Libros a Descargar Gratis

La maison éternelle

Autor: Yuri Slezkine

Número de Páginas: 1106

Après la révolution de 1917, le nouveau pouvoir soviétique s'engagea résolument dans la destruction de l'ancien monde et dans la construction du socialisme. Dans le même temps, il construisit à Moscou sa propre maison, sur le site d'un ancien marécage, près de la Moskova. Cet ensemble de 505 appartements équipés, modèle d'" organisation communiste de la vie quotidienne ", offrait aux hauts représentants du pouvoir bolchevique ainsi qu'à leur famille tous les services : une banque, une bibliothèque, un réfectoire, un théâtre, un bureau de poste, un court de tennis, etc. Ce livre est l'histoire de cette " maison éternelle ", et de tous ceux, hommes, femmes et enfants, qui y ont vécu. Cette grande saga familiale raconte la conversion au bolchevisme des socialistes de la première génération, elle relate l'exécution ou l'emprisonnement de 800 d'entre eux pour trahison pendant les Grandes Purges des années 1937-1938, et s'achève par la foi perdue de leurs enfants, et la fin de l'Union soviétique. Élaboré à partir de sources largement inédites, de lettres, journaux intimes, mémoires et de centaines de photographies, La Maison éternelle est une épopée qui ...

The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia

Autor: Richard Stites

Número de Páginas: 512

Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipation--all come to life in this absorbing and dramatic account. The author's history begins with the feminist, nihilist, and populist impulses of the 1860s and 1870s, and leads to the social mobilization campaigns of the early Soviet period.

Resilient Russian Women in the 1920s & 1930s

Autor: Marcelline Hutton

Número de Páginas: 436

The stories of Russian educated women, peasants, prisoners, workers, wives, and mothers of the 1920s and 1930s show how work, marriage, family, religion, and even patriotism helped sustain them during harsh times. The Russian Revolution launched an eco-nomic and social upheaval that released peasant women from the control of traditional extended families. It promised urban women equality and created opportunities for employment and higher education. Yet, the revolution did little to eliminate Russian patriarchal culture, which continued to undermine women's social, sexual, eco-nomic, and political conditions. Divorce and abortion became more widespread, but birth control remained limited, and sexual liberation meant greater freedom for men than for women. The transformations that women needed to gain true equality were postponed by the pov-erty of the new state and the political agendas of leaders like Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin.

Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

Autor: Mary Zirin , Irina Livezeanu , Christine D. Worobec , June Pachuta Farris

Número de Páginas: 2898

This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

Larissa Reisner

Autor: Cathy Porter

Número de Páginas: 216

Art as the Cognition of Life

Autor: Aleksandr Konstantinovich Voronskiĭ

Número de Páginas: 555

Voronsky was an outstanding figure of post-revolutionary Soviet intellectual life, editor of the most important literary journal of the 1920s in the USSR and a supporter of Trotsky and the Left Opposition in the struggle against Stalinism. A defender of "fellow traveler" writes and an opponent of the Proletarian Culture movement, Voronsky was one of the authentic representatives of classical Marxism in the field of literary criticism in the twentieth century. He was executed by Stalin in 1937. Following Voronsky's "rehabilitation" in 1957, several of his writings were published in the USSR in heavily censored form. All cuts have been restored for this edition.

European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917–1957

Autor: Dina Gusejnova

Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff dynasties over their subjects expired. Even though Germany lost its credit as a world power twice in that century, in the global cultural memory, the old Germanic families remained associated with the idea of Europe in areas reaching from Mexico to the Baltic region and India. Gusejnova's book sheds light on a group of German-speaking intellectuals of aristocratic origin who became pioneers of Europe's future regeneration. In the minds of transnational elites, the continent's future horizons retained the contours of phantom empires. This title is available as Open Access.

The House of Government

Autor: Yuri Slezkine

Número de Páginas: 1123

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story...

