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This original anthology traces a century of Russian poetry, taking us through the turbulent decades from 1900 to 2000 with poets of stature who reflected or recorded their times. It combines work by famous and lesser known (outside Russia) poets, some never previously published in English, through the medium of six translators, who also contribute biographical and historical notes. The one unnamed poet is the writer from the Arsenal Mental Prison Hospital in the 1970s, whose anguished, affecting verse, in a little book bound in elastoplast, was smuggled out of the hospital. These are poems that will continue to survive.

The translators: Vladimir Baskayev, Kitty Hunter Blair, Belinda Cooke, Richard McKane, Michael Molnar. ... Read more

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Why has nobody reviewed this collection yet? McKane and co. have produced and excellent survey of Russian poetry from the dawn of the last century to the present day. Better known poets such as Velemir Khlebnikov and Osip Mandelstam share pages with less familiar names like Leonid Aronzon and Katia Kapovich. Each poet holds his/her own against the aformentioned greats, and their sections are nicely introduced with brief biographies. Helpful annotations are included when necessary.

McKane has been brave in that he has consciously decided not to include many of the better known Russian poets of the 1900s - No Mayakovsky, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Blok, Akhmatova or Brodsky. His gamble pays off in that the underappreciated poets included make the volume far more entertaining than yet another collection of the more noteworthy poets same few famous poems. I for one would rather read the wonderful translations of Poplavsky included here than anything by Brodsky, and Khlebnikov - while much less famous than Mayakovsky - was a much more innovative and ultimatly entertaining champion of the Russian Futurist movement.

This volume is well worth purchasing for anyone interested in Russian poetry in translation. I would recommend it as an introduction only hesitantaly as at this present moment it is th only place that readers are likely to find some of these poets works in English. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Nikolai Bukharin, Osip Mandelstam, Grigory Zinoviev, Peljidiin Genden, Christian Rakovsky, Isaak Babel, Nikolai Krylenko, Béla Kun, Pavel Dybenko, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, John Pepper, Nikolai Yezhov, Pavel Florensky, Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Iona Yakir, Alexander Krasnoshchyokov, Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov, Abani Mukherji, Alexey Rykov, Mikheil Javakhishvili, Nestor Lakoba, Jānis K. Bērziņš, Eugen Rozvan, Peter of Krutitsy, Jaan Anvelt, Vladimir Varankin, Eduard Berzin, Vasily Blücher, Matvey Skobelev, Polikarp Mdivani, Alexander Samoylovich, Genrikh Yagoda, Alexander Shlyapnikov, Hryhorii Epik, Alexander Danieliuk-Stefanski, Yeghishe Charents, Nikolai Krestinsky, Samson Chanba, Aleksandr Voronsky, Evgeny Pashukanis, Anatoly Pepelyayev, Nikolai Bryukhanov, Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov, Sandro Akhmeteli, Ivan Teodorovich, Memed Abashidze, Gayk Bzhishkyan, Marcel Pauker, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Volodymyr Zatonsky, Gaioz Devdariani, Theodore Maly, Vahan Totovents, Georgy Pyatakov, Movses Silikyan, Alexander Chayanov, Moisei Rafes, Titsian Tabidze, Sergei Tretyakov, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Carola Neher, Gustav Klutsis, Ecaterina Arbore, Stanislav Kosior, Mamia Orakhelashvili, Heydar Huseynov, Leonid Kurchevsky, Vitaly Markovich Primakov, Giorgi Mazniashvili, Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea, Konstantin Yurenev, Brian Goold-Verschoyle, Metropolitan Vasyl, Yakov Agranov, Mikhail Trilisser, Yakov Peters, David Ryazanov, Ivan Kulik, Yan Rudzutak, Evgen Gvaladze, Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh, Lev Shubnikov, Sergei Medvedev, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Pamphylia Tanailidi, Hans Hellmann, Kullervo Manner, Yevgeny Polivanov, Grigory Sokolnikov, Henryk Hryniewski, Sultan Majid Afandiyev, Pavel Dolgorukov, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Zof, Nikolai Glebov-Avilov, Sergei Chavain, Alexander Svanidze, Benedikt ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=606917 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Osip (Emilievich) Mandelstam, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2797 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: Dmitri Shostakovich, Osip Mandelstam, Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Victor Serge, Leonid Hurwicz, Igor Sikorsky, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, Ladislas Starevich, Grigory Levenfish, Reinhold Glière, Tepper de Ferguson, Anatoly Sobchak, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Nicolas de Gunzburg, Sabina Spielrein, Andrey Vyshinsky, Carolyne Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Ivan Teodorovich, Ivan Maisky, Nahum Sokolow, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Kseniya Sobchak, Sergey Yastrzhembsky, Faddey Bulgarin, Stanislav Redens, Sigizmund Levanevsky, Aleksander Zederbaum, Eduard Schensnovich, Igor Newerly, Roman Malinovsky, Romuald Muklevich, Katarzyna Kobro, Eduard Pantserzhanskiy, Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, Nehemiah Samuel Libowitz, Alexander Freiman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 190. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: ·), tr. Dmitrij Dmitrievi ostakovi) (25 September 1906 9 August 1975) was a Soviet composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Leon Trotsky's chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the Stalinist bureaucracy. His music was officially denounced twice, in 1936 and 1948, and was periodically banned. Yet he also received accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. Despite the official controversy, his works were popular and well received. After a period influenced by Prokofiev and Stravinsky, Shostakovich developed a hybrid style, as exemplified by his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1934). This single work juxtaposed a wide variety of trends, including the neo-classical style (showing the influenc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8520 ... Read more

