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Escape from "Ward six" : Russia facing past and present / Alexandra George.
LIBRA D805.G3 G45 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Alexandra, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russia (Federation)--Civilization.
- Russia (Federation).
- Civilization.
- Russia (Federation)--Social conditions--1991-.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 760 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : University Press of America, [1998]
- Contents:
- Chapter I Life in the "Lie" 37
- Chapter II In School: On Lenin's Word of Honour 57
- Chapter III Lenin: Founder of the Antiworld 89
- Chapter IV Conversations "in the Kitchen" 125
- Chapter V The Church: In the Service of God or Caesar? 153
- Chapter VI The Artist and Writer Vs. the State 203
- Chapter VII St. Petersburg: the Faded Cultural Metropolis 307
- Chapter VIII A Visit to the Union of Composers: "Shostakovich Deceived the Government in his Music." 387
- Chapter IX Andrei Bitov Speaks: "If Pushkin Were the Foundation of Russia..." 423
- Chapter X Cultural Revival in the Provinces 441
- Chapter XI Conversations in Two Small Towns in the Russian North 493
- Chapter XII Nizhni Novgorod: A Microcosm of Change? 541
- Chapter XIII The Economy: Capitalism for Whom? 577
- Chapter XIV Tatarstan: The Nationalist Issue as a Political Card 601
- Chapter XV Estonia: On the Road to Democracy 649.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [719]-738) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761811397
- OCLC:
- 38862521
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