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Code: 004479
Zolotnitskii, D.I
Meierkhol`d: Roman s Sovetskoi Vlast`iu

[ Meierkhol`d: Romance with Soviet power : ]
Moscow: Agraf, 1999
Language: Russian

Price: $ 16.00

The author, an art historian, found new documents about the world renowned theater director Vsevolod Meierkhol`d (1874-1940) and his relations with the Bolshevik authorities. This book is about the post-revolutionary period of his life, his engagement in the Bolshevik cultural and political agenda, his works on the theater stage and his tragic end.

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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: 003665
Elagin, Iurii
Vsevolod Meierkhol`d: Temnyi Genii

[ Vsevolod Meierkhol`d: Dark genius : ]
Moscow: Vagrius, 1998
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

One of the greatest Russian theater directors Vsevolod Meierkhol`d (1874-1940) is known also as a reformer of Russian theater, who through his own works and teaching of actors and directors significantly influenced the art of theater.

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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: 027808
Bukina, T.V
Muzykal`naia Nauka v Rossii 1920-2000-kh Godov
Ocherki Kul`turnoi Istorii
[ Musicology in Russia 1920-2000 : Essays in cultural history ]
St. Petersburg: RKhGA, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

This monograph studies the relations of studies in theory and history of music with the cultural policy and ideological agenda in various periods of soviet Russian history. The social institutionalization of musical studies in conservatories as a result of these relation is described in this book.

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