Yet like millions of others who suffered during Stalin's reign of terror, she was arrested—on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist and counter-revolutionary—and sentenced to prison. With an amazing eye for detail, profound strength, and an indefatigable spirit, Ginzburg recounts the years, days, and minutes she endured in prisons and labor camps, including two years of solitary confinement. A classic account of survival, Journey into the Whirlwind is considered one of the most important documents of Stalin's regime ever written.

    One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the “cancerous” Soviet police state.

    CONTENTS Precious Dust Inscription On a Rock Artificial Flowers My First Short Story Lightning Characters Revolt The Story of a Novel The Heart Remembers Treasury of Russian Words Vocabulary Notes Incident at "Alshwang Stores" Some Sidelights on Writing Atmosphere and Little Touches "White Nights" Fountain-Head of Art The Night Coach A Book of Biographical Sketches The Art of Perceiving the World In a Lorry A Word to Myself

    In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of “direct action”—workers’ control of production, the creation of free rural and urban communes, and partisan warfare against the enemies of a free society.Avrich consulted published material in five languages and anarchist archives worldwide to present a picture of the philosophers, bomb throwers, peasants, and soldiers who fought and died for the freedom of “Mother Russia.” Including the influence and ideas of Bakunin and Kropotkin, the armed uprisings of Makhno, the activities of Volin, Maximoff, and the attempted aid of Berkman and Emma Goldman.Paul Avrich is a retired professor of history at Queens College.

    Konstantin Mochulsky's critical biography is, in the words of George Gibian, the "best single work in any language about Dostoevsky's work as a whole." Joseph Frank has called it one of the "indispensable studies by Russian critics." An established classic, it is here available for the first time in paperback in English translation.

    The book attests to the fact that the nightmare of Stalin camps did not disappear, repressive machine continued to work also in the [poslestalinskoe] time: the closed law courts, the complete lawlessness of political prisoners, " [vospitanie]" by hunger and much other. Its victim became Anatoliy [Marchenko], who was killed in The [chistopolskoy] prison in 1986. On the whole he conducted in the camps and references 19 and one-half of years, about which and he told in his books. Book of " My of [pokazaniya]" it is written in 1967

    

    

    From the reign of Alexander I to the abdication of Nicholas II, this wide-ranging survey of Russian history follows the development of institutions, classes, political movements, and individuals and draws on a large body of documentary material and contemporary scholarship, making an important contribution to pre-revolutionary Russian studies.

    It surges through the last years of Tsar Nicholas' reign and charts the climactic end of an era.Intimately involved with the great evens of those tumultuous, bloody years is the highly placed von Glasman family. Elegant, wealthy, and handsome, landowners, financial advisers to the Tsar, and united through marriage to the royal family itself, the von Glasmans were practicing Jews-and as such subject to tragic and oppressive persecution.The exotic story of the von Glasmans Tragic fall from the peak of romantic security to the disruption and exile includes a huge cast of characters. Among them are:Ronya von Glasman-mercurial beauty, ho loves life almost as much as her blonde Tartar. Ultimately, Ronya must make a choice between these two passions when, in the end, they conflict.Boris-Ronya's vital Tartar husband.The fruit of Ronya's turbulent marriage-an impressive line of courageous sons and a loyal daughter-in-law- who become unwilling pawns in the deepening political crisis at court. Tamara-Boris' tempestuous gypsy mistress.The story of the von Glasman family is in the great tradition of such epic novels as War and Peace, Gone with the Wind, and Anthony Adverse, and it is perhaps because the period she has brought to life is a part of her own life that Rush Freemon Solomon has been able to blend fact and fiction with the expertise of the masters.

    

    After a long traditional history, it is now in a state of change. With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, five newborn Central Asian states have emerged in place of the former Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan. Central Asia provides the most comprehensive survey of the history of the impact of Russian rule upon the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural life of this diverse region. Together, these essays convey a sense of the region’s community as well as the divisive policies that have affected it for so long.Now in its third edition (it was first published in 1967 and revised in 1989), this new edition of Central Asia has been updated to include a new preface, a revised and updated bibliography, and a final chapter that brings the book up to 1994 in considering the crucial problems that stem from a deprivation of sovereign, indigenous leadership over the past 130 years. This volume provides a broad and essential background for understanding what has led up to the late twentieth-century configuration of Central Asia.

    It records his revolutionary apprenticeship in Vilno and St Petersburg in 1893-6; his early friendship and partnership with Lenin in Siberian exile and on the revolutionary newspaper Iskra in Munich and London; the dramatic break-up of that partnership at the Second Congress of Russian Social Democrats in 1903 and the division between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks; the ensuing feud between Martov and Lenin; Martov's role in the 1905 revolutions; his later activities as leader of the Menshevik-Internationalists, then of the socialist opposition in Bolshevik Russia until 1920, and of the Mensheviks in exile, until his death. Martov is shown as a noble and tragic figure of modern Russian and Jewish history and of international socialsm, and as a key figure to the understanding of all three.

    It was wheat rust that caused the ancient Israelites to migrate to Egypt. Ergot of rye, source of the dreaded "holy fire", and of the modern LSD, destroyed the armies of Peter the Great at Astrakhan in 1722. Potato blight laid waste the economy of Ireland in the 1840s, and led to migrations that changed the history of the New World. England might well have been a nation of coffee-drinkers today had not the wind-borne spores of rust destroyed the coffee-trees of Ceylon in the 1880s and caused the economy of the country to be switched to tea-growing. Throughout the world, the twin problems of human fertility and agricultural impotence are multiplied by the relentless progress of parasitic plant diseases that compete for man's food. Famine on the Wind tells of some of these diseases, and of the painstaking efforts of scientists to overcome them. The book was chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best scientific books of 1967, and was highly recommended to younger readers as well as to the adult public.G. L. Carefoot and E. R. Sprott are Canadians.

    

    Starting from the Russian civil war of the whites and reds up until the mid 60's. A lot of WW2 coverage as well.