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  • Stalinism and Soviet Cinema

    Edited by Derek Spring, Richard Taylor ...
    Stalinism and Soviet Cinema marks the first attempt to confront systematically the role and influence of Stalin and Stalinism in the history and development of Soviet cinema.The collection provides comprehensive coverage of the antecedents, role and consequences of Stalinism and Soviet cinema, how Stalinism emerged, what the relationship was between the political leadership, the cinema ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

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  • Stalin's Library

    A Dictator and his Books

    by Geoffrey Roberts ...
    A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal libraryIn this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Russian Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Catriona Kelly ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. How and when did a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • City of Rogues and Schnorrers

    Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa

    by Jarrod Tanny ...
    "Outstanding . . . A delightfully written work of serious scholarship." — Jewish Book WorldOld Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and excess. Odessa is also famed for the brand of Jewish ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russian Literature

    by Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian lyric poetry ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    "[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." — The EconomistAfter Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense ... Read more

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  • The Soviet Mind

    Russian Culture under Communism

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St. Petersburg in 1917, emigrating to the West in 1921. He first returned to Russia in 1945, when he met the writers Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak. These formative encounters helped ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Remembering Katyn

    by Alexander Etkind, Rory Finnin, Uilleam Blacker, Julie Fedor, Simon Lewis, Matilda Mroz, Maria Mälksoo ...
    Katyn– the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 – has come to be remembered as Stalin’s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Their remains lie buried in killing fields throughout Russia, Ukraine and, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Film Factory

    Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939

    by Ian Christie, Richard Taylor ...
    The Film Factory provides a comprehensive documentary history of Russian and Soviet cinema. It provokes a major reassessment of conventional Western understanding of Soviet cinema. Based on extensive research and in original translation, the documents selected illustrate both the aesthetic and political development of Russian and Soviet cinema, from its beginnings as a fairground novelty in 1896 ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • Lenin's Private War

    The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia

    by Lesley Chamberlain ...
    In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals – mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists – to be deported from the new Soviet State. 'We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men and their families away ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Sergei Eisenstein

    by Mike O'Mahony ...
    Series Book 19 - Critical Lives
    Few individuals have made as much of an impact upon a single medium as has Sergei Eisenstein upon cinema. His ground-breaking movies, such as Battleship Potemkin, October and Aleksandr Nevskii make regular appearances upon ‘all-time best movie’ lists, whilst classic sequences from these movies, such as the baby in the pram on the Odessa steps (Battleship Potemkin), and the battle on the ice ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture

    Edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture can and should be, and this tension shapes the vibrancy of its arts today. The highly successful first edition of Rzhevsky's Companion has been ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD