Soviet Adventures In The Land Of The Capitalists

Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316518469
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists written by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique account of how ordinary people shaped Soviet-American relations in the 1930s told through the adventures of two Russian humourists.

Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781009009232
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists written by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs their epic journey and their encounters with a vast cast of characters in order to reveal the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations between the two countries"--

Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009006231
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists written by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back accompanied only by their guide and chauffeur, a gregarious Russian Jewish immigrant and his American-born, Russian-speaking wife. They immortalized their journey in a popular travelogue that condemned American inequality and racism even as it marvelled at American modernity and efficiency. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs the epic journey of the two Soviet funnymen and their encounters with a vast cast of characters, ranging from famous authors, artists, poets and filmmakers to unemployed hitchhikers and revolutionaries. Using the authors' notes, US and Russian archives, and even FBI files, she reveals the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations as Ilf, Petrov and the immigrants, communists, and fellow travelers who served as their hosts, guides, and translators became creative actors in cultural exchange between the two countries.

Author : Илья Ильф
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568986005
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip written by Илья Ильф and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in Ogonek, the Soviet equivalent of Time magazine, and later in the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost workfilled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographsis now collected in Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip, the first English translation. From Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: "The word 'America' has well-developed grandiose associations for a Soviet person, for whom it refers to a country of skyscrapers, where day and night one hears the unceasing thunder of surface and underground trains, the hellish roar of automobile horns, and the continuous despairing screams of stockbrokers rushing through the skyscrapers waving their ever-falling shares. We want to change that image." A Cabinet Book published by Princeton Architectural Press

Author : Илья Ильф
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5043398035
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Одноэтажная Америка / Little Golden America written by Илья Ильф and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Одноэтажная Америка» – произведение в жанре путевого очерка, написанное Ильей Ильфом и Евгением Петровым. Это добрая и умная книга, рассказывающая о жизни и быте американцев, о встречах авторов с самыми разными людьми, полная интересных историй и наблюдений. Читателям предлагается неадаптированный перевод произведения на английский язык, выполненный Чарльзом Маламутом. Пособие рассчитано на широкий круг читателей, изучающих английский язык и интересующихся творчеством И. Ильфа и Е. Петрова.В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет книги.

Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135723389
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Comrades written by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Comrades is a fascinating examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward children. Working on the assumption that cultural representations and self-representations are not entirely separable, this book probes how the Soviet regime's representations structured teachers' observations of their pupils and often adults' recollections of their childhood. The book draws on work that has been done on Soviet schooling, and focuses specifically on the development of curricula and institutions, but it also examines the wider context of the relationship between the family and the state, and to the Bolshevik vision of the "children of October"

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Resistance Books
ISBN 13 : 9780909196844
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperialism written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and published by Resistance Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Brzezinski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684869772
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Casino Moscow written by Matthew Brzezinski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-07-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After awakening from its long communist slumber, Russia in the 1990s was a place where everything and everyone was for sale, and fortunes could be made and lost overnight. Into this free-market maelstrom stepped rookie Wall Street Journal reporter Matthew Brzezinski, who was immediately pulled into the mad world of Russian capitalism -- where corrupt bankers and fast-talking American carpetbaggers presided over the biggest boom and bust in financial history. Brzezinski's adventures take him from the solid-gold bathroom fixtures of Moscow's elite, to the last stop on the Trans-Siberian railway, where poverty-stricken citizens must buy water by the pail from the local crime lord, and back to civilization, to stumble into a drunken birthday bash for an ultra-nationalist politico. It's an irreverent, lurid, and hilarious account of one man's tumultuous trek through a capitalist market gone haywire -- and a nation whose uncertain future is marked by boundless hope and foreboding despair.

Author : Viktor Suvorov
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberators written by Viktor Suvorov and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chrystia Freeland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316853606
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sale of the Century written by Chrystia Freeland and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final stage of the book chronicles the end of the first wave of Russia's capitalist revolution - the economic crisis which is currently rumbling through the country. This crisis, which has triggered a crash in the stockmarket and a huge devaluation of the rouble, marks the conclusion of the first foundation-laying stage of Russia's capitalist transition.