Search Results: Authors starting with S from Globus Books

New Book. Paperback. 91 pp. Ukrainian cuisine is a delicious combination of traditions, history, and the abundance of our land's natural wealth. Historically, Ukrainian cuisine and all the dishes we cook day-to-day combine many cultural and culinary influences from various European countries, whilst also being unique in themselves. Different ethnic groups within Ukraine also represent the culture and history of their respective fatherland through their regional dishes. This book provides a variety of recipes from across Ukraine to satisfy everyone's appetite! As they say in Ukraine: "For your health" - "smachnoho!".

I. B. Tauris & Company, 2016. New Book. Paperback. 368 pp. The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the story of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through the events which have forced Ukraine, a country internally divided between East and West, to choose between closer union with Europe or its historic ties with Russia. As the first full account of the Ukraine crisis from the Euromaidan Protests to the catastrophe of MH17 and up to the October 2014 parliamentary elections, Frontline Ukraine explains the origins, developments and global significance of the internal and external battle for Ukraine. With all eyes focused on the region, Sakwa unravels the myths and misunderstandings of the situation, providing an essential and highly-readable… Read More

Paris: Pygmalion, 1979. Hardcover, Dust Jacket 285 pp. with illustrations In French Condition: very good, has a tear on the dust jacket A photo book about the cultural and political transformation of Russia in the period of 1900-1930. The publication presents extensive illustrative material from Faberge eggs and satirical magazines of 1905-1907 to the graphics of Lissitzky, Annenkov and Malevich; from portraits of the Grand Duchesses to photo chronicles of Lenin's funeral and the beginning of great construction projects.

Warszawa: Prasa-Ksiazka-Ruch, 1983. Hardcover, dust jacket, 168 pp. with illustrations Tear on a dust jacket, otherwise very good. In a picturesque range of the limestone hills of the Jura Krakowsko-Czestochowa region, "crowned" with the ruins of castles stretching from Krakow all the way to Wielun, called the Eagle's Nest Trail, there is the city of Czestochowa on the Warta River. According to legend its name derives from the name Czestoch, a Slav who was the settlement's founder. In a document from 1220 the knight's village named "Czestochowa" is mentioned, which received its civic rights before 1377. In the western part of the city. which in the 14th century was called Stara (Old) Czestochowa, there is a 293 meter-high limestone hill, the top of which is covered with a complex of sacred and residential building, surrounded by fortified walls and a park, called Jasna Gora (Luminous Hill). The "Jasna Gora" (Clarus Mons) term was mentioned for the first time in a document dating from 1388, issued… Read More

Yale University Press, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 568 pp. A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize "Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authoritative tale draws on thousands of memos, letters, briefs, and other once secret documents--including many that have never been published before--which both fill in and complicate settled narratives on both sides." --Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker "The most engaging and carefully documented account of this period in East-West diplomacy currently available." --Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs Not one inch. With these words, Secretary of State James Baker proposed a hypothetical bargain to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev after the fall of the Berlin Wall: if you let your part of Germany go, we will move NATO not one inch eastward. Controversy erupted almost immediately over this 1990 exchange--but more important was the decade to come, when the words took on new meaning. Gorbachev let his Germany go, but Washington… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, 2013. New book. Paperback 151 pp., illustrations Hailed by The New York Times as "marvelously captivating," William Saroyan's 1940 international bestseller recounts the exploits of an Armenian clan in northern California at the turn of the twentieth century. Based on the author's loving and eccentric extended family, the characters in these 14 related short stories enact humorous and touching scenes from immigrant life. Aram Garoghlanian narrates the tales, reflecting from an adult's perspective on his boyhood adventures. Beginning with "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse," in which 9-year-old Aram and his cousin redeem themselves from wrongdoing, the stories conclude with "A Word to Scoffers," which features an itinerant preacher's sage advice to Aram as the young man departs from the San Joaquin Valley for the first time.

Giessen: Anabas-Verlag, 1987. Binding: Paperback Pages: 360 In German. Mess Mend was the first Soviet crime novel written by a woman, first published as a booklet series in 1924 under the irritating male pseudonym Jim Dollar. The Russian avant-gardist Alexander Rodchenko designed the cover pages of the 10 issues. They were reproduced from the only accessible complete collection of the original Soviet edition in the British Library and mounted as colored plates in the book. Very good condition.

