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Author : Cruz Sequeira Cruz S.
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Counterrevolutionary written by Cruz Sequeira Cruz S. and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arturo José Cruz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Counterrevolutionary written by Arturo José Cruz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor Serge
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174518
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Revolutionary written by Victor Serge and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Books Original Victor Serge is one of the great men of the 20th century —and one of its great writers too. He was an anarchist, an agitator, a revolutionary, an exile, a historian of his times, as well as a brilliant novelist, and in Memoirs of a Revolutionary he devotes all his passion and genius to describing this extraordinary—and exemplary—career. Serge tells of his upbringing among exiles and conspirators, of his involvement with the notorious Bonnot Gang and his years in prison, of his role in the Russian Revolution, and of the Revolution’s collapse into despotism and terror. Expelled from the Soviet Union, Serge went to Paris, where he evaded the KGB and the Nazis before fleeing to Mexico. Memoirs of a Revolutionary recounts a thrilling life on the front lines of history and includes vivid portraits not only of Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin but of countless other figures who struggled to remake the world. Peter Sedgwick’s fine translation of Memoirs of a Revolutionary was abridged when first published in 1963. This is the first edition in English to present the entirety of Serge’s book.
Author : Baiqiao Tang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616144456
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (444 download)
Download or read book My Two Chinas written by Baiqiao Tang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baiqiao Tang is one of Chinas most influential modern dissidents. Tangs name became legendary during the time of the Tiananmen Square massacre. This unique and inspiring memoir will resonate with people who care about human rights.
Author : Victor Serge
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608466094
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Year One of the Russian Revolution written by Victor Serge and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eyewitness account of the world-changing uprising—from the author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary. “A truly remarkable individual . . . an heroic work” (Richard Allday of Counterfire). Brimming with the honesty and passionate conviction for which he has become famous, Victor Serge’s account of the first year of the Russian Revolution—through all of its achievements and challenges—captures both the heroism of the mass upsurge that gave birth to Soviet democracy and the crippling circumstances that began to chip away at its historic gains. Year One of the Russian Revolution is Serge’s attempt to defend the early days of the revolution against those, like Stalin, who would claim its legacy as justification for the repression of dissent within Russia. Praise for Victor Serge “Serge is one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes.” —Susan Sontag, MacArthur Fellow and winner of the National Book Award “His political recollections are very important, because they reflect so well the mood of this lost generation . . . His articles and books speak for themselves, and we would be poorer without them.” —Partisan Review “I know of no other writer with whom Serge can be very usefully compared. The essence of the man and his books is to be found in his attitude to the truth.” —John Berger, Booker Prize–winning author “The novels, poems, memoirs and other writings of Victor Serge are among the finest works of literature inspired by the October Revolution that brought the working class to power in Russia in 1917.” —Scott McLemee, writer of the weekly “Intellectual Affairs” column for Inside Higher Ed
Author : Victor Serge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Revolutionary written by Victor Serge and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stokely Carmichael
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684850036
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Ready for Revolution written by Stokely Carmichael and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-anticipated, riveting autobiography of the late Stokely Carmichael chronicles the legendary civil rights leader's work as the charismatic patriarch of Black Power, Pan-African activist, and social revolutionary - a major milestone in African-American autobiography. Populated with an international cast of luminaries, including James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Miriam Makeba, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Toni Morrison, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro, this book captures the cultural upheavals that define the modern world.
Author : Vera Figner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Revolutionist written by Vera Figner and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Serge Victor (pseud. van Viktor L. Kibal'čič.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1901-1941 written by Serge Victor (pseud. van Viktor L. Kibal'čič.) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enzo Traverso
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839763590
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Revolution written by Enzo Traverso and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it." –China Miéville, author of October A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "dialectical images": Marx's "locomotives of history," Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others. It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals--from Marx and Bakunin to Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks, from Mao and Ho Chi Minh to José Carlos Mariátegui, C.L.R. James, and other rebellious spirits from the South--as outcasts and pariahs. And finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution and communism that so deeply shaped the history of the twentieth century. This book thus merges ideas and representations by devoting an equal importance to theoretical and iconographic sources, offering for our troubled present a new intellectual history of the revolutionary past.
