Жар-Цвет (Fire-Blossom )
by and Alexander Amfiteatrov
Аскольдова могила(Askold's Grave)
by Михаил H and Mikhail Zagoskin
The Lady from the Sea (Classic Henrik Ibsen) (Methuen Drama Modern Plays)
by Henrik Ibsen
In a new translation by Pam Gems, the author of Stanley, Piaf and The Snow Palace.
Аспазия Ламприди . Дитя души (Aspasia Lampridy; Child of the soul)
by and Konstantin Leontiev
Journal Your Life's Journey
by Blank Book Billionaire and Journal Your Life's Journey
As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own traditions and those of their adopted homes. Russian Composers Abroad explores the self-identity of these émigrés, especially those who left from the 1970s on, and how aspects of their diasporic identities played out in their music. Elena Dubinets provides a journey through the complexities of identity formation and cultural production under globalization and migration, elu...
Set amongst the whores, alcoholics, cynics and doss house dreamers of a Russia on the brink of revolution, The Lower Depths is a harrowing, violent and uncompromising portrayal of the human spirit at its lowest ebb, with destitution and death an ever present spectre.
After seizing power in 1917, the Bolshevik regime faced the daunting task of educating and bringing culture to the vast and often illiterate mass of Soviet soldiers, workers, and peasants. As part of this campaign, civilian educators and political instructors in the military developed didactic theatrical fictions performed in workers' and soldiers' clubs in the years from 1919 to 1933. The subjects addressed included politics, religion, agronomy, health, sexuality, and literature. The trials wer...