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Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781567119008
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Don Nardo and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the infamous czar.
Author : Maureen Perrie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317894685
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Maureen Perrie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major re-assessment of Ivan the Terrible to be published in the West in the post-Soviet period. It breaks away from older stereotypes of the tsar – whether as ‘crazed tyrant’ and ‘evil genius’, on the one hand, or as a ‘great and wise statesman’, on the other – to provide a more balanced picture. It examines the ways in which Ivan’s policies contributed to the creation of Russia’s distinctive system of unlimited monarchical rule. Ivan is best remembered for his reign of terror, the book pays due attention to the horrors of his executions, tortures and repressions, especially in the period of the oprichnina (1565-72), when he mysteriously divided his realm into two parts, one of which was under the direct control of the tsar and his oprichniki (bodyguard). This work argues that the often gruesome forms assumed by the terror reflected not only Ivan’s personal cruelty and sadism, but also his religious views about the divinely ordained right of the tsar to punish his treasonous subjects, just as sinners were punished in Hell. Primarily chronological in its organisation, the book focuses on three main aspects of Ivan’s power: the territorial expansion of the state, the mythology, rituals and symbols of monarchy; and the development of the autocratic system of rule.
Author : Sean Price
Publisher : Wicked History
ISBN 13 : 9780531125977
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Sean Price and published by Wicked History. This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Russia's first tsar Ivan the Terrible that describes his life, cruelty, andvictims.
Author : Joan Neuberger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732781
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book This Thing of Darkness written by Joan Neuberger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger's engrossing production history of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, is a major contribution to the study of Eisenstein and thus informs the history and theory of cinema and the study of Soviet culture and politics. Neuberger's ability to mine, interpret, and connect Eisenstein's voluminous, intriguingly digressive writings makes this book exceptional.— Karla Oeler, Stanford University Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin in 1941 to justify state terror in the sixteenth century and in the twentieth, the film's politics, style, and epic scope aroused controversy even before it was released. In This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger offers a sweeping account of the conception, making, and reception of Ivan the Terrible that weaves together Eisenstein's expansive thinking and experimental practice with a groundbreaking new view of artistic production under Stalin. Drawing on Eisenstein's unpublished production notebooks, diaries, and manuscripts, Neuberger's riveting narrative chronicles Eisenstein's personal, creative, and political challenges and reveals the ways cinematic invention, artistic theory, political critique, and historical and psychological analysis went hand in hand in this famously complex film. Neuberger's bold arguments and daring insights into every aspect of Eisenstein's work during this period, together with her ability to lucidly connect his wide-ranging late theory with his work on Ivan, show the director exploiting the institutions of Soviet artistic production not only to expose the cruelties of Stalin and his circle but to challenge the fundamental principles of Soviet ideology itself. Ivan the Terrible, she argues, shows us one of the world's greatest filmmakers and one of the 20th century's greatest artists observing the world around him and experimenting with every element of film art to explore the psychology of political ambition, uncover the history of recurring cycles of violence and lay bare the tragedy of absolute power.
Author : Isabel de Madariaga
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300143761
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Isabel de Madariaga and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This significant biography of the 16th-century Russian czar…is likely to become the definitive work on Ivan for some time” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). One of the most important figures in Russian history, Ivan IV Vasilyevich has remained among the most neglected. The country’s first Tsar, he is notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing his own son. In Ivan the Terrible, Russian historian Isabel de Madariaga presents the first comprehensive biography of Ivan from birth to death, shedding light on his policies, his marriages, his atrocities, and his disordered personality. Situating Ivan within the Russian political developments of the sixteenth century, de Madariaga also offers revealing comparisons with English, Spanish, and other European courts of the time. The biography includes a new account of the role of astrology and magic at Ivan’s court and provides fresh insights into his foreign policy. Addressing the controversies that have paralyzed western scholarship as well as the challenges of authentication—since much of Ivan’s archive was destroyed by fire in 1626—de Madariaga seeks to present Russia as viewed from within Russia rather than from abroad. The result is an enlightening work that captures the full tragedy of Ivan’s reign.
Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571125869
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Sergei Eisenstein and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 1989-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screenplay.
Author : Benson Bobrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781880100844
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Fearful Majesty written by Benson Bobrick and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time. This acclaimed biography of one of Russia's most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also surprisingly timely, revealing how many of the issues Russia faces today have their roots in Ivan's reign. Ivan IV oversaw huge conquests of neighboring lands, the creation of a national church, and Russia's emergence as a world power. Arrogant, handsome, a gifted orator and theologian, Ivan was well educated but cruel, profoundly egotistical yet cowardly, scarred by childhood terrors. He was also the Russian ruler whose policies first cast Russia in the role of "Evil Empire" to the West. Throughout his reign, Ivan's unbalanced genius erupted in a tyranny so violent that it threatened to destroy his bloodline, his court, his church, his country.
