Search Results: Titles starting with R from Globus Books

Moscow, 1937. 25 leaves with 47 mounted photographs, 5 charts. 29x41 cm. In original full-cloth with lettering on mounted metal plate. One photograph lost, otherwise very good. A unique photo album depicting the mechanization and experimental projects of the largest ceramic tile factory in the USSR with extraordinary constructivist styled design. Founded in 1890s, this manufactory was a significant phenomenon in the long and rich history of production of decorative tile for the Russian houses. It was nationalized after the October Revolution and contributed to the Soviet design until 1990s. In the period of great achievements and increases in output in the Soviet Union there was a revival of the facing ceramics production. Since the 1930s the plant had become a kind of a testing ground for the technological and art experiments in ceramics. It was entrusted with design of the grandiose project of Moscow metro stations. In 1935 the factory faced with tiles an interior of the first stage of the Moscow… Read More

Kazan: Elektro-tipografiia 'Milliat', 1921. 51 pp. 31,5x23 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine, edges of front cover and lower corner of p.1 restored. Otherwise near fine and uncut copy. A unique survival of time with no copies in Worldcat. One of 10 000 copies produced. The magazine was printed in Tatar language which used Arabic script until 1927, with the back cover and printer's information in Russian. It was supposed to be published monthly, but no information about other issues existed. The content was common enough: politics and literature. Materials were compiled by the Revolutionary Military Council of Tatar Republic for Red Army soldiers. A picture of such a soldier was placed on the cover. No copies in Worldcat.

Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1930. 392 pp.: ill. 21,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Good. Tears and small losses of the spine, soiling, some pages detached from block, tears and small fragments of margins lost occasionally, ink note on p. 37. Second edition. One of 7500 copies. Very rare. Design was created by Alexander Rodchenko, using mostly combinations of lines as well as geometrically cut photographs showing local day-to-day life. The design resembles his experimental 'liniizm' (i.e. linearism), occurred in 1919-1920, and thus the book is the point where his constructivist and non-objective conceptions met. This book by futurist poet Sergei Tretyakov (1892-1937) described unrests in Chinese society of the 1920s, as close as possible, and contrasted to official press. It combined an interview with student Tan Shih-hua, that was conducted by Tretyakov in Peking University, and author's impressions of country. Actually, the interview embraced more than twenty-six years of a man's life… Read More

Independently Published, 2019. New Book. Paperback. 263 pp. "RUSSKI DREAD" brings you short horror stories set in Russia. Stories that could happen only in one place, where the otherworldly terrors are just another layer of dread that looms over the endless state. Whatever kind of horror you desire, from paranormal tales of suspense to brutal slasher flicks - Russia has them all. Artyom Dereschuk is an Award-winning English-speaking Ukrainian writer who lives in Moscow, Russia. Drawing inspiration from his post-USSR environment and mythology of numerous peoples that live there, Dereschuk aims to craft the most intricate, spine-chilling and bizarre stories he can.

Санкт-Петербург: Aurora-Kunstverlag, 1985. Hardcover. 176 pp., ill. Russische, sowjetische und westeuropäische Malerei. Book in German.

Vintage. New Book. Paperback. 224 pp. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer than a dozen knew of the two love affairs that so profoundly influenced his career, the second one in such a disastrous way. After Knight's death, his half brother sets out to penetrate the enigma of his life, starting with a few scanty clues in the novelist's private papers. His search proves to be a story as intriguing as any of his subject's own novels, as baffling, and, in the end, as uniquely rewarding.

New York: Random House, Vintage International, 1992. New Book. Paperback. 204 pp. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer than a dozen knew of the two love affairs that so profoundly influenced his career, the second one in such a disastrous way. After Knight's death, his half brother sets out to penetrate the enigma of his life, starting with a few scanty clues in the novelist's private papers. His search proves to be a story as intriguing as any of his subject's own novels, as baffling, and, in the end, as uniquely rewarding.

