Concise History of the Russian Revolution

Pipes, Richard

ISBN 10: 1860460836 / ISBN 13: 9781860460838

Edité par Harvill Press, London, UK, 1995

A propos de cet article

1st UK edition. xx, 432pp, lightly illustrated, including maps. Quarter-bound in brown cloth under red cloth-covered boards. 8vo. Volume very slightly rubbed on corners, else neat, clean and bright throughout. In its original glossy, illustrated dust jacket, light bumped at spine tips. A careful abridgment of two of Pipes' earlier works on the Russian Revolution led by Lenin.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Concise History of the Russian Revolution
• Éditeur: Harvill Press, London, UK
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1860460836
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781860460838
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • History - Europe

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Synopsis

Heart of a Dog (Sobachye serdtse) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when communism appeared to be relaxing in the Soviet Union. It is generally interpreted as an allegory of the Communist revolution and "the revolution's misguided attempt to radically transform mankind." Its publication was initially prohibited in the Soviet Union, but it circulated in samizdat until it was officially released in the country in 1987. It was almost immediately turned into a TV movie, which was aired in late 1988 on First Programme (First Channel) of Soviet Television, gained almost universal acclaim and attracted many readers to the original Bulgakov text. Since then, the novella has become a cultural phenomenon in Russia, known and discussed by people "from schoolchildren to politicians." It has become a subject of critical argument, was filmed in Russian and Italian-language versions, and was adapted in English as a play and an opera. (wikipedia.org)

Quatrième de couverture

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV

A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.