lantern evokes the spirit of the great artists and the haunted past of a country ravaged by war, famine, and totalitarianism.
Author : Moishe Rozenbaumas
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654723
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey of an Apple Thief written by Moishe Rozenbaumas and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Odyssey of an Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922–2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught experiences that take him across Europe and Central Asia and back again, to his daring escape from Soviet Russia to build a new life in Paris. Along the way, we get a rarely seen portrait of the lives of working-class Jewish youth in Telz/Telsiai, a religious town renowned for its yeshiva. We hear of the games children played, the theft of apples from a Catholic orchard, and Rozenbaumas’s early apprenticeship as a tailor once his father leaves the country. The war breaks out and the teenaged Rozenbaumas flees Lithuania alone, unable to convince his mother and sibling to go with him. We learn of his life as a starved refugee in an Uzbek kolkhoz, his escape into the Red Army, and his unlikely work in the reconnaissance unit of the Soviet Army. After the war, Rozenbaumas is drafted into the Marxist-Leninist university and as a cadre of the Communist Party, ultimately escaping in 1956 with his family to Paris, where he and his wife give an openly Jewish education to their children. In the vast literature of memory written by Jewish witnesses before, during, and after WWII, Rozenbaumas’s account stands out for the singularity of his experience and for his deft narration of events of mythological dimension from a personal perspective. The Odyssey of an Apple Thief offers not only invaluable testimony of this historical moment but also an illuminating and original portrait of Lithuanian Jews in the twentieth century.
Author : Nancy Seifer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781465333681
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Russian Odyssey written by Nancy Seifer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-06-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Odyssey is the story of a seeker whose quest leads her back to the unfinished business of a previous lifetime. Unaware of her souls hidden agenda, she first visits the Soviet Union as a citizen diplomat. While there, she is inspired to write a book about the Soul of Russia. Through the ensuing interplay between her own soul and the Russian soul, during the 1990s, she ultimately discovers the purpose of her lifes journey. Russian Odyssey is the outcome of her decade-long struggle. It is an honest book about the challenges faced by seekers of Truth on the threshold of the Aquarian Age.
Author : Olga Ilyin
Publisher : Holt McDougal
ISBN 13 : 9780030000782
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book White Road written by Olga Ilyin and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of conditions in Russia during the Russian Revolution. Published under the same title (New York, 1984).
Author : Morris Sharnoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book An Unforgettable Odyssey written by Morris Sharnoff and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herman Branover
Publisher : Jason Aronson Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781568215297
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Return written by Herman Branover and published by Jason Aronson Incorporated. This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Branover's philosophical autobiography, this book documents his extraordinary spiritual odyssey. Originally published in 1982, the book became a bestseller within the Jewish community, but it was published minus a significant portion of Branover's philosophical notes written while still in Riga. This volume contains this additional material.
Author : Marat Akchurin
Publisher : Harvill Secker
ISBN 13 : 9780436200267
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Red Odyssey written by Marat Akchurin and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rejseskildring fra de russiske byer og republikker, der i de seneste år har været nævnt i avisernes overskrifter
Author : Robert Robinson
Publisher : Acropolis Books (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Black on Red written by Robert Robinson and published by Acropolis Books (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert Robinson (1907?-1994) was a Jamaican-born toolmaker who worked in the auto industry in the United States. At the age of 23, he was recruited to work in the Soviet Union, where he spent 44 years after the government refused to give him an exit visa for return. Starting with a one-year contract by Russians to work in the Soviet Union, he twice renewed his contract. He became trapped by the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II and the government's refusal to give him an exit visa. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering during the war. He finally left the Soviet Union in 1974 on an approved trip to Uganda, where he asked for and was given asylum. He married an African-American professor working there. He finally gained re-entry to the United States in 1976, and gained attention for his accounts of his 44 years in the Soviet Union."--Wikipedia.