Moscow: Tsentrizdat, 1928. 39 pp.: ill. 23x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine and back cover, upper corners of covers lost, otherwise very good and clean internally. One of 5000 copies. Covers are in German and Russian, poetry is in German. Cover design by V. Lots features typical for the Soviet satire posters comparison of two opposite pictures. These two showed living conditions of peasants in bourgeois and proletarian countries. Ten illustrations within the text were produced by R. Fink. Collection of anti-bourgeois and anti-religious poems for a large Volga German minority released by the German department of MAPP [Moscow Association of Proletarian Writers]. Settlements of Volga Germans began to appear in Povolzhye in the 18th century after Catherine the Great had invited Europeans to this region. By the early 20th century, 190 settlements of over 400 thousand people were recorded. After the October Revolution, the Soviet authorities established the Autonomous Oblast of… Read More

New York: National student Christian federation, 1963. Binding: Paperback Pages: 86 Preface: This book was originally written to serve as an outline for students in a discussion of the Christian "worldview." It suggests an approach to the world and to man's life in it that stems from the liturgical experience of the Orthodox Church. Such issues as secularism and Christian culture are viewed from the perspective of the unbroken experience of the Church, as revealed and communicated in her worship, in her liturgy-the sacrament of the world, the sacrament of the Kingdom. According to Thomas Merton, writing in Monastic Studies, For the Life of the World is a powerful, articulate, and, indeed, creative essay in sacramental theology...Schme­ mann can allow himself to go to the very root of the subject without having to apologize for his forthrightness or for his lack of interest in trivialities." The author, Father Alexander Schmemann, former Dean and Professor of Liturgical Theology at St Vladimir's… Read More

USA: Oxford University Press, 2020. New Book. Hardcover. 368 pp. During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they conspired to overthrow Lenin's newly established Bolshevik regime, and to install one that would continue the war against Germany on the Eastern Front. Lockhart's confidante and chief support, with whom he engaged in a passionate love affair, was the mysterious, alluring Moura von Benkendorff, wife of a former aide-de-camp to the Tsar. The plotters' chief opponent was 'Iron Felix' Dzerzhinsky. He led the Cheka, 'Sword and Shield' of the Russian Revolution and forerunner of the KGB. Dzerzhinsky loved humanity - in the abstract. He believed socialism represented humanity's best hope. To preserve and protect it he would unleash unbounded terror. Revolutionary Russia provided the setting for… Read More

Moscow: Zemlia i fabrika, 1928. 440 pp. 21x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed and bumped, but clean and very good internally. One of 7000 copies. Very rare. A laconic and expressive cover design was produсed by artist G.R. It remained an advertising style of Stenberg brothers, Dlugach, Rodchenko, Elkin, Telingater and Chichagovy sisters who designed some books of 'Zemlia i Fabrika'. This is a volume from the complete works by Walter Scott edited by Benedikt Livshits (1887-1938), known as a member of the Futurist group Hylaea in the pre-revolutionary period. Being a writer and translator in the Soviet Union, he became a victim of the Great Purge. Worldcat doesn't track this edition.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. New Book. Hardcover. 288 pp. The first English-language account of Ivan Morozov and his ambition to build one of the world's greatest collections of modern art. "A century of Russian culture distilled in the story of the life, family and collection of the lavish, lazy, kindly, eccentric grandson of a serf who brought Monet and Matisse to Moscow, waited three years for the right 'Blue Gauguin'-and survived the first years of Bolshevik rule."-Jackie Wullschläger, Financial Times "Best Books of 2020: Visual Arts" A wealthy Moscow textile merchant, Morozov started buying art in a modest way in 1900 until, on a trip to Paris, he developed a taste for the avant-garde. Meticulous and highly discerning, he acquired works by the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cezanne. Unlike his friendly rival Sergei Shchukin, he collected Russian as well as European art. Altogether he spent 1.5 million francs on 486 paintings and 30 sculptures-more than any other collector of the… Read More

Санкт-Петербург: Liga Plus, 1999. New Book. Binding: Hardcover 128 pp. with illustrations This edition is a rather venture. For the most part, the album consists of the photographs from the family estates of the Nabokov, as well as the pictures of the family estates near St. Petersburg where the eminent author spent the summers of his boyhood and youth. Together with the quotations from Nabokov's works, they make a fascinating background to the novels based on his early experiences: Speak, Memory, Mary, The Defense, The Gift.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. New Book. Hardcover. 360 pp. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Viktor Orbán control their citizens by distorting information and simulating democratic procedures. Like spin doctors in democracies, they spin the news to engineer support. Uncovering this new brand of authoritarianism, Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman explain the rise of such "spin dictators," describing how they emerge and operate, the new threats they pose, and how democracies should respond. Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Peru's Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. They cultivated an image of competence,… Read More

New York Review of Books, 2018. New Book. Paperback. 768 pp. Now in its first complete English translation, this masterpiece chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, based on the author's own years in a USSR prison camp. Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second to appear in 2019) that together will constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov's stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text. Shalamov spent six years as a slave in the gold mines of Kolyma before finding a less intolerable life as a paramedic in the prison camps. He began writing his account of life in Kolyma after Stalin's death in 1953. His stories are at once the biography of a rare survivor, a historical record of the Gulag, and a literary work of unparalleled creative power, insight, and conviction.

