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Author : Robert W. Orttung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333736357
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (363 download)
Download or read book From Leningrad to St Petersburg written by Robert W. Orttung and published by . This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur L. George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book St. Petersburg written by Arthur L. George and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Petersburg covers the city's political and social history, as well as its infinite contributions to scholarship, culture, and world politics.
Author : Александр Николаевич Радищев
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow written by Александр Николаевич Радищев and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primarily an attack on serfdom and an appeal to the serfs voluntarily, Aleksandr Radishchv's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow has often been described as a Russian Uncle Tom's Cabin. Published in 1790, the book was banned immediately and the author first sentenced to death, then banished to eastern Siberia. On the order of the Empress Catherine II, who read the Journey very carefully, all copies that could be found were collected and burned. The few that escaped were widely circulated and laboriously copied out by hand, but the book was not freely published in Russia until 1905.
Author : Mary McAuley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0299322505
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Remembering Leningrad written by Mary McAuley and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Englishwoman Mary McAuley first arrived in Leningrad in the early 1960s, eager to study labor relations for her thesis. Staying at a hostel, she met a number of Soviet students, many born under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Over the half-century that followed, McAuley traced their varying paths and the changing face of the former imperial capital. Remembering Leningrad captures the story of a beautiful city and lifelong friendships. We follow McAuley as she walks through the streets downtown and examines politics in the 1960s, describes the hazards of furnishing an apartment in the 1990s, and learns about the challenges her friends have faced during these turbulent years. By weaving history and anecdotes to create a picture of Russia's cultural center, McAuley underscores the impact of time and place on the Russian intelligentsia who lived through the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet life. The result is a remarkable group portrait of a generation.
Author : Michael Jones
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 184854121X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Leningrad written by Michael Jones and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city?s civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in. A specialist in battle psychology and the vital role of morale in desperate circumstances, Michael Jones tells the human story of Leningrad. Drawing on newly available eyewitness accounts and diaries, he shows Leningrad in its every dimension including taboo truths, long-suppressed by the Soviets, such as looting, criminal gangs and cannibalism. But, for many ordinary citizens, Leningrad marked the triumph of the human spirit. They drew deeply on their inner resources to inspire, comfort and help one another. At the height of the siege an extraordinary live performance of Shostakovich?s Seventh Symphony profoundly strengthened the city's will to resist. When German troops heard it in their trenches one remarked: `We began to understand we would never take Leningrad. Yet, Leningrad?s self-defence came at a huge price. When the 900-day siege ended in 1944 almost a million people had died and those who survived would be permanently marked by what they had endured, as this superbly insightful and moving history shows.
Author : Thomas Raikes
Publisher : London, Richard Bentley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Visit to St. Petersburg, in the Winter of 1829-30 written by Thomas Raikes and published by London, Richard Bentley. This book was released on 1838 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evgenij Nevjakin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785852503886
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)
Download or read book St.-Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad written by Evgenij Nevjakin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catriona Kelly
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300198590
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book St Petersburg written by Catriona Kelly and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring cities—a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet outsiders are far more familiar with the city’s pre-1917 and Second World War history than with its recent past./divDIV /divDIVIn this beautifully illustrated and highly original book, Catriona Kelly shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St. Petersburg’s residents. Weaving together oral history, personal observation, literary and artistic texts, journalism, and archival materials, she traces the at times paradoxical feelings of anxiety and pride that were inspired by living in the city, both when it was socialist Leningrad, and now. Ranging from rubbish dumps to promenades, from the city’s glamorous center to its grimy outskirts, this ambitious book offers a compelling and always unexpected panorama of an extraordinary and elusive place./div
Author : Jonathan Miles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681777169
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book St. Petersburg written by Jonathan Miles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter the Great, St. Petersburg's dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly cemented by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city, in its successive incarnations—St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and, once again, St. Petersburg—has always been a place of perpetual contradiction.It was a window to Europe and the Enlightenment, but so much of Russia’s unique glory was also created here: its literature, music, dance, and, for a time, its political vision. It gave birth to the artistic genius of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Pavlova and Nureyev. Yet, for all its glittering palaces, fairytale balls and enchanting gardens, the blood of thousands has been spilt on its snow-filled streets.It has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin’s power-hungry brutality. In St. Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of three hundred years in this paradoxical and brilliant city, bringing us up to the present day, when its fate hangs in the balance once more.
Author : Solomon Volkov
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451603150
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book St Petersburg written by Solomon Volkov and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive cultural biography of the “Venice of the North” and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy, written by Russian emerge and acclaimed cultural historian, Solomon Volkov. Long considered to be the mad dream of an imperious autocrat—the "Venice of the North," conceived in a setting of malarial swamps—St. Petersburg was built in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's gateway to the West. For almost 300 years this splendid city has survived the most extreme attempts of man and nature to extinguish it, from flood, famine, and disease to civil war, Stalinist purges, and the epic 900-day siege by Hitler's armies. It has even been renamed twice, and became St. Petersburg again only in 1991. Yet not only has it retained its special, almost mystical identity as the schizophrenic soul of modern Russia, but it remains one of the most beautiful and alluring cities in the world. Now Solomon Volkov, a Russian emigre and acclaimed cultural historian, has written the definitive cultural biography of this city and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy. For Pushkin, Gogol, and Dostoyevsky, Petersburg was a spectral city that symbolized the near-apocalyptic conflicts of imperial Russia. As the monarchy declined, allowing intellectuals and artists to flourish, Petersburg became a center of avant-garde experiment and flamboyant bohemian challenge to the dominating power of the state, first czarist and then communist. The names of the Russian modern masters who found expression in St. Petersburg still resonate powerfully in every field of art: in music, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich; in literature, Akhmatova, Blok, Mandelstam, Nabokov, and Brodsky; in dance, Diaghilev, Nijinsky, and Balanchine; in theater, Meyerhold; in painting, Chagall and Malevich; and many others, whose works are now part of the permanent fabric of Western civilization. Yet no comprehensive portrait of this thriving distinctive, and highly influential cosmopolitan culture, and the city that inspired it, has previously been attempted.
Author : John E. Bowlt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865653788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (537 download)
Download or read book Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920 written by John E. Bowlt and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in hardcover by The Vendome Press in 2008"--Copyright page.
Author : Alexander Werth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755692569
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Leningrad 1943 written by Alexander Werth and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface by Nicholas Werth -- Moscow to Leningrad -- First Contact -- St. Petersburg - Leningrad -- The Observation Tower -- Sightseeing -- Kamenny Island -- Leningrad Airmen -- A Factory in the Famine -- Sunday Evening in Leningrad -- Children in the Famine and Now -- The Bristles of the Hedgehog -- Endurance : The Kirov Works -- At the Writer's Union -- All-day Shelling -- The Mayor of Leningrad Speaks -- The Last Day -- Leningrad's Liberation : The Second Visit.
Author : Paullina Simons
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460701836
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Six Days in Leningrad written by Paullina Simons and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told story of the journey behind THE BRONZE HORSEMAN From the author of the celebrated, internationally bestselling Bronze Horseman saga comes a glimpse into the private life of its much loved creator, and the real story behind the epic novels. Paullina Simons gives us a work of non-fiction as captivating and heart-wrenching as the lives of tatiana and Alexander. Only a few chapters into writing her first story set in Russia, her mother country, Paullina Simons travelled to Leningrad (now St Petersburg) with her beloved Papa. What began as a research trip turned into six days that forever changed her life, the course of her family, and the novel that became tHE BRONZE HORSEMAN. After a quarter-century away from her native land, Paullina and her father found a world trapped in yesteryear, with crumbling stucco buildings, entire families living in seven-square-meter communal apartments, and barren fields bombed so badly that nothing would grow there even fifty years later. And yet there were the spectacular white nights, the warm hospitality of family friends and, of course, the pelmeni and caviar. At times poignant, at times inspiring and funny, this is both a fascinating glimpse into the inspiration behind the epic saga, and a touching story of a family's history, a father and a daughter, and the fate of a nation.
Author : Aleksandr Fadeev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Leningrad in the Days of the Blockade written by Aleksandr Fadeev and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Dale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472590791
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad written by Robert Dale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the demobilization and post-war readjustment of Red Army veterans in Leningrad and its environs after the Great Patriotic War. Over 300,000 soldiers were stood down in this war-ravaged region between July 1945 and 1948. They found the transition to civilian life more challenging than many could ever have imagined. For civilian Leningraders, reintegrating the rapid influx of former soldiers represented an enormous political, economic, social and cultural challenge. In this book, Robert Dale reveals how these former soldiers became civilians in a society devastated and traumatized by total warfare. Dale discusses how, and how successfully, veterans became ordinary citizens. Based on extensive original research in local and national archives, oral history interviews and the examination of various newspaper collections, Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad peels back the myths woven around demobilization, to reveal a darker history repressed by society and concealed from historiography. While propaganda celebrated this disarmament as a smooth process which reunited veterans with their families, reintegrated them into the workforce and facilitated upward social mobility, the reality was rarely straightforward. Many veterans were caught up in the scramble for work, housing, healthcare and state hand-outs. Others drifted to the social margins, criminality or became the victims of post-war political repression. Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad tells the story of both the failure of local representatives to support returning Soviet soldiers, and the remarkable resilience and creativity of veterans in solving the problems created by their return to society. It is a vital study for all scholars and students of post-war Soviet history and the impact of war in the modern era.
Author : J. Barber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403938822
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941-1944 written by J. Barber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1941-1944 Leningrad saw by far the largest-scale famine ever to occur in a developed society. This book examines the nature and consequences of the extreme conditions created by the German blockade of Leningrad between September 1941 and January 1944. Using declassified documents from Party and State archives in Moscow and St Petersburg and interviews with survivors, the authors have produced the most informed and detailed analysis to date of the impact of the siege on the lives and health of the people of Leningrad.
Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113946065X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1995 written by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of 'heroic Leningrad' omitted and distorted a great deal. Nonetheless, survivors struggling to cope with painful memories often internalized, even if they did not completely accept, the state's myths, and they often found their own uses for the state's monuments. Tracing the overlap and interplay of individual memories and fifty years of Soviet mythmaking, this book contributes to understandings of both the power of Soviet identities and the delegitimizing potential of the Soviet Union's chief legitimizing myths. Because besieged Leningrad blurred the boundaries between the largely male battlefront and the predominantly female home front, it offers a unique vantage point for a study of the gendered dimensions of the war experience, urban space, individual memory, and public commemoration.
