1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450074103321

Autore

Dronin N. M

Titolo

Climate dependence and food problems in Russia, 1900-1990 [[electronic resource] ] : the interaction of climate and agricultural policy and their effect on food problems / / by Nikolai M. Dronin and Edward G. Bellinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, c2005

ISBN

978-615-5053-68-9

9786155053689

978-6-15505-368-9

615-5053-68-5

1-281-26861-5

9781423717503

9786611268619

1-4237-1750-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BellingerE. G

Disciplina

338.1/947/0904

Soggetti

Agriculture and state - Soviet Union

Agriculture and state - Russia

Crops and climate - Soviet Union

Crops and climate - Russia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-360) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: climate and agriculture in Russia -- The availability and reliability of statistical agricultural data for Russia -- The pre-revolutionary period (before 1916) -- The post-revolutionary decade (1917-1928) -- The Stalin era (1929-1953) -- The post-Stalin period (after 1953) -- Summary -- The pre-revolutionary period (1900-1916) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The post-revolutionary period (1917-1928) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems --



Summary -- The collectivization of Soviet agriculture (1929-1940) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The post-war recovery period (1945-1954) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The virgin lands campaign (1955-1964) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The period of agricultural intensification  (1965-1975) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The period of agricultural stagnation (1976-1990) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786140703321

Autore

Marinković Ranko <1913-2001.>

Titolo

Cyclops [[electronic resource] /] / Ranko Marinkovic, ; translated by Vlada Stojiljkovic, ; edited by Ellen Elias-Bursac

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-299-46370-3

0-300-16884-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (768 p.)

Collana

A Margellos world republic of letters book

Altri autori (Persone)

StojiljkovicVlada <1938->

Elias-BursacEllen

Disciplina

891.8/235

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Yugoslavia

Zagreb (Croatia) Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in Serbo-Croatian as: Kiklop.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- INTRODUCTION -- CYCLOPS. Teil 1 -- CYCLOPS. Teil 2 -- AUTHOR INFORMATION

Sommario/riassunto

In his semiautobiographical novel, Cyclops, Croatian writer Ranko Marinkovic recounts the adventures of young theater critic Melkior Tresic, an archetypal antihero who decides to starve himself to avoid fighting in the front lines of World War II. As he wanders the streets of



Zagreb in a near-hallucinatory state of paranoia and malnourishment, Melkior encounters a colorful circus of characters-fortune-tellers, shamans, actors, prostitutes, bohemians, and café intellectuals-all living in a fragile dream of a society about to be changed forever. A seminal work of postwar Eastern European literature, Cyclops reveals a little-known perspective on World War II from within the former Yugoslavia, one that has never before been available to an English-speaking audience. Vlada Stojiljkovic's able translation, improved by Ellen Elias-Bursac's insightful editing, preserves the striking brilliance of this riotously funny and densely allusive text. Along Melkior's journey Cyclops satirizes both the delusions of the righteous military officials who feed the national bloodlust as well as the wayward intellectuals who believe themselves to be above the unpleasant realities of international conflict. Through Stojiljkovic's clear-eyed translation, Melkior's peregrinations reveal how history happens and how the individual consciousness is swept up in the tide of political events, and this is accomplished in a mode that will resonate with readers of Charles Simic, Aleksandr Hemon, and Kundera.