Alma-Ata [Almaty]: Kn.-zhur. tipogr. NKMP, 1936. 3 pp. 22,5x16 cm. A leaf folded in half with letterpress design on front side. Lower and outer edges chipped, small water stains on lower edge, few minor wormholes along spine, otherwise very good. One of 1500 copies. Extremely rare program pamphlet of a Soviet Kazakh theater of the period of Yangalif alphabet. Paradox drama 'The Devil's Disciple' was staged at the Russian Drama Theater of the Almaty City Council in 1936. This Russian theater was founded by Yuri Rutkovskii (1891-1970) in 1933. Working earlier in different Russian and Soviet Asian theaters, he stayed in Almaty and was an administrative and art director of a local Russian theater until 1939. Apart from that, he taught in the Almaty theatrical college in 1937-1939. Shaw's play was staged by director R. Lenogorskaia. Stage and costume designs were produced by artist Igor Bal'khozin (1913-1988) who designed overall 170 performances of this theater in 1934-1986. Music for performance was… Read More

Glagoslav Publications B.V., 2013. New Book. Paperback. 452 pp. Masterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine's rich cultural heritage. As a foundational text, The Kobzar has played an important role in galvanizing the Ukrainian identity and in the development of Ukraine's written language and Ukrainian literature. The first editions had been censored by the Russian czar, but the book still made an enduring impact on Ukrainian culture. There is no reliable count of how many editions of the book have been published, but an official estimate made in 1976 put the figure in Ukraine at 110 during the Soviet period alone. That figure does not include Kobzars released before and after both in Ukraine and abroad. A multitude of translations of Shevchenko's verse into Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages, as well as Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, and many others attest to his… Read More

Academic Studies Press, 2021. New Book. Paperback. 202 pp. Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine. Whether living in Paris, St. Petersburg or Kyiv, they made major contributions to painting, sculpture, theatre, and film-making. Because their connection to Ukraine has seldom been explored, English-language readers are often unaware that figures such as Archipenko, Burliuk, Malevich, and Exter were inspired both by their country of origin and their links to compatriots. This book traces the avant-garde development from its pre-war years in Paris to the end of the 1920s in Kyiv. It includes chapters on the political dilemmas faced by this generation, the contribution of Jewish artists, and the work of several emblematic figures: Mykhailo Boichuk, David Burliuk, Kazimir Malevich, Vadym Meller, Ivan Kavaleridze, and Dziga Vertov.

Syracuse University Press, 2007. Paperback, 240 pp. In 1987 a young Jewish man, the central figure in this captivating book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in opulent Vienna and spend two months in Rome and the coastal resort of Ladispoli. While waiting in Europe for a U.S. refugee visa, the book's twenty-year-old poet quenches his thirst for sexual and cultural discovery. Through his colorful Austrian and Italian misadventures, he experiences the shock, thrill, and anonymity of encountering Western democracies, running into European roadblocks while shedding Soviet social taboos. As he anticipates entering a new life in America, he movingly describes the baggage that exiles bring with them, from the inescapable family traps and ties to the sweet cargo of memory. An emigration story, Waiting for America explores the rapid expansion of identity at the cusp of a new, American life. Told in a revelatory first-person narrative, Waiting for America is also a vibrant… Read More

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2011. New Book. Paperback. 256 pp. In the wickedly bittersweet and hilarious You Must Go and Win, the Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her bizarre journey through the indie rock world, from disastrous Craigslist auditions with sketchy producers to catching fleas in a Williamsburg sublet. But Simone offers more than down-and-out tales of her time as a struggling musician: she has a rapier wit, slashing and burning her way through the absurdities of life, while offering surprising and poignant insights into the burdens of family expectations and the nature of ambition, the temptations of religion and the lure of a mythical Russian home. Wavering between embracing and fleeing her outsized and nebulous dreams of stardom, Simone confronts her Russian past when she falls in love with the music of Yanka Dyagileva, a Soviet singer who tragically died young; hits the road with her childhood friend who is dead set on becoming an icon; and battles male strippers in… Read More