Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays (Russian Library)
by Andrei Platonov
In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and Fourteen Little Red Huts constitute an impassioned and penetrating response to Stalin's assault on the Soviet peasantry. They reflect the political urgency of Be...
Жар-Цвет (Fire-Blossom )
by and Alexander Amfiteatrov
"Ivanov, a driving force in local government and a visionary landowner, feels burnt out at thirty-five. Once the pioneer of scientific farming methods and of education for the peasants, he now drowns in bureaucracy and debt, his large estate neglected. While his wife is dying, Sasha, a young, educated woman, falls in love with Ivanov and determines to save him. Set in a country suffering from political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's first full-length play anticipates the explos...
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
Misha's Party
by Richard Nelson, Aleksandr Gel'man, and Alexander Gelman
Misha's Party is set one August night in Moscow: a man attempts to throw himself a sixtieth birthday party, a grandmother attempts a reconciliation with her granddaughter, and one half of the government attempts to overthrow the other half. With the 1991 attempted coup for its backdrop, the play is a funny and ironic tale about how simple solutions only look simple and how past mistakes aren't easily made right. This edition contains an introduction by Richard Nelson about the writing of the pla...
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...