Authorhouse, 2007. Binding: Paperback Everyone know that America is the country of immigrants who practically every day come to the United States from all the world that to realize his dreams come through. The reasons of immigration for each person and family to this democracy and free country are different and author did not try to investigate this question in detail. This book is for them -and for the people who often take responsibility for care and acceptance of newcomers in America. The main goal of this book is that to show without of colors the general problems which appeared in immigration period before of creative person beyond 50 years age and how these problems can be solved by him. The good news of this book is that partially made analysis of Soviet - Jewish immigration of fourth wave 1989-1990 to the United States and shown typical life of the creative person, inventor and scientist, in view of chronological diary for 1999 to 2001 period .Author hopes that this book will be also useful… Read More

Yale University Press, 2004. New Book. Paperback. 367 pp. From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. "[A] fresh and stimulating look at the path to nationhood."--Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs "Erudite and engrossing."--Charles King, Times Literary Supplement Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and examines Poland's recent successful negotiations with its newly independent Eastern neighbors, as it has channeled national interest toward peace.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. New Book. Paperback. 352 pp. One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel brings to life an astonishing cast of characters from the exuberant, violent era of early Soviet history: commissars and colonels, Cossacks and peasants, and among them the bespectacled, Jewish writer/intellectual, observing it all and trying to establish his role in the new Russia. Drawn from the acclaimed, award-winning Complete Works of Isaac Babel, this volume includes all of the Red Cavalry cycle; Babel's 1920 diary, from which the material for the fiction was drawn; and his preliminary sketches for the stories--the whole constituting a fascinating picture of a great writer turning life into art.

Anchor Books, 2018. New Book. Paperback. 608 pp. In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second Russian revolution--which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Applebaum's compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the… Read More

DoppelHouse Press, 2020. New Book. Paperback. 416 pp. with illustrations. The story of the American musician who opened the clandestine world of Leningrad punk and rock 'n' roll to the West. Joanna Stingray was only 23 years old when she first set foot in the USSR and started meeting now-legendary musicians and artists of the Soviet underground like Boris Grebenshchikov, Sergei Kuryokhin, and Viktor Tsoi. By 1985, she was writing and recording with them, and smuggling their music to the West in order to produce the groundbreaking album Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the USSR. This is her testimony of youthful fortitude and rebellion, her love story, and proof of the power of music and youth culture over stagnancy and oppression. The book, written with her singer/songwriter daughter, Madison, includes Stingray's extensive collection of photographs, artworks, and interviews with the musicians.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. New Book. Paperback. 232 pp. It is New Year's Eve 1945 in a small Soviet town not long liberated from German occupation. Sashenka, a headstrong and self-centered teenage girl, resents her mother for taking a lover after her father's death in the war, and denounces her to the authorities for the petty theft that keeps them from going hungry. When she meets a Jewish lieutenant who has returned to bury his family, betrayed and murdered by their neighbors during the occupation, both must come to terms with the trauma that surrounds them as their relationship deepens. Redemption is a stark and powerful portrait of humanity caught up in Stalin's police state in the aftermath of the war and the Holocaust. In this short novel, written in 1967 but unpublished for many years, Friedrich Gorenstein effortlessly combines the concrete details of daily life in this devastated society with witness testimonies to the mass murder of Jews. He gives a realistic account of… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990. Used. Excellent condition.. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. 223 pp. First Edition. A collection of thirteen intimate stories explores relationships with a unique blend of shock, comedy, and love Most of the protagonists in these 13 wonderfully varied, often funny stories set by Baxter ( Harmony of the World ) in Michigan are complex men reaching for answers that elude them. On the other hand their women, anchored in a simple and peaceful pragmatism, more wisely accept their mates' odd hungers and lunatic streaks. Stephen in "Lake Stephen" feels dissatisfied with Jan, his lover--she always seems to know in advance what he will do and say. When he importunes her to throw caution to the wind for once, she complies, but less than innocently: "Unless she broke the rules now," Jan realizes, "he would not follow the rules later." In "Westland" Warren turns in a teenage runaway and, as a result, is drawn with his family into the lives of strangers, much as Cooper in… Read More

