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My Past and Thoughts

The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen

By: Aleksandr Herzen

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My Past and Thoughts

The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen

By: Aleksandr Herzen

A literary masterpiece to be placed by the side of the novels by Herzen's contemporaries and countrymen, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky."--Sir Isaiah Berlin "Herzen's memoirs are one of the great nineteenth-century monuments, an essential document as well as a noble piece of literature."--Philip Toynbee

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Univ of California Press

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0520042107

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9780520042100

My Past and Thoughts

The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen

By: Aleksandr Herzen

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My Past and Thoughts

The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen

By: Aleksandr Herzen

This is a repackage of a steady backlist title which we acquired from Knopf in 1982.

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684

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Berkeley : University of California Press

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0520041917

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9780520041912

Quantum Functional Analysis

Non-coordinate Approach

By: Aleksandr I︠A︡kovlevich Khelemskiĭ

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Quantum Functional Analysis

Non-coordinate Approach

By: Aleksandr I︠A︡kovlevich Khelemskiĭ

Interpreting ""quantized coefficients"" as finite rank operators in a fixed Hilbert space allows the author to replace matrix computations with algebraic techniques of module theory and tensor products, thus achieving a more invariant approach to the subject.

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264

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American Mathematical Soc.

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082185254X

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9780821852545

Invisible Allies

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Invisible Allies

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

After his expulsion from Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn secretly worked on a memoir that would acknowledge the courageous efforts of the people who hid his writings and smuggled them to the West. Before the fall of Communism, the very publication of Invisible Allies would have put these friends in jeopardy. Now we are finally granted an intimate account of the extensive, ever-shifting network of individuals who risked life and liberty to ensure that Solzhenitsyn's works were kept safe, circulated in samizdat, and "exported" via illicit channels. These imperiled conspirators, often unknown to one another, shared a devotion to the dissident writer's work and a hatred of the regime that brought terror to every part of their lives. The circle included scholars and fellow writers and artists, but also such unlikely operatives as an elderly babushka who picked up and delivered manuscripts in her shopping bag. With tenderness, respect, and humor, Solzhenitsyn tells us of the fates of these partners in intrigue: the women who typed distribution copies of his works late into the night under the noses of prying neighbors; the correspondents and diplomats who covertly carried the microfilmed texts across borders; the farflung friends who hid various drafts of Solzhenitsyn's works anywhere they could--under an apple tree, beneath the bathtub, in a mathematics professor's loft with her canoe. In this group of deftly drawn portraits, Solzhenitsyn pays tribute to the anonymous heroes who evaded the KGB to bring The Gulag Archipelago and his many other works to the world.

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357

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Catapult

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1887178422

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9781887178426

Aleksandr Chayanov and Russian Berlin

By: Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Chai︠a︡nov

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Aleksandr Chayanov and Russian Berlin

By: Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Chai︠a︡nov

A third Aleksandr Chayanov dimension emerges from the autobiographical material he was forced to write in the interrogation that followed his arrest, in 1930, and in the letters he wrote in the early 1920s.

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182

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Taylor & Francis

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071468080X

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9780714680804

Vekhi (Landmarks)

By: Nikolai Berdiaev,Sergei Bulgakov,Semen Frank,Mikhail Gershenzon,Aleksandr Izgoev

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Vekhi (Landmarks)

By: Nikolai Berdiaev,Sergei Bulgakov,Semen Frank,Mikhail Gershenzon,Aleksandr Izgoev

A collection of essays first published in Moscow in 1909. Writing from various points of view, the authors reflect the diverse experiences of Russia's failed 1905 revolution. Condemned by Lenin and rediscoverd by dissidents, this translation has relevance for discussions on contemporary Russia.

