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Gulag. The Gulag (Russian: ГУЛаг, tr.

Gulag

GULag, IPA: [ɡʊˈlak] ( "GULag" was the acronym for Гла́вное управле́ние лагере́й и коло́ний (Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey i koloniy), the "Main Camp Administration". It was the short form of the official name Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й и коло́ний (Glavnoye upravleniye ispravityelno-trudovykh lagerey i koloniy), the "Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Labor Settlements". Gulag: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom. October: Ten Days That Shook the World - Sergei M. Eisenstein. Eisenstein's October by Murray Sperber. Eisenstein’s October by Murray Sperber from Jump Cut, no. 14, 1977, pp. 15-22 copyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1977, 2004 Sergei Eisenstein, in the first decade of the Soviet Union and his own first decade in the cinema, was deeply committed to Marxism.

Eisenstein's October by Murray Sperber

This fact, so obvious in Eisenstein’s films of the 1920s, is denied or distorted by most critics of his work. Politicos often attack or apologize for him in “vulgar Marxist” or “vulgar Free World” terms: e.g., the Stalinist and American Legion charges against him during his lifetime (OCTOBER was considered particularly “deviationist” and “subversive”), and the Soviet Union’s veneration of him in safe death.

This aesthete position gained momentum in the West during the Cold War when the safest way to discuss film—or any art—was in formalist terms.

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Russian Constructivism. Vladimir Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Улья́нов; IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ɪˈlʲitɕ ʊˈlʲanəf]), alias Lenin (/ˈlɛnɪn/;[2] Russian: Ле́нин; IPA: [ˈlʲenʲɪn]) (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

Vladimir Lenin

Leo Tolstoy Biography. Russian author Leo Tolstoy wrote the acclaimed novels War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and still ranks among the world's top writers.

Leo Tolstoy Biography

Synopsis On September 9, 1828, Leo Tolstoy was born in Tula Province, Russia. In the 1860s, he wrote his first great novel, War and Peace. In 1873, Tolstoy set to work on the second of his best known novels, Anna Karenina. He continued to write fiction throughout the 1880s and 1890s. Early Life. Paintings of 4 Double Portrait of Natalia Nordmann and Ilya Repin Russian Realism Ilya Repin Art for sale by Artists of Oil Painting. * 1inch=2.54 cm * Inquiry=Please Enquiry.

Paintings of 4 Double Portrait of Natalia Nordmann and Ilya Repin Russian Realism Ilya Repin Art for sale by Artists of Oil Painting

Please Manual Input a number in the blank of "Quantity". If you can't modify your selection and the form is grey, please at first remove the checkbox of "Stretch It" or "Select Frame". * Museum Collection by Famous Artists: If you're individual customer or collector, we recommend that you buy "4 Double Portrait of Natalia Nordmann and Ilya Repin Russian Realism Ilya Repin" by famous painters who are academic professors or teachers from the national fine art universities and colleges. You can be sure that the "artists paintings of 4 Double Portrait of Natalia Nordmann and Ilya Repin Russian Realism Ilya Repin" in Museum-collection quality are 100% reproductions of the originals.

You may ask the painters to reproduce in his own style and sign on the oil paintings. . * If you want irregular/special size,please choose the most similar and bigger size, then email us after payment or submission of order. * How to Order? Zaporozhets - Ilya Repin. Dueling Demons: Mikhail Vrubel's Demon Seated and Demon Downcast - Art in Russia. The Demon, as presented in art, has become a theme often employed to represent a madness that has developed within the artist.

Dueling Demons: Mikhail Vrubel's Demon Seated and Demon Downcast - Art in Russia

This demon can serve as both a muse and a destructive force for the artist who cannot find a means to control it. Mikhail Vrubel looked to the Demon throughout his life; adapting him to his constantly changing world. The evolution of Vrubel’s Demon is what will be examined here using the theories of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. Pavel Fedotov. “I am a Cavalier Now!”. 1846. “I am a Cavalier Now!”

Pavel Fedotov. “I am a Cavalier Now!”. 1846

An Official the Morning after Receiving His First Decoration (Pavel Fedotov, 1846) “BREAKFAST!” (In the peremptory voice of the newly promoted) “Coming dear!” (With sweetness, not at all impressed by the events of the previous evening) “I… SAID… BREAKFAST!” Paintingfeather: Wassily Kandinsky paintings. The Russian painter and graphic artist Wassily Kandinsky was one of the great masters of modern art, as well as the outstanding representative of pure abstract painting (using only colors and forms) that dominated the first half of the twentieth century.

paintingfeather: Wassily Kandinsky paintings

Early years in Russia Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866, in Moscow, Russia. His father was a tea merchant. When he was five years old the family moved to Odessa, Russia. The leading English-language newspaper in St. Petersburg. Das Kapital. Economic Manuscripts: Capital: Volume One. Karl Marx Volume IBook One: The Process of Production of Capital First published: in German in 1867;Source: First english edition of 1887 (4th German edition changes included as indicated) with some modernisation of spelling;Publisher: Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR;First Published: 1887;Translated: Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, edited by Frederick Engels;Online Version: Marx/Engels Internet Archive (marxists.org) 1995, 1999;Transcribed: Zodiac, Hinrich Kuhls, Allan Thurrott, Bill McDorman, Bert Schultz and Martha Gimenez (1995-1996);HTML Markup: Stephen Baird and Brian Baggins (1999);Proofed: and corrected by Andy Blunden and Chris Clayton (2008), Mark Harris (2010), Dave Allinson (2015).

Economic Manuscripts: Capital: Volume One

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