Zephyr Press, 2013. New Book. Paperback. 200 pp. Polina Barskova, Anna Glazova, and Maria Stepanova all were born in the early to mid-1970s and came of age during perestroika. They are old enough to have visceral memories of Soviet life but young enough to move adeptly with the new influences, new media and new life choices introduced in the post-Soviet era. In distinct ways all three are engaged in the project of renovating Russia's great modernist tradition for a radically different historical situation. They write poems of imaginative daring, pushing recognizable scenarios into the fantastic, the surreal or the speculative, bending form and language to the task. They also display a cerebral firepower boosted by their education in institutions Soviet, European and American, and which they exercise in their chosen professions--Barskova and Glazova are academics, teaching at Hampshire College and Cornell University respectively, and Stepanova is chief editor of the influential online journal Open… Read More

Penn State University Press, 2020. New Book. Paperback. 306 pp. Memoir (translated from the German) of a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, with scholarly introduction and analysis. Pauline Wengeroff's memoir tells what it was like to be a Jewish girl and a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, as foundations of faith and tradition eroded around her. No other work like this survives. Wengeroff details her traditional Jewish life in mid-19th century Russia and then the many changes brought on by the Jewish Enlightenment.

New York: Cicada Press, 2018. New Book. Paperback, 204 pp. "Reported Speech" is a bilingual edition of Pavel Arseniev's (Saint Petersburg) poetry with an introduction by Kevin M.F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania). Arseniev's poetry provides a living link between the legacy of the 1920s Soviet avant-garde art and theory, on the one hand, and the modern Western materialist thought on the other. It traces how these influences become weaponized in the language of contemporary Russian protest culture. Arseniev readily politicizes all, even the most mundane facts of the poet's life, while approaching reified bits of found speech and propaganda with lithe, at times corrosive irony and lyricism. Вышедшая этой зимой в Нью-Йорке (Cicada Press), книга стихов "Reported Speech" была названа в десятке лучших (по версии платформы Blackout) и уже получила высокие оценки в рецензиях (Asymptote и… Read More

Ohio University Press, 2018. New Book. Paperback. 78 pp. Expressing the collective grief for the thousands vanished under Josef Stalin's regime, "Requiem" chronicles Akhmatova's seventeen-month wait for news of her imprisoned son's fate, while "Poem without a Hero" chronicles the transformation of vibrant St. Petersburg into oppressive Leningrad and the pain of those left behind.

Penguin Group, 2009. New Book. Paperback. 608 pp. Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs in Penguin Classics. Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces the consequences of his actions, he decides to give up his life of wealth and luxury to devote himself to rescuing Katyusha, even if it means following her into exile in Siberia. But can a man truly find redemption by saving another person? Tolstoy's most controversial novel, Resurrection (1899) is a scathing indictment of injustice, corruption and hypocrisy at all levels of society. Creating a vast panorama of Russian life, from peasants to aristocrats, bureaucrats to convicts, it reveals Tolstoy's magnificent storytelling powers. Anthony Briggs' superb… Read More

Ohio State University Press, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 248 pp. Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia traces the "kopecks to rubles" journey of Russian comics at the turn of the century. As the follow-up to José Alaniz's groundbreaking Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (2010), Resurrection authoritatively and exhaustively details the Russian comic landscape of the last three decades: beginning after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union and encompassing the fourth Putin administration, the COVID-19 crisis, and beyond. Bolstering his analysis with interviews with some of the major figures in Russia's comics industry, Alaniz particularly focuses on the representation of masculinity, disability, historical trauma, and superheroes, as well as on the recent rise of fandom, alternative micropresses, and nonfiction graphic narrative. Resurrection is a sweeping discussion of the metamorphosis of contemporary Russian comic art from its rebirth to its entry into mainstream culture.