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M.E. Sharpe

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076563225X

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9780765632258

Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Autocracy, Reform, and Social Change, 1814-1914

By: Aleksandr I︠U︡rʹevich Polunov

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Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Autocracy, Reform, and Social Change, 1814-1914

By: Aleksandr I︠U︡rʹevich Polunov

This covers the history of Russia from the defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I. It is the first such work by a post-Soviet Russian scholar to appear in English. It examines the decay of the two central institutions of tsarist Russia: serfdom and autocracy; the major social groups and how they reacted to the Great Reforms.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765606712

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9780765606716

Art as the Cognition of Life

Selected Writings, 1911-1936

By: Aleksandr Konstantinovich Voronskiĭ

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Art as the Cognition of Life

Selected Writings, 1911-1936

By: Aleksandr Konstantinovich Voronskiĭ

Voronsky was an outstanding figure of post-revolutionary Soviet intellectual life, editor of the most important literary journal of the 1920s in the USSR and a supporter of Trotsky and the Left Opposition in the struggle against Stalinism. A defender of "fellow traveler" writes and an opponent of the Proletarian Culture movement, Voronsky was one of the authentic representatives of classical Marxism in the field of literary criticism in the twentieth century. He was executed by Stalin in 1937. Following Voronsky's "rehabilitation" in 1957, several of his writings were published in the USSR in heavily censored form. All cuts have been restored for this edition.

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Mehring Books

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0929087763

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9780929087764

Victory Celebrations, Prisoners & The Love-Girl & The Innocent

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn

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Victory Celebrations, Prisoners & The Love-Girl & The Innocent

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn

In March 1953, seventeen years before he received the Nobel Prize, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ended his term in the Ekibastuz labor camp with the play Victory Celebrations and seven of the twelve scenes of Prisoners committed to memory. During his ensuing internal exile, he completed Prisoners and started another play, The Love-Girl and the Innocent. The result is a dramatic trilogy focusing on events of the year 1945: the Russian army’s advance into East Prussia and the “repatriation” of former Russian prisoners of war to the Gulag labor camps. The three plays transmute Solzhenitsyn’s own bitter experience of war and imprisonment. In Victory Celebrations (translated by Helen Rapp and Nancy Thomas), one can recognize the author in Sergei Nerzhin, a captain in a Soviet artillery battalion whose staff improvises a banquet in a captured castle in East Prussia. Celebration turns to conflict when Nerzhin sides with Galina—a Russian emigree whose husband is fighting with the Germans—against Lieutenant Gridnev, an officer in military counter-intelligence who insists Galina is a spy. Prisoners (translated by Helen Rapp and Nancy Thomas, and based in part on Solzhenitsyn’s own initial arrest and captivity) follows a group of political prisoners, including ex-POWs, from their arrival in a Soviet prison on the Prussian border through their perfunctory interrogation, trial, and conviction. Solzhenitsyn’s alter-ego in The Love-Girl and the Innocent (translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg) is Rodion Nemov, a new prisoner in a labor camp whi is unwilling to compromise in order to survive. This final play in the trilogy is, as Martin Esslin wrote of the 1981 Royal Shakespeare Company production, “a classic portrayal of the Gulag.” These plays from the 1950s are among the Nobel laureate’s earlier writings. But in his indignation at injustice and moral bankruptcy, Solzhenitsyn the playwright prefigures Solzhenitsyn the great novelist.

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370

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Macmillan

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0374519242

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9780374519247

The Drama of Russian Political History

System Against Individuality

By: Aleksandr Valentinovich Obolonskiĭ

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The Drama of Russian Political History

