9780316763721 - The Children of the Arbat: A Novel (Arbat Trilogy, Band 1) von Rybakov, Anatoli Naumovich (13 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: VERY GOOD. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: GOOD. First English language edition. Dust jacket is worn and creased along edges with several short tears, and a chip to lower edge. Price clipped. New archival mylar dj cover. 24 cm. 685 pages. Additional info or photos on request. Ships in sturdy cardboard packaging, with tracking and insurance.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Arnold H. Drapkin (Author photograph) (illustrator). The format is approximately 6.5" x 9.5". [4], 685, [7] pages. The dust jacket is price clipped, and has some wear and soiling. This autobiographical fiction of Soviet life just prior to Stalin's Great Purge intertwines the story of Sasha Pankratov, a Russian student unjustly arrested, imprisoned, and exiled, with the story of Stalin's obsession with power. Anatoli Naumovich Rybakov (14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1911 23 December 1998) was a Soviet and Russian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat trilogy, the novel Heavy Sand, and many popular children books including Adventures of Krosh, Dirk and Bronze Bird. One of the last of his works was his memoir The Novel of Memoirs telling about all the different people (from Stalin and Yeltsin, to Okudzhava and Tendryakov) he met during his long life. His most popular novel, Children of the Arbat, was written and distributed via samizdat in the 1960s, but was not published until 1987 despite having been officially announced for publication in 1966 and 1978 (in both cases publication was canceled at the very last moment by the Soviet government). The eventual publication of the novel and its 2 sequels 1935 and Other Years were considered a landmark of the nascent glasnost, as the first in the trilogy was one of the earliest publications of previously forbidden anti-Stalin literature. Almost all his books have been made into movies. Rybakov's books have been published in 52 countries, with distribution exceeding 20 million copies. Harold Shukman (23 March 1931 11 July 2012) was a British historian, specializing in the history of Russia. Children of the Arbat is a semi-autobiographical historical novel by Anatoly Rybakov set during the era of Stalin. It recounts the era in the Soviet Union of the build-up to the Congress of the Victors, the early years of the second Five Year Plan and the (supposed) circumstances of the murder of Sergey Kirov prior to the beginning of the Great Purge.It is the first book of the trilogy, followed by the books 1935 and Other Years. The story is mainly told that of the fictional Sasha Pankratov, a sincere and loyal Komsomol member who is exiled as a result of party intrigues. Rybakov too was exiled in the early 1930s. Hysteria grows as simple mistakes and humor are seen as examples of sabotage or acts of wreckers. The book exposes how, despite the honest intentions of Pankratov and older Bolsheviks like Kirov, Stalinism is destroying all their hopes. The novel is also notable for its portrayal of Joseph Stalin as a scheming and paranoid figure. The book, which was written between 1966 and 1983, was suppressed until the Perestroika era (published for the first time as a feuilleton in 1987). It was a great publishing sensation of that era owing to its criticism of the Soviet system, its portrayal of Stalin and harsh in its cynical view of those who turned the Soviet Union into a "Great Power". The English translation, by Harold Shukman, was first published in 1988 by Little, Brown & Company. Children of the Arbat - a 16-part television serial based on Rybakov's trilogy. Derived from a Kirkus review: In Russia, Rybakov has only recently been allowed to publish this sprawling book about the beginning days of Stalin's terror. The novel has a double focus, first on a microcosm--the story of the arrest and exile of a young Komsomol from the Arbat section of Moscow, the intellectual, cultural heart of the city--and then on a macrocosm: the thought processes that go on in Stalin's mind as he sets out to destroy any possible enemy he perceives he has in the Politburo. The former is interesting: Sasha Pankratov, the young man, is connected through family and friends to high officials in the government, and well-limned are the shock-waves of defensiveness and exaggerated prudence that go through the well-placed when anyone remotely involved with them has been touched by the plague of NKVD disapproval. All Sasha's friends, young people of vivacity and brains, too quickly are shuffled into the either/or queues of the informing or the informed-on. But what must be genuinely shocking to the Russians about this book are the sections dealing with Stalin's machinations. "Machiavellian" is too weak an adjective: paranoid, brilliant, nightmarish come closer. Stalin's presence in this old-fashioned naturalistic book is air-robbing--he fills it like an evil gas, and the sense of doom he wafts, a true anti-Christ, is very impressive. For the historically knowledgeable, then, the book has weight and force. It's great novelizing, like Solzshenitsyn, it is first-rate chronicling. First English-Language Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].