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Chapters: Vladimir Nabokov, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bakhtin, Vissarion Belinsky, Serge Poltoratzky, Korney Chukovsky, Yeleazar Meletinsky, Osip Brik, Ivan Kireyevsky, Andrei Bely, Georgy Chulkov, Aleksandr Voronsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Lev Losev, Mikhail Lifshitz, Antiochus Kantemir, Nikolai Nadezhdin, Yuly Aikhenvald, Dimitri Pisarev, Alexei Purin, Pavel Katenin, Nikolay Strakhov, Platon Kerzhentsev, Eugene Myroshnichenko, Benedikt Sarnov, Lidiya Ginzburg, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Pavel Annenkov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 118. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: , pronounced ; 23 April 1899 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as among his most important novels and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate word play and synesthetic detail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked at #4 in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels. Pale Fire (1962) was ranked at #53 on the same list. His memoir entitled Speak, Memory was listed #8 on the Modern Library nonfiction list. Nabokov House in Saint Petersburg where Nabokov was born and lived the first 18 years of his life Nabokov was born on 22 April 1899 (10 April 1899 Old-Style) in Saint Petersburg. The eldest of five children of liberal lawyer, politician and journalist Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov and his wife, née Elena Ivanovna Rukavishnikova, he was born to a wealthy and prominent family of the untitled nobility of Saint Petersburg. His cousins included the composer Nic...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=32442 ... Read more

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Chapters: Leon Trotsky, Osip Mandelstam, Marc Chagall, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Yelena Shushunova, Isaak Babel, El Lissitzky, Alexander Pechersky, Natan Sharansky, Lazar Kaganovich, Vasily Grossman, Salo Flohr, Ilya Ehrenburg, Yakov Blumkin, Adolph Joffe, Alexander Krasnoshchyokov, Abraham Zelmanov, Piotr Stolyarsky, Yevgenia Ginzburg, Yakov Kreizer, Samuil Marshak, Yevgeny Khaldei, Teodor Oizerman, Jacob Golos, Konstantin Umansky, Refusenik, Semyon Snitkovsky, Alexander Kazhdan, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Abram Slutsky, Ida Nudel, Manfred Stern, Rachel Messerer, Genrikh Lyushkov, Aryeh Eliav, Cecilia Bobrovskaya, Tzvi Tzur, Yakov Yurovsky, Alexander Gomelsky, Theodore Rothstein, David Tyshler, Alexander Krein, Faina Melnyk, Anatoly Rybakov, Mikhail Lifshitz, Fridrikh Ermler, Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov, Eduard Gurwits, Evgeny Lifshitz, Grigory Baklanov, Aaron Soltz, Mikhail Trilisser, Yunna Morits, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Mikhail Shveytser, Grigori Shtern, Boris Slutsky, Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Grigory Sokolnikov, Ios Teper, Irina Press, Israel Fisanovich, Eduard Kuznetsov, Zinovy Gerdt, Nahum Eitingon, Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, Boris Iofan, Joseph Katz, Michael Plisetski, Valentin Mankin, Efraim Gur, Eduard Dubinski, Leonid Geishtor, Boris Zakhoder, Yona Kesse, Boris Rybkin, Polina Gelman, Lev Kassil, Natan Eidelman, Semyon Lavochkin, Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich, Elina Bystritskaya, Eliezer Kulas, Ze'ev Elkin, Caesar Lvovich Kunikov, Semyon Kosberg, Lev Dovator, Lia Shemtov, Lev Mekhlis, Faina Kirschenbaum, Yerahmiel Assa, Mikhail Girshovich, Israel Leplevsky, Lazar Lagin, Robert Ilatov, Vera Inber, Rolan Bykov, Karl Pauker, Samuil Feinberg, Robert Tiviaev, David Dragunsky, Pavel Kogan, Orit Zuaretz, Semyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg, Ilya Ilf, Ārons Bogoļubovs, Matvei Vainrub, Iosif Grinberg. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 454. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club wh...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17888 ... Read more