System Against Individuality

By: Aleksandr Valentinovich Obolonskiĭ

In his introduction, Alexander Obolonsky notes that Russian history and life are full of paradoxes, most of them rather sad. Why, he asks, have the Russians, who have not only been endowed by nature with enormous natural, human, and intellectual resources, but who have also developed a great literary and scientific heritage and made significant contributions to world civilization, proved unable to arrange the conditions of their own existence to realize their great potential? "What fundamental deficiency," he wonders, "made this great anomaly possible?"Alexander Obolonsky has undertaken the formidable task of reinterpreting Russian history from the Time of Troubles and the reign of Ivan the Terrible to perestroika, glasnost, and the dismantling of the Soviet system under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. He seeks to understand the present and assess the social trends that will shape the future through a careful reconsideration of Russia's past.In his sweeping analyses of historical trends, Obolonsky structures his analytic narrative around two opposed concepts-a system-centered understanding of social existence in which individuals are viewed as "cogs" functioning for the sake of the whole, and a liberal person-centered paradigm in which society seeks to promote the development of the individual.Obolonsky distrusts all monistic explanations, from Marxism and geopolitics to scientific and technological models. He prefers to utilize a variety of variables--ethical, economic, sociopsychological, cultural--to explain Russian history, presenting its course as a long-term and ongoing struggle between two competing models of life. Oblolonsky is neither a determinist nor a romantic. In his thought-provoking and historically grounded analysis, he challenges standard interpretations regarding Russia, the USSR, the role of political leaders, and the Russian people. Far from satisfied with Russia's past, Obolonsky worries that Russia's future will be tainted by the persistence of an anti-individualist mentality and attitudes shaped by centuries of autocratic rule and by a conservative mass consciousness rooted in Russian experience.Students of Russian history, politics, and culture, and also those interested in the broader issues of twentieth-century society will find this informative magnum opus of a senior Russian scholar insightful and thought-provoking.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603447083

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9781603447089

Polinka Saks and the Story of Aleksei

By: Aleksandr Druzhinin

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Polinka Saks and the Story of Aleksei

By: Aleksandr Druzhinin

This volume offers two of Druzhinin's essential works in their first English translations. Polinka Saks, his most essential short novel, is an epistolary tale of a romantic triangle involving an older man, his young wife, and a dashing young prince. The husband attempts to introduce his wife to literature, art, and music, but his efforts run counter to the dominant trend of society, which "forces women to become little children." The wife falls victim to the prince and realizes too late the value of the education provided by her husband. A far different tale, The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich is a complex social and psychological study of poverty, family disharmony, precocious children, and destructive self-sacrifice.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810110776

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9780810110779

March 1917

The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 4

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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March 1917

The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 4

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In March 1917, Book 4 the willing and unwilling participants of the Russian Revolution try to make sense of their next steps amidst unraveling chaos. One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. March 1917—the third node—chronicles the mayhem, day by day, of the Russian Revolution. Book 4 presents, for the first time in English, the conclusion of this four-volume revolutionary saga. The action of Book 4 is set during March 23–31, 1917. Book 4 portrays a cast of thousands in motion and agitation as every stratum of Russian society—the army on the front lines, the countryside, the Volga merchants, the Don Cossacks, the Orthodox Church—is racked by the confusing new reality. Soldiers start to fraternize across trenches with the enemy. The Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, the emperor’s uncle, arrives at military headquarters to assume the supreme command but is promptly dismissed by the new Provisional Government. Even this government holds no power, for at every step it is cowed and hemmed in by a self-proclaimed and unaccountable Executive Committee acting in the name of the Soviets—councils of workers and soldiers. Yet the Soviets themselves are divided—on whether to call for an end to the war or for its continuation, on whether to topple the Provisional Government or to let it try to govern. Meanwhile, in Switzerland, Lenin quietly dictates his own terms to the German General Staff, setting the stage for his return to Russia.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268208816

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9780268208813

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My Past and Thoughts

My Past and Thoughts

My Past and Thoughts

My Past and Thoughts

Quantum Functional Analysis

Quantum Functional Analysis

Invisible Allies

Invisible Allies

Aleksandr Chayanov and Russian Berlin

Aleksandr Chayanov and Russian Berlin

Vekhi (Landmarks)

Vekhi (Landmarks)

Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Art as the Cognition of Life

Art as the Cognition of Life

Victory Celebrations, Prisoners & The Love-Girl & The Innocent

Victory Celebrations, Prisoners & The Love-Girl & The Innocent

The Drama of Russian Political History

The Drama of Russian Political History

Polinka Saks and the Story of Aleksei

Polinka Saks and the Story of Aleksei

March 1917

March 1917

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