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Yury Trifonov
Yury Valentinovich Trifonov (; 28 August 1925 – 28 March 1981) was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose". He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. Childhood and family Trifonov was born in the luxurious apartments on the Arbat Street and, with a two-year interval in Tashkent, spent his whole life in Moscow. His father, Valentin Trifonov (1888–1938), was of Russian Don Cossack descent. An Old Bolshevik and Red Army veteran who commanded Cossacks in the Don during the civil war and later served as a Soviet official, he was arrested on 21/22 June 1937 and shot on 15 March 1938.Far Eastern affairs, Issues 5–6 (Institut Dal’nego Vostoka, Akademimaya nauk SSSR, Progress, 1989) He was rehabilitated on 3 November 1955. Trifonov's mother, Evgeniya Abramovna Lurie (1904–1975), an engineer and accountant, was of half Russian and of half Jewish descent. She spent eight years in a labour camp for not denouncing he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kommunalka
Communal apartments (, colloquial: ''kommunalka'') are apartments in which several unrelated persons or families live in isolated living rooms and share common areas such a kitchen, shower, and toilet. When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917 after the October Revolution, to cope with the housing shortage, they nationalised luxurious apartment blocks from rich people to make them available to the proletariat. The term ''communal apartments'' emerged specifically in the Soviet Union, ''kommunalkas'' became the predominant form of housing for generations. Communal apartments were supposed to be a temporary solution and were in fact phased out in many cities of the country. Due to the Second World War, large population influxes from the countryside and a lack of investment in new housing, ''kommunalkas'' still exist in some former Soviet cities, such as Saint Petersburg. History The first communal apartments appeared in the early 18th century, when rental lodging was partitioned by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narodnaya Volya
Narodnaya Volya () was a late 19th-century revolutionary socialist political organization operating in the Russian Empire, which conducted assassinations of government officials in an attempt to overthrow the autocratic Tsarist system. The organization declared itself to be a populist movement that succeeded the Narodniks. Composed primarily of young revolutionary socialist intellectuals believing in the efficacy of direct action, ''Narodnaya Volya'' emerged in Autumn 1879 from the split of an earlier revolutionary organization called '' Zemlya i Volya'' ("Land and Liberty"). Similarly to predecessor groups that had already used the term "terror" positively, ''Narodnaya Volya'' proclaimed themselves as terrorists and venerated dead terrorists as "martyrs" and "heroes", justifying political violence as a legitimate tactic to provoke a necessary revolution. Based upon a secret society apparatus of local, semi-independent cells co-ordinated by a self-selecting Executive Committee, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander II Of Russia
Alexander II ( rus, Алекса́ндр II Никола́евич, Aleksándr II Nikoláyevich, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ftɐˈroj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ; 29 April 181813 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, Congress Poland, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until Assassination of Alexander II of Russia, his assassination in 1881. Alexander's most significant reform as emperor was the emancipation reform of 1861, emancipation of Serfdom in Russia, Russia's serfs in 1861, for which he is known as Alexander the Liberator ( rus, Алекса́ндр Освободи́тель, r=Aleksándr Osvobodítel, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐsvəbɐˈdʲitʲɪlʲ). The tsar was responsible for other Liberalism, liberal reforms, including reorganizing the judicial system, setting up elected local judges, abolishing corporal punishment, promoting local self-government through the ''zemstvo'' system, imposing universal military service, ending some privileges of the nobility, and promot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Purge
The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (), also known as the Year of '37 () and the Yezhovshchina ( , ), was a political purge in the Soviet Union that took place from 1936 to 1938. After the Assassination of Sergei Kirov, assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nikolaev in 1934, Joseph Stalin launched a series of show trials known as the Moscow trials to remove suspected party dissenters from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, especially those aligned with the Bolsheviks, Bolshevik party. The term "great purge" was popularized by the historian Robert Conquest in his 1968 book ''The Great Terror (book), The Great Terror'', whose title was an allusion to the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. The purges were largely conducted by the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), which functioned as the Ministry of home affairs, interior ministry and secret police of the USSR. Starting in 1936, the NKVD under chief Genrikh Yagoda began the removal of the central pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Another Life (novel)
