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Rewriting Russia

Author : Barbara J. Henry
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801476
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Russia written by Barbara J. Henry and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Gordin was the first major playwright of the "Golden Age" of New York's Yiddish theater, which was not just entertainment but also a public forum, a force for education and acculturation, and a battleground for ideologies and artistic credos. Gordin, like his audience, was a Russian émigré. His most successful and scandalous dramas--The Jewish King Lear, The Kreutzer Sonata, and Khasye the Orphan--were based on works by Lev Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, and reflected a profoundly Jewish means of using literature to salvage a lost land. Gordin's life and his plays held out the tantalizing possibility that by changing the story of one's past, one could write one's own future. Through a detailed examination of Gordin's career in Russia, Barbara Henry dismantles the fictive radical background he invented for himself. In doing so, she illuminates the continuities among his Russian fiction and journalism, his work as a controversial Jewish religious reformer, and his Yiddish plays.

Revolutionary Russia

Author : Rex A. Wade
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415307481
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Russia written by Rex A. Wade and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting major writings on the revolution and its context, bringing together key texts to illustrate interpretive approaches and covering the central topics and themes, this volume forms a coherent representation of both the events and the theories anddebates that relate to them.

Rewriting the Break Event

Author : Robert Zacharias
Publisher : Studies in Immigration and Cul
ISBN 13 : 9780887557477
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting the Break Event written by Robert Zacharias and published by Studies in Immigration and Cul. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, much Canadian Mennonite literature has been characterized by a compulsive telling and retelling of the fall of the Mennonite Commonwealth of the 1920s and its subsequent migration of 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada. This privileging of a seminal dispersal, or "break event," within the broader historic narrative has come to function as a mythological beginning or origin story for the Russian Mennonite community in Canada, and serves as a means of affirming a communal identity across national and generational boundaries.

Rewriting Capitalism

Author : Beth Holmgren
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 082297505X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Capitalism written by Beth Holmgren and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holmgren examines how capitalism in turn-of-the-century Russia and the Kingdom of Poland affected the elitist culture of literature, publishing, book markets, and readership. Holmgren also draws parallels with and assesses recent literary and publishing developments in Russia and Poland, shedding light on the current book market and the literature of Eastern Europe as a whole. In this ground-breaking book, Beth Holmgren examines how—in turn-of-the-century Russia and its subject, the Kingdom of Poland—capitalism affected the elitist culture of literature, publishing, book markets, and readership. Rewriting Capitalism considers how both "serious" writers and producers of consumer culture coped with the drastic power shift from "serious" literature to market-driven literature.

Rewriting Russian History

Author : Cyril Edwin Black
Publisher : London : Published for the Research Program on the U.S.S.R. [by] Atlantic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Russian History written by Cyril Edwin Black and published by London : Published for the Research Program on the U.S.S.R. [by] Atlantic Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rewriting History in Soviet Russia

Author : R. Markwick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597734
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting History in Soviet Russia written by R. Markwick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the political significance of the development of historical revisionism in the USSR under Khrushchev in the wake of the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU and its demise with the onset of the 'period of stagnation' under Brezhnev. On the basis of intensive interviews and original manuscript material, the book demonstrates that the vigorous rejuvenation of historiography undertaken by Soviet historians in the 1960s conceptually cleared the way for and fomented the dramatic upheaval in Soviet historical writing occasioned by the advent of perestroika.

Rewriting the Jew

Author : Gabriella Safran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0804738300
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting the Jew written by Gabriella Safran and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians debated the "Jewish Question," more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature. This book examines stories about Jewish assimilation, introducing the English-language reader to works that were much discussed in their time.

Cinema in Central Asia

Author : Michael Rouland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857734210
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Cinema in Central Asia written by Michael Rouland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the cinema of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day. Bringing together specialists from Central Asia, Russia, Europe and the United States, this companion to the cinema of the region combines serious scholarly study with practical accessibility to construct an historical narrative, discuss aspects of film production and consider the impact of film. The book also offers a deeper understanding of Central Asian culture that is invaluable with the geopolitical and economic emergence of this exciting region. The book opens with a broad history, paying particular attention to the emergence and expansion of the film industry, competing visions of nationalism and distinct phases of the post-Soviet film experience. A series of incisive articles written by specialists on Central Asian film follows. They explain early film institutions and themes, the impact of the Second World War, expressions of identity and protest during the Soviet era, as well as regional variations of post-Soviet filmmaking and political involvement. The final section comprises biographical and filmographical entries on the principal figures of Central Asian cinema that offer a much-needed reference for scholars and filmgoers.

Russian Nationalism

Author : Marlene Laruelle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429761988
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Russian Nationalism written by Marlene Laruelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, explores the complex nature of Russian nationalism. It examines nationalism as a multilayered and multifaceted repertoire displayed by a myriad of actors. It considers nationalism as various concepts and ideas emphasizing Russia’s distinctive national character, based on the country’s geography, history, Orthodoxy, and Soviet technological advances. It analyzes the ideologies of Russia’s ultra-nationalist and far-right groups, explores the use of nationalism in the conflict with Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, and discusses how Putin’s political opponents, including Alexei Navalny, make use of nationalism. Overall the book provides a rich analysis of a key force which is profoundly affecting political and societal developments both inside Russia and beyond.

Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020

Author : Maria Rubins
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787359417
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020 written by Maria Rubins and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the century that has passed since the start of the massive post-revolutionary exodus, Russian literature has thrived in multiple locations around the globe. What happens to cultural vocabularies, politics of identity, literary canon and language when writers transcend the metropolitan and national boundaries and begin to negotiate new experience gained in the process of migration? Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020 sets a new agenda for the study of Russian diaspora writing, countering its conventional reception as a subsidiary branch of national literature and reorienting the field from an excessive emphasis on the homeland and origins to an analysis of transnational circulations that shape extraterritorial cultural practices. Integrating a variety of conceptual perspectives, ranging from diaspora and postcolonial studies to the theories of translation and self-translation, World Literature and evolutionary literary criticism, the contributors argue for a distinct nature of diasporic literary expression predicated on hybridity, ambivalence and a sense of multiple belonging. As the complementary case studies demonstrate, diaspora narratives consistently recode historical memory, contest the mainstream discourses of Russianness, rewrite received cultural tropes and explore topics that have remained marginal or taboo in the homeland. These diverse discussions are framed by a focused examination of diaspora as a methodological perspective and its relevance for the modern human condition.

Rewriting Indie Cinema

Author : J. J. Murphy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549598
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Indie Cinema written by J. J. Murphy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most films rely on a script developed in pre-production. Yet beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the recent mumblecore movement, key independent filmmakers have broken with the traditional screenplay. Instead, they have turned to new approaches to scripting that allow for more complex characterization and shift the emphasis from the page to performance. In Rewriting Indie Cinema, J. J. Murphy explores these alternative forms of scripting and how they have shaped American film from the 1950s to the present. He traces a strain of indie cinema that used improvisation and psychodrama, a therapeutic form of improvised acting based on a performer’s own life experiences. Murphy begins in the 1950s and 1960s with John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Barbara Loden, Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer, William Greaves, and other independent directors who sought to create a new type of narrative cinema. In the twenty-first century, filmmakers such as Gus Van Sant, the Safdie brothers, Joe Swanberg, and Sean Baker developed similar strategies, sometimes benefitting from the freedom of digital technology. In reading key films and analyzing their techniques, Rewriting Indie Cinema demonstrates how divergence from the script has blurred the divide between fiction and nonfiction. Showing the ways in which filmmakers have striven to capture the subtleties of everyday behavior, Murphy provides a new history of American indie filmmaking and how it challenges Hollywood industrial practices.

Making History

Author : Richard Cohen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982195800
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Making History written by Richard Cohen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “supremely entertaining” (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history—from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns—and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists, influence what becomes the accepted record. Cohen argues, for example, that some historians are practitioners of “Bad History” and twist reality to glorify themselves or their country. “Scholarly, lively, quotable, up-to-date, and fun” (Hilary Mantel, author of the bestselling Thomas Cromwell trilogy), Making History investigates the published works and private utterances of our greatest chroniclers to discover the agendas that informed their—and our—views of the world. From the origins of history writing, when such an activity itself seemed revolutionary, through to television and the digital age, Cohen brings captivating figures to vivid light, from Thucydides and Tacitus to Voltaire and Gibbon, Winston Churchill and Henry Louis Gates. Rich in complex truths and surprising anecdotes, the result is a revealing exploration of both the aims and art of history-making, one that will lead us to rethink how we learn about our past and about ourselves.

The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture

Author : L. Trigos
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230104711
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture written by L. Trigos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first interdisciplinary treatment of the cultural significance of the Decembrists' mythic image in Russian literature, history, film and opera in a survey of its deployment as cultural trope since the original 1825 rebellion and through the present day.

Putin's Kleptocracy

Author : Karen Dawisha
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476795207
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Putin's Kleptocracy written by Karen Dawisha and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia. Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin’s kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about the Putin circle’s use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and “Putin’s Palace” near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin’s KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime. Putin’s Kleptocracy is the result of years of research into the KGB and the various Russian crime syndicates. Dawisha’s sources include Stasi archives; Russian insiders; investigative journalists in the US, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy; and Western officials who served in Moscow. Russian journalists wrote part of this story when the Russian media was still free. “Many of them died for this story, and their work has largely been scrubbed from the Internet, and even from Russian libraries,” Dawisha says. “But some of that work remains.”

A Short History of Russia

Author : Mary Platt Parmele
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Russia written by Mary Platt Parmele and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1899 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Global Russian Cultures

Author : Kevin M. F. Platt
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299319709
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Global Russian Cultures written by Kevin M. F. Platt and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there an essential Russian identity? What happens when "Russian" literature is written in English, by such authors as Gary Shteyngart or Lara Vapnyar? What is the geographic "home" of Russian culture created and shared via the internet? Global Russian Cultures innovatively considers these and many related questions about the literary and cultural life of Russians who in successive waves of migration have dispersed to the United States, Europe, and Israel, or who remained after the collapse of the USSR in Ukraine, the Baltic states, and the Central Asian states. The volume's internationally renowned contributors treat the many different global Russian cultures not as "displaced" elements of Russian cultural life but rather as independent entities in their own right. They describe diverse forms of literature, music, film, and everyday life that transcend and defy political, geographic, and even linguistic borders. Arguing that Russian cultures today are many, this volume contends that no state or society can lay claim to be the single or authentic representative of Russianness. In so doing, it contests the conceptions of culture and identity at the root of nation-building projects in and around Russia.

The High Stakes of Identity

Author : Ian M. Helfant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The High Stakes of Identity written by Ian M. Helfant and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revising his doctoral dissertation for Harvard University, Helfant (Russian, Colgate U.) explains how Russian writers of the 19th century not only used gambling as motifs in their work, but were often impacted by it in their own lives; for example Pushkin's huge losses at cards and Dostoevski's at roulette served as impetus for them to write for money, but Tolstoy's ancestral wealth cushioned his losses at cards. In addition to those three, he looks at works by Lermontov, Shakhovskoy, and Begichev. He appends the original texts of all the extended and most of the shorter quotes that are translated from Russian and French in the book. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.