Code: 021645 Soifer, V.N (Soyfer, Valerii) Ten` Lenina Ego Usynovila... Dokumental`nyi Detektiv ob Odnom Leninskom Laureate i Sovetskikh Genetikakh [ Ten` Lenina Ego Usynovila... : Dokumental`nyi Detektiv ob Odnom Leninskom Laureate i Sovetskikh Genetikakh ] Moscow: CheRo, DDF Foundation, 2006 Language: Russian | Price: $ 29.00 | Valerii Soifer is the author of the bestselling first chronicle of biology of the soviet period “Power and Science: The History of the Destruction of Genetics in the USSR”, first published in 1989. This book is about academician-biologist Nikolai Dubinin. | |
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Code: 020598 Tsenzura i Dostup k Informatsii: Istoriia i Sovremennost` Tezisy Dokladov Mezhdunarodnoi Nauchnoi Konferentsii SPB 2005 g [ Tsenzura i Dostup k Informatsii: Istoriia i Sovremennost` : Tezisy Dokladov Mezhdunarodnoi Nauchnoi Konferentsii SPB 2005 g ] St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia Natsional`naia Biblioteka, 2005 Language: Russian | Price: $ 9.00 Special price: $ 8.10 | This is a collection of papers presented to the fourth conference on censorship in Russia (the first three were in 1991, 1993 and 1995). Materials included study censorship from the beginning of Russian history up to the present. | |
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Code: 016541 Vlast` i Nauka, Uchenye i Vlast`: 1880-e - Nachalo 1920-kh Godov Materialy Mezhdunarodnogo Nauchnogo Kollokviuma [ Vlast` i Nauka, Uchenye i Vlast`: 1880-e - Nachalo 1920-kh Godov : Materialy Mezhdunarodnogo Nauchnogo Kollokviuma ] St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2003 Language: Russian | Price: $ 29.00 | This volume includes 22 papers and discussions on the international conference in St. Petersburg. In the limelight are the problems of the state’s impact upon organization of the sciences, both social and natural, practical activities of scientists, politicizing of scientific institutions and their research. | |
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Code: 026238 Iurchenko, Iurii Faust": Pasternak protiv Stalina Zashiffrovannaia Poema [ "Faust". Pasterak against Stalin : Encoded poem ] St. Petersburg: Azbukha - Klasssika, 2010 Language: Russian | Price: $ 21.00 | This essay defeats the common idea that Pasternak participated in creation of the Stalin myth. Iurchenko, a poet and playwright, analyzes stylistic peculiarities, linguistic background of the epoch, the original poem and its other translations to decode Pasternak`s answer to the tyrant. | |
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Code: 021690 Velikaia Kniga Dnia..." Radio v SSSR Dokumenty i Materialy [ "The Great Book of the day..." Radio in the USSR : Documents and materials ] Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2007 Language: Russian | Price: $ 75.00 | Emerging broadcasting coincided with the establishment of the system of government propaganda and censorship in Soviet Russia, and Russian broadcasting became one of their most effective propaganda machines. | |
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Code: 026555 Vlasova, E.S 1948 God v Sovetskoi Muzyke Dokumentirovannoe Issledovanie [ 1948 in soviet music : Documentary research ] Moscow: Klassika-XXI, 2010 Language: Russian | Price: $ 54.00 | This is the first attempt to write the history of musical culture in soviet Russia including the history of censorship in this field. Based on unique sources from previously closed archives this book reconstructs the musical life and the management of this process of government controlled bodies from the 1917 revolution to 1940s. | |
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| Code: 027518 Basinskii, P.V Strasti po Maksimu Gor`kii: Deviat` Dnei posle Smerti [ A passion for Maksim : Gor`kii: Nine days after death ] Moscow: AST, Astrel`, 2011 Language: Russian | Price: $ 30.00 | A new book by Pavel Basinskii, a winner of the Bol`shaia Kniga award, about the last several days of Maksim Gor`kii`s life. It is strictly a document-based story. | |
