Save the World Within You (Trilogy: Creation of the Universe, Book 2), Petrov Arcady

Автор: Ilf Ilya, Petrov Evgeny
Название: The Golden Calf
ISBN: 1934824070 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781934824078
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A remarkably funny book written by a remarkable pair of collaborators.--New York Times

Ostap Bender, the grand strategist, is a con man on the make in the Soviet Union during the New Economic Policy (NEP) period. He's obsessed with getting one last big score--a few hundred thousand will do--and heading for Rio de Janeiro, where there are a million and a half people, all of them wearing white pants, without exception.

When Bender hears the story of Alexandr Koreiko, an undercover millionaire--no Soviet citizen was allowed to openly hoard so much capital--the chase is on. Koreiko has made his millions by taking advantage of the wide-spread corruption and utter chaos of the NEP, all while serving quietly as an accountant at a government office and living on 46 rubles a month. He's just waiting for the Soviet regime to collapse so he can make use of his stash, which he keeps hidden away in a suitcase.

Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942) were the pseudonyms of Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg and Evgeny Petrovich Katayev, a pair of Soviet writers who met in Moscow in the 1920s while working on the staff of a newspaper that was distributed to railway workers. The foremost comic novelists of the early Soviet Union (invariably referred to as Ilf & Petrov), the pair collaborated together for a dozen years, writing two of the most revered and loved Russian novels, The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf, as well as various humorous pieces for Pravda and other magazines. Their collaboration came to an end following the death of Ilya Ilf in 1937--he had contracted tuberculosis while the pair was traveling the United States researching the book that eventually became Little Golden America.

Konstantin Gurevich is a graduate of Moscow State University and the University of Texas at Austin. He translates with his wife, Helen Anderson. Both are librarians at the University of Rochester.

Helen Anderson studied Russian language and literature at McGill University in Montr al. She translates with her husband, Konstantin Gurevich.

Автор: Petrov, Andrey N. Burnsilver, Shauna Chapin, F. Stuart, Iii Fondahl, Gail A. Graybill, Jessica K. Keil, Kathrin Nilsson, Annika E. Riedlsperger, Rudol
Название: Arctic sustainability research
ISBN: 1138088307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138088306
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Описание: The Arctic is one of the world`s regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental and climatic changes. This book offers key insights into the history, current state of knowledge and the future of sustainability, and sustainable development, research in the Arctic. Written by an international, interdisciplinary team of experts, i

Автор: Petrov, Victor
Название: Everyday stalinism
ISBN: 1912128101 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912128105
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Описание: Sheila Fitzpatrick`s Everyday Stalinism rejects the simplistic treatment of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian government that tightly controlled its citizens.

Автор: Mcfaul, Michael A. Petrov, Nikolai Ryabov, Andrei
Название: Between dictatorship and democracy
ISBN: 0870032062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780870032066
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Описание: Did the reforms begun by Gorbachev lead eventually to liberal democracy in Russia? If not, what kind of political regime did take hold in post-Soviet Russia? And how has Vladimir Putin`s rise to power influenced the course of democratic consolidation or the lack thereof? This book explores these issues.