Tolstoy - 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 Tolstoy write by Rosamund Bartlett. This book was released on 2011-11-08. Tolstoy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina “should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his existence rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In “an epic biography that does justice to an epic figure,” Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including fascinating material that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union (Library Journal, starred review). She sheds light on Tolstoy’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived.
Life on the Russian Country Estate
Life on the Russian Country Estate - 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 Life on the Russian Country Estate write by Priscilla R. Roosevelt. This book was released on 1997-09-01. Life on the Russian Country Estate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Om livet på de russiske godser indtil revolutionen
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov - 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 Ivan Pavlov write by Daniel Philip Todes. This book was released on 2014. Ivan Pavlov available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a definitive, deeply researched biography of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) and is the first scholarly biography to be published in any language. The book is Todes's magnum opus, which he has been working on for some twenty years. Todes makes use of a wealth of archival material to portray Pavlov's personality, life, times, and scientific work. Combining personal documents with a close reading of scientific texts, Todes fundamentally reinterprets Pavlov's famous research on conditional reflexes. Contrary to legend, Pavlov was not a behaviorist (a misimpression captured in the false iconic image of his "training a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell"); rather, he sought to explain not simply external behaviors, but the emotional and intellectual life of animals and humans. This iconic "objectivist" was actually a profoundly anthropomorphic thinker whose science was suffused with his own experiences, values, and subjective interpretations. This book is also a traditional "life and times" biography that weaves Pavlov into some 100 years of Russian history-particularly that of its intelligentsia--from the emancipation of the serfs to Stalin's time. Pavlov was born to a family of priests in provincial Ryazan before the serfs were emancipated, made his home and professional success in the glittering capital of St. Petersburg in late imperial Russia, suffered the cataclysmic destruction of his world during the Bolshevik seizure of power and civil war of 1917- 1921, rebuilt his life in his 70s as a "prosperous dissident" during the Leninist 1920s, and flourished professionally as never before in 1929-1936 during the industrialization, revolution, and terror of Stalin. Todes's story of this powerful personality and extraordinary man is based upon interviews with surviving coworkers and family members (along with never-before-analyzed taped interviews from the 1960s and 1970s), examination of hundreds of scientific works
Art Into Life
Art Into Life - 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 Art Into Life write by Jaroslav Anděl. This book was released on 1990. Art Into Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Zeven essays over het constructivisme, de Russische avant-garde beweging aan het begin van deze eeuw, die in 1932 door Stalin in de ban gedaan werd.
Dangerous Thoughts
Dangerous Thoughts - 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 Dangerous Thoughts write by Yuri Orlov. This book was released on 1991. Dangerous Thoughts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this highly personal memoir, Yuri Orlov, celebrated scientist and human rights activist, recalls his life in pre-Glasnost Russia. He describes his days as a young man under Stalin, the persecution of his friends Sakharov and Scharansky, and his release from exile, in the famous spy for dissident swap arranged by the U.S., which generated international headlines.
