By Robert Payne, Nikita Romanoff

Czar Ivan IV (1530-1584), the 1st Russian ruler to take the identify czar, is called one of many worst tyrants in background, yet few humans one of the normal public understand how he obtained such an notorious acceptance. hoping on wide learn dependent seriously on unique Russian assets, this definitive biography depicts a very advanced guy dwelling in a time of straightforward, harsh realities. Robert Payne, the prestigious writer of many old and biographical works, and Russian pupil Nikita Romanoff, describe in bright and energetic aspect Ivan's callous upbringing; the poisoning of his moment spouse and the homicide of his son; his obsession with faith and sin; his predilection for mass homicide, evidenced through his bloodbath of 30,000 electorate of Novgorod; but his extraordinary intelligence as a ruler, helping the expansion of alternate and increasing Russia's borders.

By Louise Bryant

Louise Bryant (1885-1936) was once an American journalist and author top recognized for her Marxist and anarchist ideals and her essays on radical political and feminist issues. Bryant released articles in numerous radical left journals in the course of her lifestyles. She travelled to Russia together with her husband John Reed in 1917 and 1918. whereas there, they participated in Bolshevik agitation and Communist celebration actions, and wrote articles concerning the pending revolution. Her works contain: Six pink Months in Russia (1918).

By Zenovia A. Sochor

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By Catriona Kelly

Refining Russia is a pioneering learn of the advance of recommendation literature (''how-to'' books corresponding to etiquette manuals and brochures on hygiene) in Russia, and of its reception and wider cultural which means. An soaking up and unique workout in ''history of the book,'' it's also an incredible contribution to the knowledge of Russia's courting with the West, and of the cultural international inhabited through the Russian intelligentsia.

By Andrew Wilson

By Luc Delahaye

Bridging the divide among artwork and journalism, Magnum photographer Luc Delahaye offers one hundred forty four photos taken on a iciness trip to the north of Russia, recording a state in a country of ethical and actual cave in. the images are poetic - concurrently terrifying, fascinating, intimate and relocating - regardless of recording unhappy material.

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By Saul Newman

In its comparability of anarchist and poststructuralist concept, From Bakunin to Lacan contends that the main urgent political challenge we are facing at the present time is the proliferation and intensification of strength. Saul Newman goals the tendency of radical political theories and activities to reaffirm energy and authority, in numerous guises, of their very try to conquer it. In his exam of thinkers resembling Bakunin, Lacan, Stirner, and Foucault Newman explores vital epistemological, ontological, and political questions: Is the fundamental human topic the purpose of departure from which energy and authority will be adverse? Or, is the humanist topic itself a website of domination that needs to be unmasked? because it deftly charts this debate's paths of emergence in political concept, the booklet illustrates how the query of crucial identities defines and re-defines the boundaries and probabilities of radical politics at the present time.

By Barbara Alpern Engel, Janet Martin

This quantity deals a full of life creation to Russia's dramatic historical past and the awesome adjustments that symbolize its tale. unusual authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin exhibit how Russia's peoples met the consistent demanding situations posed by way of geography, weather, availability of common assets, and devastating overseas invasions, and rose to turn into the world's moment biggest land empire. The e-book describes the situations that resulted in the world's first communist society in 1917, and strains the worldwide outcomes of Russia's lengthy war of words with the us, which came about nearly all over and for many years supplied a version for societies looking improvement self sufficient of capitalism. This ebook additionally brings the tale of Russia's laborious and dear climb to nice strength to a private point throughout the tales of person ladies and men-leading figures who performed pivotal roles in addition to much less favorite contributors from more than a few social backgrounds whose voices remove darkness from the human effects of sweeping old swap. As was once and is right of Russia itself, this tale features a wide array of ethnicities, peoples who turned a part of the Russian empire and suffered or benefited from its leaders' efforts to meld a multiethnic polity right into a coherent political entity. The booklet examines how Russia served as a conduit for individuals, rules, and commodities flowing among east and west, north and south, and absorbed and tailored impacts from either Europe and Asia and the way it got here to play an more and more very important function on a nearby and, eventually, worldwide scale.

By Helena Goscilo, Yana Hashamova

This wide-ranging assortment investigates the father/son dynamic in post-Stalinist Soviet cinema and its Russian successor. individuals research complicated styles of id, disavowal, and displacement in movies via such diversified administrators as Khutsiev, Motyl', Tarkovsky, Balabanov, Sokurov, Todorovskii, Mashkov, and Bekmambetov. numerous chapters specialize in the problems of satisfying the paternal functionality, whereas others convey how vertical and horizontal male bonds are again and again strained by way of the strain of redefining an embattled masculinity in a moving political panorama.