false 29 264 148 true 5624189 read 4 true 1686251 currently-reading 112 true 1686250 to-read 0 false 8238139 wishlist http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77397961 Petersburg (Paperback) by Andrei Bely
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The greatest Russian novels capture life, and Pasternak does so quite eloquently with Doctor Zhivago. The novel entices and lures with its imagery, which operates on realistic and emotional levels. The details offer verisimilitude and the poetic creates visions and subconscious associations. The revolution provides the framework for life and art. The life force and principle of individuality is manifest in Zhivago. The vagaries of time are like a fairy tale, but this unrealistic quality is actually the ingredient that begets believability. The unpredictability of life, the surprise, chance and our subsequent reaction is what defines the human experience and journey of the soul. The love between Lara and Zhivago is primordial, fundamental, natural and is suppressed in the amoral, duplicitous revolutionary era. Yet, there is hope for Russia and the individual due to the act of creation, both in progeny and art ~ the gifts and celebration of life. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78668873 to: Lenin (Paperback) by Robert Service
while this biography examines lenin's family and upbringing, i did not find this text humanizing or enlightening. service often ventures into psychological speculations to explain lenin's ideology and tactics. lenin consistently advocated a one-party, one-ideology state, using terror to rule; otherwise, he used mental acrobatics to enforce his inconsistent position and sustain power. history reveals lenin's influence as a leader, but this biography does not elucidate his machinations to get there or crucial interactions with leading party members. ambiguity still surrounds the mythos of lenin ~ it's still questionable how a factious intellectual came to power and laid a foundation of communism that lasted for decades. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80488056 The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, And John Maynard Keynes (Hardcover) by Mark Skousen
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80241732 Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film (Paperback) by Jay Leyda
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80241600 Women in Russia, 1700-2000 (Paperback) by Barbara Alpern Engel
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80240651 Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin (Paperback) by Ivan Bunin
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80240551 The Golovlyov Family (New York Review Books Classics) by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80240365 A Week Like Any Other: Novellas and Stories (Paperback) by Natalya Baranskaya
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