Author: James Dante
Publisher: Omsk Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
People envy Nikolai Delov. He is a so-called New Russian, one of the fortunate who acquired wealth since the breakup of the Soviet Union. At forty-eight, Nikolai now runs the nationwide shipping company that his father, brother, and he had started in with only one truck. Nikolai is driven, occasionally ruthless, and determined to make his mark. Unfortunately, other aspects of his life are a wreck. He finds himself divorced, alone, and often at odds with his only son. Then one morning a foundation director named Inessa Zorina goes to Nikolai’s office to solicit money for a new rehab house in the Moscow region for sex trafficking victims. His contribution gains him access to the lovely Inessa. She soon tricks him into assisting her with the rescue of a seventeen-year-old girl held captive by a violent pimp. Gradually, Nikolai and Inessa’s relationship draws him into a dark world that he would’ve preferred to ignore. In this atmosphere of social change and danger, Nikolai struggles to refine his identity while trying to protect the people and things most dear to him. He recognizes only two possible outcomes: the complete happiness he’s always sought or complete destruction.
Nikolai Delov
Author: James Dante
Publisher: Omsk Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
People envy Nikolai Delov. He is a so-called New Russian, one of the fortunate who acquired wealth since the breakup of the Soviet Union. At forty-eight, Nikolai now runs the nationwide shipping company that his father, brother, and he had started in with only one truck. Nikolai is driven, occasionally ruthless, and determined to make his mark. Unfortunately, other aspects of his life are a wreck. He finds himself divorced, alone, and often at odds with his only son. Then one morning a foundation director named Inessa Zorina goes to Nikolai’s office to solicit money for a new rehab house in the Moscow region for sex trafficking victims. His contribution gains him access to the lovely Inessa. She soon tricks him into assisting her with the rescue of a seventeen-year-old girl held captive by a violent pimp. Gradually, Nikolai and Inessa’s relationship draws him into a dark world that he would’ve preferred to ignore. In this atmosphere of social change and danger, Nikolai struggles to refine his identity while trying to protect the people and things most dear to him. He recognizes only two possible outcomes: the complete happiness he’s always sought or complete destruction.
Publisher: Omsk Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
People envy Nikolai Delov. He is a so-called New Russian, one of the fortunate who acquired wealth since the breakup of the Soviet Union. At forty-eight, Nikolai now runs the nationwide shipping company that his father, brother, and he had started in with only one truck. Nikolai is driven, occasionally ruthless, and determined to make his mark. Unfortunately, other aspects of his life are a wreck. He finds himself divorced, alone, and often at odds with his only son. Then one morning a foundation director named Inessa Zorina goes to Nikolai’s office to solicit money for a new rehab house in the Moscow region for sex trafficking victims. His contribution gains him access to the lovely Inessa. She soon tricks him into assisting her with the rescue of a seventeen-year-old girl held captive by a violent pimp. Gradually, Nikolai and Inessa’s relationship draws him into a dark world that he would’ve preferred to ignore. In this atmosphere of social change and danger, Nikolai struggles to refine his identity while trying to protect the people and things most dear to him. He recognizes only two possible outcomes: the complete happiness he’s always sought or complete destruction.
Soviet Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Report on the USSR.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Ussr In 1989
Author: Vera Tolz
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN: 9780813380162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN: 9780813380162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Modern Russo-Jewish Question
Author: Nathan Larson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3898214834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Will the Russian and Jewish nations ever achieve true reconciliation? Why is there such disparity in the interpretations of Russo-Jewish history? Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has focused on these and other thorny questions surrounding Russia’s Jewish Question for the last ten years, culminating in a two-volume historical essay that is among his final literary offerings: Two Hundred Years Together. In this essay, Solzhenitsyn seeks to elucidate Judeo-Russian relations while also promoting mutual healing between the two nationalities, but the polarized reception of Solzhenitsyn's work reflects the passionate sentiments of Jews and Russians alike. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Modern Russo-Jewish Question puts Two Hundred Years Together within the context of anti-Semitism, nationalism, Russian literature, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's prolific, influential life. Nathan Larson argues that as a writer, political thinker, and religious voice, Solzhenitsyn symbolizes Russia's historically ambivalent relationship vis-à-vis the Jewish nation.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3898214834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Will the Russian and Jewish nations ever achieve true reconciliation? Why is there such disparity in the interpretations of Russo-Jewish history? Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has focused on these and other thorny questions surrounding Russia’s Jewish Question for the last ten years, culminating in a two-volume historical essay that is among his final literary offerings: Two Hundred Years Together. In this essay, Solzhenitsyn seeks to elucidate Judeo-Russian relations while also promoting mutual healing between the two nationalities, but the polarized reception of Solzhenitsyn's work reflects the passionate sentiments of Jews and Russians alike. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Modern Russo-Jewish Question puts Two Hundred Years Together within the context of anti-Semitism, nationalism, Russian literature, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's prolific, influential life. Nathan Larson argues that as a writer, political thinker, and religious voice, Solzhenitsyn symbolizes Russia's historically ambivalent relationship vis-à-vis the Jewish nation.
