Soviet music and society under Lenin and Stalin : the baton and sickle /

Table of Contents: “…Prokofiev's Le Pas d'Acier : how the steel was tempered / Lesley-Anne Sayers and Simon Morrison -- 6. 'Lenin is always with us' : Soviet musical propaganda and its composers during the 1920s / Neil Edmunds -- 7. …”
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Representation of the political in selected writings of Julio Cortazar / by Orloff, Carolina

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Gramsci and languages : unification, diversity, hegemony / by Carlucci, Alessandro

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Questioning the Chinese Model : Oppositional Political Novels in Early Twenty-First Century China. by Yu, Zhansui

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Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans : retrospect and prospect /

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A Schnittke reader / by Schnittke, Alfred, 1934-1998

Table of Contents: “…Schnittke speaks about himself -- Schnittke on the Lenin Prize -- Schnittke on his own compositions -- Schnittke on creative artists -- Schnittke on twentieth-century music -- Schnittke as seen by others.…”
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Unattainable bride Russia : gendering nation, state, and intelligentsia in Russian intellectual culture / by Rutten, Ellen, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…: (pre- )revolutionary Russia -- Virgin Russia meets Lenin and Stalin : the Soviet years -- Russia's orgasm, or Marrying Putin : late Soviet and post-Soviet culture.…”
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Contemporary Carioca : technologies of mixing in a Brazilian music scene / by Moehn, Frederick, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Marcos Suzano: a Carioca blade runner -- Lenine : pernambuco speaking to the world -- Pedro Luís, Tupy Astronaut and the wall -- Fernanda Abreu, garota carioca -- Paulinho Moska : difference and repetition -- On cannibals and chameleons -- Appendix 1: a note about interviews, with a list of interviews cited -- Appendix 2: introductory aspects of Marcos Suzano's pandeiro method.…”
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Contemporary Carioca : technologies of mixing in a Brazilian music scene / by Moehn, Frederick, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Marcos Suzano: a Carioca blade runner -- Lenine : pernambuco speaking to the world -- Pedro Luís, Tupy Astronaut and the wall -- Fernanda Abreu, garota carioca -- Paulinho Moska : difference and repetition -- On cannibals and chameleons -- Appendix 1: a note about interviews, with a list of interviews cited -- Appendix 2: introductory aspects of Marcos Suzano's pandeiro method.…”
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Postwall German cinema : history, film history, and cinephilia / by Frey, Mattias

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Rebirth of a nation: Das Wunder von Bern, the 1950s, and the reactions to the new German cinema -- Pop retro-vision: Baader, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, and the RAF film -- The ambivalent view: 23, historical paranoia, and the 1980s -- "Ostalgie," historical ownership, and material authenticity: Good Bye, Lenin! and Das Leben der Anderen -- Unification, spatial anxiety, and the recuperation of material culture: Die Unberührbare -- The future of the German past.…”
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Tomas Gutierrez Alea : the Dialectics of a Filmmaker. by Schroeder Rodríguez, Paul A., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Postmodern PostscriptChapter 4: The Search for Cuba's "Intra-Historia"; A Cuban Fight Against Demons; The Last Supper: Marxism Meets Christianity; The Survivors; Chapter 5: Up to a Certain Point: Turning the Lens on Himself; Chapter 6: Melodrama and the Crisis of the Revolution; Letters from the Park; Strawberry and Chocolate: Homosexuality, Marxism-Leninism, and Exile; Guantanamera; Chapter 7: Conclusions; The Intellectual; Religion; The Cuban Revolution; Notes; Select Bibliography; index.…”
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The dialectic of position and maneuver : understanding Gramsci's military metaphor / by Egan, Daniel, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…"Introduction: Marxism and the military metaphor -- Gramsci's Marxism -- Working class organization and revolutionary politics -- Political relations of power -- War of maneuver and war of position -- War as metaphor -- Analysis of the metaphor -- Marxism and insurrection -- Engels and insurrection -- Lenin, Trotsky and insurrection -- The Communist International and insurrection -- The 'Gramscian' nature of insurrection -- Soviet military doctrine -- Creating the Red Army -- Soviet military science: tactics, operational art, strategy -- Deep battle and Gramsci's war of position -- Marxism and guerrilla warfare -- People's war -- The foco -- The Gramscian character of guerrilla warfare -- Conclusion: Lessons for socialist political strategy -- The dialectic of position and maneuver -- The Gramscian war of position and twenty-first century socialism.…”
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Vasily Grossman : a writer's freedom /

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Tras las huellas de Pablo Neruda : Un homenaje a Hernán Loyola / by Dawes, Greg

