Culture and Life
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Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
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Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
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Author | : Daniel Jaffé |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1538130084 |
Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses, ballet companies, and orchestras. The music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich is very much today’s lingua franca both in the concert hall and on the soundtracks of international blockbusters from Hollywood. Meanwhile, the innovations of Modest Musorgsky, Alexander Borodin, and Igor Stravinsky have played their crucial role in the development of Western music, influencing the work of virtually every notable composer of the past century. Historical Dictionary of Russian Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries for each of Russia’s major performing organizations and performance venues, and on specific genres such as ballet, film music, symphony and church music. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian Music.
Author | : Joseph Stalin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Communism |
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Author | : Victor Serge |
Publisher | : PM Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1629630527 |
Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917–1919. Serge’s tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I. When the flames of revolution suddenly erupt in Russia and Spain, Europe is “burning at both ends.” Although the Spanish uprising eventually fizzles, in Russia the workers, peasants, and common soldiers are able to take power and hold it. Serge’s “tale of two cities” is constructed from the opposition between Barcelona, the city “we” could not take, and Petrograd, the starving, beleaguered capital of the Russian Revolution besieged by counter-revolutionary Whites. Between the romanticism of radicalized workers awakening to their own power in a sun-drenched Spanish metropolis to the grim reality of workers clinging to power in Russia’s dark, frozen revolutionary outpost. From “victory in defeat” to “defeat in victory.” The novel was composed a decade after the revolution in Leningrad, where Serge was living in semicaptivity because of his declared opposition to Stalin’s dictatorship over the revolution.
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Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Communism |
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Author | : Elizabeth Wilson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2022-03-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300265689 |
The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life Maria Yudina was no ordinary musician. An incredibly popular pianist, she lived on the fringes of Soviet society and had close friendships with such towering figures as Boris Pasternak, Pavel Florensky, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Legend has it that she was Stalin’s favorite pianist. Yudina was at the height of her fame during WWII, broadcasting almost daily on the radio, playing concerts for the wounded and troops in hospitals and on submarines, and performing for the inhabitants of besieged Leningrad. By the last years of her life, she had been dismissed for ideological reasons from the three institutions where she taught. And yet according to Shostakovich, Yudina remained “a special case. . . . The ocean was only knee-deep for her.” In this engaging biography, Elizabeth Wilson sets Yudina’s extraordinary life within the context of her times, where her musical career is measured against the intense intellectual and religious ferment of the post-revolutionary period and the ensuing years of Soviet repression.
Author | : Mikhail Geller |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780671645359 |
Author | : Sidney Ploss |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786457090 |
With new information from Russian archives, this work examines the historical roots of Gorbachev's perestroika and the reforms that would eventually lead to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The controversies among Soviet leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev over party role, economic management, resource allocation, ethnic policies, legality and foreign relations are discussed. An appendix "reads between the lines" in historic Soviet texts, and a helpful list of Soviet leaders, with brief identifications, is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author | : Vasant, Pandian |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1613501390 |
Developing a system that can cope with variations of system or control parameters, measurement uncertainty, and complex, multi-objective optimization criteria is a frequent problem in engineering systems design. The need for a priori knowledge and the inability to learn from past experience make the design of robust, adaptive, and stable systems a difficult task. Innovation in Power, Control, and Optimization: Emerging Energy Technologies unites research on the development of techniques and methodologies to improve the performance of power systems, energy planning and environments, controllers and robotics, operation research, and modern artificial computational intelligent techniques. Containing research on power engineering, control systems, and methods of optimization, this book is written for professionals who want to improve their understanding of strategic developments in the area of power, control, and optimization.
Author | : Erdogan A |
Publisher | : Erdogan A |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2021-02-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1329631889 |
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