History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Volume 1
Author: Nikolai Findeizen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253026377
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history. Volume 2 of Findeizen's landmark study surveys music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Catherine II, music in Russian domestic and public life in the second half of the 18th century, and the variety and vitality of Russian music at the end of the 18th century.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253026377
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history. Volume 2 of Findeizen's landmark study surveys music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Catherine II, music in Russian domestic and public life in the second half of the 18th century, and the variety and vitality of Russian music at the end of the 18th century.
The Zero Hour
Author: Andrew Horton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227861
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most interesting in the world, aesthetically as well as politically. How have Soviet filmmakers responded to the challenges of glasnost? To answer this question, the American film scholar Andrew Horton and the Soviet critic Michael Brashinsky offer the first book-length study of the rapid changes in Soviet cinema that have been taking place since 1985. What emerges from their collaborative dialogue is not only a valuable work of film criticism but also a fascinating study of contemporary Soviet culture in general. Horton and Brashinsky examine a wide variety of films from BOMZH (initials standing for homeless drifter) through Taxi Blues and the glasnost blockbuster Little Vera to the Latvian documentary Is It Easy to Be Young? and the "new wave" productions of the "Wild Kazakh boys." The authors argue that the medium that once served the Party became a major catalyst for the deconstruction of socialism, especially through documentary filmmaking. Special attention is paid to how filmmakers from 1985 through 1990 represent the newly "discovered" past of the pre-glasnost era and how they depict troubled youth and conflicts over the role of women in society. The book also emphasizes the evolving uses of comedy and satire and the incorporation of "genre film" techniques into a new popular cinema. An intriguing discussion of films of Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Kazakhstan ends the work.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227861
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most interesting in the world, aesthetically as well as politically. How have Soviet filmmakers responded to the challenges of glasnost? To answer this question, the American film scholar Andrew Horton and the Soviet critic Michael Brashinsky offer the first book-length study of the rapid changes in Soviet cinema that have been taking place since 1985. What emerges from their collaborative dialogue is not only a valuable work of film criticism but also a fascinating study of contemporary Soviet culture in general. Horton and Brashinsky examine a wide variety of films from BOMZH (initials standing for homeless drifter) through Taxi Blues and the glasnost blockbuster Little Vera to the Latvian documentary Is It Easy to Be Young? and the "new wave" productions of the "Wild Kazakh boys." The authors argue that the medium that once served the Party became a major catalyst for the deconstruction of socialism, especially through documentary filmmaking. Special attention is paid to how filmmakers from 1985 through 1990 represent the newly "discovered" past of the pre-glasnost era and how they depict troubled youth and conflicts over the role of women in society. The book also emphasizes the evolving uses of comedy and satire and the incorporation of "genre film" techniques into a new popular cinema. An intriguing discussion of films of Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Kazakhstan ends the work.
Business Profile of the Krasnodar Region of Russia
Author: BIA
Publisher: Business Information Agency
ISBN: 141874557X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher: Business Information Agency
ISBN: 141874557X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Business in Russia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Tiger's Wedding
Author: James Dante
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625530042
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
All of the travel literature described Korea as the "Land of the Morning Calm." So naturally when Jake St. Gregory, a thirty-year-old accountant from Burbank, California, accepts a teaching position in Seoul, he expects a serene escape. Instead, he finds himself in a chaotic relationship, hospitalized, scrambling for money, and then jailed. His pending deportation should come as a relief. But Jake can't bear the thought of losing Jae-Min, the woman who is the one source of true happiness in his life. Jae-Min, the wife of an abusive husband, has her own turmoil to resolve. Torn between the old Korea and the emerging one, between kimchi and McDonald's fries, she symbolizes that country's lost generation. In this tale, set during a pivotal time, their mutual search for happiness draws them together. Ultimately, it might be a fracturing nation that keeps them apart.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625530042
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
All of the travel literature described Korea as the "Land of the Morning Calm." So naturally when Jake St. Gregory, a thirty-year-old accountant from Burbank, California, accepts a teaching position in Seoul, he expects a serene escape. Instead, he finds himself in a chaotic relationship, hospitalized, scrambling for money, and then jailed. His pending deportation should come as a relief. But Jake can't bear the thought of losing Jae-Min, the woman who is the one source of true happiness in his life. Jae-Min, the wife of an abusive husband, has her own turmoil to resolve. Torn between the old Korea and the emerging one, between kimchi and McDonald's fries, she symbolizes that country's lost generation. In this tale, set during a pivotal time, their mutual search for happiness draws them together. Ultimately, it might be a fracturing nation that keeps them apart.