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Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip

Author : Илья Ильф
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568986005
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip written by Илья Ильф and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in Ogonek, the Soviet equivalent of Time magazine, and later in the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost workfilled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographsis now collected in Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip, the first English translation. From Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: "The word 'America' has well-developed grandiose associations for a Soviet person, for whom it refers to a country of skyscrapers, where day and night one hears the unceasing thunder of surface and underground trains, the hellish roar of automobile horns, and the continuous despairing screams of stockbrokers rushing through the skyscrapers waving their ever-falling shares. We want to change that image." A Cabinet Book published by Princeton Architectural Press

Одноэтажная Америка / Little Golden America

Author : Илья Ильф
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5043398035
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Одноэтажная Америка / Little Golden America written by Илья Ильф and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Одноэтажная Америка» – произведение в жанре путевого очерка, написанное Ильей Ильфом и Евгением Петровым. Это добрая и умная книга, рассказывающая о жизни и быте американцев, о встречах авторов с самыми разными людьми, полная интересных историй и наблюдений. Читателям предлагается неадаптированный перевод произведения на английский язык, выполненный Чарльзом Маламутом. Пособие рассчитано на широкий круг читателей, изучающих английский язык и интересующихся творчеством И. Ильфа и Е. Петрова.В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет книги.

Ilf & Petrov's American Road Trip PB

Author : Aleksandra I. Ilʹf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616892524
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Ilf & Petrov's American Road Trip PB written by Aleksandra I. Ilʹf and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petro, who were the foremost comic novelists of the Soviet Union, traveled through America in the mid-1930's and wrote a series of articles about what they saw.

Small Comrades

Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135723389
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Small Comrades written by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Comrades is a fascinating examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward children. Working on the assumption that cultural representations and self-representations are not entirely separable, this book probes how the Soviet regime's representations structured teachers' observations of their pupils and often adults' recollections of their childhood. The book draws on work that has been done on Soviet schooling, and focuses specifically on the development of curricula and institutions, but it also examines the wider context of the relationship between the family and the state, and to the Bolshevik vision of the "children of October"

Nasrullah

Author : Melanie Greene
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625840926
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Nasrullah written by Melanie Greene and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nasrullah arrived in Kentucky in 1950 and forever changed the modern American thoroughbred. Bred in royalty by the Aga Kahn, Nasrullah's journey from Europe to America was one of glorious victories and grand potential. He was the first horse to lead both the American and English sire lists, which led to a legendary line of descendants that includes nine U.S. champions, three Hall of Famers and ninety-eight stake winners like Bold Ruler, Noor and Nashua. Nasrullah is even grandsire of the famed Secretariat. Ride along with author Melanie Greene as she recounts the compelling history of a truly remarkable horse that is sure to take any equestrian fan beyond the bluegrass.

Behind the Urals

Author : John Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253351258
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Urals written by John Scott and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Scott's classic account of his five years as a worker in the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk in the 1930s, first published in 1942, is enhanced in this edition by Stephen Kotkin's introduction, which places the book in context for today's readers; by the texts of three debriefings of Scott conducted at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1938 and published here for the first time; and by a selection of photographs showing life in Magnitogorsk in the 1930s. No other book provides such a graphic description of the life of workers under the First Five-Year Plan.

The Little Golden Calf

Author : Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf
Publisher : New York : F. Ungar
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Golden Calf written by Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf and published by New York : F. Ungar. This book was released on 1961 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The satirical novel's main character, Ostap Bender, also appeared in a previous novel by the authors called The Twelve Chairs. The title alludes to the "golden calf" of the Bible; another possible rendering of it in English, less literal but better tuned to the air of the novel, would be "The Gilded Calf". It continues the theme of the denunciation of money-grubbing, philistine stupidity, and bureaucracy, which began in “The Twelve Chairs”.

State-building

Author : Verena Fritz
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211124
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book State-building written by Verena Fritz and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the process of state-building in Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia from a political economy and institutional perspective. Weak and distorted state capacity has come to be widely recognized as a key obstacle to successful transformation—including economic modernization and growth as well as the consolidation of democracy. However, so far little systematic research has been carried out on state capacity per se and on how to explain its development. The book provides new insights in considering the evolution of Ukraine since 1992, offering an in-depth view of institutional development in crucial areas and thus tracing the process of state-building. It draws comparisons with developments in Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia (based on field research). To capture the process of state-building empirically, focuses on the extraction and expenditure systems which are a central pillar of state capacity and also a central link between citizens and the state. The book also sheds light on how Ukraine’s potential ‘second transition’ currently under way will have an impact on its institutional system.