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Chapters: Russian Literary Critics, Vladimir Nabokov, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Bakhtin, Vissarion Belinsky, Serge Poltoratzky, Korney Chukovsky, Yeleazar Meletinsky, Osip Brik, Ivan Kireyevsky, Andrei Bely, Georgy Chulkov, Aleksandr Voronsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Lev Losev, Mikhail Lifshitz, Antiochus Kantemir, Nikolai Nadezhdin, Yuly Aikhenvald, Dimitri Pisarev, Alexei Purin, Mikhail Ivanov, Victor Erofeyev, Pavel Katenin, Nikolay Strakhov, Platon Kerzhentsev, Eugene Myroshnichenko, Benedikt Sarnov, Lidiya Ginzburg, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Pavel Annenkov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 122. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: , pronounced ; 23 April 1899 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as among his most important novels and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate word play and synesthetic detail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked at #4 in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels. Pale Fire (1962) was ranked at #53 on the same list. His memoir entitled Speak, Memory was listed #8 on the Modern Library nonfiction list. Nabokov House in Saint Petersburg where Nabokov was born and lived the first 18 years of his life Nabokov was born on 22 April 1899 (10 April 1899 Old-Style) in Saint Petersburg. The eldest of five children of liberal lawyer, politician and journalist Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov and his wife, née Elena Ivanovna Rukavishnikova, he was born to a wealthy and prominent family of the untitled nobility...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=32442 ... Read more

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(Rus/Eng) Elena Firosva's music - of the utmost spareness - provides the ideal setting for these introspective texts, with the pianist supporting the voice so delicately as to vanish at times. Firsova was born in Leningrad in 1950 to a family of physicists. After studies at the Moscow Conservatory she worked with Edison Denisov, the well-known Soviet composer also trained as a mathematician. ... Read more

