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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from the Underground

Belletristik
Englisch
44087 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
557
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Stichwörter: Officials and employees in Russia, Russian History

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Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

Belletristik
Englisch
562164 Wörter
Ab 12 Jahren
784
4

War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. The novel can be generally classified as historical fiction. It contains elements present in many types of popular 18th and 19th century literature, especially the romance novel. War and Peace attains its literary status by transcending genres. Tolstoy was instrumental in bringing a new kind of consciousness to the novel. His narrative structure is noted for its "god-like" ability to hover over and within events, but also in the way it swiftly and seamlessly portrayed a particular character's point of view. His use of visual detail is often cinematic in its scope, using the literary equivalents of panning, wide shots and close-ups, to give dramatic interest to battles and ballrooms alike. These devices, while not exclusive to Tolstoy, are part of the new style of the novel that arose in the mid-19th century and of which Tolstoy proved himself a master. War and Peace tells the story of five aristocratic families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, the Rostovs, the Kuragins and the Drubetskoys—and the entanglements of their personal lives with the then contemporary history of 1805 to 1813, principally Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. The Bezukhovs, while very rich, are a fragmented family as the old Count, Kirill Vladimirovich, has fathered dozens of illegitimate sons. The Bolkonskys are an old established and wealthy family based at Bald Hills. Old Prince Bolkonsky, Nikolai Andreevich, served as a general under Catherine the Great, in earlier wars. The Moscow Rostovs have many estates, but never enough cash. They are a closely knit, loving family who live for the moment regardless of their financial situation. The Kuragin family has three children, who are all of questionable character. The Drubetskoy family is of impoverished nobility, and consists of an elderly mother and her only son, Boris, whom she wishes to push up the career ladder. [mehr]

Stichwörter: war and peace, leo tolstoy, classic literature, historical fiction, napoleon, russian history

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Jacob Abbott Peter the Great

Biografie/Autobiografie
Englisch
73279 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
140
2

Peter the Great ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his half-brother. In numerous successful wars he expanded the Tsardom into a huge empire that became a major European power. He led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political system with a modern, scientific, Europe-oriented, and rationalist system. The Imperial title of Peter the Great was the following: “ By the grace of God, the most excellent and great sovereign prince Pyotr Alekseevich the ruler all the Russias: of Moscow, of Kiev, of Vladimir, of Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan and Tsar of Siberia, sovereign of Pskov, great prince of Smolensk, Tversk, Yugorsk, Permsky, Vyatsky, Bulgarsky and others, sovereign and great prince of Novgorod Nizovsky lands, Chernigovsky, of Ryazan, of Rostov, Yaroslavl, Belozersky, Udorsky, Kondiisky and the sovereign of all the northern lands, and the sovereign of the Iverian lands, of the Kartlian and Georgian Kings, of the Kabardin lands, of the Circassian and Mountain princes and many other states and lands western and eastern here and there and the successor and sovereign and ruler. [mehr]

Stichwörter: peter the great, biography, jacob abbott, russian tsar, russian history, royal biography, imperial russia, history

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Fyodor Dostoevsky The Possessed

Belletristik
Englisch
253346 Wörter
Ab 12 Jahren
189
2

The Possessed is an anti-nihilistic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. An extremely political book, Demons is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoyevsky casts a critical eye on both the radical idealists, portraying their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences. Dostoyevsky's novels focus on the idea that utopias and positivist ideas, in being utilitarian, were unrealistic and unobtainable. [mehr]

Stichwörter: the possesed, the devils, the demons, dostoevsky, russian literature, russian history, political novel

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John Spargo Bolshevism The Enemy Of Political And Industrial Democracy Part 1

Biografie/Autobiografie
Englisch
64264 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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For Almost A Full Century Russia Has Been The Theater Of A Great Revolutionary Movement. In The Light Of [mehr]

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John Spargo Bolshevism The Enemy Of Political And Industrial Democracy Part 1

Business und Wirtschaft
Englisch
65204 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
0

For Almost A Full Century Russia Has Been The Theater Of A Great Revolutionary Movement. In The Light Of Russian History We Read With Cynical Amusement That In 1848, When All Europe Was In a Revolutionary Ferment, A German Economist Confidently Predicted That Revolutionary Agitation Could Not Live In The Peculiar Soil Of Russian Civilization. August Franz Von Haxthausen Was In Many Respects A Competent And Even A Profound Student Of Russian Politics, But He Was Wrong In His Belief That The Amount Of Rural Communism Existing In Russia, Particularly The _Mir_, Would Make It Impossible For Storms Of Revolutionary Agitation To Arise And Stir The National Life. [mehr]

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John Spargo : Bolshevism The Enemy Of Political And Industrial Democracy Part 1

Business und Wirtschaft
Englisch
63824 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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For Almost A Full Century Russia Has Been The Theater Of A Great Revolutionary Movement. In The Light Of Russian History We Read With Cynical Amusement That In 1848, When All Europe Was In a Revolutionary Ferment, A German Economist Confidently Predicted That Revolutionary Agitation Could Not Live In The Peculiar Soil Of Russian Civilization. August Franz Von Haxthausen Was In Many Respects A Competent And Even A Profound Student Of Russian Politics, But He Was Wrong In His Belief That The Amount Of Rural Communism Existing In Russia, Particularly The _Mir_, Would Make It Impossible For Storms Of Revolutionary Agitation To Arise And Stir The National Life. [mehr]

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Sam Vaknin Russian Roulette

Belletristik
Englisch
24144 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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Shmuel Ben David "Sam" Vaknin (born April 1961) is an Israeli writer.[1] He is the author and publisher [mehr]

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B Sherif Russian Roulette

Thriller
Englisch
9032 Wörter
Ab 14 Jahren
172
0

Roulette thought she had a normal life. That all changed after one life changing experience, her loving and caring [mehr]

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Best Russian Short Stories

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
2 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
919
2

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