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The Hero of Budapest
The story of Raoul Wallenberg - the Swedish businessman who, at immense personal risk, rescued many of Budapest's Jews from the Holocaust and subsequently disappeared into the Soviet prison system - is one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II. Yet the complete story of his life and fate can only be told now - and for the first time in this book - following access to the Russian and Swedish archival sources, previously not used. Born into a wealthy Swedish family, Wallenberg was a moderately successful businessman when he was recruited by the War Refugee Board to manage the rescue mission of thousands of Hungarian Jews. Once in Budapest, he created and distributed so called 'prote...
Mayakovsky
A Life at Stake is the first serious biography of the legendary Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Physically imposing, crude, a sexual adventurer and ex-convict, Mayakovsky rose to fame between 1912 and 1917 as a Futurist agitator and the author of radical poems and plays. He embraced the Russian Revolution and became one of its most passionate propagandists, then at the age of thirty-six took his own life, disappointed in the course of Soviet society and ravaged by private conflicts. Mayakovsky s poems are as exhilarating today as when he declaimed them for friends in smoky flats in Moscow, Berlin, Paris, and New York. In Bengt Jangfeldt s propulsive biography, Mayakovsky s life, too, is compelling: a story of constant, passionate upheaval against the background of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, Stalin s terror, and cycles of anti-Semitism. Mayakovsky emerges from this biography a highly vulnerable figure, more a dreamer than a revolutionary, more a political romantic than a hardened Communist."
Axel Munthe
"Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele" tells for the first time the riveting life-story of an extraordinary individual, who came to define the times he lived in.The precociously bright son of a Swedish pharmacist, Axel Munthe worked under Jean Martin Charcot, and in 1880, became the youngest doctor in French history. By the 1890s, he was world-famous for his healing powers, believed by some to be supernatural. He moved in the most colourful and exalted circles of fin de siecle Europe, counting amongst his friends Henry James, Howard Carter, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Count Zeppelin. Though physician to the Swedish court, where he became the lover of the Crown Princess Vict...
The Nobel Family
This absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels' business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as the economic and entrepreneurial development of Europe in the long 19th century. The name Nobel is mainly associated with the Nobel prize. However, Alfred Nobel was only one of a family of conspicuously gifted individuals. The Nobels, who moved from Sweden to Russia in the 1830s, ran one of Russia's biggest machine factories and founded the Russian oil industry.Using thousands of Nobel family letters and other documents shared here for the first time, Bengt Jangfeldt provides a fascinating and aut...
Vi och dom : Bengt Jangfeldt om Ryssland som idé
Allt ifrån Peter den store till Vladimir Putin har frågan om Rysslands förhållande till Väst och västerländska värderingar upptagit och splittrat landet. Samma dualism präglar ett annat särdrag i rysk historia, nämligen relationen mellan härskare och folk. I den koncisa och klargörande Vi och dom. Bengt Jangfeldt om Ryssland som idé lyfter författaren fram den ryska historiens pendelrörelser mellan stagnation och uppbrott, förtryck och töväder, reformer och kontrareformer. Ryssarna ser gärna sitt land som moraliskt överlägset länderna i Väst – en uppfattning starkt påverkad av den ortodoxa kyrkans roll. Genom att redogöra för huvuddragen i den ryska ”civilisati...
Språket är gud : anteckningar om Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodskys enastående poetiska författarskap strök, vid sidan av allt annat, ett streck över den sovjetiska epoken i rysk poesi. Nobelpristagaren Brodsky var den förste värdige arvtagaren till den så kallade silveråldern, med namn som Anna Achmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetajeva och Boris Pasternak. Efter landsförvisningen från Sovjetunionen 1972 var han också en aktiv deltagare i det offentliga samtalet i Väst. Hans röst var auktoritativ, hans åsikter omstridda, han mötte ofta motstånd men lämnade ingen oberörd. Han ägde en betydande karisma, men var en sammansatt människa som aldrig gjorde några försök att dölja sina antipatier och de sidor av sin personl...
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Reference Guide to Russian Literature
First Published in 1998. This volume will surely be regarded as the standard guide to Russian literature for some considerable time to come... It is therefore confidently recommended for addition to reference libraries, be they academic or public.
Explodity
The artists’ books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the verbal, visual, and sonic, these books are meant to be read, looked at, and listened to. Painters and poets—including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Mayakovsky— collaborated to fabricate hand-lithographed books, for which they invented a new language called zaum (a neologism meaning “beyond the mind”), which was distinctive in its emphasis on “sound as such” and its rejection of definite logical meaning. At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mir...