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Code: 015658 Kvakin, M.V Mezhdu Belymi i Krasnymi Russkaia Intelligentsiia 1920-1930 Godov v Poiskakh Tret`ego Puti [ Among "Whites" and "Reds" : The Russian intelligentsia of 1920-1930s in the search for "The Third Way" ] Moscow: Tsentropoligraf, 2006 Language: Russian | Price: $ 22.00 | The Russian intelligentsia, politicians, philosophers and writers, in Russia but mostly in emigration reflecting on the outcome of the Civil War, tried to find a so called Third Way: between the Reds and Whites. | |
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Code: 013610 Zodchii Stalin
[ Architect Stalin : ] : Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2007 Language: Russian | Price: $ 23.00 | | |
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Code: 023309 Mazaev, A. I. (Anatolii Il`ich) Iskusstvo i Bol`shevizm. 1920-1930 Problemno-Tematicheskie Ocherki i Portrety [ Art and bolshevism. 1920-1930 : Essays and portraits ] Moscow: KomKniga, Gos. In-t Iskusstvoznania, 2007 Language: Russian | Price: $ 24.00 | This book studies the history of cultural policy and social organization of the arts in the first two decades of the Bolshevik government which resulted in establishment of the institution of unprecedented censorship. | |
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Code: 024759 Dostal, M.Iu Kak Feniks iz Pepla… Otechestvennoe Slavianovedenie v Period Vtoroi Mirovoi Voiny i v Pervye Poslevoennye Gody [ As the phoenix from the ashes… : Native Slavic studies in the period of WWII and the early postwar years ] Moscow: Indrik, 2009 Language: Russian | Price: $ 35.00 | This monograph is about reviving Slavic studies in Russia on the eve of, during, and the years after WWII. At its new beginning this field of study reflected the confrontation of two competing soviet ideologies: proletarian internationalism and Slavic patriotism. | |
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Code: 016762 Svirskii, Grigorii Na Lobnom Meste Literatura Nravstvennogo Soprotivleniia: 1946-1986 [ At the Place of Execution: Literature of Moral Resistance: 1946-1976 : Literatura Nravstvennogo Soprotivleniia: 1946-1986 ] London-Moscow: Kruk, 1998 Language: Russian | Price: $ 18.00 | This book is about the history of the moral resistance of Russian literature to the totalitarian soviet regime. It is a collection of stories about soviet writers and their relations with censors, KGB curators and other representatives of repressive organs. | |
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Code: 029778 Loginov, A.V Vlast` i Vera: Gosudarstvo i Religioznye Instituty v Istorii i Sovremennosti
[ Authority and faith: State and religious institutions in history and the present : ] Moscow: Bol`shaia rossiiskaia entsiklopediia, 2005 Language: Russian | Price: $ 52.00 | This academic publication offers a historico-cultural and political analysis of the interaction between the secular authorities and religious societies and institutions in Byzantium, the Russian Empire and the USSR. | |
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Code: 023403 Blium, A., Mespule, M Biurokraticheskaia Anarkhiia Statistika i Vlast` pri Staline [ Bureaucratic anarchy : Statistics and power under Stalin ] Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2008 Language: Russian | Price: $ 29.00 | This exciting study of the relation of knowledge and power in the USSR is based on a detailed inquiry into the biographies of the Soviet functionaries, mostly responsible for collecting and processing national statistics (P. | |
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Code: 008840 Mironin, Sigizmund Delo Genetikov
[ Case of the geneticists : ] Moscow: Algoritm, 2008 Language: Russian | Price: $ 17.00 | There is recently developed consensus that 1948-1966 were tragic years for genetics and geneticists in Russia: after the notorious session of the VASKhNIL in 1948 scientists who did not share the views of the academician Lysenko were removed from their jobs, and some of them persecuted (Zh. | |
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Code: 001051-03 Tsenzura v Rossii: Istoriia i Sovremennost` Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov: Vypusk 3 [ Censorship in Russia: History and the present : Collected works: Issue three ] St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia Natsional`naia Biblioteka, 2006 Language: Russian and English | Price: $ 27.00 | Collection of works on the history and current state of censorship in Russia and the USSR, published by the Russian National Library. Among the related topics discussed are censorship of electronic media and freedom of speech in publishing in contemporary and old Russia. | |
