Author: Alexander Fadeyev
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780898751291
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alexander Fadeyev entered Soviet literature and at once justly occupied a place in the top ranks with his novel The Rout, a supremely striking book, which is, perhaps, the most stern and striking of the books about the Civil War.The last finished work was The Young Guard, a similarly stern, truthful novel about the Great Patriotic War, the German occupation, the tragic and decisive year of 1942.The writer turned grey, stepped past the borders of thirty, forty and fifty years of age, but his own revolutionary youth was ever before him as a period of inestimable value which make him kin with the ideas of Bolshevism - and for that he was thankful to his youth and loved it. The fact that it was namely Fadeyev who in the fourth year of the Patriotic War began to write about the Komsomols of Krasnodon was no accident.The Tragedy of the events in Krasnodon did not disconcert him. On the contrary, it attracted him.The Rout was written when the Civil Was had ended victoriously; The Young Guard was written when the war was drawing to a victorious close. Fadeyev wanted to show the full force of what that cost and what qualities people must have in order ultimately to win in such a war, in order to win in the future no matter in what circumstances. There is no doubt that that was the inner feeling with which The Young Guard was written.
The Young Guard
Author: Alexander Fadeyev
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780898751291
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alexander Fadeyev entered Soviet literature and at once justly occupied a place in the top ranks with his novel The Rout, a supremely striking book, which is, perhaps, the most stern and striking of the books about the Civil War.The last finished work was The Young Guard, a similarly stern, truthful novel about the Great Patriotic War, the German occupation, the tragic and decisive year of 1942.The writer turned grey, stepped past the borders of thirty, forty and fifty years of age, but his own revolutionary youth was ever before him as a period of inestimable value which make him kin with the ideas of Bolshevism - and for that he was thankful to his youth and loved it. The fact that it was namely Fadeyev who in the fourth year of the Patriotic War began to write about the Komsomols of Krasnodon was no accident.The Tragedy of the events in Krasnodon did not disconcert him. On the contrary, it attracted him.The Rout was written when the Civil Was had ended victoriously; The Young Guard was written when the war was drawing to a victorious close. Fadeyev wanted to show the full force of what that cost and what qualities people must have in order ultimately to win in such a war, in order to win in the future no matter in what circumstances. There is no doubt that that was the inner feeling with which The Young Guard was written.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780898751291
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alexander Fadeyev entered Soviet literature and at once justly occupied a place in the top ranks with his novel The Rout, a supremely striking book, which is, perhaps, the most stern and striking of the books about the Civil War.The last finished work was The Young Guard, a similarly stern, truthful novel about the Great Patriotic War, the German occupation, the tragic and decisive year of 1942.The writer turned grey, stepped past the borders of thirty, forty and fifty years of age, but his own revolutionary youth was ever before him as a period of inestimable value which make him kin with the ideas of Bolshevism - and for that he was thankful to his youth and loved it. The fact that it was namely Fadeyev who in the fourth year of the Patriotic War began to write about the Komsomols of Krasnodon was no accident.The Tragedy of the events in Krasnodon did not disconcert him. On the contrary, it attracted him.The Rout was written when the Civil Was had ended victoriously; The Young Guard was written when the war was drawing to a victorious close. Fadeyev wanted to show the full force of what that cost and what qualities people must have in order ultimately to win in such a war, in order to win in the future no matter in what circumstances. There is no doubt that that was the inner feeling with which The Young Guard was written.
Young Guard!