Stalin and His Hangmen

Autor: Donald Rayfield

Número de Páginas: 592

Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and thugs. At the top of this pyramid of terror sat five indispensable hangmen who presided over the various incarnations of Stalin’s secret police. Now, in his harrowing new book, Donald Rayfield probes the lives, the minds, the twisted careers, and the unpunished crimes of Stalin’s loyal assassins. Founded by Feliks Dzierzynski, the Cheka–the Extraordinary Commission–came to life in the first years of the Russian Revolution. Spreading fear in a time of chaos, the Cheka proved a perfect instrument for Stalin’s ruthless consolidation of power. But brutal as it was, the Cheka under Dzierzynski was amateurish compared to the well-oiled killing machines that succeeded it. Genrikh Iagoda’s OGPU specialized in political assassination, propaganda, and the manipulation of foreign intellectuals. Later, the NKVD recruited a new generation of torturers. Starting in 1938, terror mastermind...

La violinista roja

Autor: Reyes Monforte

Número de Páginas: 946

Reyes Monforte regresa con su novela más ambiciosa: la apasionante historia de la española que se convirtió en la espía soviética más importante del siglo XX. La legendaria historia de una valerosa mujer que luchó por sus ideales más allá de la familia, el amor, la amistad y el orden mundial. «Pero ¿quién demonios es esa mujer?» era la pregunta más escuchada en los despachos de la CIA. ¿Quién movía los hilos del espionaje mundial, frustraba operaciones de inteligencia, retorcía voluntades, mudaba de piel, encabezaba misiones imposibles, descubría secretos de Estado y dibujaba en el tablero de la Guerra Fría la amenaza de una Tercera Guerra Mundial? Esa misteriosa mujer era la española África de las Heras, quien se convirtió en la espía soviética más importante del siglo xx. Captada por los servicios secretos de Stalin en Barcelona durante la guerra civil española, formó parte del operativo para asesinar a Trotski en México, luchó contra los nazis ejerciendo de radioperadora — violinista— en Ucrania, protagonizó la trampa de miel más fructífera del KGB al casarse con el escritor anticomunista Felisberto Hernández y crear la mayor red de agentes ...

The Blumkin Project

Autor: Christian Salmon

Número de Páginas: 353

This page-turning biographical novel follows the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution, from Odessa to Moscow, Istanbul, and beyond. Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, he was a Socialist Revolutionary, a terrorist, the assassin of the German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, a poet close to the avant-garde, a member of Cheka, a military strategist, a secret agent, and Leon Trotsky’s secretary. Executed in 1929 on Stalin’s orders at the age of only twenty-nine, he has continued to inspire a powerful curiosity, and wild rumors and falsehoods about his extraordinary life abound today. As a young man in 1980s Paris, Christian Salmon identified strongly as a Bolshevik, drawn to the glorious October Revolution immortalized in literature and films such as Warren Beatty’s Reds and Sergei Eisenstein’s trilogy. Picking up the thread of his dream thirty years later, he sets out to reconstruct Blumkin’s shadowy past and ever-shifting identity with a trove of manuscripts, documents, rare photographs, and personal souvenirs.

Moscow Memoirs

Autor: Emma Gerstein

Número de Páginas: 580

In the early 1960s Anna Akhmatova encouraged Emma Gerstein to record her own memories of the renowned Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam. But Gerstein's vivid and uncompromising account was not at all what she had expected. When first published in Moscow in 1998 Gerstein's memoirs provoked responses from condemnation to rapturous praise amongst Russian readers. A shrewd observer, a close member of the Mandelstam and Akhmatova family circles, and a serious literary specialist in her own right, Gerstein is uniquely qualified to remove both poets from their pedestals without diminishing them, or their work, and to bring back to life the Soviet 1930s. Part biography, part autobiography, this book radically alters our view of Russia's two greatest 20th century poets, providing memorable glimpses of numerous other figures from that partly forgotten and misunderstood world, and offers several unforgettable vignettes of Boris Pasternak. Gerstein's integrity and perceptive comment make her account compulsively readable and enables us to re-examine that extraordinary epoch.