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Code: 001051-02 Tsenzura v Rossii: Istoriia i Sovremennost` Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov: Vypusk 2 [ Censorship in Russia: History and the present : Collected works: Issue two ] : Rossiiskaia Natsional`naia Biblioteka, 2005 Language: Russian | Price: $ 19.00 | | |
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Code: 022352 Kasparov, Garri Shakhmaty kak Model` Zhizni
[ Chess as a simulation of life : ] Moscow: Eksmo, 2007 Language: Russian | Price: $ 29.00 | The thirteenth world chess champion Garry Kasparov opens the door to his secrets of strategic thinking. He speaks about his own life, and shows how principles and secrets of his favorite game can be applied to achieving victory in the most difficult situations in life with big competition and under great pressure. | |
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Code: 029782 Kantor, Maksim Khronika Strizhki Ovets
[ Chronicle of the shearing of the lambs : ] Moscow: AST, 2014 Language: Russian | Price: $ 29.00 | Maksim Kantor, the author of "Uchebnik Risovaniia" and "Krasnyi Tsvet", collected his essays from the last several years which reflect the state of mind of the Russian educated society. The author claims that he does not belong to any groups or factions of the new political stratification of the Russian intellectuals. | |
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Code: 005783 Besedy na Lubianke: Sledstvennoe Delo Derdia Lukacha Materialy k Biografii [ Conversations on Lubianka: Investigation file of Derd Lukacs : Materials to biography ] Moscow: Institut Slavianovedeniia RAN, 1999 Language: Russian | Price: $ 18.00 | Derd Lukacs (1885-1971), a Hungarian philosopher and writer, spent fifteen years in Russia (1929-1945). He was arrested by the NKVD in 1941 and released after two months. The documents of his interrogation collected in this book show that this case was only one of many repressions against foreign communists. | |
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Code: 022522 Grigor`ev, S.I Pridvornaia Tsenzura i Obraz Verkhovnoi Vlasti
[ Court censorship and the image of the supreme power : ] St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2007 Language: Russian | Price: $ 49.00 | This monograph studies court censorship, one of several institutional censors in Russia. This specific type of censorship watched over the presentation of image of Russian emperors in newspapers and other publications, visual arts (painting, photograph, cinema etc) in 1831-1917. | |
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Code: 021652 Shentalinskii, V.A. (Vitalii Aleksandrovich) Prestuplenie bez Nakazaniia Dokumental`nye Povesti [ Crime without punishment : Documentary narratives ] Moscow: Progress-Pleiada, 2007 Language: Russian | Price: $ 37.00 | This book is about writers, victims of political repression, the crimes of the totalitarian regime against the national culture which were left unpunished. The author has studied the KGB files since the early 1990s and published in 1995 his book about repressions against Babel`, Bulgakov, Florenskii, Pil`niak, Mandel`shtam, Kliuev, Platonov, and Gor`kii. | |
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Code: 007273 Kul`turnye Transformatsii v Sovremennoi Rossii Sotsial`no-Filosofskii Analiz [ Cultural transformations in modern Russia : Social and philosophical analysis ] Moscow: IFRAN, 2009 Language: Russian | Price: $ 9.00 | The collection analyzes the functions of culture in the democratization of the Russian society. The contributors focus their attention on relations between the cultural sphere of society and authorities in terms of the strengthening the civil society. | |
