Life after birth, Figes, Kate (books Editor)

Автор: Orlando Figes
Название: Natasha`s Dance
ISBN: 0140297960 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140297966
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A history of Russia`s mighty culture. It covers the lives of those who have shaped its culture, and the enduring spirit of a people.

Автор: Figes, Orlando
Название: A People`s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction
ISBN: 1847924514 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847924513
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, this book follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship.

Автор: Kotkin, Stephen
Название: Stalin, Vol. II
ISBN: 0141027959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141027951
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age ... The War and Peace of history: a book you fear you will never finish, but just cannot put down' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, and what Stalin managed to force through, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways.

Rather than a tale of a deformed or paranoid personality creating a political system, this is a story of a political system shaping a personality. Building and running a dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made Stalin the person he became. Wholesale collectivization of agriculture, some 120 million peasants, necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, but Stalin did not flinch; the resulting mass starvation and death elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism.

By 1934, when the situation had stabilized and socialism had been built in the countryside too, the internal praise came for his uncanny success in anticapitalist terms. But Stalin never forgot and never forgave, with bloody consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite. Stalin had revived a great power with a formidable industrialized military.

But the Soviet Union was effectively alone, with no allies and enemies perceived everywhere. The quest to find security would bring Soviet Communism into an improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain did not work out as envisioned.

The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective countries, drew ever closer to collision. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 is, like its predecessor Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin's desk. It is also, like its predecessor, a landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer's art.

Kotkin's portrait captures the vast structures moving global events, and the intimate details of decision-making.

Автор: Orlando Figes
Название: The Whisperers
ISBN: 0141013516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141013510
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Explores the inner life of a Russia where everyone was afraid to talk and society spoke in whispers, whether to protect friends and family - or to betray them. In this title, the author tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin`s Terror.

Автор: Orlando Figes
Название: Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991
ISBN: 0141043679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141043678
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? This book deals with these questions.

Автор: Orlando Figes
Название: Crimea
ISBN: 0141013508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141013503
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Описание: The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia`s history, killing nearly a million men and completely redrawing the map of Europe. Bringing to life soldiers in snow-filled trenches, surgeons on the battlefield and the haunted, fanatical figure of Tsar Nicholas himself, this title tells the human story of a tragic war.

Автор: Figes, Orlando
Название: The Europeans
ISBN: 0241004896 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241004890
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, DAILY MAIL, SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more.' Peter Frankopan'The Europeans is a massively impressive work, as enjoyable as it is knowledgeable, full of insights into the mechanisms of history and in the people who make it.

It is a book about the making of Europe, and this description, wonderful as it is, has now, in these days, sadly, also almost a utopian quality to it. Orlando Figes is an outstanding historian and writer, he brings distant history so close that you could feel its heartbeat. He did it with the Russian Revolution in A People's Tragedy, and he does it again in The Europeans.' Karl Ove Knausgaard 'Timely, brilliant and hugely enjoyable ...

A magnificently humane book, written with supple grace but firmly underpinned by meticulous scholarship.' Rupert Christiansen'Magnificent and utterly gripping: European identity, culture and commerce through the lives of three remarkable individuals, the book for our times.' Philippe SandsFrom the bestselling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is a richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis. Their passionate, ambitious lives were bound up with an astonishing array of writers, composers and painters all trying to make their way through the exciting, prosperous and genuinely pan-European culture that came about as a result of huge economic and technological change. This culture - through trains, telegraphs and printing - allowed artists of all kinds to exchange ideas and make a living, shuttling back and forth across the whole continent from the British Isles to Imperial Russia, as they exploited a new cosmopolitan age.

The Europeans is Orlando Figes' masterpiece. Surprising, beautifully written, it describes huge changes through intimate details, little-known stories and through the lens of Turgenev and the Viardots' touching, strange love triangle. Events which we now see as central to European high culture are made completely fresh, allowing the reader to revel in the sheer precariousness with which the great salons, premieres and bestsellers came into existence.

Автор: Figes, Kate
Название: The Terrible Teens
ISBN: 0140280332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140280333
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Living with teenagers can be more stressful and emotional than anything parents have previously experienced. This book discusses about adolescence, based on the advice of experts, interviews with parents and their children.

Автор: Orlando Figes
Название: Just Send Me Word
ISBN: 0241955904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241955901
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Lev and Svetlana, kept apart for fourteen years by the Second World War and the Gulag, stayed true to each other and exchanged thousands of secret letters as Lev battled to survive in Stalin`s camps. This book tells the story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin`s Gulag.

Автор: Figes Orlando
Название: Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
ISBN: 1250032164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250032164
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 11030.00 T
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Описание: "A book to astonish readers: never before has Stalin's Gulag been the setting for a love affair. This powerful narrative by a distinguished historian will take its place not just in history but in literature."-"Robert K. Massie, author of "Catherine the Great""Author of "Natasha's Dance" and "The Crimean War"In 1946, after five years as a prisoner-first as a Soviet Union POW in Nazi concentration camps, then as a deportee (falsely accused of treason) in Russia's Arctic Gulag--twenty-nine-year-old Lev Mishchenko unexpectedly received a letter from Sveta, the sweetheart he had hardly dared hope was still alive. Amazingly, over the next eight years the lovers managed to exchange more than 1,500 messages, and even to smuggle Sveta herself into the camp for secret meetings. Their recently discovered correspondence is the only known real-time record of life in Stalin's Gulag, unmediated and uncensored.Orlando Figes draws on Lev and Sveta's letters as well as KGB archives and recent interviews to brilliantly reconstruct the broader world in which their story unfolded. With the powerful narrative drive of a novel, "Just Send Me Word" reveals a passion and endurance that triumphed over the tragic forces of history.

Автор: Figes Kate
Название: What About Me Too?
ISBN: 0330418459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330418454
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: Sue is a GP, her life filled with demanding but lovable patients, demanding but lovable children, a husband, and a new dog. But she has just enough time to notice the rather gorgeous neighbour who walks his black lab in the park. Frankie is about to do her GCSEs, and is certain that no-one is as stressed as she is, nor as in love, nor as confused.

Автор: Figes,Kate
Название: Big fat bitch book
ISBN: 1844082954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844082957
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Kate Figes`s offers a brilliant new take on the age-old pastime in this witty and enlightening miscellany of bitching.