Kremlin Wives

Autor: Larissa Vasilieva

Número de Páginas: 335

For over seventy years the Kremlin was the bastion of the all-powerful Soviet rulers. A great deal is known about the men who held millions of fates in their iron grip, yet little is known about the women—the wives and mistresses—who shared their lives. They took part in the Revolution and its aftermath, bore children, and suffered abuse; some were arrested and sent to Siberia, driven to suicide, or even murdered. In 1991 the KGB granted the author access to its secret files, which, together with the author’s own research and interviews, provided the material for this book. Here for the first time the stark and sometimes scandalous truth about these women is revealed. Lenin’s wife worked passionately for the Revolution alongside her husband, from the time of Lenin’s exile until her death. His mistress was also a close friend of his wife. Stalin married Nadezhda Alliluyeva when she was only sixteen. Earlier, he had had a relationship with Nadezhda’s mother, and there is strong evidence that his wife may also have been his daughter. When she was found dead in a pool of blood, the official verdict was suicide, but many believe she was murdered. Secret Police Chief...

Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements

Autor: Norma C. Noonan , Carol R. Nechemias

Número de Páginas: 434

A comprehensive resource profiling individuals and organizations associated with Russian women's movements from the early 19th century to the post-Soviet era. Contributions by approximately fifty authors from the United States, Russia, Europe, and Canada focus upon the struggle of women to change their society and advance their gender interests. Women activists pursued improvement in educational opportunities, fought for suffrage, established journals, and sought to transform women's consciousness and establish women's studies programs and women's crises centers. They were a strong voice against the tsarist regime and the oppression of communism. Their objectives were as diverse as their strategies, which ranged from incremental reform, to terrorism, to the establishment of women's electoral organizations. This volume contains a comprehensive glossary of term and phrases and a chronology to help put events and developments into historical context. Entries are fully cross-referenced and are followed by suggested readings. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Russian history and politics, women's history and gender studies.

Eurasia without Borders

Autor: Katerina Clark

Número de Páginas: 465

Katerina Clark recovers the story of leftist world literature, a massive project that united writers from the Soviet Union, Europe, Turkey, Iran, India, and China to create a Eurasian commons: a single cultural space that would overcome national, cultural, and linguistic differences in the name of an anticapitalist and anti-imperialist aesthetic.

The Word that Causes Death's Defeat

Autor: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova , Анна Андреевна Ахматова

Número de Páginas: 364

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of twentieth-century Russia’s greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson’s superb translations of three of Akhmatova’s most important poems: Requiem, a commemoration of the victims of Stalin’s Terror; The Way of All the Earth, a work to which the poet returned repeatedly over the last quarter-century of her life and which combines Old Russian motifs with the modernist search for a lost past; and Poem Without a Hero, widely admired as the poet’s magnum opus. Each poem is accompanied by extensive commentary. The complex and allusive Poem Without a Hero is also provided with an extensive critical commentary that draws on the poet’s manuscripts and private notebooks. Anderson offers relevant facts about the poet’s life and an overview of the political and cultural forces that shaped her work. The resulting volume enables...

Charlottengrad

Autor: Roman Utkin

Número de Páginas: 293

Charlottengrad examines the Russian émigré and exile community that found itself in Berlin during the first wave of emigration after the 1917 Revolution brought the tsarist government of Russia crashing down. Roman Utkin shows that the idea of a community aligned with Imperial Russia and hostile to the new Soviet government is far too simplistic. By closely studying the intellectual output of some of the hundreds of thousands of Russian émigrés ensconced in Berlin's Charlottenburg neighborhood, Utkin reveals a picture of some of the world's first "stateless" peoples struggling to understand their new identity as emigrants and exiles, balancing their sense of Russianness with their position in a modern, bustling Western city, and navigating their political and personal positionality toward a homeland that was no longer home.

La revolución rusa

Autor: María Teresa Largo Alonso

Número de Páginas: 214

Rusia era a finales del siglo XIX un enorme país atrasado y, contra todo pronóstico, en él triunfó una revolución que vislumbró una sociedad más justa e igualitaria, puso al frente de un gran Estado a un partido representante de los trabajadores y difundió su modelo en todo el mundo, llegando a convertirse en una potencia hegemónica en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Pero las sucesivas guerras y su deriva totalitaria pronto frustraron los objetivos revolucionarios. Con motivo de su centenario, esta historia divulgativa de la Revolución rusa repasa uno de los acontecimientos más importantes del siglo XX y pone en relación conflictos armados y sensibilización de las elites, concienciación del proletariado y avances sociales y políticos, conectando los principales hitos de su historia política con sus contextos sociales y culturales.

