The Face of Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Face of Russia write by James H. Billington. This book was released on 2008-04-01. The Face of Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Soviet communist empire was overthrown by the Russians themselves in August 1991, the change was more clearly anticipated by humanistic students of creativity than by economic and political scientists surrounded by statistics and information. Does the Russian pattern of creativity provide any hints as to how the Russians might solve problems today? Having borrowed the democratic political model of their erstwhile American enemy, will they be able to create a distinctive Russian variant that can endure? Or will they end up destroying their own experiment at accountable, constitutional government and returning to their long tradition of authoritarianism? The Face of Russia--a companion book to the corresponding PBS series--addresses these questions. This is a dazzling and forward-looking history of the Russian people as told through their art--from one of the world's great experts on Russian culture. The story covers eight hundred years of Russian creativity, and introduces us to the new art forms that burst onto the Russian scene and became the vehicles for expressing the creative aspirations of an age as well as the enduring Russian quest to find salvation and entertainment in art.
Russia in Search of Itself
Russia in Search of Itself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russia in Search of Itself write by James H. Billington. This book was released on 2004-03-19. Russia in Search of Itself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Billington describes the contentious discussion occurring all over Russia and across the political spectrum. He finds conflicts raging among individuals as much as between organized groups and finds a deep underlying tension between the Russians' attempts to legitimize their new, nominally democratic identity, and their efforts to craft a new version of their old authoritarian tradition. After showing how the problem of Russian identity was framed in the past, Billington asks whether Russians will now look more to the West for a place in the common European home, or to the East for a new, Eurasian identity.
Face of Russia
Face of Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Face of Russia write by . This book was released on . Face of Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Highlights "The Face of Russia," a television series produced by the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS) and WETA. Notes that the series focuses on the Russian people, their past, and the recent changes in the political system of Russia.
The Man Without a Face
The Man Without a Face - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man Without a Face write by Masha Gessen. This book was released on 2013-03-05. The Man Without a Face available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History of Eastern Europe, Russia.
The Future Is History
The Future Is History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Future Is History write by Masha Gessen. This book was released on 2017-10-03. The Future Is History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own--as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.
