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Book Synopsis Soviet Historical Drama by : Spencer E. Roberts
Download or read book Soviet Historical Drama written by Spencer E. Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The taste for history is the most ariswcratic of all tastes. Ernest Rerum "Our century is pre-eminently an historical century . . . . Even art has now become pre-eminently historical. The historical novel and drama interest each and everyone more at present than do similar works belonging to the realm of pure fiction. "! Although Belinskii was writing in 1841, his statement could equally well apply to the Russia of a century later, when the interest in historical fiction had become, if anything, more intense. In fact, the abundance of Soviet historical novels and plays tempts one to believe Heine, when he said that the people want their history handed to them by the poet, not the historian. The infatuation with history to which Belinskii referred was not, however, indigenous to Russia; it was part of a rage, largely inspired by Waiter Scott, which had swept western Europe in the early nine teenth century, and which soon spread to Russia. Today, Scott's star has been eclipsed in the West, but it still burns brightly in the Soviet Union. Indeed, it can be said that the West has not only rejected Scott, but, to a considerable extent, the historical novel and playas well. As one writer recently put it: "The reading public, brought up on a strict diet of sex and science, prefers to take its history undiluted in the form of unexpurgated memoirs and frank biographies.
Book Synopsis The Kirov Murder and Soviet History by : Matthew E. Lenoe
Download or read book The Kirov Murder and Soviet History written by Matthew E. Lenoe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash the Great Terror that decimated the Communist elite in 1937–1938; these previously unavailable documents raise new questions about whether Stalin himself ordered the murder, a subject of speculation since 1938.The book includes translations of 125 documents from the various investigations of the Kirov murder, allowing readers to reach their own conclusions about Stalin’s involvement in the assassination.
Book Synopsis The Soviet Theater by : Laurence Senelick
Download or read book The Soviet Theater written by Laurence Senelick and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years’ worth of archival documentation, the authors celebrate in words and pictures a vital, living art form that remained innovative and exciting, growing, adapting, and flourishing despite harsh, often illogical pressures inflicted upon its creators by a totalitarian government. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the subject ever to be published in the English language.
Book Synopsis Library of Congress Subject Headings by : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library of Congress Subject Headings by : Library of Congress
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library of Congress Subject Headings: F-O by : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings: F-O written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Russian Theatre by : Robert Leach
Download or read book A History of Russian Theatre written by Robert Leach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of Russian theatre, written by an international team of experts.
Book Synopsis Soviet Historical Drama by : Spencer E. Roberts
Download or read book Soviet Historical Drama written by Spencer E. Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 1965 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The taste for history is the most ariswcratic of all tastes. Ernest Rerum "Our century is pre-eminently an historical century . . . . Even art has now become pre-eminently historical. The historical novel and drama interest each and everyone more at present than do similar works belonging to the realm of pure fiction. "! Although Belinskii was writing in 1841, his statement could equally well apply to the Russia of a century later, when the interest in historical fiction had become, if anything, more intense. In fact, the abundance of Soviet historical novels and plays tempts one to believe Heine, when he said that the people want their history handed to them by the poet, not the historian. The infatuation with history to which Belinskii referred was not, however, indigenous to Russia; it was part of a rage, largely inspired by Waiter Scott, which had swept western Europe in the early nine teenth century, and which soon spread to Russia. Today, Scott's star has been eclipsed in the West, but it still burns brightly in the Soviet Union. Indeed, it can be said that the West has not only rejected Scott, but, to a considerable extent, the historical novel and playas well. As one writer recently put it: "The reading public, brought up on a strict diet of sex and science, prefers to take its history undiluted in the form of unexpurgated memoirs and frank biographies.
Book Synopsis Stalin's Master Narrative by : David Brandenberger
Download or read book Stalin's Master Narrative written by David Brandenberger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical edition of the text that defined communist party ideology in Stalin's Soviet Union The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) defined Stalinist ideology both at home and abroad. It was quite literally the the master narrative of the USSR--a hegemonic statement on history, politics, and Marxism-Leninism that scripted Soviet society for a generation. This study exposes the enormous role that Stalin played in the development of this all-important text, as well as the unparalleled influence that he wielded over the Soviet historical imagination.
Book Synopsis Library of Congress Subject Headings by : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis P-Z by : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Download or read book P-Z written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Russian Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mao and the Sino–Soviet Partnership, 1945–1959 by : Zhihua Shen
Download or read book Mao and the Sino–Soviet Partnership, 1945–1959 written by Zhihua Shen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Chinese archival documents, interviews, and more than twenty years of research on the subject, Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia offer a comprehensive look at the Sino-Soviet alliance between the end of the World War II and 1959, when the alliance was left in disarray as a result of foreign and domestic policies. This book is a reevaluation of the history of this alliance and is the first book published in English to examine it from a Chinese perspective.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Russian Literature by : Victor Terras
Download or read book Handbook of Russian Literature written by Victor Terras and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays
Book Synopsis New Russian Drama by : Maksim Hanukai
Download or read book New Russian Drama written by Maksim Hanukai and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Russian Drama took shape at the turn of the new millennium—a time of turbulent social change in Russia and the former Soviet republics. Emerging from small playwriting festivals, provincial theaters, and converted basements, it evolved into a major artistic movement that startled audiences with hypernaturalistic portrayals of sex and violence, daring use of non-normative language, and thrilling experiments with genre and form. The movement’s commitment to investigating contemporary reality helped revitalize Russian theater. It also provoked confrontations with traditionalists in society and places of power, making theater once again Russia’s most politicized art form. This anthology offers an introduction to New Russian Drama through plays that illustrate the versatility and global relevance of this exciting movement. Many of them address pressing social issues, such as ethnic tensions and political disillusionment; others engage with Russia’s rich cultural legacy by reimagining traditional genres and canons. Among them are a family drama about Anton Chekhov, a modern production play in which factory workers compose haiku, and a satirical verse play about the treatment of migrant workers, as well a documentary play about a terrorist school siege and a postdramatic “text” that is only two sentences long. Both politically and aesthetically uncompromising, they chart new paths for performance in the twenty-first century. Acquainting English-language readers with these vital works, New Russian Drama challenges us to reflect on the status and mission of the theater.
Book Synopsis Ghostly Paradoxes by : Ilya Vinitsky
Download or read book Ghostly Paradoxes written by Ilya Vinitsky and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture of nineteenth-century Russia is often seen as dominated by realism in the arts, as exemplified by the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, the paintings of 'the Wanderers,' and the historical operas of Modest Mussorgsky. Paradoxically, nineteenth-century Russia was also consumed with a passion for spiritualist activities such as table-rappings, seances of spirit communication, and materialization of the 'spirits.' Ghostly Paradoxes examines the surprising relationship between spiritualist beliefs and practices and the positivist mindset of the Russian Age of Realism (1850-80) to demonstrate the ways in which the two disparate movements influenced each other. Foregrounding the important role that nineteenth-century spiritualism played in the period's aesthetic, ideological, and epistemological debates, Ilya Vinitsky challenges literary scholars who have considered spiritualism to be archaic and peripheral to other cultural issues of the time. Ghostly Paradoxes is an innovative work of literary scholarship that traces the reactions of Russia's major realist authors to spiritualist events and doctrines and demonstrates that both movements can be understood only when examined together.
Book Synopsis Library of Congress Subject Headings: P-Z by : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings: P-Z written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