Egon Erwin Kisch, the Raging Reporter

Autor: Egon Erwin Kisch , Harold B. Segel

Número de Páginas: 418

Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding journalists of the twentieth century. He is also credited with virtually defining reportage as a form of literary art in which accuracy of observation and fidelity to facts combine with creative narrative. Born in Prague under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kisch began his career as a crime reporter for local newspapers. He saw combat in Serbia as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I, led an abortive left-wing coup d'etat in Vienna in 1918, and became famous in the German-speaking world as der rasende Reporter (the raging reporter) when he exposed the attempted cover-up of a case of treason in high places that rocked the Habsburg Empire on the eve of World War I. He visited North Africa, the Soviet Union, Central Asia, Australia, China, and the United States, where he traveled from one coast to the other as an ordinary seaman, made friends with Charlie Chaplin and Upton Sinclair, and commented with wit and irony on American life.

Viva

Autor: Patrick Deville

Número de Páginas: 178

México, 1937. León Trotski y su esposa, Natalia Ivánovna, desembarcan del petrolero noruego Ruth en el puerto de Tampico. Huyen de Stalin, y los acogerá en su casa la pintora Frida Kahlo. Por aquellos años, en Cuernavaca, el escritor británico Malcolm Lowry invoca sus demonios, bebe y escribe Bajo el volcán. El México de la década de 1930 es un hervidero político y cultural, donde se cruzan o viven sin llegar a cruzarse jamás expatriados y autóctonos que van a forjar revoluciones políticas y estéticas que dejarán huella en el siglo XX. Y así, entre Trotski y Lowry, ejes de esta concisa novela río, van apareciendo en las páginas del libro la fotógrafa Tina Modotti; un Sandino que trabaja en Huasteca Petroleum y será después líder guerrillero en su Nicaragua natal; el enigmático Ret Marut, que ha llegado desde Europa, donde ha sido agitador político, y firmará con el seudónimo de B. Traven El tesoro de Sierra Madre; Antonin Artaud en busca de los tarahumaras, Diego Rivera, André Breton, Graham Greene, el poeta boxeador Arthur Cravan... Personajes en busca de un sueño, de un ideal. Esta seductora novela se suma al ciclo de viajes narrativos por el mundo y...

Pasaban en silencio nuestros dioses

Autor: Héctor Manjarrez

Número de Páginas: 156

{Pasaban en silencio nuestros dioses} es la tercera y última etapa de una trilogía que comenzó con los relatos de {No todos los hombres son románticos} y los poemas de {Canciones para los que se han separado}. El escritor ajusta las cuentas principales con los amores y los horrores de su tiempo. Nos encontramos en la ciudad de México en los años setenta: el feminismo, la militancia, los cabarets, las drogas, las comunas, la sexualidad como verdadera vía de conocimiento, y José Revueltas como arcángel utópico. No por ello hay crónica, arenga, sociología o nostalgia en la escritura de Manjarrez. Lo épico, lo trágico, lo ridículo y lo personal tienen, al parecer, exactamente la misma dignidad.

Deberíais crecer, niñas... estáis muy verdes aún

Autor: Svetlana Alexiévich

Número de Páginas: 75

La ganadora del Premio Nobel de literatura, Svetlana Alexiévich, le da vida a las numerosas voces de aquellas mujeres silenciadas por la guerra. Deberíais crecer, niñas... Estáis muy verdes aún... Es uno de los fragmentos del ensayo La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer: un corpus formado por los desgarradores testimonios de aquellas que vivieron la guerra en sus propias carnes. Mujeres que lucharon, que resistieron, que fueron voluntarias, que fueron arrastradas; mujeres que salvaron y arrebataron vidas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. «Estaba embarazada del segundo... Mi hijo tenía dos años, yo estaba encinta. Estalló la guerra. Mi marido combatía en el frente. Me fui al pueblo donde vivían mis padres e hice... Ya me entiende... Aborté... En aquella época estaba prohibido... ¿Cómo podía dar a luz? Alrededor había tanto dolor... ¡La guerra! ¿Cómo se puede dar a luz si te rodea la muerte?»