Table of Contents: “…Introducción: El detective tras Neruda -- Un envío de Pablo Neruda -- Para Hernán -- Hernán Loyola: Literatura a ras de suelo -- Semblanza de Hernán Loyola: Con Neruda, Tap-Dancing y Busto de Lenin -- Al maestro Hernán Loyola -- Neruda cosmonauta -- El símbolo de la cruz en la poética nerudiana: Un diálogo del amor y la muerte -- Correspondencia inédita: Puccini-Neruda -- Pablo Neruda, lector y autor de narraciones fantásticas y viajes extraordinarios -- Borges, Baroja, Neruda: Tres escritores y un mismo impostor -- Neruda, el anarquismo y la democracia.…”
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The written world : the power of stories to shape people, history, civilization / by Puchner, Martin, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Alexander's pillow book -- King of the Universe : of Gilgamesh and Ashurbanipal -- Ezra and the creation of Holy Scripture -- Learning from the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus -- Murasaki and The tale of Genji : the first great novel in world history -- One thousand and one nights with Scheherazade -- Gutenberg, Luther, and the new public of print -- The Popol Vuh and Maya culture : a second, independent literary tradition -- Don Quixote and the pirates -- Benjamin Franklin : media entrepreneur in the republic of letters -- World literature : Goethe in Sicily -- Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao : readers of The Communist Manifesto, unite! …”

The right to play oneself : looking back on documentary film / by Waugh, Thomas, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Why documentary filmmakers keep trying to change the world, or why people changing the world keep making documentaries (1984) -- Dziga Vertov, 1930s populism, and Three songs of Lenin (1975) -- Bread, water, blood, rifles, planes : documentary imagery of the Spanish Civil War from the North American popular front (1990) -- Acting to play oneself : performance in documentary (1990) -- Beyond Vérité : Emile de Antonio (1977; 2008) -- Sufficient virtue, necessary artistry : the shifting challenges of revolutionary documentary history (2006-2008) -- Lesbian and gay documentary : minority self-imaging, oppositional film practice, and the question of image ethics (1984) -- Walking on tippy toes : lesbian and gay liberation documentary of the post-Stonewall period (1997) -- "Words of command" : cultural and political inflections of direct cinema in Indian independent documentary (1990) -- Joris Ivens and the legacy of committed documentary (1999).…”
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The Russian cinema reader. by Salys, Rimgaila

Table of Contents: “…Cinema of the Thaw 1953-1967 / Alexander Prokhorov -- The Cranes are Flying / Alexander Prokhorov -- Ballad of a Soldier / Vida Johnson -- Lenin's Guard / Alexander Prokhorov -- Wings / Tatiana Mikhailova and Mark Lipovetsky -- Commissar / Elena Monastireva-Ansdell -- Cinema of Stagnation Late 1960s-1985 / Elena Prokhorova -- The Diamond Arm / Alexander Prokhorov -- White Sun of the Desert / Elena Prokhorova, Rimgaila Salys -- Solaris / Robert Bird -- Stalker / Vida T. …”
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Race, Culture, and Identity : Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from Négritude to Créolité. by Lewis, Shireen K., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Caribbean Studies; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapitre 1 -- Légitime Défense: A Precursor to Modern Black Francophone Literature; The Manifesto: The Allegiance to Marxism-Leninism and Surrealism; The Essays: The Primacy of Politics over Culture; Politics: The Struggle between Social Classes; Culture: Bourgeois Writers of Color and their Alienation from Black Identity; Other Writers as Models for Bourgeois Writers of Color; The Failure to Move from Theory to Practice; Chapter 2 -- What Was Négritude?…”
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'Bitter with the past but sweet with the dream : communism in the African American imaginary representations of the Communist Party, 1940-1952 / by Bergin, Cathy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: 'Towards Soviet America' -- Determinations and Determinism: Lenin, Stalin and the Comintern -- Swearing Allegiances: Garveyism and Communism -- Trials on Trial: Yokinen and Scottsboro -- The Liberator (1929-1935) -- The Liberator: The Black Bourgeoisie and Revolutionary Tradition -- The Liberator: Interracial Solidarity and Internationalism -- The Liberator and Black Cultural Politics -- Native Son: Ghetto Nightmares -- 'Poor Richard Wright': The Black Protest Novel -- A Room of One's Own?…”
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Contemplating Shostakovich : Life, Music and Film. by Ivashkin, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Music Examples; Transliteration Note; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Part I: Music and Style; 1 Through the Looking Glass: Reflections on the Significance of Words and Symbols in Shostakovich's Music; 2 Shostakovich, Old Believers and New Minimalists; 3 Five Satires (Pictures of the Past) by Dmitrii Shostakovich (op. 109):The Musical Unity of a Vocal Cycle; 4 Moving Towards an Understanding of Shostakovich's Viola Sonata; Part II: Film; 5 Madness by Design: Hamlet's State as Defined Through Music" 6 Stalin (and Lenin) at the Movies.…”
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