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  • Arnold Schoenberg’s 'A Survivor from Warsaw' in Postwar Europe
    Joy H. Calico / Olga Barash
    Джой Калико рассматривает историю культуры послевоенной Европы через призму «Уцелевшего из Варшавы» Арнольда Шенберга (1874-1951). Шенберг, еврейский композитор, пионер додекакофонии, чье творчество было для нацистов одним из главных образцов «дегенеративной» музыки, эмигрировал в Соединенные Штаты и стал американским гражданином. В этой книге исследуются смыслы, которые придав...
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    33,97 €

  • Tundra Passages
    Rethmann Petra / Barash Olga
    В книге «Прохождение тундры» рассказывается о том, как этот коренной народ на Дальнем Востоке России переживал, истолковывал и стремился преодолеть трудности, вызванные изменением условий жизни на периферии постсоветской России. Ретман помещает жизнь корякских женщин в поселках Тымлат и Оссора на севере Камчатки в широкий контекст сексуальности, государственной власти и маргина...
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    34,24 €

  • From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars
    Martin Alexander M. / Barash Olga
    ENGIn a manuscript in a Russian archive, an anonymous German eyewitness describes what he saw in Moscow during Napoleon’s Russian campaign. Who was this nameless memoirist, and what brought him to Moscow in 1812? The search for answers to those questions uncovers a remarkable story of German and Russian life at the dawn of the modern age.Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch (1768-18...
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    42,07 €

  • Embattled Avant-Gardes
    Walter L. Adamson / Olga Barash
    This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Walter L. Adamson embarks on a lucid, wide-ranging exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted...
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    41,91 €

  • Human Nature in Utopia Zamyatin’s We
    Brett Cooke / Olga Barash
    Anticipating some Soviet Union developments, Evgenii Zamyatsin’s We (1920) is a futuristic dystopic novel in which D-503, builder of the first rocket ship, extols the glories of the Single State and discovers another way of life beyond his highly controlled society. From the newer field of biopoetics, which applies evolutionary psychology to art instead of emphasizing the socia...
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    38,26 €

  • 'Red Globalization.
    Oscar Sanchez-Sibony / Olga Barash
    Was the Soviet Union a superpower? Red Globalization is a significant rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global economy. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony challenges the idea that the Soviet Union represented a parallel socio-economic construct to the liberal world economy. Instead he shows that the USSR, a middle-income country more often than not at the mercy ...
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    38,26 €

  • Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein
    Henry W. Pickford / Olga Barash
    In this highly original interdisciplinary study incorporating close readings of literary texts and philosophical argumentation, Henry W. Pickford develops a theory of meaning and expression in art intended to counter the meaning skepticism most commonly associated with the theories of Jacques Derrida.Pickford arrives at his theory by drawing on the writings of Wittgenstein to d...
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    34,14 €

  • The Image of Christ in Russian Literature.
    John Givens / Olga Barash
    Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky’s characters 'sinning their way to Jesus.' In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky’s novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century and the growth of secularism it stimulated made an earnest affirmation of Jesu...
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    33,92 €

  • The Soviet Gulag
    Ed. by Michael David-Fox / Ilya Nahmanson / Olga Barash
    The metaphor of an 'archipelago' in the Solzhenitsyn’s magnum opus was intended to bridge the veil of silence that surrounded the camp system, much like water surrounds enclaves of land. Since then, this deeply influential metaphor has prompted historians and readers alike to think about the GULAG as network of island-camps separated from the rest of the Soviet Union. This book...
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    41,82 €