El reportero vertiginoso

Autor: Kisch, Egon Erwin

Número de Páginas: 435

El periodismo también es un género literario, como se constata en los brillantes reportajes y crónicas de Egon Erwin Kisch. No se trata sólo de documentar los hechos, sino de ponerlos en contexto, de mostrar la complejidad que los rodea. Para lograrlo, Kisch recurre a la narración periodística, la cual no llegaría a ser lo que actualmente es sin la inmensa labor que desarrolló a lo largo de su vida. Parte de este trabajo se reúne en El reportero vertiginoso, una serie de crónicas y reportajes que nos sumergen en el mundo del autor y en su visión profunda y panorámica. Compuesto por más de cincuenta narraciones, este volumen incluye artículos que Kisch escribió sobre el siglo XX. Ya sea que busquemos al mítico gólem, nos sumerjamos en las profundidades del mar o analicemos los tatuajes, los trabajos aquí reunidos son vívidas imágenes de un siglo turbulento.

Superfluous men and the post-Stalin thaw

Autor: Thomas F. Rogers

Número de Páginas: 412

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La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer

Autor: Svetlana Alexiévich

Número de Páginas: 412

La Premio Nobel de Literatura 2015 Svetlana Alexiévich, «la voz de los sin voz», muestra en esta obra maestra una perspectiva de la guerra ignorada hasta el momento: la de las mujeres que combatieron en la segunda guerra mundial. Casi un millón de mujeres combatió en las filas del Ejército Rojo durante la segunda guerra mundial, pero su historia nunca ha sido contada. Este libro reúne los recuerdos de cientos de ellas, mujeres que fueron francotiradoras, condujeron tanques o trabajaron en hospitales de campaña. Su historia no es una historia de la guerra, ni de los combates, es la historia de hombres y mujeres en guerra. ¿Qué les ocurrió? ¿Cómo les transformó? ¿De qué tenían miedo? ¿Cómo era aprender a matar? Estas mujeres, la mayoría por primera vez en sus vidas, cuentan la parte no heroica de la guerra, a menudo ausente de los relatos de los veteranos. Hablan de la suciedad y del frío, del hambre y de la violencia sexual, de la angustia y de la sombra omnipresente de la muerte. Alexiévich deja que sus voces resuenen en este libro estremecedor, que pudo reescribir en 2002 para introducir los fragmentos tachados por la censura y material que no se había...

Russian Futurist Theatre

Autor: Robert Leach

Número de Páginas: 265

Russian Futurist Theatre explores is the first book to comprehensively uncover the Russian futurist theatre in all its virtuosity and diversity.

The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, 1890-1934

Autor: Irina Gutkin

Número de Páginas: 264

The past fifteen years have seen an important shift in the way scholars look at socialist realism. Where it was seen as a straitjacket imposed by the Stalinist regime, it is now understood to be an aesthetic movement in its own right, one whose internal logic had to be understood if it was to be criticized. International specialists remain divided, however, over the provenance of Soviet aesthetic ideology, particularly over the role of the avant-garde in its emergence. In The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, Irina Gutkin brings together the best work written on the subject to argue that socialist realism encompassed a philosophical worldview that marked thinking in the USSR on all levels: political, social, and linguistic. Using a wealth of diverse cultural material, Gutkin traces the emergence of the central tenants of socialist realist theory from Symbolism and Futurism through the 1920s and 1930s.

Lenin and His Comrades

Número de Páginas: 293

What was the real impact and significance of the October Revolution of 1917? This avowedly revisionist interpretation by a major Russian dissident seeks to place Lenin and those around him in the proper perspective. Since the takeover of Russia was the result of a coup d’état by a tiny minority of criminals that Yuri Felshtinsky doesn’t hesitate to call gangsters, the Communist regime was doomed from the start. Yuri Felshtinsky received a PhD in history from Rutgers University. His books include The Failure of the World Revolution (1991), Blowing up Russia (with Alexander Litvinenko, 2007), and The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin (with Vladimir Pribylovsky, 2008). He lives near Boston, Massachusetts.

