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Learn and remember Russian words

“A simple new way to increase your foreign-language vocabulary . . .”
-Nada El Sawy, Newsweek

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This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. A great book for learning both languages while reading a Russian classic masterpiece. Translated by J. H. Wisdom & Marr Murray, verified and corrected by Alexander Vassiliev. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1983, this book tells the story of the two Moscow merchants, Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who between them amassed the greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art ever seen. Following the events in Russia in recent years, this new edition contains photographs never before seen in the Western world of paintings in the collection (now in the Hermitage Museum Collection), as well as documents relating to matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh and Cezanne. ... Read more

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Russian Art Collectors from the "Merchant Aristocracy"
Atlanta & Houston will host a travelling selection drawn from the Pushkin's holdings of these wonderful French Impressionists in the Spring & Summer of 2003. Most of these works were "condemned" by the Communists, hidden away for much of the 20th century. The treatment by this author, with many photos of rarely-seen but marvelous art works, is of great interest to Americans. The world owes a debt to the Russian collectors who amassed these works, & the Russian curators who have preserved them for posterity! ... Read more

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In the first half of the twentieth century, both czarist Russia and its successor, the Soviet Union, were confronted with the problem of conducting military operations involving mass armies along broad fronts, a characteristic of modern war. Despite the ideological and technological differences between the two regimes, both strove toward a theory that became known as operational art-that level of warfare that links strategic goals to actual combat engagements.

From the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, through World War I, the civil war, and to the eve of World War II, modern operational art grew from theoretical speculations by a small group of officers to become a critical component of the Soviet art of war. In this first comprehensive treatment of the subject, Richard Harrison shows how this theory emerged and developed to become--despite radically different political settings and levels of technology--essential to the Red Army's victory over Germany in World War II.

Tracking both continuity and divergence between the imperial and Red armies, Harrison analyzes, on the basis of theoretical writings and battlefield performance, the development of such operationally significant phenomena as the "front" (group of armies), consecutive operations, and the deep operation, which relied upon aircraft and mechanized formations to penetrate the kind of intractable defense systems that characterized so much of World War I.

Drawing upon a wide range of sources, including memoirs, theoretical works, and materials from the Russian military archives (many presented here for the first time), Harrison traces the debates within the Russian and Soviet armies that engaged such theorists as Neznamov, Svechin, Triandafillov, and Isserson. The end result is an exemplary military intellectual history that helps illuminate a critical element in the "Russian way of war."

This book is part of the Modern War Studies series. ... Read more

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Excellent Book
Very well written and shows the evolution of operational art within the Russian Tsarist and later Red Army.From as early as the Russo-Japanese war the Russians were already experimenting with 'front' type formations and groupings of armies, this later led to those of the first world war, civil war, and finally in the beginning of the second world war.The different ideas and people are listed and detailed with their plans for how modern war should be waged.Tuhachevsky, Isserson, Triandafillov, and Svechin are all described as well as the opposition each one faced, the purges, and the some of the reasons for why the Red Army was in such a bad position in the summer of 1941 are also listed and talked about.Mainly it is a description of the development of the ideas and theories of operational war within Russia and later the Soviet Union, very useful in understanding why Nazi Germany lost to the Red Army and how. ... Read more

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This second volume of Viktor Lazarev's studies makes available a comprehensive selection of his papers on the history of early Russian art, principally fresco and panel painting.Most of the articles gathered in this collection were written between 1953 and 1971. Though they are grouped under the title 'Russian art' they are concerned with the art of a far larger community. All the objects discussed by Lazarev in this volume were produced for the Russian church, but not necessarily by Russians or even on Russian soil. The art discussed in these articles belongs, first and foremost, to a Christian tradition. The majority of these studies have previously been published in Russian, and their translation here into English makes them accessible for the first time to most western art historians. Dr Jana Howlett has contributed an Preface assessing the life and work of Viktor Lazarev. ... Read more

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An Excellent Overview
Not only an excellent survey of Malevich's Suprematist years, but the best look available of Suprematism as an artistic movement, highlighting lesser-known talents allied with Suprematism and also covering the movement's forays away from easel painting.Well-illustrated and packed with informative text, this book is fully worth the $150-plus price. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Russian Life, published by Russian Information Services, Inc. on July 1, 2010. The length of the article is 1160 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Events calendar.(music, art, theater)(Calendar)
Author: Unavailable
Publication: Russian Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2010
Publisher: Russian Information Services, Inc.
Volume: 53Issue: 4Page: 18(1)

Article Type: Calendar

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