Author: Isabel A. Tirado
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Tirado provides a fascinating and valuable account of the beginnings of an organized youth movement in revolutionary Russia and the founding of the Komsomol. Forming organizations to protect and advance group interests was one of the most striking features of the Russian Revolution of 1917; youth did not lag behind. . . . [This volume] is a valuable contribution to the history of the Russian Revolution and early Soviet state. Russian Review This book examines in detail the formation of the Communist Youth League or Komsomol since its inception in 1917 and presents a social and institutional history of the organization and its impact on the first decade of Soviet power. By concentrating on Petrograd up to 1920 and by using a broad range of sources, this unusual study provides a clearer perspective on the mass efforts of Soviet youth during the early consolidation of the revolution. It describes the origins of the Komsomol, its institutionalization in 1918, its development during the Civil War, its economic and educational activities, and its relationship to the Communist Party.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Tirado provides a fascinating and valuable account of the beginnings of an organized youth movement in revolutionary Russia and the founding of the Komsomol. Forming organizations to protect and advance group interests was one of the most striking features of the Russian Revolution of 1917; youth did not lag behind. . . . [This volume] is a valuable contribution to the history of the Russian Revolution and early Soviet state. Russian Review This book examines in detail the formation of the Communist Youth League or Komsomol since its inception in 1917 and presents a social and institutional history of the organization and its impact on the first decade of Soviet power. By concentrating on Petrograd up to 1920 and by using a broad range of sources, this unusual study provides a clearer perspective on the mass efforts of Soviet youth during the early consolidation of the revolution. It describes the origins of the Komsomol, its institutionalization in 1918, its development during the Civil War, its economic and educational activities, and its relationship to the Communist Party.
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China
Author: Guobin Yang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231520484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Throughout the 1970s, the majority of Red Guard youth were sent to work in rural villages, where they developed an appreciation for the values of ordinary life. From this experience, an underground cultural movement was born. Rejecting idolatry, these relocated revolutionaries developed a new form of resistance that signaled a new era of enlightenment, culminating in the Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s and the Tiananmen protest of 1989. Yang's final chapter on the politics of history and memory argues that contemporary memories of the Cultural Revolution are factionalized along these lines of political division, formed fifty years before.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231520484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Throughout the 1970s, the majority of Red Guard youth were sent to work in rural villages, where they developed an appreciation for the values of ordinary life. From this experience, an underground cultural movement was born. Rejecting idolatry, these relocated revolutionaries developed a new form of resistance that signaled a new era of enlightenment, culminating in the Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s and the Tiananmen protest of 1989. Yang's final chapter on the politics of history and memory argues that contemporary memories of the Cultural Revolution are factionalized along these lines of political division, formed fifty years before.
Stalin's Last Generation
Author: Juliane Fürst
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191614505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
'Stalin's last generation' was the last generation to come of age under Stalin, yet it was also the first generation to be socialized in the post-war period. Its young members grew up in a world that still carried many of the hallmarks of the Soviet Union's revolutionary period, yet their surroundings already showed the first signs of decay, stagnation, and disintegration. Stalin's last generation still knew how to speak 'Bolshevik', still believed in the power of Soviet heroes and still wished to construct socialism, yet they also liked to dance and dress in Western styles, they knew how to evade boring lectures and lessons in Marxism-Leninism, and they were keen to forge identities that were more individual than those offered by the state. In this book, Juliane Fürst creates a detailed picture of late Stalinist youth and youth culture, looking at young people from a variety of perspectives: as children of the war, as recipients and creators of propaganda, as perpetrators of crime, as representatives of fledgling subcultures, as believers, as critics, and as drop-outs. In the process, she illuminates not only the complex relationship between the Soviet state and its youth, but also provides a new interpretative framework for understanding late Stalinism - the impact of which on Soviet society's subsequent development has hitherto been underestimated, including its role in the ultimate demise of the USSR.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191614505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
'Stalin's last generation' was the last generation to come of age under Stalin, yet it was also the first generation to be socialized in the post-war period. Its young members grew up in a world that still carried many of the hallmarks of the Soviet Union's revolutionary period, yet their surroundings already showed the first signs of decay, stagnation, and disintegration. Stalin's last generation still knew how to speak 'Bolshevik', still believed in the power of Soviet heroes and still wished to construct socialism, yet they also liked to dance and dress in Western styles, they knew how to evade boring lectures and lessons in Marxism-Leninism, and they were keen to forge identities that were more individual than those offered by the state. In this book, Juliane Fürst creates a detailed picture of late Stalinist youth and youth culture, looking at young people from a variety of perspectives: as children of the war, as recipients and creators of propaganda, as perpetrators of crime, as representatives of fledgling subcultures, as believers, as critics, and as drop-outs. In the process, she illuminates not only the complex relationship between the Soviet state and its youth, but also provides a new interpretative framework for understanding late Stalinism - the impact of which on Soviet society's subsequent development has hitherto been underestimated, including its role in the ultimate demise of the USSR.
