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Free Download Vladimir Markov and Russian Primitivism: A Charter for the Avant-garde By Bužinska, Irena; Howard, Jeremy; Strother, Z. S
2015 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 1472439740 | PDF | 6 MB
Hailed as a brilliant theoretician, Voldemars Matvejs (best known by his pen name Vladimir Markov) was a Latvian artist who spearheaded the Union of Youth, a dynamic group championing artistic change in Russia, 1910-14. His work had a formative impact on Malevich, Tatlin, and the Constructivists before it was censored during the era of Soviet realism. This volume introduces Markov as an innovative and pioneering art photographer and assembles for the first time five of his most important essays. The translations of these hard-to-find texts are fresh, unabridged, and authentically poetic. Critical essays by Jeremy Howard and Irena Buzinska situate his work in the larger phenomenon of Russian ‘primitivism,’ i.e. the search for the primal. This book challenges hardening narratives of primitivism by reexamining the enthusiasm for world art in the early modern period from the perspective of Russia rather than Western Europe. Markov composed what may be the first book on African art and Z. S. Strother analyzes both the text and its photographs for their unique interpretation of West African sculpture as a Kantian ‘play of masses and weights.’ The book will appeal to students of modernism, orientalism, ‘primitivism,’ historiography, African art, and the history of the photography of sculpture

Free Download The worlds of Russian village women : tradition, transgression, compromise By Laura J. Olson, Svetlana Adonyeva
2012 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0299290344 | PDF | 2 MB
Russian rural women have been depicted as victims of oppressive patriarchy, celebrated as symbols of inherent female strength, and extolled as the original source of a great world culture. Throughout the years of collectivization, industrialization, and World War II, women played major roles in the evolution of the Russian village. But how do they see themselves? What do their stories, songs, and customs reveal about their values, desires, and motivations? Based upon nearly three decades of fieldwork, from 1983 to 2010, The Worlds of Russian Rural Women follows three generations of Russian women and shows how they alternately preserve, discard, and rework the cultural traditions of their forebears to suit changing needs and self-conceptions. In a major contribution to the study of folklore, Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva document the ways that women’s tales of traditional practices associated with marriage, childbirth, and death reflect both upholding and transgression of social norms. Their romance songs, satirical ditties, and healing and harmful magic reveal the complexity of power relations in the Russian villages.Table of Contents:Introduction: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise1 Traditions of Patriarchy and the Missing Female Voice in Russian Folklore Scholarship2 Age and Gender Status and Identity: Structure and History3 Subjectivity and the Relational Self in Russian Village Women’s Stories of Courtship and Marriage4 The Pleasure, Power, and Nostalgia of Melodrama: Twentieth-Century Singing Traditions and Women’s Identity Construction5 Transgression as Communicative Act: Rural Women’s Chastushki6 Magical Forces and the Symbolic Resources of Motherhood7 Magic, Control, and Social Roles8 Constructing Identity in Stories of the Other World9 Death, the Dead, and Memory-KeepersConclusion

Free Download Antonina W. Bouis, "The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist’s Path to Freedom"
English | 2005 | pages: 406 | ISBN: 019515620X | PDF | 29,1 mb
How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his later years, Sakharov noted in his diary that he was "simply a man with an unusual fate." To understand this deceptively straightforward statement by an extraordinary man, The World of Andrei Sakharov, the first authoritative study of Andrei Sakharov as a scientist as well as a public figure, relies on previously inaccessible documents, recently declassified archives, and personal accounts by Sakharov’s friends and colleagues to examine the real context of Sakharov’s life.

Free Download Hyun-Gwi Park, "The Displacement of Borders among Russian Koreans in Northeast Asia "
English | ISBN: 9089649980 | 2017 | 248 pages | PDF | 1447 KB
Since the nineteenth century, ethnic Koreans have represented a small yet significant portion of the population of the Russian Far East, but until now, the phenomenon has been largely understudied. Based on extensive historical and ethnographic research, this is the first book in English to chart the contemporary social life of Koreans in the complex borderland region. Dispelling the commonly held notion that Koreans were completely removed from the region during the country’s attempt to ‘cleanse’ its borders in 1937, Hyun Gwi Park reveals timely new insights into the historical and current experiences of Koreans living along the Eurasian frontier.

Free Download Vladimir Voevodin, "Supercomputing: 9th Russian Supercomputing Days, RuSCDays 2023, Moscow, Russia, September 25-26, 2023, Revised Selected (Part 2)"
English | ISBN: 3031494342 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 37 MB
The two-volume set LNCS 14388 and 14389 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Russian Supercomputing Days International Conference (RuSCDays 2023) held in Moscow, Russia, during September 25-26, 2023.

Free Download Vladimir Voevodin, "Supercomputing: 9th Russian Supercomputing Days, RuSCDays 2023, Moscow, Russia, September 25-26, 2023, Revised Selected (Part 1) "
English | ISBN: 3031494318 | 2023 | 340 pages | PDF | 34 MB
The two-volume set LNCS 14388 and 14389 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Russian Supercomputing Days International Conference (RuSCDays 2023) held in Moscow, Russia, during September 25-26, 2023.

Free Download Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History by Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, Margaret Litvin
English | June 28, 2023 | ISBN: 0197605761 | 408 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
The roots of the Arab world’s current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of primary sources translated from Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, French, and Tatar: a 1772 Russian naval officer’s diary, an Arabic slave sale deed from the Caucasus, an interview with a Russian-educated contemporary Syrian novelist, and many more. These archival, autobiographical, and literary sources, all appearing in English for the first time, are introduced by specialists and in some cases by pairs of scholars with complementary language expertise. They highlight connections long obscured by disciplinary cleavages between Slavic and Middle East studies.

Free Download S. A. An-sky, Michael R. Katz, "Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s (Jewish Literature and Culture)"
English | 2014 | pages: 164 | ISBN: 0253012120, 0253012090 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
S. A. An-sky’s novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and modern identity. The action unfolds in the town of M. in the Pale of Settlement, where an engaging cast of characters wrestles with cultural and social issues. Their exploits culminate in helping a young Jewish woman evade an arranged marriage and a young Russian woman leave home so she can pursue her studies at a European university. This startling novel reveals the tensions and triumphs of coming of age in a revolutionary time.

Free Download Vladimir Feshchenko, "Russian and American Poetry of Experiment: The Linguistic Avant-Garde "
English | ISBN: 9004526250 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 30 MB

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Free Download Russian Intelligentsia in Search of an Identity: Between Dostoevsky’s Oppositions and Tolstoy’s Holism
by Svetlana Klimova
English | 2020 | ISBN: 9004440607 | 240 Pages | True PDF | 3.13 MB