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A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia

By: Anthony Austin, Paul Hollander, Aleksandr Nikolaevich I͡Akovlev,Aleksandr Nikolaevich I͡Akovlev

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A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia

By: Anthony Austin, Paul Hollander, Aleksandr Nikolaevich I͡Akovlev,Aleksandr Nikolaevich I͡Akovlev

He unhesitatingly names those individuals who bear responsibility for these catastrophic deaths, bringing into sharper focus than ever before the facts, the perpetrators, and the events of the Soviet Union's years of terror."--BOOK JACKET.

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Yale University Press

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0300087608

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9780300087604

Between Two Millstones, Book 2

Exile in America, 1978-1994

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Between Two Millstones, Book 2

Exile in America, 1978-1994

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delineates his idyllic time in rural Vermont, where he had the freedom to work, spend time with his family, and wage a war of ideas against the Soviet Union and other detractors from afar. At his quiet retreat . . . the Nobel laureate found . . . ‘a happiness in free and uninterrupted work.’” —Kirkus Reviews This compelling account concludes Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s literary memoirs of his years in the West after his forced exile from the USSR following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. The book reflects both the pain of separation from his Russian homeland and the chasm of miscomprehension between him and Western opinion makers. In Between Two Millstones, Solzhenitsyn likens his position to that of a grain that becomes lodged between two massive stones, each grinding away—the Soviet Communist power with its propaganda machine on the one hand and the Western establishment with its mainstream media on the other. Book 2 picks up the story of Solzhenitsyn’s remarkable life after the raucous publicity over his 1978 Harvard Address has died down. The author parries attacks from the Soviet state (and its many fellow-travelers in the Western press) as well as from recent émigrés who, according to Solzhenitsyn, defame Russian culture, history, and religion. He shares his unvarnished view of several infamous episodes, such as a sabotaged meeting with Ronald Reagan, aborted Senate hearings regarding Radio Liberty, and Gorbachev’s protracted refusal to allow The Gulag Archipelago to be published back home. There is also a captivating chapter detailing his trips to Japan, Taiwan, and Great Britain, including meetings with Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Meanwhile, the central themes of Book 1 course through this volume, too—the immense artistic quandary of fashioning The Red Wheel, staunch Western hostility to the historical and future Russia (and how much can, or should, the author do about it), and the challenges of raising his three sons in the language and spirit of Russia while cut off from the homeland in a remote corner of rural New England. The book concludes in 1994, as Solzhenitsyn bids farewell to the West in a valedictory series of speeches and meetings with world leaders, including John Paul II, and prepares at last to return home with his beloved wife Natalia, full of misgivings about what use he can be in the first chaotic years of post-Communist Russia, but never wavering in his conviction that, in the long run, his books would speak, influence, and convince. This vibrant, faithful, and long-awaited first English translation of Between Two Millstones, Book 2, will fascinate Solzhenitsyn's many admirers, as well as those interested in twentieth-century history, Russian history, and literature in general.

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402

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268109028

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9780268109028

The Fate of Marxism in Russia

By: Aleksandr Nikolaevich I͡Akovlev

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The Fate of Marxism in Russia

By: Aleksandr Nikolaevich I͡Akovlev

Alexander Yakovlev was in charge of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the early 1970s. From 1973 to 1983, he was Soviet Ambassador to Canada. In 1985 he returned to work for the Central Committee and was elected its Secretary and member of the Politburo. Later he was appointed to the Presidential Council. Working in the highest echelon of government, side by side with Mikhail Gorbachev, Yakovlev was a major architect of perestroika and a leading sponsor of glasnost. In August 1991 he was expelled from the CPSU for what were called activities detrimental to the interests of the Communist Party and for attempting to set up another party.

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250

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0300053657

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9780300053654

General Alexander Lebed

My Life and My Country

By: Aleksandr Lebed

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General Alexander Lebed

My Life and My Country

By: Aleksandr Lebed

Forty-five year old Alexander Lebed is a charismatic figure whose dry wit and brusque no-nonsense style sets him apart from most of the familiar faces of Moscow's political elite. In this brawling autobiography, General Alexander Lebed tells his dramatic life story, demonstrating the strengths that make him a likely candidate for a future Russian leadership role. photos.

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410

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Regnery Publishing

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0895264226

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9780895264220

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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756

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Univ of California Press

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0520042107

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9780520042100

Eugene Onegin

A Novel in Verse: Commentary (Vol. 2)

By: Aleksandr Pushkin

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Eugene Onegin

A Novel in Verse: Commentary (Vol. 2)

By: Aleksandr Pushkin

Vladimir Nabokov's famous and brilliant commentary on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin When Vladimir Nabokov first published his controversial translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin in 1964, the great majority of the edition was taken up by Nabokov’s witty and exhaustive commentary. Presented here in its own volume, the commentary is a unique scholarly masterwork by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers—a work that Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd calls “the most detailed commentary ever made on” Onegin and “indispensable to all serious students of Pushkin’s masterpiece.” In his commentary, Nabokov seeks to illuminate every possible nuance of this nineteenth-century classic. He explains obscurities, traces literary influences, relates Onegin to Pushkin’s other work, and in a characteristically entertaining manner dwells on a host of interesting details relevant to the poem and the Russia it depicts. Nabokov also provides translations of lines and stanzas deleted by the censor or by Pushkin himself, variants from Pushkin’s notebooks, fragments of a continuation called “Onegin’s Journey,” the unfinished and unpublished “Chapter Ten,” other continuations, and an index. A work of astonishing erudition and passion, Nabokov’s commentary is a landmark in the history of literary scholarship and in the understanding and appreciation of the greatest work of Russia’s national poet.

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Princeton University Press

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0691228299

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9780691228297

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A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia

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Between Two Millstones, Book 2

The Fate of Marxism in Russia

The Fate of Marxism in Russia

General Alexander Lebed

General Alexander Lebed

My Past and Thoughts

My Past and Thoughts

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