Author: Mike DavidowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quality of life
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Moscow Diary 2
Author: Mike DavidowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quality of life
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Moscow Diary
Author: Walter BenjaminPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674587441
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Earthly Signs
Author: Marina TsvetaevaPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371634
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution. Marina Tsvetaeva ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century poets. Her suicide at the age of forty-eight was the tragic culmination of a life buffeted by political upheaval. The essays collected in this volume are based on diaries she kept during the turbulent years of the Revolution and Civil War. In them she records conversations of women in the markets, soldiers and peasants on the train traveling from the Crimea to Moscow in October 1917, fighting in the streets of Moscow, a frantic scramble with co-workers to dig frozen potatoes out of a cellar, and poetry readings organized by a newly minted Soviet bohemia. Alone in Moscow with two small children, no income, and a missing husband, Tsvetaeva struggled to feed her daughters (one of whom died of malnutrition in an orphanage), find employment in the Soviet bureaucracy, and keep writing poetry. Her keen and ruthless eye observes with compassion and humor—bringing the social, economic, and cultural chaos of the period to life. These autobiographical writings not only give a vivid eyewitness account of Russian history but provide vital insights into the workings of Tsvetaeva’s unique poetics. Includes black and white photographs.
Moscow diary
Author: William Anti-TaylorMoscow Diary
Author: Marjorie FarquharsonPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789010381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This is the diary kept by Marjorie during the period in which she established Amnesty International`s Information Office in Moscow This was a unique venture for AI during a period of change. When Marjorie set up an Amnesty International`s office in Moscow in 1991, she was the first westerner working on human rights with a permanent base there.
Moscow diary
Author: Walter BenjaminMoscow diary
Author: Veljko MicunovicMoscow Diary
Author: Majk DavidovTime of Troubles
Author: Iurii Vladimirovich Got'ePublisher:
ISBN: 9780691631936
Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Among the few diaries available from inside early Soviet Russia none approaches Iurii V. Got'e's in sustained length of coverage and depth of vivid detail. Got'e was a member of the Moscow intellectual elite--a complex and unusually observant man, who was a professor at Moscow University and one of the most prominent historians of Russia at the time the revolution broke out. Beginning his first entry with the words Finis Russiae, he describes his life in revolution-torn Moscow from July 8, 1917 through July 23, 1922--nearly the entire period of the Russian Revolution and Civil War up to the advent of the New Economic Policy. This remarkable chronicle, published here for the first time, describes the hardships undergone by Got'e's family and friends and the gradual takeover of the academic and professional sectors of Russia by the new regime. Got'e was in his mid-forties when he wrote the diary. At first he felt that Bolshevism meant complete doom for Russia, but eventually his ardent patriotism led him to accept the Bolsheviks' role in preserving the integrity of the Russian state. The diary was discovered in 1982 in the Hoover Institution Archives, in the papers of Frank Golder, to whom Got'e himself had entrusted it in 1922. It is translated literally and unabridged, with annotations by Terence Emmons. The introduction by Professor Emmons places the diary clearly in the context of Got'e's life and scholarly career. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Moscow Diaries
Author: Richard BryantPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615149995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Post-Soviet Russia. The Wild Wild East. Richard Bryant offers a glimpse at real life behind what remains of the rusting Iron Curtain. At a time when relations between the United States and Russia are once again tense, Richard's work is a telling portrait of life in modern Moscow. From train journeys across four timezones to airport security inspections, you'll never look at Russia the same way again.