1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450704003321

Autore

Murphy Brian <1923-2017.>

Titolo

Rostov in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920 [[electronic resource] ] : the key to victory / / Brian Murphy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : F. Cass, 2005

ISBN

1-280-25422-X

9786610254224

0-203-33767-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

Cass Military Studies

Disciplina

947/.490841

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Soviet Union History

Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921

Rostov-na-Donu (Russia) History 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1.1917: THE TSAR OVERTHROWN; 2. 1918: AFTER THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION; 3. 1917: PARTY POLITICS; 4. 1918: DAILY LIFE; 5. 1918-1919: RAILWAYS AFTER THE WHITES HAVE TAKEN ROSTOV; 6. TERRORISM FOR A BETTER WORLD; 7. 1920: RED VICTORY; SUMMARY OF EVENTS; GLOSSARY; PERSONS MENTIONED; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

These documents were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don, and this book makes them available for the first time in print. Since becoming freely accessible Soviet archives have provided a rich source for understanding the hopes, fears and strivings of the Russians during the greatest crisis in their history. Both Reds and Whites realized Rostov's vital strategic importance, and the city changed hands six times between 1917 and 1920. These newly published personal stories fill out the social background to its complex mix of classes and nationalities. They convey the daily experience of



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966199203321

Autore

Bobkowski Andrzej

Titolo

Wartime Notebooks : France, 1940-1944 / / Andrzej Bobkowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]

©2018

ISBN

0-300-19004-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (698 pages)

Collana

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Altri autori (Persone)

DrabikGrazyna

EngelsteinLaura

Disciplina

940.5481

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 - France

France History German occupation, 1940-1945

France Social life and customs 20th century

France Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1940 -- 1941 -- 1942 -- 1943 -- 1944 -- AFTERWORD: OUT OF THIS NETTLE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND TRANSLATORS' NOTE -- NOTES -- INDEX OF NAMES

Sommario/riassunto

A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider's perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation-in a daringly untragic mode-of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement-miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike-and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in



his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.