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Chapters: Osip Mandelstam, Soviet Repressions of Polish Citizens, Kresy, Forced Settlements in the Soviet Union, Konstantin Budkevich, Józef Kuraś, Danuta Siedzikówna, Emil August Fieldorf, Sybirak, Hieronim Dekutowski, Henryk Józewski, Józef Czapski, Henryk Ehrlich, Mieczysław Smorawiński, Antoni Heda, Jan Cieplak, Sławomir Rawicz, Baruch Steinberg, Stanisław Swianiewicz, Leonard Skierski, Kazimierz Moczarski, Józef Franczak, Jerzy Wołkowicki, Ryszard Reiff, Alexander Danieliuk-Stefanski, Victor Alter, Kazimierz Pużak, Edward Kossoy, Franciszek Jerzy Jaskulski, Xawery Czernicki, Amnesty for Polish Citizens in the Soviet Union, Henryk Minkiewicz, Leopold Okulicki, Jan Stanisław Jankowski, Jakub Karol Parnas, Leopold Trepper, Karol Chmiel, Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski, Konstanty Plisowski, Franciszek Przysiężniak, Bronisław Bohatyrewicz, Stefan Bembiński, Janusz Radziwiłł, Bolesław Kontrym, Franciszek Niepokólczycki, Piotr Skuratowicz, Józef Marcinkiewicz, Stanislav Redens, List of Soviet Union Prison Sites That Detained Poles, Henryk Hryniewski, Anna Prucnal, Alojzy Wir-Konas, Wladyslaw Ossowski, Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg, Josef Olechowski, Szczepan Ścibor, Józef Unszlicht, Józef Rzepka, Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, Aleksander Kowalski, Rudolf Prich, Adam Obrubański, Stanisław Bobiński, Mieczysław Kawalec, Leopold Skulski, Rudolf Regner, Franciszek Błażej, Aleksander Prystor, Kazimierz Cichowski, Leon Billewicz, Adolf Warski, Ksawery Błasiak, Stanisław Adamski, Jan Mazurkiewicz, Józef Batory, Stefan Kaczmarz, Marian Spoida, Kazimierz Kamieński, Tomasz Dąbal, Maria Koszutska, Józef Chaciński, Henryk Walecki, Jerzy Łojek. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 295. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: In the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasion of Poland (September, 1939) the territory of Pol...http://booksllc.net/?id=15800775 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Nikolai Bukharin, Osip Mandelstam, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Andrei Tupolev, Christian Rakovsky, Hovhannes Bagramyan, Isaak Babel, Béla Kun, Pavel Dybenko, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Pavel Florensky, Varlam Shalamov, Vladimir N. Beneshevich, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Iona Yakir, Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov, Abani Mukherji, Alexey Rykov, Mikheil Javakhishvili, Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, Jānis K. Bērziņš, Grigory Kulik, Eugen Rozvan, Peter of Krutitsy, Jaan Anvelt, Gleb Yakunin, Alexander Samoylovich, Alexander Shlyapnikov, Hryhorii Epik, Yeghishe Charents, Dmitry Pavlov, Nikolai Krestinsky, Fedor Raskolnikov, Aleksandr Voronsky, Anatoly Pepelyayev, David Bergelson, Night of the Murdered Poets, Gayk Bzhishkyan, Boris Hessen, Anna Timiryova, Boris Sobinov, Marcel Pauker, Itzik Feffer, Mikhail Tomsky, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Chabua Amirejibi, Volodymyr Zatonsky, Gaioz Devdariani, Vahan Totovents, Ivan Maisky, Georgy Pyatakov, Movses Silikyan, Alexander Chayanov, Sergei Tretyakov, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Solomon Lozovsky, Gustav Klutsis, Ecaterina Arbore, Daniil Andreyev, Stanislav Kosior, Ivan Nikitich Smirnov, Mamia Orakhelashvili, Leonid Kurchevsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov, Vitaly Markovich Primakov, Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea, Nikolai Vlasik, Semyon Dimanstein, Metropolitan Vasyl, Yuliy Kim, Ivan Kulik, Yan Rudzutak, Mikayil Mushfig, Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh, Lev Shubnikov, Arno Esch, Nikolay Urvantsev, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Pamphylia Tanailidi, Stanislav Redens, Rehabilitation, Ivan Lorents, Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva, Yevgeny Polivanov, Benjamin Zuskin, Grigory Sokolnikov, Sultan Majid Afandiyev, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Zof, Nikolai Glebov-Avilov, Sergei Chavain, George Fles, Benedikt Livshits, Andrei Bubnov, Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, Hryhoriy Hrynko, Bekir Çoban-Zade, Gerz...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=606917 ... Read more

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Chapters: Osip Mandelstam, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Karl Radek, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, Isaak Babel, Doctors' Plot, Alexander Pechersky, Allegations of Antisemitism on the Part of Joseph Stalin, Iona Yakir, Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson, Baruch Steinberg, Genrikh Yagoda, Victor Alter, Solomon Mikhoels, David Bergelson, Night of the Murdered Poets, Lev Kopelev, Marcel Pauker, Itzik Feffer, Moisei Rafes, Leopold Trepper, Solomon Lozovsky, Joseph Berger-Barzilai, Semyon Dimanstein, Yakov Agranov, Julius Margolin, David Baazov, Benjamin Zuskin, George Fles, Benedikt Livshits, Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Gerzel Baazov, Józef Unszlicht, Mikhail Koltsov, Nadezhda Joffe, Aleksei Kapler, Shmuel Schneurson, Lev Razgon, Shmarya Yehuda Leib Medalia, Noah Meisel, Mikhail Liber, Aaron Katz, Shmuel Leib Medalia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 196. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: , 13 July 1894 January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry." Despite being an enthusiastic Communist, Isaac Babel was arrested, tortured and shot during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. Isaak Babel was born into a family of Manus and Feyga Bobel (Babel changed the spelling of his surname in his twenties). Manus Bobel was a Jewish shopkeeper in Odessa during a period of intermittent pogroms and mass exodus of Jews from the Russian Empire. Isaak Babel's family survived Odessa's 1905 pogrom with the help of Christian neighbors, but his great maternal grandfather Shoyl was one of about 300 Jews murdered. In his teens, Babel hoped to get into the preparatory class of the Nicolas I Odessa Commercial School. However, he first had to overcome the Jewish quota (10% within the P...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=179334 ... Read more