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  • Reorientalism

    From Avant-Garde to Soviet National Form

    by Nariman Skakov ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    It is commonly believed that Stalinism ended a vibrant period in Soviet avant-garde art and literature. The triumph of socialist realism, in this view, curtailed experimentation with aesthetic form and replaced it with a call for clarity, accessibility, and ideological conformity. But Stalin’s formula “national in form, socialist in content” gave artists an opening for officially sanctioned formal ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Cinema of Tarkovsky

    Labyrinths of Space and Time

    by Nariman Skakov ...
    Series series KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
    The phenomenon of time was a central preoccupation of Tarkovsky throughout his career. His films present visions of time by temporal means - that is, in time. Tarkovsky does not represent time through coherent argument, Nariman Skakov proposes, rather he presents it and the viewer experiences the argument. This book explores the phenomenon of spatio-temporal lapse in Tarkovsky's cinema - from Ivan ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    by Leon Trotsky ...
    During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 150 million people. ... Read more

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  • A Failed Empire

    The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev

    by Vladislav M. Zubok ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin’s pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth century. Using recently ... Read more

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  • The Directors: The Playboy Interview

    50 Years of the Playboy Interview

    by Playboy, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, John Cassavetes, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, John Huston, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Joel & Ethan Coen, Quentin Tarantino, James Cameron ...
    The filmmakers who defy convention and validate the legitimacy of the auteur theory are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From foreign masters of direction and style Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini to champions of independent film Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers to the godfathers of the gangster movie Francis Ford Coppola and ... Read more

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  • Putin

    His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash

    by Richard Lourie ...
    An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world."A master chronicler of modern Russia. Drawing on his own expertise, Lourie paints a convincing portrait of a ruthless authoritarian leader headed toward failure. This book serves as an ... Read more

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  • No Less Than Mystic

    A History of Lenin and the Russian Revolution for a 21st-Century Left

    by John Medhurst ...
    Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes.Although it offers a full and complete history of Leninism, 1917, the Russian Civil War and its aftermath, the book devotes more time than usual to the policies and actions of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • World War II Soviet Armed Forces (1)

    1939–41

    by Nigel Thomas ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    This book is a detailed analysis of the Soviet Army at the outbreak of World War II, including the Red Army's campaigns against Japan on the Manchurian plains as well as in Finland.It covers the Red Army's first operations during Operation Barbarossa when the Red Army was forced to defend Mother Russia against the German onslaught. It offers a breakdown of all the armed forces including the army, ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • A Child of Christian Blood

    Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel

    by Edmund Levin ...
    A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre.On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a thirty-seven-year-old father of five who worked as a clerk in a ... Read more

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    by Halina Ogonowska-Coates ...
    A piecing together of a Polish child's journey through Europe at war, and a young woman's bewildering encounter with rural New Zealand. 'As a child I loved my mother but she seemed different from other mothers. She didn't know how old she was. She couldn't remember where she was born. I wondered what had happened to her that she could have forgotten such important things. It had something to do ... Read more

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  • Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance

    by J.E. Smyth ...
    Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance, J. E. Smyth reveals the intellectual passion behind some of the most powerful films ever made about the rise and resistance to fascism and the legacy of the Second World War, from The Seventh ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Allah's Angels

    Chechen Women in War

    by Paul J Murphy PhD. ...
    In this comprehensive portrait of the women of Chechnya in modern war, Paul Murphy challenges conventional thinking on why they fight and are willing to kill themselves in the name of Allah. His book covers the two wars with Russia in 1994 and 1999 and the present conflict with Islamic Jihadists. It argues that these wars forced Chechen women to venture far beyond their traditional roles and ... Read more

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