... Robert Glinka Mikhail Griffith D W Sigle Andrey Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Vigo Jean Lévi Strauss Claude Rougemont Denis de Shakespeare William German Alexey Gorky TV station Goskino Muratova Kira Soviet ‘New Wave’ feature film Russia director Alexander Sokurov cinema human conscience...

... Leonid paradox Soviet Union Soviet censorship elegy Flaherty Robert Leningrad perestroika Soviet post Soviet Soviet cinema Soviet period era Tarkovsky Andrey Arkus Lyubov Böcklin Arnold Iampolski Mikhail Kojima Hiroko Matsuyoshi Umeno modernism modernist Shaw George Bernard Russia...

... struggle Russia This year, in three groups of lessons, along with a few interludes and appendices, we aim to arrive at an understanding of Vladimir Lenin, though without suggesting that it is possible to arrive at any sort of conclusive reading. Primarily, we compare problems that are born from...

... tradition and the theoretical analysis of the specific development of the real movement of class and capital in Russia. Lenin extenuates these analytical aspects, reshapes, and renovates them while always subjecting them to the sectarianism of the practice that innervates his notion of the party...

... new IDPs, with about 30,000 Georgians fleeing to Russia after the initial Georgian attack. Georgia demanded that the IDPs and the refugees be repatriated but the Russian government refused. home property Ali Umm Baghdad Iraq Mehdi militia Shi’a people Sunnis Christians ethnic cleansing...

... that spread across the major cities of China gained strong support in Soviet Russia and of the Comintern, culminating in the formation of the Chinese Communist Party. This widespread acceptance can be attributed to the two waves of “knowledge revolution” that Marxism brought in China. First, Marxism appeared...

.... It also discusses Nabokov's sense of cultural evolution and his desire throughout his American and final European years to keep alive the memory of the Russian liberal tradition. cultural evolution Dolinin Alexander Kuzmanovich Zoran Nabokov Studies journal Russia Nabokov’s relation to Defense...

... the United States, 24 percent from other countries, and only 1 percent from India. Today, peanut butter is present in North America, Europe, Australia, Russia, Asia, and the Middle East. According to Skippy executive John Moorhead, Skippy is the world's leading peanut butter by virtue of its export sales...

..., underwent in a Jewish hospital in Buenos Aires. Almost twenty years after her father's death, the author had the letter translated into English. She was enchanted by Dvorah's comparison of her bodily pain to the difficulty of life in Russia even as it provided a poignant measure of the suffering endured...

... economy was flourishing and Russia was becoming more lenient over their control of Siberian territory. Alachuke Acheng Ashihe Amur River Amoor Amour Butha China Cicigar Qiqihar Čečerlig Qota Bukui Longjiang Daur people Girin Jilin Girin ula Kirin Han Chinese Heche people Heilongjiang Hulan...

... of Life and Death and Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express present the moral complexity of love. In David Lean's Brief Encounter, romantic feelings and desires are crushed by social obstacles. The spy film Russia House shows that love in film...

... Lenfilm Platonov Andrey Putin Vladimir Romm Mikhail Soviet Union Soviet period era Yutkevich Sergey capitalism Russia Taurus power Moloch Vladimir Ilyich Lenin solitude grotesque destiny ‘Из всех искусств важнейшим для нас является кино.’ (‘Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most...

... Romanticism and nationalism Adamovich Ales Beethoven Ludwig von Britten Benjamin communism Granin Daniil Mahler Gustav Messiaen Olivier Ozawa Seiji Penderecki Krzysztof St Petersburg Schubert Franz Nosov Georgy Alexandra familial love friendship war suffering Russia soldiers home Through...

... Herder Johann Gottfried queerness homosexuality Romantic couple happiness Spies Johann Brecht Bertolt Custine Astolphe Marquis de Dreyden Sergey Marx Karl Orthodox Faith Church Trotsky Leon Ze Dong Mao Delbonnel Bruno Spielberg Steven Russia Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vladimir Putin...

...This chapter looks at space exploration initiatives, mainly by Russia and the United States, that opened up new discoveries about the Moon. On October 4, 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. Nearly everyone in America was unprepared for this development...

... to comparison with other socialist nations. A spirit of malaise and corruption increasingly took hold, which hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union and, with the new millennium, also left its mark in the new Russia. Lenin V I Leninism Marxism Revisionism Bolsheviks Democratic centralism Dictatorship...

...This chapter discusses religious and diplomatic rivalries in the Middle East. It begins in the mid-nineteenth century when Russia asserted its role as protector of Eastern Christians—a claim that complicated an already tense situation within the Greek Orthodox community in Jerusalem. Although...

... say that none of these countries—from India to Vietnam, Russia, South Korea, and Burma—is better off with China as a military great power. India, for example, believes that even the ostensibly economics-driven Chinese investments in new infrastructure linking China with India's neighbors have...

...This chapter investigates Late Miocene (Turolian) vertebrate faunas from southern European Russia. Compared with a relatively rich and continuous record of Late Miocene land mammals in the southwestern parts of the North Black Sea region, the fossil record of more eastern areas is very patchy...

... elegy Shalyapin Fyodor Jr Soviet republics Strugatsky Arkady and Boris Russia Alexander Sokurov Lonely Voice of Man Andrey Platonov The River Potudan The Origins of a Master misery solitude love ‘The revolution is here, now we will be happy.’ – Lyuba, in Andrey Platonov’s The River...