Author : Ivan Bunin
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461730309
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Cursed Days written by Ivan Bunin and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag. —Marc Raeff
Author : Richard Robbins
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822983222
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Overtaken by the Night written by Richard Robbins and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-01-27 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Fedorovich Dzhunkovsky was a witness to Russia's unfolding tragedy—from Tsar Alexander II's Great Reforms, through world war, revolution, the rise of a new regime, and finally, his country's descent into terror under Stalin. But Dzhunkovsky was not just a passive observer—he was an active participant in his troubled and turbulent times, often struggling against the tide. In the centennial of the Russian revolution, his story takes on special significance. Highly readable, Overtaken by the Night captivates on many levels. It is a gripping biography of a man of many faces, a behind-the-curtain look at the inner workings of Russian politics at its highest levels, and also an engrossing account of ordinary Russians engulfed by swiftly moving political and social currents. Dzhunkovsky served as a confidant in the tsar's imperial court,and as governor in Moscow province during and after the 1905 revolution. In 1913, he became the empire's security chief, determined to reform the practices of the dreaded tsarist political police, the Okhrana. Dismissed from office for daring to investigate and warn Tsar Nicholas about Rasputin, his path led him into combat on the battlefields of the First World War. A natural leader of men, he held his units together even as revolution spilled into the trenches. Arrested as a counterrevolutionary in 1918 and imprisoned until 1921, Dzhunkovsky avoided execution thanks to an outpouring of public support and his reputation for treating revolutionaries with fairness and dignity. Although later he consulted for the Stalinist secret police, he was tried and executed in 1938 as an enemy of the people. Based on Dzhunkovsky's detailed memoirs and extensive archival research, Overtaken by the Night paints a fascinating picture of an important figure. Dzhunkovsky's incredible life reveals much about a long and crucial period in Russian history. It is a story of Russia in revolution reminiscent of the fictional Doctor Zhivago, but perhaps even more extraordinary for being true.
Author : Grigory Gershuni
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498522181
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book From My Recent Past written by Grigory Gershuni and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From My Recent Past is a memoir written by Russian revolutionary Grigory Gershuni (1870–1908), the infamous mastermind behind the Combat Organization (CO) of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR). Grigory Gershuni envisioned himself a knight fighting the dragon of injustice, a believer in a Russian revolution that would sweep away an autocratic “regime that made killers of its own children!” In his view, his personal mission was to cut off the head of that dragon, i.e. eliminate the cruelest, corrupt, and lawless agents of the repressive tsarist regime. Over the course of nine years (from 1902 to 1911), he engaged seventy-eight members of his Combat Organization to commit 263 terrorist acts, including the assassination of two government ministers, thirty-three governors-general, a vice-governor, as well as several admirals and generals. This book depicts his revolutionary activities, his arrest, and proceedings before a military tribunal, a death sentence verdict that was replaced at the last minute by a life sentence, and years of imprisonment in the Peter and Paul and Shlisselburg fortresses. It is presented here in English translation by Katya Vladimirov, with an introduction by Katya Vladimirov and an afterword by John P. Moran.
Author : Victor Serge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Revolutionary written by Victor Serge and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cruz Sequeira Cruz S.
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Counterrevolutionary written by Cruz Sequeira Cruz S. and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Shipman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book It Had to be Revolution written by Charles Shipman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of a man who, under many different names, was a student activist, draft resister, political refugee, delegate to the Moscow Comintern congress, underground organizer, railroad executive, and investment columnist and met people like Lenin, Dorothy Day, and Bertolt Brecht.
Author : Ji Xianlin
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179277
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cowshed written by Ji Xianlin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme discipline and humiliation. Ji Xianlin was one of them. The Cowshed is Ji’s harrowing account of his imprisonment in 1968 on the campus of Peking University and his subsequent disillusionment with the cult of Mao. As the campus spirals into a political frenzy, Ji, a professor of Eastern languages, is persecuted by lecturers and students from his own department. His home is raided, his most treasured possessions are destroyed, and Ji himself must endure hours of humiliation at brutal “struggle sessions.” He is forced to construct a cowshed (a makeshift prison for intellectuals who were labeled class enemies) in which he is then housed with other former colleagues. His eyewitness account of this excruciating experience is full of sharp irony, empathy, and remarkable insights into a central event in Chinese history. In contemporary China, the Cultural Revolution remains a delicate topic, little discussed, but if a Chinese citizen has read one book on the subject, it is likely to be Ji’s memoir. When The Cowshed was published in China in 1998, it quickly became a bestseller. The Cultural Revolution had nearly disappeared from the collective memory. Prominent intellectuals rarely spoke openly about the revolution, and books on the subject were almost nonexistent. By the time of Ji’s death in 2009, little had changed, and despite its popularity, The Cowshed remains one of the only testimonies of its kind. As Zha Jianying writes in the introduction, “The book has sold well and stayed in print. But authorities also quietly took steps to restrict public discussion of the memoir, as its subject continues to be treated as sensitive. The present English edition, skillfully translated by Chenxin Jiang, is hence a welcome, valuable addition to the small body of work in this genre. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of that period.”