The Making of the State Writer
Author:
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804733649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This book completes the author's study of the sociology of the literary process in Soviet Russia, begun in The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature (Stanford, 1997). The author demonstrates that Socialist Realism is not so much directed as it is self-directed; the transformation of the author into his own censor is the true history of Soviet literature.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804733649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This book completes the author's study of the sociology of the literary process in Soviet Russia, begun in The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature (Stanford, 1997). The author demonstrates that Socialist Realism is not so much directed as it is self-directed; the transformation of the author into his own censor is the true history of Soviet literature.
The Pope and the CEO
Author: Andreas Widmer
Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
ISBN: 1931018766
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Former-Swiss Guard, CEO and business leader, Andreas Widmer gives a behind-the-scenes look into Pope John Paul ll, "the most authentically human person I've ever met," and reveals how those memories shaped and forged his success as a corporate executive.
Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
ISBN: 1931018766
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Former-Swiss Guard, CEO and business leader, Andreas Widmer gives a behind-the-scenes look into Pope John Paul ll, "the most authentically human person I've ever met," and reveals how those memories shaped and forged his success as a corporate executive.
Night Guard
Author: Synne Lea
Publisher: Eerdmans Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780802854582
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This poetry collection explores important concepts such as friendship, fear, and loneliness"--
Publisher: Eerdmans Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780802854582
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This poetry collection explores important concepts such as friendship, fear, and loneliness"--
The Blood Guard
Author: Carter Roy
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407137247
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Ronan Truelove leaves school one day and discovers he's a member of The Blood Guard - an ancient order of protectors. He will acquire invaluable skills; learn that he has magical talents he never dreamed of; rescue his parents from certain death and finally fall for the wrong girl and overlook the right one.
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407137247
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Ronan Truelove leaves school one day and discovers he's a member of The Blood Guard - an ancient order of protectors. He will acquire invaluable skills; learn that he has magical talents he never dreamed of; rescue his parents from certain death and finally fall for the wrong girl and overlook the right one.
Muhenda (English version)
Author: Wilson Miguel
Publisher: Editora Bibliomundi
ISBN: 1526050773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
After the success and also the breaking of the law of the black lives matter movement, all blacks around the world were expelled, forced to return to Africa, creating a political division between blacks and whites. But the explosion of global warming and the rupture of the ozone layer, grants world dominion and power over the only kingdom on the planet that holds natural resources, the kingdom of Muhenda in Africa. A place where white people were never welcome. However, an agent of the intelligence of the whites manages to enter Muhenda. The king of Muhenda is murdered and the white man is sentenced to death for the crime and as retaliation all the remaining whites were made slaves. Years later, a dictator and tyrant empire rises, dominating all of Africa, inflicting terror, oppression, inequality and pain. Led by the new king of Muhenda and the brother of the deceased, the emperor Luther Nankela. That situation forces Sowety, a young African warrior queen and Selena, a young white slave, to stand up, step up and fight against the new system. Two different women, two enemy races, one almost impossible gold, freedom.
Publisher: Editora Bibliomundi
ISBN: 1526050773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
After the success and also the breaking of the law of the black lives matter movement, all blacks around the world were expelled, forced to return to Africa, creating a political division between blacks and whites. But the explosion of global warming and the rupture of the ozone layer, grants world dominion and power over the only kingdom on the planet that holds natural resources, the kingdom of Muhenda in Africa. A place where white people were never welcome. However, an agent of the intelligence of the whites manages to enter Muhenda. The king of Muhenda is murdered and the white man is sentenced to death for the crime and as retaliation all the remaining whites were made slaves. Years later, a dictator and tyrant empire rises, dominating all of Africa, inflicting terror, oppression, inequality and pain. Led by the new king of Muhenda and the brother of the deceased, the emperor Luther Nankela. That situation forces Sowety, a young African warrior queen and Selena, a young white slave, to stand up, step up and fight against the new system. Two different women, two enemy races, one almost impossible gold, freedom.
USSR Information Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description