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Code: 016075 Kul`tura i Vlast` v Usloviiakh Kommunikatsionnoi Revoliutsii XX Veka Forum Nemetskikh i Rossiiskikh Kul`turologov [ Culture and power in the context of the communication revolution of the twentieth century : Forum of German and Russian scholars ] Moscow: AIRO-XX, 2002 Language: Russian | Price: $ 33.00 | This is the next volume in the series Culture and Power founded by the group of Russian and German scholars led by K. Aimermakher (University of Ruhr, Bochum) and G. Bordiugov (Moscow). The current volume includes works of a new generation of historians of art and culture from both countries who participated in the forum (October 2001). | |
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Code: 026138 Osterman, L.A Dialogi Cherez Stoletie: Intelligentsiia i Vlast v Rossii 1894-1917 [ Dialogues through a century: Intellectuals and authority in Russia: 1894-1917 : 1894-1917 ] Moscow: Novyi indeks, 2009 Language: Russian | Price: $ 29.00 | This book describes how Russian intellectuals, represented by prominent political leaders, ceded power to weak, but unscrupulous and cruel conspirators. This book, unlike many others where power confronts the intelligentsia, shows how the members of the intelligentsia in power like S. | |
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| Code: 025089 Gromova, Natal`ia Raspad: Sud`ba Sovetskogo Kritika: 40-50-e Gody
[ Disintegration: A Fate of a soviet critic: 1940-50s : ] Moscow: Ellis Lak, 2009 Language: Russian | Price: $ 29.00 | This book is the author’s third in the series about soviet writers (Uzel. Poety: Druzhby i Razryvy (2006); Evakuatsiia Idet (2008)). It is partially based on an unfinished book by Mariia Belkina (d. 2008) about her husband, literary critic, bibliophile and collector Anatolii Tarasenkov (d. | |
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Code: 017652 Vysylka vmesto Rasstrela Deportatsiia Intelligentsii v Dokumentakh VChK-GPU: 1921-1923 [ Exile instead of execution : Deportation of the Intelligentsia in documents of the VChK-GPU: 1921-1923 ] Moscow: Russkii put`, 2005 Language: Russian | Price: $ 35.00 | Sixty Russian intellectuals (intelligentsia) were exiled from Russia against their will by the decision of the Bolshevik party in Fall of 1922 on two ships Prussiia and Oberburgomister Khaken. This repressive action later called "filosofskii parokhod" was the first action in a long term struggle against intellectual dissent (inakomyslie) in Soviet Russia by the repressive bodies of VChK-GPU-KGB. | |
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Code: 003499 Robinson, M.A. (Mikhail Andreevich) Sud`by Akademicheskoi Elity Otechestvennoe Slavianovedenie: 1917 - Nachalo 1930-kh Godov [ Fate of an academic elite : Russian Slavic studies: 1917- early 1930s ] Moscow: Indrik, 2004 Language: Russian | Price: $ 37.50 | This monograph sheds light on the history of Slavic studies and its elite representatives during the sovietization of academic life, a time when totalitarian controls were put in place (1917 to early 1930s). | |
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Code: 020581 Deiateli Slavianskoi Kul`tury v Nevole i o Nevole XX Vek [ Figures of Slavic culture in bondage and about bondage : XX Century ] Moscow: Indrik, 2006 Language: Russian | Price: $ 24.00 | This book about Slavic writers and scholars who became victims of totalitarian regimes on the territory of so called eastern Europe in 1920-1980. The stories of 13 people are collected in this book. Among them: Bulgarian philosopher Dimitr Gachev (1902-1945), Polish writers Witold Wandurski (1891-1934) and Aleksandr Wat (1900-1967), Slovak writers J. | |
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Code: 025345 Blium, A.V Ot Neolita do Glavlita Dostopamiatnye i Zanimatelnye Epizody... iz Istorii Rossiiskoi Tsenzury ot Petra Velikogo do Nashikh Dnei: Sobrany po Arkhivnym i Literaturnym Istochnikam [ From the late Stone Age to GlavLit : Memorable and entertaining episodes from the history of Russian cenzorship from Peter i to the current ] St. Petersburg: Izd-vo im N.I. Novikova, 2009 Language: Russian | Price: $ 32.00 | A. Blium is a specialist in a main instrument of the government control: censorship of texts before publication. This book is an anthology of the most amazing stories and anecdotes from the history of censorship in imperial and soviet Russia. | |
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