Breeding Bin Ladens

Author : Zachary Shore
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0801889502
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Breeding Bin Ladens written by Zachary Shore and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look into the state of Islam in Europe and the threat posed by excluding moderate Muslims in Western society. While American leaders wage war with extremists in the Middle East, they are ignoring a greater threat closer to home. In Breeding Bin Ladens, Zachary Shore asserts that the growing ambivalence of Europe’s Muslims poses risks to national identities, international security, and the transatlantic alliance. Europe’s failure to integrate its Muslim millions and America’s battered image in the Muslim world have left too many Western Muslims easy prey for violent dogmas. Until America and Europe adopt new strategies, Shore argues, Europe will increasingly become the incubation ground for breeding new Bin Ladens. The United States continues to spend billions and lose thousands of soldiers to combat Islamic extremists, a group estimated to be as small as fifty thousand. Meanwhile, Western leaders have not sought to understand the millions of moderate Muslims who live peacefully in the United States and Europe. Many in this extraordinarily diverse group are deeply ambivalent toward perceived Western values. Although they may admire America’s economic or technological might, many are appalled by its crass consumerism, sexualization of women, lack of social justice, and foreign policies. Through in-depth interviews with Muslims living across the European Union, Shore gives voice to people of deep faith who speak of the conflict between their desire to integrate into their adopted societies and the repulsion they feel toward some of what the West represents. Shore offers a consideration of Islam’s future in the West. Cautioning Western leaders against an anti-terrorist tunnel vision that could ultimately backfire, Shore proposes bold, creative, and controversial solutions for attracting the hearts and minds of moderate Muslims living in the West.

The Great Gamble

Author : Gregory Feifer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061143189
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book The Great Gamble written by Gregory Feifer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the twenty-first century. In The Great Gamble, Gregory Feifer examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. During the last years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent some of its most elite troops to unfamiliar lands in Central Asia to fight a vaguely defined enemy, which eventually defeated their superior numbers with unconventional tactics. Although the Soviet leadership initially saw the invasion as a victory, many Russian soldiers came to view the war as a demoralizing and devastating defeat, the consequences of which had a substantial impact on the Soviet Union and its collapse. Feifer's extensive research includes eye-opening interviews with participants from both sides of the conflict. In gripping detail, he vividly depicts the invasion of a volatile country that no power has ever successfully conquered. Parallels between the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are impossible to ignore—both conflicts were waged amid vague ideological rhetoric about freedom. Both were roundly condemned by the outside world for trying to impose their favored forms of government on countries with very different ways of life. And both seem destined to end on uncertain terms. A groundbreaking account seen through the eyes of the men who fought it, The Great Gamble tells an unforgettable story full of drama, action, and political intrigue whose relevance in our own time is greater than ever.

Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists

Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009006231
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists written by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back accompanied only by their guide and chauffeur, a gregarious Russian Jewish immigrant and his American-born, Russian-speaking wife. They immortalized their journey in a popular travelogue that condemned American inequality and racism even as it marvelled at American modernity and efficiency. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs the epic journey of the two Soviet funnymen and their encounters with a vast cast of characters, ranging from famous authors, artists, poets and filmmakers to unemployed hitchhikers and revolutionaries. Using the authors' notes, US and Russian archives, and even FBI files, she reveals the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations as Ilf, Petrov and the immigrants, communists, and fellow travelers who served as their hosts, guides, and translators became creative actors in cultural exchange between the two countries.

The Arab World Today

Author : Morroe Berger
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Arab World Today written by Morroe Berger and published by Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday. This book was released on 1962 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Little Golden America

Author : Ilya Ilf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784871876742
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Little Golden America written by Ilya Ilf and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odnoetazhnya Amerika (One-Storied America) First published in the U.S.S.R. 1936. Little Golden America. First published in England in 1944. Translated from the Russian by Charles MalamuthThis is one of the most popular books ever published in the Soviet Union. It remains popular in Russia today. We Americans cannot figure out what makes it so popular. It is a good book, interesting and well written, but does not contain anything so outstanding as to make it the most popular book ever written. Yet almost every Russian seems to have read or to be familiar with "Little Golden America."It describes the adventures of the two authors, Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov, who arrived in New York City on the passenger ship Normandie. After one month in New York, they bought a car and started traveling around the United States. They went to Chicago and San Francisco and then swept back through the Southern States. When they arrived back in New York to return to Europe, they said that they had traveled ten thousand miles.

