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By Alexander Pushkin

ISBN-10: 1612190812

ISBN-13: 9781612190815

First released anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s stories of Belkin comprises his first prose works. it's made from an introductory notice and 5 associated tales, ostensibly accrued by way of the coed Ivan Belkin. The tales heart variously round army figures, the rich, and businessmen; this pretty novella supplies a bright portrait of 19th century Russian life.

It has develop into, to boot, essentially the most liked books in Russian literary heritage, and symbolic of the recognition of the novella shape in Russia. in truth, it has develop into the namesake for Russia’s so much prestigious annual literary prize, the Belkin Prize, given every year to a e-book voted by way of judges to be the easiest novella of the year.

It is gifted right here in a glowing new translation by means of Josh Billings. stories of Belkin additionally highlights the character of our ongoing paintings of the Novella Series—that is, that it focuses on vital even supposing albeit lesser-known works by means of significant writers, usually in new tranlsations.

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For example, a study by Götz Aly and Susanne Heim stressed the economic and demographic motivations behind the Holocaust, thus locating its impetus in the rationality and utilitarianism of capitalism previously emphasized by the intellectuals of the Frankfurt School. 25 Those first making the case for Stalinist modernity did not confront the fact that earlier arguments for Nazi modernity were controversial for containing a certain critique of modern civilization, which enabled illiberal atrocities.

Second, the post-Soviet engagement with modernity in the Russian and Soviet context by its very nature necessitated not associating modernity exclusively with liberal democracy and the market, themselves tightly linked to the history of the West. For the Russian/Soviet field, the embrace of modernity (and, by implication, multiple roads to modernity) meant that historians, whether by intention or not, began to operate on three macro-levels of analysis: the generic, the illiberal, and the civilizational.

26 In this sense, a tacit political implication lurked just below the surface in certain parts of the post-Soviet literature, the same one that in its day so exercised the German critics of Nazi modernity: if a regime so murderous is identified so closely with processes common to modernity in the West, then modernity itself in some sense bears the burden of the regime’s horrors, rather than factors or aberrations specific to the regime or country. ”27 Other writers argued not for illiberal comparisons but for the systemic, oppressive sameness of modernity regardless of the political or ideological order.

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