Russia

Autor: Antony Beevor

Número de Páginas: 645

'A masterpiece of history' DAILY TELEGRAPH Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed international bestseller Stalingrad, assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the woman doctor in an improvised hospital.

Arena Two

Autor: Stuart Christie

Número de Páginas: 213

In the second issue of Arena we aim to provide general insights into the role of the anarchist in fiction, both as protagonist and author. David Weir’s essay “Anarchist Fiction, Anarchist Sensibilities” focuses on the progenitor of anarchist fiction, William Godwin’s Caleb Williams, published in 1794, that demonstrated the pressing need for the utopian system he described in the first systematic elaboration of anarchist philosophy, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. “Epic Pooh” is a newly updated revision of a 1978 article by Michael Moorcock reviewing epic fantasy literature for children, particularly J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. While researching early twentieth-century French anarchist plays translated into Italian, Santo Catanuto discovered interesting information on the literary side of the Communard Louise Michel, indicating that she was the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. Stephen Schwartz, a longtime critic of the detective novel, evaluates the arc of French writer Leo Malet from anarchist to arabophobe and in “Between Libel And Hoax,” counters Miguel Mir’s libelous depiction of the Spanish anarchist movement, Entre el roig ...

Leon Trotsky

Autor: Joshua Rubenstein

Número de Páginas: 295

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the 1920s. And he was an assimilated, indifferent Jew who was among the first to foresee that Hitler's triumph would mean disaster for his fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an alliance with Hitler if Soviet overtures to the Western democracies failed. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky's own political oblivion. As Joshua Rubenstein writes in his preface, "Leon Trotsky haunts our historical memory. A preeminent revolutionary...

Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia

Autor: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Número de Páginas: 458

Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller, East India Company civil servant and educator, was one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia. Imbued with liberal views, such that Bombay's wealthy founded Elphinstone College in his memory, he pioneered the scholarly, scientific and administrative foundations of imperialism in India. Elphinstone's career was launched when he was picked to lead the inaugural British diplomatic mission to the Afghan court. His Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (1815) became the main source of British information about Afghanistan. He is best known for his periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay in the 1810s and 1820s, when he instituted innovative and lasting policies in administration and education while also conducting research for his extremely influential History of India (1841). This volume examines Mountstuart Elphinstone's intellectual contributions and administrative career in their own right, in relation to prominent contemporaries including Charles Metcalfe and William Moorcroft, and in the context of later historical study of India, Afghanistan, British imperialism and...

Représentations du chaos dans la littérature d’Europe centrale et orientale (XIXe-XXIe siècles)

Autor: Stanislaw Fiszer

Número de Páginas: 191

Dès les années 1950, des scientifiques de l’Est et de l’Ouest, inspirés des conceptions indéterministes du monde, ont commencé à explorer le chaos. À la surprise générale, il s’est avéré que celui-ci est gouverné par un ordre dynamique qui a permis d’expliquer bien des phénomènes naturels jusqu’ici complètement incompréhensibles. La théorie du chaos a également attiré l’attention des chercheurs de diverses disciplines, mais aussi de plusieurs artistes et écrivains. Les dix articles réunis dans ce volume, fruit d’une journée d’étude internationale organisée à Nancy par le Centre de recherche sur les cultures et littératures européennes (CERCLE) le 17 octobre 2023, portent sur les représentations des théories du chaos, dont celles d’Edward Lorenz et de Benoît Mandelbrot, dans la littérature d’Europe centrale et orientale. En adoptant une perspective résolument interdisciplinaire, les auteurs français, hongrois, polonais, russes et slovènes étudient un univers littéraire non linéaire et une relation dialectique entre l’ordre et le désordre, qui se manifeste à de multiples échelles dans quelques ouvrages représentatifs des ...

