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Solovki
Author | : Roy R. Robson |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300129601 |
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div Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers and politicians. The site of a beautiful medieval monastery—once home to one of the greatest libraries of eastern Europe—Solovki became in the twentieth century a notorious labor camp. Roy Robson recounts the history of Solovki from its first settlers through the present day, as the history of Russia plays out on this miniature stage. In the 1600s, the piety and prosperity of Solovki turned to religious rebellion, siege, and massacre. Peter the Great then used it as a prison. But Solovki’s glory was renewed in the nineteenth century as it became a major pilgrimage site—only to descend again into horror when the islands became, in the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the “mother of the Gulag” system. From its first intrepid visitors through the blood-soaked twentieth century, Solovki—like Russia itself—has been a site of both glorious achievement and profound misery. /DIV
Theatre in the Solovki Prison Camp
Author | : Natalia Kuziakina |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781134354290 |
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First Published in 1996. The Russian Theatre Archive makes available in English the best avantgarde plays, from the pre-Revolutionary period to the present day. It features monographs on major playwrights and theatre directors, introductions to previously unknown works, and studies of the main artistic groups and periods. Plays are presented in performing edition translations, including (where appropriate) musical scores, and instructions for music and dance. Whenever possible the translated texts will be accompanied by videotapes of performances of plays in the original language. Prison camp theatre is a theme justified by actual life, even though the marriage of such concepts as 'theatre' and 'prison camp' may appear, to the ordinary mind, preposterous.
Solovki
Author | : Roy R. Robson |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300102704 |
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"The site of a beautiful medieval monastery - once home to one of the greatest libraries of eastern Europe - Solovki became in the twentieth century a notorious labor camp. Roy Robson recounts the story of Solovki from its first settlers through the present day, as the history of Russia plays out on this miniature stage. In the 1600s, the piety and prosperity of Solovki turned to religious rebellion, siege, and massacre. Peter the Great then used it as a prison. But Solovki's glory was renewed in the nineteenth century as it became a major pilgrimage site - only to descend again into horror when the islands became, in the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the "mother of the Gulag" system."--Jacket.
Post Soviet East European Report
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Europe, Eastern |
ISBN | : IND:30000125270383 |
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Report on the USSR
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1989-04 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
ISBN | : UOM:39015035350217 |
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2
Author | : Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2020-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780062941664 |
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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker “Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword
Solovki the Story of Russia Told Through the Most Remarkable Islands
Author | : Roy R. Robson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011-03-08 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0300177038 |
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Reflections on the Russian Soul
Author | : Dmitry S. Likhachev |
Publsiher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2000-01-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9789633864920 |
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This compelling and often traumatic book is the memoir of one of the most important figures in modern Russian history, Dmitry S. Likhachev, revered as ‘a guardian of national culture’. Reflections on the Russian Soul is an incredible account of an intellectual’s turbulent journey through twentieth century Russia. Likhachev re-counts the fortunes of people with whom he came into contact and reproduces the air of passed years in Russia. Likhachev vividly portrays his childhood years in St. Petersburg and continues into his student life at Leningrad University that led to an agonizing period of imprisonment and near death. He describes how a harmless prank caught the attention of the Secret Police, resulting in his exile and confinement within the infamous prison island of Solovki. He describes his first-hand experience of brutality in prison during the early Stalin years and the incident that not only saved him but also haunted him for the rest of his life. He reflects on the years after his release from prison and the events leading up to the Second World War. His powerful recollection of the blockade of Leningrad provides the reader with a horrific insight into the harsh effects of war, hunger and survival. Lichachev goes on to describe post-war Russia and how his own livelihood developed from literary editor to a return to Leningrad University as Professor of History. This compelling autobiography finishes with Likhachev’s poignant return to Solovki as a free man.