Author : Alexander Yanov
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520313097
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Autocracy written by Alexander Yanov and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Payne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815412290
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Robert Payne and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography offers abundant details on the life of Russian Czar Ivan IV, including his violent moodswings and his callous cruelty.
Author : Yoram Sheftel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Defending 'Ivan the Terrible' written by Yoram Sheftel and published by . This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon in their zeal to send to his death the man they claimed was Ivan, U.S. government officials were concealing evidence that proved Demjanjuk innocent so they could take away his citizenship and extradite him to Israel, all the while hiding the truth.
Author : M. Perrie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403919690
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia written by M. Perrie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-10-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan IV, the sixteenth-century Russian tsar notorious for his reign of terror, became an unlikely national hero in the Soviet Union during the 1940s. This book traces the development of Ivan's positive image, placing it in the context of Stalin's campaign for patriotism. In addition to historians' images of Ivan, the author examines literary and artistic representations, including Sergei Eisenstein's famous film, banned for its depiction of the tsar which was interpreted as an allegorical criticism of Stalin.
Author : Henri Troyat
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781842124192
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible written by Henri Troyat and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan IV, the first Grand Duke of Moscow to take the title Czar, was one of the most violent and demented rulers in history. Both sadist and mystic, he claimed to be both the blood successor to Caesar Augustus and God¿s vicar on earth. Devoted associates and sworn enemies alike perished amid hideous tortures. Villages, towns and an entire city were obliterated; he even murdered his own son in a burst of fury. And yet, by conquering much of the territory that became 20th century Russia, he also forged an orderly empire out of the barbarous and disordered world into which he was born. Henri Troyat, the Prix Goncourt ¿winning biographer of Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, Turgenev and other giants of Russian history brings to life Russia¿s bloodiest czar creating the unforgettable portrait of a man driven mad with the delirium of his divine right to power.
Author : William Napier
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1409105393
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Last Crusaders: Ivan the Terrible written by William Napier and published by Orion. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardened by battle, seasoned by war, four adventurers caught in the path of one of history's most enigmatic leaders. 1571. At the great naval battle of Lepanto the Ottoman Empire is finally defeated, and it seems that Europe is safe. But then Nicholas Ingoldsby is summoned to London by the Queen herself and sent on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople, the heart of the old enemy - and then onward, to a little-known but rising power called Muscovy, ruled by a deranged but cunning czar - Ivan the Terrible. The rise of Muscovy has also caught the attention of the Ottomans; and their allies, the wild Tatar horsemen of the Asiatic steppes, Russia's ancient enemy. Soon Nicholas and his fellow travellers are caught up in their most dangerous adventure yet, trapped in a doomed Muscovy with a vast army of Tatar tribesmen riding down upon them, vowed to burn the city to the ground and extinguish Russia for ever...
Author : Charles J. Halperin
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644695898
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Ivan the Terrible in Russian Historical Memory since 1991 written by Charles J. Halperin and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tsar Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV, 1533-1584) is one of the most controversial rulers in Russian history, infamous for his cruelty. He was the first Russian ruler to use mass terror as a political instrument, and the only Russian ruler to do so before Stalin. Comparisons of Ivan to Stalin only exacerbated the politicization of his image. Russians have never agreed on his role in Russian history, but his reign is too important to ignore. Since the abolition of censorship in 1991 professional historians and amateurs have grappled with this problem. Some authors have manipulated that image to serve political and cultural agendas. This book explores Russia’s contradictory historical memory of Ivan in scholarly, pedagogical and political publications.
Author : Kristin Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691064727
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible written by Kristin Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" A Neoformalist Analysis, will be forthcoming.
Author : Carolyn Johnston Pouncy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801471664
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The "Domostroi" written by Carolyn Johnston Pouncy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It depicts a society that prized religious orthodoxy, reliance on tradition, and absolute subordination of the individual to the family and the state. Specific instructions tell how to arrange hay, visit monasteries, distill vodka, treat servants, entertain clergy, cut out robes, and carry out many other daily activities. Carolyn Johnston Pouncy here offers, with an informative introduction, the first complete English translation.
Author : Tom Teicholz
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312014506
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (145 download)
Download or read book The Trial of Ivan the Terrible written by Tom Teicholz and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an account of the trial of John Demjanjuk, who was convicted of committing war crimes as "Ivan the Terrible," a sadistic guard at the Treblinka concentration camp
