The Russian Mind Since Stalins Death

Author : Yuri Glazov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400953410
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Mind Since Stalin’s Death written by Yuri Glazov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have been working on this book since leaving Russia in April of 1972. It was my wish to write this book in English, and there were what seemed to me to be serious reasons for doing so. In recent years there has appeared a wealth of literature, in Russian, about Russia. As a rule, this literature has been published outside the USSR by authors who still live in the Soviet Union or who have only recently left it. A fair amount of important literature is being translated into English, but I believe it will be read main ly by specialists in Russian studies, or by those who have a great interest in the subject already. The majority of Russian authors write, of course, for the Russian reader or for an imagined Western public. It is my feeling that Russian authors have serious difficulties in understanding the men tality of Westerners, and that there still exists a gap between the visions of Russians and non-Russians. I have made my humble attempt to bridge ~his gap and I will be happy if I am even partly successful. The Russian world is indeed fascinating. Many people who visit Russia for a few days or weeks find it a country full of historical charm, fantastic architecture and infinite mystery. For many inside the country, especial ly for those in conflict with the Soviet authorities.

Author : Yuri Glazov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789400953420
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Mind Since Stalin's Death written by Yuri Glazov and published by . This book was released on 1985-07-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9789995046941
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Download or read book Russian Mind Since Stalin's Death written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca Reich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609092333
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State of Madness written by Rebecca Reich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.

Author : Stephen F. Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857730622
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victims Return written by Stephen F. Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour camps, yet others survived and were freed after his death in 1953. This book is the story of the survivors. Long kept secret by Soviet repression and censorship, it is now told by renowned author and historian Stephen F. Cohen, who came to know many former Gulag inmates during his frequent trips to Moscow over a period of thirty years. Based on first-hand interviews with the victims themselves and on newly available materials, Cohen provides a powerful narrative of the survivors' post-Gulag saga, from their liberation and return to Soviet society, to their long struggle to salvage what remained of their shattered lives and to obtain justice. Spanning more than fifty years, "The Victims Return" combines individual stories with the fierce political conflicts that raged, both in society and in the Kremlin, over the victims of the terror and the people who had victimized them. This compelling book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history.

Author : Nina L. Khrushcheva
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9781629945446
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Khrushchev written by Nina L. Khrushcheva and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents her personal memories and her research into her family's history, including the mysterious circumstances surrounding the fate of her grandfather, Leonid Khrushchev, as well as the legacy of her great grandfather, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393005820
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Political Mind written by Robert C. Tucker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet political mind was a mosaic of ideology and pragmatism.

Author : Rosalind J. Marsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389206095
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Fiction Since Stalin written by Rosalind J. Marsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1986 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one with an interest in Soviet writing of the last thirty years will want to ignore this book.

Author : Diane P. Koenker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780393803
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revelations from the Russian Archives written by Diane P. Koenker and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312428037
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whisperers written by Orlando Figes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History.