Méditerranée rouge

Autor: Michel Salomon

Número de Páginas: 426

Avec l'apparition – spectaculaire - d'une flotte de guerre entre Port-Saïd et Mers el-Kébir, de missiles et de soldats de l'Armée rouge sur le canal de Suez, le monde a brusquement pris conscience de la présence soviétique en Méditerranée. Que veut l'URSS, réalisant aujourd'hui son rêve séculaire d'accès aux mers chaudes ? Sa présence militaire, déployée sur le flanc méridional de notre continent, est-elle une menace pour l'Europe ? Pour la France ? Est-elle un bienfait pour ses « protégés » ? Sera-t-elle combattue par Washington, ou verrons-nous un condominium soviéto-américain imposer, à la Méditerranée, une nouvelle « paix romaine » ? Michel Salomon tente de répondre à ces angoissantes questions en journaliste, en observateur lucide de l'aventure de notre temps, et non en pamphlétaire. Pour effectuer son enquête, il a sillonné - deux ans durant - les rives de ce couloir méditerranéen, qui tend à devenir le nouveau champ clos des rivalités internationales. Il y a rencontré des dirigeants illustres, des chefs d'État, des généraux et des diplomates, mais aussi de simples citoyens des campagnes et des villes, des fellahs et des pêcheurs,...

Women & Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: Russia, the non-Russian peoples of the Russian Federation, and the successor states of the Soviet Union

Autor: Mary Fleming Zirin

Número de Páginas: 1226

Humanitarian Invasion

Autor: Timothy Nunan

Número de Páginas: 341

Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international development and humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan.

Genders 22

Autor: Ellen E. Berry

Número de Páginas: 463

The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. The nexus of these three forces is highly charged in any culture, at any time in history, but especially so among cultures in which rapid, even cataclysmic, changes in material realities and national self-conceptions are eroding or overwhelming previously secure boundaries. The postcommunist moment in the so-called Second World--Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union--has dramatically exposed the opportunities and dangers that arise when the political, cultural, and economic foundations of a society are de- and then re-structured. Gender roles and relations, expressions of sexuality or attempts to recontain them, representations of the body, especially the female body, and the larger, cultural meanings it assumes, are particularly marked sites to witness the performance of complex national dramas of crisis and change. This groundbreaking volume turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry ...

Postcommunism and the Body Politic

Autor: Ellen E. Berry

Número de Páginas: 326

The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. The nexus of these three forces is highly charged in any culture, at any time in history, but especially so among cultures in which rapid, even cataclysmic, changes in material realities and national self-conceptions are eroding or overwhelming previously secure boundaries. The postcommunist moment in the so-called Second World--Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union--has dramatically exposed the opportunities and dangers that arise when the political, cultural, and economic foundations of a society are de- and then re-structured. Gender roles and relations, expressions of sexuality or attempts to recontain them, representations of the body, especially the female body, and the larger, cultural meanings it assumes, are particularly marked sites to witness the performance of complex national dramas of crisis and change. This groundbreaking volume turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry ...

Rebelion de los oficios inutiles

Autor: Daniel Ferreira

Número de Páginas: 197

La novela ganadora del Premio Clarín de Novela de 2014. Rebelión de los oficios inútiles narra la historia de una invasión durante los años 70, cuando una multitud de campesinos sin tierra decide tomarse un lote baldío en las afueras de un pueblo colombiano. En un audaz contrapunto de voces y perspectivas, este episodio se reconstruye a partir de la crónica de sucesos, el documento apócrifo y los recuerdos e impresiones de quienes narran la historia: Simón Alemán, terrateniente alcohólico y arruinado, que trata de defender sin mucha convicción el lote de sus ancestros; Joaquín Borja, el periodista, cuyas ideas se estrellan contra un muro de oscuridad y violencia, y la multitud de los trabajadores que, bajo la serena y terrenal dirección de Ana Larrota, luchan por un paraíso del que hace tiempo los despojaron. El resultado va más allá del recuento de otro hecho de violencia: es la sobrecogedora polifonía de una historia de iniquidades, sueños frustrados y luchas sin salida, en la que, salvo los dueños de la muerte, todos acaban perdiendo. Con una voz potente y una gran habilidad narrativa, Daniel Ferreira presenta, desde una nueva dimensión, la urdimbre de...

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History

Autor: Bonnie G. Smith

Número de Páginas: 2710

The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. The Encyclopedia contains over 1,250 signed articles arranged in an A-Z format for ease of use. The entries cover six main areas:...