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  • Woman with a Movie Camera

    My Life as a Russian Filmmaker

    Oversat af Antonina W. Bouis ...
    Serier serie Constructs Series
    Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers. The first woman in Russia (and possibly the world) to combine being a director, writer, cinematographer, and producer, Goldovskaya has made over thirty documentary films and more than one hundred programs for Russian, European, Japanese, and American television. Her work, which includes the award-winning films The House on ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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  • Lenin's Tomb

    The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    af David Remnick ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeOne of the Best Books of the Year: The New York TimesFrom the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75-year period of ... Læs mere

    104,99 kr.

  • The Real Stalin

    af Andrew Curry ...
    Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a combination of political savvy and cold-blooded brutality. He crushed the spirit of his own people while conquering half of Europe. What made the greatest murderer of the twentieth century tick? ... Læs mere

    15,96 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Invention of Russia

    The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News

    **WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZEWINNER OF THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARDFINALIST FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZEFINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR“Fast-paced and excellently written…much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable.” —New York Times“Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis.” –The Wall Street Journal**The breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of optimism around the world, but Russia today is ... Læs mere

    107,11 kr.

  • Word for Word

    A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia

    A remarkable memoir of living in the Soviet Union and working as a literary translator.In the early twentieth century, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when she was thirteen, her parents moved to the USSR—where Lungina became witness to many of the era's greatest upheavals.Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Anna Karenina Fix

    Life Lessons from Russian Literature

    af Viv Groskop ...
    'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday TelegraphWhat should I do with my life?What if my love is not returned?Why do bad things happen?The answers to some of life's biggest questions are found not in trite self-help manuals but in the tough-love lessons explored in Russian literature. ... ... Læs mere

    86,02 kr.

  • The Ukrainian Night

    An Intimate History of Revolution

    af Marci Shore ...
    A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential“Shore brilliantly captures the contingency, uncertainty, and chaos that was transmuted into the remarkable, seemingly transcendent solidarity of the Maidan’s unified resistance to a corrupt and cruel régime.”—Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of philosophy, McGill UniversityWhat is ... Læs mere

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  • Andrei Tarkovsky

    af Sean Martin ...
    Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 70s.Although he made only seven features, each one was a major landmark in cinema, the most well-known of them being the mediaeval epic Andrei Rublev - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - and the autobiographical Mirror, set ... Læs mere

    89,91 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Zhivago Affair

    The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

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    137,68 kr.

  • City of Rogues and Schnorrers

    Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa

    af Jarrod Tanny ...
    "Outstanding . . . A delightfully written work of serious scholarship." — Jewish Book WorldOld Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and excess. Odessa is also famed for the brand of Jewish ... Læs mere

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  • Hollywood Double Agent

    The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy

    af Jonathan Gill ...
    This true story of Golden Age Hollywood and Cold War espionage is a "captivating, fast-paced narrative [that] reads like a thriller" ( Library Journal).Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would ... Læs mere

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  • The Year I Was Peter the Great

    1956—Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia

    af Marvin Kalb ...
    A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia-and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called the year of the thaw-a time when Stalin's dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing despair opened with ... Læs mere

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