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This is a reprint of a 1956 English translation of the sparkling 1899 book by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the great revolutionary and founder of the Soviet State. The book is very easy to read for the Western reader who may be unfamiliar with all the names and events mentioned in the text. Progress Publishers, original publishers of the English translation copiously footnote and explain every name, event and foreign phrase which is used in the text. This makes for an easy and delightful read. This book is a must for the library of every student of Russian history.

Diaghilev coming out of Marius Petipas's stronghold on ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia astounded the world with a new form of ballet and took it out into the western world, changing it forever. Great ballets with great artists such as Nijinsky and Pavlova are still unforgetable and formed the foundation of our modern ballet. Diaghilev left us a great legacy.

This inciteful look into the life of Punin is quite a page turner. From references to his affair with Akhmatova to reflections on the politics of the time, the diaries provide a rare chronicle of the early Soviet era. The tactful translation is smooth and easy to comprehend. Jennifer Greene Krupala is a very talented translator and does great justice to the diaries of Nikolay Punin; it is obvious that she has a deep understanding of the work and a strong command of the Russian language.

I am a WWII buff. I specifically like to read true stories about personal experiences during the war. This story is like none I have ever heard before---and told by actual diary entries and from the remembrances of the "mad Russians" son. It was fascinating, and I can envision it as a great movie---with the right director. This WWII hero had an amazing background in pre revolutionary Czarist Russia and ends up as an American who then becomes the only civilian to captain an American tank in the war. And what he does with it is beyond belief. Read this fascinating story!

It is the unique multilingual dictionary of Medical Plants, in which one there are Russian equivalents (other dictionaries I did not find). The dictionary is very convenient by that if not know of Russian equivalent to English or on the contrary, always it is possible to use the Latin term.

This is an absolutely critical sourcebook for any student of Russian art, including post Revolutionary Impressionism and Socialist Realism. It has critical biographies of a huge number of Russian artists. No one should invest in Russian art without this book.

In this book Boris Kagarlitsky offers a trenchant analysis of the break-up of the Soviet Union and the transformation of a section of the old nomenklatura into a new possessing and ruling elite.

Kagarlitsky show that Western commentators have been misled by the street theatre of events like the bungled coup of August 1991 into supposing that a fundamental break has been made with the confused politics and economics of the late Soviet period. He analyses the ill-considered and self-interested attempts made by the nomenklatura to privatize assets and inaugurate a free-market economy, finding an essential continuity between the plans of Gorbachev's and Yeltsin's advisers. He reveals too, how the new Russian President has displayed a greater capacity to assert dictatorial powers than did the last General Secretary, a tendency which has brought him into repeated conflict with elected bodies.

Boris Kagarlitsky is himself a Socialist member of the Moscow Soviet and one of the founders of Russia's new Party of Labour. The Disintegration of the Monolith furnished both a memorable indictment of the greed and irresponsibility of Russia's new/old rulers and a fascinating account of the slow but unmistakeable awakening of forces of resistance as the peoples of Russia and the other states of the former Soviet Union confront the hyper-inflation, shortages, unemployment and general havoc wreaked by the free-market experiment. Kagarlitsky describes the gradual emergence of a new Russian trade unionism, but warns that popular discontent is also being exploited by nationalist demagogues, such as the leader of Russia's new Liberal Party. For those seeking to understand what has changed in Russia - and what has remained the same - The Disintegration of the Monolith is required reading. -- from book's back cover

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Who would imagine that an exhaustive investigation of the life of Dorothea de Bechendorff, born De. 28, 1785 in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. would uncover the story of the birth of modern Greece? Or give a most unusual perspective on the lives of four Romanov rulers? But this riveting work by Judith Lissauer Cromwell, most skillfully masters a vast assemblage of sources to show Dorothea's influence on European history.
Cromwell is a knowledgeable guide as she remarkably charts Lieven's progress, beginning with her early schooling, family connections, marriage at age 14 to Count Christopher Lieven, and into the pivotal, not widely known role, she played as a skillful, artful diplomat. The author brilliantly weaves the reader through an extraordinary range of material from Dorothea's own masterfully written correspondence to the papers of the most influential politicians of the period.

Maybe sound to free speculation, but to my view, Dostoevsky is spiritually the embodiment of the rebel man. Moreover, he may be regarded the authentic godfather of the existentialism in Literature. There are many arguments to support it, the conceptual, the spiritual affinities, the silence of God, the silent anguish and the clawing scream of desperation before the emptiness of the existence, so magisterially expressed in Karamazov brothers.

On the other hand, at the moment to read that notable essay of Albert Camus: "The rebel man" and the close affinity between "The happy death" and "Crime and punishment" you even may spin finer and so to establish certain parallelisms with the most radical branches of the Romanticism.

Between Dostoevsky and Camus, there are important links: Rimbaud Verlaine and Baudelaire pick up and establish important premises for the reluctant existentialism that remains latent to make its incursion with that impressive outburst after the WW1.

Joseph Franks leads the reader for admirable paths of passionate interest in order to convey us the core of the oul of this writer of writers.

Absolutely recommended.