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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.

These two works add immensely to our understanding of Dostoevsky, though they have quite different purposes: Frank completes his monumental biography of Dostoevsky, while Scanlan examines the Russian writer's philosophical thought. Scanlan (emeritus, philosophy, Ohio State Univ.) argues that while much has been said about Dostoevsky as a writer, he has rarely been treated as a philosopher. Yet through his writings, he explored a variety of philosophical issues, primarily concerning the nature of humankind. Scanlan studies Dostoevsky's nationalism, opposition to rational egotism, and beliefs about our eternal souls, moral agency, and aesthetic needs. Of course, Dostoevsky's philosophy was framed within a Christian worldview, and Scanlan does excellent work discussing Dostoevsky's ideas in terms of his religious faith. Readers wanting to learn more about the thought of one of Russia's great writers will find this work essential.
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The main thesis of Sanborn's book is that violence as seen through the examples of the Tsarist and Soviet armies cemented the Russian nation together. The first part of the book, Sanborn writes about how the Soviet army managed to tighten draft evasions by rewarding those families that had members serving in the military while confiscating the land of draft evaders and their families during the Russian Civil War.Sandborn also deals with the different nationalities in the Russian empire. Belorussians and Ukrainians assimilated into the Russian army but were later segregrated into seperate ethnic units during the Russain Civil War. While Central Asians resisited service in the Russian army and the Jews were regarded by both Tsarist and Communist officers as subversives and dangerous to morale. The middle section Sanborn descibes how gender roles were coonected to the new Russin nationalism. Both Tsarist and Soviet propaganda stated that Russian men must develop their bodies to protect their nation and the family, while Russian women were required to have sons that could drafted into the army. The final section Sanborn writes how the Russian state would redeem criminals and draft evaders if they rejoined the army, but both the Soviet and Tsarist system would harshly punish pacificit sects. Although the state rewarded violent behavior it could not control it as seen through the various atrocities during the Russian Civil War.The main weakness of Sanborn's book is that he does not write about the treatement about the injured soldiers during and after the Russian Civil War and how this influeced their perception of the Soviet state. Overall this an excellent social history of the Russian army and how it contributed the creation of the Soviet Union.

Daniel Farson had a lifelong yearning to complete his father's 1929 attempt to cross the Klukhor Pass in the Caucasus on horseback. At 64, 'abominable unhealthy', he determined to try. His expedition in 1991 coincided with the coup, and he describes the journey down the Volga aboard the "Pipkin" as the coup broke all around. When he eventually reached the Caucasus, his arduous climb became fraught as the horses collapsed and the porters deserted him. However, he finally succeeded where his father had failed.

The aim of the editors is to present the best one- volume English representation of the early stories. In their outstanding introduction to the volume they define very clearly one important aspect of Chekhov's greatness as short- story teller. He had " a marvelous ability to enter into the lives of characters completely to ' inform' as Keats said of the poet, the lives of men , women, children animals and even plants and landscape. And make the reader experience the world from their point- of - view."
Chekhov is a writer who makes the reader have great sympathy for most of his characters. And this even when he is depicting people who are ' unscrewed' in various ways. In these stories there are depictions of unfulfilled lives of lives which feel differently at different times. There are also all the comic modes and devices at work of the early much loved and appreciated Chekhov.
This work has an outstanding introduction by its translators Miles and Pitcher.