The Open Road

Author : David Campany
Publisher : Aperture
ISBN 13 : 9781597112406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Open Road written by David Campany and published by Aperture. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the end of World War II, the American road trip began appearing prominently in literature, music, movies, and photography. Many photographers embarked on trips across the U.S. in order to create work, including Robert Frank, whose seminal 1955 road trip resulted in The Americans. However, he was preceded by Edward Weston, who traveled across the country taking pictures to illustrate Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass; Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose 1947 trip through the American South and into the West was published in the early 1950s in Harper's Bazaar; and Ed Ruscha, whose road trips between Los Angeles and Oklahoma later became Twentysix Gasoline Stations. Hundreds of photographers have continued the tradition of the photographic road trip on down to the present, from Stephen Shore to Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs. The Open Road considers the photographic road trip as a genre in and of itself, and presents the story of photographers for whom the American road is muse. The book features David Campany's introduction to the genre and eighteen chapters presented chronologically, each exploring one American road trip in depth through a portfolio of images and informative texts, highlighting some of the most important bodies of work made on the road from The Americans to present day.

The Hidden War

Author : Artem Borovik
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137753
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden War written by Artem Borovik and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Soviet journalist documents the experiences of Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, detailing the soldiers' morale, the prevalence of drug problems, and the Russian withdrawal and the aftermath.

The Soviet Circus Comes to Havana

Author : Virgil Suárez
Publisher : C&r Press
ISBN 13 : 9781936196159
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Circus Comes to Havana written by Virgil Suárez and published by C&r Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Virgil Suárez's latest short story collection, his first in more than two decades, is subversive and emotionally piercing. A man whose yard is plagued by armadillos, a pair of boys who torment scorpions with gasoline fires, and a father's best friend wasting away with an illness as a son watches the deterioration with fascination and disgust. These are just a few of the characters from seventeen stories that reveal a dark, satiric view of the human condition that's somehow ferocious and, at times, funny. Shades of Denis Johnson and George Saunders run throughout this potent volume of new stories. Whether he's writing about Havana, Miami, or other less exotic locales, Suárez has the ironic distance of an outsider while capturing the details only insiders know. THE SOVIET CIRCUS COMES TO HAVANA AND OTHER STORIES is an apt addition to the world of short fiction. In THE SOVIET CIRCUS COMES TO HAVANA, Virgil Suárez paints a vivid picture of the beauty and terror of revolutionary Cuba and exile from that 'solitary island floating away into a blue expanse.' These elegantly crafted coming-of-age stories richly illustrate that the first losses of life are among the hardest to bear.--Rita Ciresi This wonder-filled collection of stories shows Virgil Suárez joining the ranks of multi-talented writers like Oates and Updike who can produce top work in novels, poems, and short fiction. THE SOVIET CIRCUS stories continually surprise, whether they stem from his boyhood in Cuba or roll knowingly through America, from the West coast to Florida, filled with the tragedies and comedies of unforgettable characters.--Peter Meinke

Soviet Ghosts

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Publisher : Gingko Press Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781908211163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Ghosts written by and published by Gingko Press Editions. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the most intrepid urban explorers cross the tattered ruins of the old iron curtain to endure the excessive bureaucracy, military paranoia and freezing winds of the East to hunt for the ghosts of an empire. Rebecca Litchfield is one who couldn't resist the haunting allure of the ruins of the Soviet Union. Time and again she risked radiation exposure, experienced arrest and interrogation, and was accused of espionage while collecting the stunning photography in Soviet Ghosts. Join her on an adventure through the ruins of soviet bloc, never before seen by western eyes. The emotional affect of this poetic collection will keep you coming back for more, while a series of expert articles offer in-depth analysis of the historical context. Contemplate the uncanny and disturbing emotional power of the imagery. Discover the story of the rise and fall of the USSR, the empire whose ghost continues to haunt Europe even today... Features ● A breathtaking collection of images from Pripyat, Chernobyl ● Stunning imagery of a vast, ruined Bulgarian communist monument. ● A road trip through the ruined abandonment in East Germany, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Croatia and Russia featuring decaying hospitals, military barracks, prisons, spy stations and sports halls and more. Photographer Rebecca Litchfield captures many abandoned locations, which were either part of the Soviet Union or occupied satellite states during this period of history, including forgotten towns, factories, prisons, schools, monuments, hospitals, theatres, military complexes, asylums & death camps across the former communist states. These photographs deliver a compelling narrative of both moral bankruptcy and flawed ideology. Featuring stunning imagery throughout, this compelling road-trip through the old USSR, breathes new life into these forgotten places, finding both beauty and meaning in their post-apocalyptic decay. Extended essays by Tristi Brownett, Neill Cockwill and Professor Owen Evans, offer considerable contextual depth to the locations imbuing them with a wealth of connection and wonder. By virtue of its holistic approach, the book also explores how and why these once thriving communities became abandoned, whether by natural disaster, man-made catastrophe or simply through the march of time.