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Chapters: Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Dubin, Arseny Tarkovsky, Virgilijus Čepaitis, Mariya Petrovykh, Nora Gal, Carlos Sherman, Dmitry Gerasimov, Vera Inber,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. 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: Anna Akhmatova (Russian and Ukrainian: ; June 23 1889 - March 5, 1966) was the pen name of the modernist poet Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (Russian: ; Ukrainian: ), one of the most acclaimed female writers in the Russian canon. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her style, characterised by its economy and emotional restraint, was strikingly original and distinctive to her contemporaries. The strong and clear leading female voice struck a new chord in Russian poetry. Her writing can be said to fall into two periods - the early work (1912-25) and her later work (from around 1936 until her death), divided by a decade of reduced literary output. Her work was condemned and censored by Stalinist authorities and she is notable for choosing not to emigrate, and remaining in Russia, acting as witness to the atrocities around her. Her perennial themes include meditations on time and memory, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism. Primary sources of information about Akhmatova's life are relatively scant, as war, revolution and the totalitarian regime caused much of the written record to be destroyed. For long periods she was in official disfavour and many of those who were close to her died in the aftermath of the revolution. Akhmatova wrote, No one in my large family wrote poetry. But the first Russian woman poet, Anna Bunina, was the aunt of my grandfather Erasm Ivanovich Stogov. The Stogovs were modest land...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=66569 ... Read more

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Chapters: Osip Mandelstam, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Brodsky, Dmitry Galkovsky, Yuri Khanon, Fyodor Sologub, Yuri Rytkheu, Vladimir Chertkov, Korney Chukovsky, Osip Brik, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Aleksandr Voronsky, Dmitry Likhachov, Alexei Tsvetkov, Genrich Altshuller, Antiochus Kantemir, Vasily Rozanov, Dmitry Vodennikov, Yeremey Parnov, Pyotr Vail, Gennadiy Prashkevich, Ivan Timofeevich Kokorev, Pyotr Mikhaylovich Yershov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. 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: Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (Russian: , Fdor Mihajlovi Dostoevskij, pronounced ), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, Dostoievsky, Dostojevskij, Dostoevski, Dostojevski or Dostoevskij (11 November 1821 9 February 1881) was a Russian writer and essayist, known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called the "best overture for existentialism ever written" by Walter Kaufmann. A prominent figure in world literature, Dostoyevsky is often acknowledged by critics as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature. Mariinsky Hospital in Moscow, Dostoyevsky's birthplace.Dostoyevsky's mother was Russian. His paternal ancestors were from a village called Dostoyev in Belarus, in the guberniya (province) of Minsk, not far from Pinsk; the stress on the family name was originally on the second syllable, matching that of the town (Dostóev), but in the nineteenth century was shifted to the third syllable. According to one account, Dostoye...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11625 ... Read more

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Chapters: Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Osip Mandelstam, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Vladimir Bukovsky, Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Amalrik, Aleksandr Zinovyev, Anatoly Marchenko, Vasily Grossman, Zhores Medvedev, Varlam Shalamov, Eduard Limonov, Igor Shafarevich, Vasyl Stus, Valeria Novodvorskaya, Mirsäyet Soltanğäliev, Patriarch Ambrose of Georgia, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Leonid Plyushch, Yevgenia Ginzburg, Viacheslav Chornovil, Danylo Shumuk, Lev Navrozov, Vadim Delaunay, Lev Chernyi, Lithuanian Liberty League, Sergei Kovalev, Moscow Helsinki Group, Gleb Yakunin, Alexandr Podrabinek, Lydia Chukovskaya, Alexander Tarasov, Georgi Vins, Yosef Mendelevitch, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Yelena Bonner, Anatoly Koryagin, Vladimir Voinovich, Vladimir Bougrine, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Roy Medvedev, Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Boris Kagarlitsky, Benjamin Fain, Larisa Bogoraz, Andrei Sinyavsky, Victor Sokolov, Alexander Galich, Enn Tarto, Lev Kopelev, Dymshits-kuznetsov Hijacking Affair, Mykola Rudenko, Yuri Galanskov, Yuri Orlov, Bulldozer Exhibition, Valery Chalidze, Sofiya Kalistratova, Pyotr Grigorenko, Yuli Daniel, Mustafa Abdülcemil Qırımoğlu, Oleksa Hirnyk, Ihor Kalynets, Dmitri Savitski, Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Vasyl Symonenko, Michail J. Makarenko, Yuliy Kim, Alexander Herzen Foundation, Yuri Bezmenov, Moysey Fishbein, Dina Kaminskaya, Pavel Litvinov, Ivan Kandyba, Ephraim Kholmyansky, Michael Voslenski, Anti-Sovietism, Eduard Kuznetsov, Myroslav Marynovych, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Merab Kostava, Valeriy Marchenko, Vitaliy Kalynychenko, David Devdariani, Irina Ratushinskaya, Mykola Horbal, Levko Lukyanenko, Viktor Muravin, Romas Kalanta, Efraim Sevela, Leonid Borodin, Kgb Victim Memorials, Les Tanyuk, Lina Kostenko, Ain Saar, Yekaterina Peshkova, Alexander Nekrich, Guram Mamulia, Shmuel Schneurson, Jüri Kukk, Sergei Soldatov, Yuri Fedorov, Alexander Ginzburg, Chronicle of Current Events, Vladimir Shelkov, V...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1625 ... Read more

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Chapters: Soviet Jews, Soviet People of Czech Descent, 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, Václav Suk, 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: 452. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase include...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17888 ... Read more

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Chapters: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Robert Conquest, Ernst Nolte, Richard Pipes, Varlam Shalamov, Anne Applebaum, Adam Hochschild, Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Edvard Radzinsky, Robert Service, Serhy Yekelchyk. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 149. 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: Ernst Nolte (born 11 January 1923) is a German historian and philosopher. Noltes major interest is the comparative studies of Fascism and Communism. He is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught from 1973 to 1991. He was previously a Professor at the University of Marburg from 1965 to 1973. Nolte has been a prominent conservative academic since the early 1960s, and involved in many controversies related to the interpretation of the history of fascism and communism. More recently, he has also focused on Islamism. His work has been the object of extreme controversy. Nolte was born in Witten, Westphalia to a Roman Catholic family. Nolte's parents were Heinrich Nolte, a school rector, and Anna (née Bruns) Nolte. According to Nolte in a March 28, 2003 interview with a French newspaper Eurozine, his first encounter with Communism occurred when he was 7 years old in 1930, when he read in a doctor's office a German translation of a Soviet children's book attacking the Roman Catholic Church, which very much angered him. In 1941, Nolte was excused from military service because of a deformed hand, and he studied Philosophy, Philology and Greek at the Universities of Münster, Berlin, and Freiburg. At Freiburg, Nolte was a student of Martin Heidegger, whom he acknowledges as a major influence. From 1944 onwards, Nolte was a close friend of the Heidegger family, and when in 1945 Heidegger feared arrest by the French, Nolte provided Heidegger with...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2317493 ... Read more

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Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), along with Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Marina Tsvetaeva, was one of the greatest poets of the Soviet period. He was also a brilliant essayist who took the destruction of his culture as one of his main subjects. This comprehensive volume contains most of Mandelstam’s essays, reviews, memoirs, reportage, sketches, polemics, forewords, fragments, and notes—and the major long prose works of the 1930’s, including: "Fourth Prose," "Journey to Armenia," and "Conversations about Dante." ... Read more