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ISBN: 9780199967599 - Composing for the Red Screen Composing for the Red Screen
Kevin Bartig

ISBN10: 0199967598  ISBN13: 9780199967599
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Jun 2013
Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Drawing on newly available sources... More

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ISBN: 9788393381845 - Post-post-soviet? Post-post-soviet?
Marta Dziewanska, Ekaterina Degot, Ilya Budratskis

ISBN10: 8393381843  ISBN13: 9788393381845
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 13 Jun 2013
By placing emerging artists in their political and social contexts, this collection attempts to confront the new activist scene that has arisen in the Russian art world during the past few years. It brings to light the important work of Russian... More

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ISBN: 9780674072879 - The Readers of Novyi Mir The Readers of Novyi Mir
Denis Kozlov

ISBN10: 0674072871  ISBN13: 9780674072879
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2013
In the "Thaw" following Stalin's death, probing conversations about the nation's violent past took place in the literary journal Novyi mir (New World). Readers' letters reveal that discussion of the Terror was central to intellectual and political... More

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ISBN: 9781137330611 - The Cold War and the 1984 Olympic Games The Cold War and the 1984 Olympic Games
Philip A D'Agati

ISBN10: 1137330619  ISBN13: 9781137330611
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games is explained as the result of a complex series of events and policies that culminated in a strategic decision to not participate in Los Angeles. Using IR framework, D'Agati developes and argues for the... More

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ISBN: 9781781855195 - The Black Russian The Black Russian
Vladimir Alexandrov

ISBN10: 1781855196  ISBN13: 9781781855195
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2013
The extraordinary story of Frederick Thomas, a black man born to former slaves in Mississippi who became a rich and successful nightclub owner in two European capitals. THE BLACK RUSSIAN is the most individual of biographies and a meticulously... More

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ISBN: 9780199988082 - The Trial of Jan Hus The Trial of Jan Hus
Thomas A Fudge

ISBN10: 0199988080  ISBN13: 9780199988082
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 May 2013
Thomas A. Fudge offers an in-depth examination of the the indictment, relevant canon law, and questions of procedural legality concerning Jan Hus and the Holy See. Six hundred years ago, the Czech priest Jan Hus (1371-1415) traveled out of... More

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ISBN: 9781623568160 - Vasilii Rozanov and the Creation Vasilii Rozanov and the Creation
Adam Ure

ISBN10: 1623568161  ISBN13: 9781623568160
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
The first detailed English-language study of the writings of Vasilii Rozanov, controversial writer and thinker of Russia's Silver Age. This book provides the first detailed study in English of the religious philosophy of Vasilii Rozanov... More

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ISBN: 9780199677931 - All This is Your World All This is Your World
Anne E Gorsuch

ISBN10: 019967793X  ISBN13: 9780199677931
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 May 2013
All this is your World offers an exploration of the revolutionary integration of the Soviet Union into global processes of cultural exchange. Anne E. Gorsuch examines what it meant to be "Soviet" in a country no longer defined as Stalinist. More

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ISBN: 9780330520294 - Former People Bestseller Former People
Douglas Smith

ISBN10: 0330520296  ISBN13: 9780330520294
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pan Books
Edition: Unabridged
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
The last great untold story of the Russian Revolution Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the... More

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ISBN: 9780674072336 - The Russian Origins of the First World War The Russian Origins of the First World War
Sean McMeekin

ISBN10: 0674072332  ISBN13: 9780674072336
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a miscalculation. The key to the outbreak of violence, he argues, lies in St. Petersburg. More