Last Witnesses, Alexievich, Svetlana

Автор: Petrova Svetlana
Название: Fat Cat Art: Famous Masterpieces Improved by a Ginger Cat with Attitude
ISBN: 0399174788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780399174780
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: It's official. That thing that classic art has been missing is a chubby reclining kitty. The Huffington Post Internet meme meets classical art in Svetlana Petrova's brilliant Fat Cat Art. Featuring her twenty-two-pound, ginger-colored cat Zarathustra superimposed onto some of the greatest artworks of all time, Petrova's paintings are an Internet sensation. Now fans will have the ultimate full-color collection of her work to savor for themselves or to give as a gift to fellow cat lovers. From competing with Venus's sexy reclining pose (and almost knocking her off her chaise lounge in the process) in Titian's Venus of Urbino, to exhibiting complete disdain as he skirts away from God's pointing finger in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, Zarathustra single-handedly rewrites art history in the way that only an adorable fat cat can.

Автор: Alexievich, Svetlana
Название: Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future
ISBN: 0241270537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241270530
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. While officials tried to hush up the accident, the author spent years collecting testimonies from survivors. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, this book shows what it is like to remember in a world that wants you to forget.

Автор: Alexievich Svetlana
Название: Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
ISBN: 0399588825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780399588822
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature--a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Boston Globe - The Wall Street Journal - NPR - Financial Times - Kirkus Reviews

When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre," describing her work as "a history of emotions--a history of the soul." Alexievich's distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation.
In Secondhand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres--but also of pride in their country, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here is an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world.
A magnificent tapestry of the sorrows and triumphs of the human spirit woven by a master, Secondhand Time tells the stories that together make up the true history of a nation. "Through the voices of those who confided in her," The Nation writes, "Alexievich tells us about human nature, about our dreams, our choices, about good and evil--in a word, about ourselves."
Praise for Svetlana Alexievich and Secondhand Time
"The nonfiction volume that has done the most to deepen the emotional understanding of Russia during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union of late is Svetlana Alexievich's oral history Secondhand Time."--David Remnick, The New Yorker
"Like the greatest works of fiction, Secondhand Time is a comprehensive and unflinching exploration of the human condition. . . . In its scope and wisdom, Secondhand Time is comparable to War and Peace."--The Wall Street Journal
"Already hailed as a masterpiece across Europe, Secondhand Time is an intimate portrait of a country yearning for meaning after the sudden lurch from Communism to capitalism in the 1990s plunged it into existential crisis."--The New York Times
"This is the kind of history, otherwise almost unacknowledged by today's dictatorships, that matters."--The Christian Science Monitor
"In this spellbinding book, Svetlana Alexievich orchestrates a rich symphony of Russian voices telling their stories of love and death, joy and sorrow, as they try to make sense of the twentieth century."--J. M. Coetzee

Автор: Amelekhina, Svetlana Blakesley, Rosalind P.
Название: Magnificence of the tsars: Men`s Dress at the Imperial Russian Court, 1727-1903
ISBN: 1851775501 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781851775507
Издательство: A & C Black
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Описание: Captures the grandeur of Imperial Russia featuring the dress and uniforms of Emperors and officials of the Russian court. This book celebrates the majesty of masculine uniform in Russia at its finest.

Автор: Kirschbaum, Svetlana
Название: Apologien russlands
ISBN: 3631658982 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631658987
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: Ende der 1820er Jahre erschienen in einem der bedeutendsten Presseorgane Europas, der Augsburger Allgemeinen Zeitung, zahlreiche russlandkritische Artikel. Als Gegenreaktion engagierte die russische Gesandtschaft in M nchen den renommierten Publizisten Friedrich L. Lindner, um das au enpolitische Ansehen Russlands wiederherzustellen. Die Autorin rekonstruiert den Verlauf dieser prorussischen Presse-Aktivit ten im Deutschland des 19. Jahrhunderts. Unter Heranziehung von bislang unver ffentlichtem Archivmaterial wird untersucht, welche Rolle hierbei der bedeutende russische Dichter und Publizist Fedor Tjutˇcev, ein Mitarbeiter der Gesandtschaft, spielte. Im Mittelpunkt der Studie stehen die russlandapologetischen Konzepte Lindners und Tjutčevs, die aufgrund dieser Zusammenarbeit entstanden sind.

Автор: Alexievich Svetlana
Название: Secondhand Time: An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union
ISBN: 0399588809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780399588808
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia
When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing a new kind of literary genre, describing her work as a history of emotions a history of the soul. Alexievich s distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation.
In "Secondhand Time, " Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it s like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres but also of pride in their country, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here" "is an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world.
A magnificent tapestry of the sorrows and triumphs of the human spirit woven by a master, "Secondhand Time "tells the stories that together make up the true history of a nation. Through the voices of those who confided in her, "The Nation "writes, Alexievich tells us about human nature, about our dreams, our choices, about good and evil in a word, about ourselves.
Praise for Svetlana Alexievich and "Secondhand Time"
For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time. Nobel Prize Committee
For the past thirty or forty years Alexievich has] been busy mapping the Soviet and post-Soviet individual, but her work is] not really about a history of events. It s a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul. Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy
"Secondhand Time" is Alexievich s] longest and most ambitious project to date: an effort to use an oral history of the nineties to understand Soviet and post-Soviet identity. "The New Yorker"
In this spellbinding book, Svetlana Alexievich orchestrates a rich symphony of Russian voices telling their stories of love and death, joy and sorrow, as they try to make sense of the twentieth century, so tragic for their country. J. M. Coetzee
Alexievich s] books are woven from hundreds of interviews, in a hybrid form of reportage and oral history that has the quality of a documentary film on paper. But Alexievich is anything but a simple recorder and transcriber of found voices; she has a writerly voice of her own which emerges from the chorus she assembles, with great style and authority, and she shapes her investigations of Soviet and post-Soviet life and death into epic dramatic chronicles as universally essential as Greek tragedies. . . . A mighty documentarian and a mighty artist. Philip Gourevitch
Alexievich s voices are those of the people no one cares about, but the ones whose lives constitute the vast majority of what history actually is. Keith Gessen"