''Another Life'' () is a 1975 novel by Yuri Trifonov. It is the fourth part of Trifonov's quintet of Moscow novels following the third volume The Long Good-Bye (1971).Trifonov The Old Man -0810115719 - 1999 p274 - Richard Lourie, New York Times Book Review YURI TRIFONOV (1925-81) is widely regarded as a major Russian writer ... In the 1960s he began the series of works — "The Exchange," Taking Stock, The Long Goodbye, Another Life, and The ... The novel focuses on a widow's reaction to the sudden death of her husband. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Another Life 1975 Russian novels Novels by Yury Trifonov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Long Good-Bye (Trifonov Novel)
'' The Long Good-Bye'' () is a 1971 novel by Yury Trifonov. It is the third of five volumes in his Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ... cycle.Josephine Woll - 1991 Invented Truth: Soviet Reality and the Literary Imagination of Iurii Trifonov 0822311518". In The Exchange and Taking Stock, Trifonov portrays an urbanized Soviet society that has become dominated by the meshchantsvo; in The Long Goodbye he shows the roots of that transformation..." References 1971 novels Novels by Yury Trifonov {{1970s-hist-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taking Stock (novel)
'' Taking Stock'' () is a 1970 novel by Yury Trifonov Yury Valentinovich Trifonov (; 28 August 1925 – 28 March 1981) was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose". He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. Childhood and family Trifonov w .... It is the second volume of his Moscow quintet.Josephine Woll - 1991 Invented Truth: Soviet Reality and the Literary Imagination of Iurii Trifonov 0822311518 " In The Exchange and Taking Stock Trifonov portrays an urbanized Soviet society that has become dominated by the meshchantsvo; in The Long Goodbye he shows the roots of that transformation, which occurred as the ideals of the " References 1970 novels Novels by Yury Trifonov {{1970s-hist-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Exchange (Trifonov Novel)
''The Exchange'' () is a novel by Yuri Trifonov. It is the first volume of Trifonov's cycle of Moscow novels written in "urban prose", and portraying the everyday lives of Muscovite dwellers.Trifonov ''The Old Man'' 0810115719 - 1999 notes p.274 - Richard Lourie, New York Times Book Review YURI TRIFONOV (1925-81) is widely regarded as a major Russian writer ... In the 1960s he began the series of works — "The Exchange," Taking Stock, The Long Goodbye, Another Life, and The ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Exchange 1969 novels Novels by Yury Trifonov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village Prose
Village prose (, or Деревенская литература) was a movement in Soviet literature beginning during the Khrushchev Thaw, which included works that focused on the Soviet rural communities. Some point to the critical essays on collectivization in Novyi mir by Valentin Ovechkin as the starting point of village prose, though most of the subsequent works associated with the genre are fictional novels and short stories. Authors associated with village prose include Aleksander Yashin, Fyodor Abramov, Boris Mozhayev, Vasily Belov, Viktor Astafyev, Vladimir Soloukhin, Vasily Shukshin, and Valentin Rasputin. Some critics also count Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn among the village prose writers for his short novel '' Matryona's Place''. Many village prose works espoused an idealized picture of traditional Russian village life and became increasingly associated with Russian nationalism in the 1970s and 1980s. Some have argued that the nationalist subtext of village prose is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Vampilov
Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov (; 19 August 1937 – 17 August 1972) was a Soviet playwright. His play ''The Elder Son'' was first performed in 1969, and became a national success two years later. Many of his plays have been filmed or televised in Russia. His four full-length plays were translated into English and ''Duck Hunting'' was performed in London and Washington DC (Arena Stage). Life Vampilov was the fourth child in the family of schoolteachers. His father, Valentin Nikitich, was of Buryat ancestry, and his mother, Anastasia Prokopievna was Russian, the daughter of a Russian Orthodox Church priest. His father was arrested for alleged nationalist activity. The young Alexander taught himself guitar and mandolin, and his first comic short stories appeared in magazines in 1958, later collected as ''A Confluence of Circumstances'' under the name "A. Sanin". After studying literature and history at the Department of Philology at Irkutsk State University, graduating in 1960, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Bitov
Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov (, 27 May 1937 – 3 December 2018) was a prominent Russian writer of Circassian ancestry. Biography Bitov was born in Leningrad. His father was an architect and his mother was a lawyer. He completed his secondary education in 1954 and began writing two years later. In 1957, he became a student at the Leningrad Mining Institute. While there, he joined a literary association for young writers led by . He also served with a in the north and graduated in 1962. He then began writing poetry and short, absurdist stories which were not published until the 1990s. In 1965, he became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers. By 1978, he had published ten works, but his now best known work, ''Pushkin House'', had to be published in the United States and did not appear in the USSR until two years after the beginning of Perestroika. In 1988, he was one of the founders of the Russian PEN Club and was its President beginning in 1991. He also taught at the Maxim Gor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
