Russia Accursed! - 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 Accursed! write by Andre Ruzhnikov. This book was released on 2021-01-21. Russia Accursed! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Russian Revolution and Civil War - as never seen before! Packed with jaw-dropping, at times blood-curdling images, Russia Accursed! showcases the reaction of Ivan Vladmirov (1869-1947) to the human suffering and Bolshevik barbarity he observed as an artist-reporter during the years 1917-25. Some of his paintings and watercolours appeared in magazines and periodicals, including London weekly The Graphic (Vladimirov's mother was English). But other scenes - featuring point-blank executions, passers-by cutting chunks of meat from a dead horse or dogs gnawing at a human corpse - were deemed too shocking for publication and had to be secretly exported from the USSR by American relief workers. Selected from private collections, Russian museums and the Hoover Library at Stanford University, California, most of the 160 Vladimirov images in this majestic 324-page volume are published here for the first time. Placed in their historic context by scholarly essays, contemporary photographs and eye-witness quotes, they revolutionize our understanding of the beginnings of the Soviet Union.
Russia Accursed
Russia Accursed - 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 Accursed write by Andre Ruzhnikov. This book was released on 2020. Russia Accursed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Russian Cosmists
The Russian Cosmists - 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 Russian Cosmists write by George M. Young. This book was released on 2012-08-16. The Russian Cosmists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ideas of the Cosmists have in recent decades been rediscovered and embraced by many Russian intellectuals. Here, Young offers a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the lives and ideas of the Russian Cosmists.
Cursed Days
Cursed Days - 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 Cursed Days write by Ivan Bunin. This book was released on 1998-06-01. Cursed Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag. —Marc Raeff
Russia
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 Russia write by Gregory Carleton. This book was released on 2017-04-24. Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No nation is a stranger to war, but for Russians war is a central part of who they are. Their “motherland” has been the battlefield where some of the largest armies have clashed, the most savage battles have been fought, the highest death tolls paid. Having prevailed over Mongol hordes and vanquished Napoleon and Hitler, many Russians believe no other nation has sacrificed so much for the world. In Russia: The Story of War Gregory Carleton explores how this belief has produced a myth of exceptionalism that pervades Russian culture and politics and has helped forge a national identity rooted in war. While outsiders view Russia as an aggressor, Russians themselves see a country surrounded by enemies, poised in a permanent defensive crouch as it fights one invader after another. Time and again, history has called upon Russia to play the savior—of Europe, of Christianity, of civilization itself—and its victories, especially over the Nazis in World War II, have come at immense cost. In this telling, even defeats lose their sting. Isolation becomes a virtuous destiny and the whole of its bloody history a point of pride. War is the unifying thread of Russia’s national epic, one that transcends its wrenching ideological transformations from the archconservative empire to the radical-totalitarian Soviet Union to the resurgent nationalism of the country today. As Putin’s Russia asserts itself in ever bolder ways, knowing how the story of its war-torn past shapes the present is essential to understanding its self-image and worldview.
