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19th and 20th-century Russian and Soviet writer

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Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1274: The Maxim Gorky

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 3:37


Episode: 1274 The Maxim Gorky, largest airplane of its time.  Today, Stalin builds a big airplane.

One of Us
Screener Squad: The Platform 2

One of Us

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2024 22:23


THE PLATFORM 2 MOVIE REVIEW “Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger” – Maxim Gorky. Netflix presents The Platform 2. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia and starring Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian. The Platform 2 is a pre-re-Sequel that further explores the atrocities people are… Read More »Screener Squad: The Platform 2

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Highly Suspect Reviews
Screener Squad: The Platform 2

Highly Suspect Reviews

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2024 22:23


THE PLATFORM 2 MOVIE REVIEW “Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger” – Maxim Gorky. Netflix presents The Platform 2. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia and starring Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian. The Platform 2 is a pre-re-Sequel that further explores the atrocities people are… Read More »Screener Squad: The Platform 2

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RTÉ - Culture File on Classic Drive
Gorky Goes Global | Culture File

RTÉ - Culture File on Classic Drive

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 7:17


Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk, premiered in St Petersburg in 1904, gets refocused on the world of today in Dublin-based Outlandish's Dublin Theatre Festival show, Global Desires.

Arts & Ideas
Free speech, censorship and modern China

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2024 44:48


Rana Mitter explores looks at the role of writing in propagating ideas and exposing political tensions. He hears how writers have given voice to personal and political ambitions, from Ding Ling to the teenagers of modern China. Yuan Yang discusses her new book, Private Revolutions. Simon Ings talks about his latest book Engineers of Human Souls which examines four writers whose ideas shaped the careers of some of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators. And Jeffrey Howard analyses the ethics of negotiating free speech and censorship today.Producer: Ruth WattsPrivate Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang is out nowSimon Ings' book Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds looks at Maurice Barrès, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Ding Ling and Maxim Gorky.Jeffrey Howard is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Public Policy at UCL and Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. You can find an Essay called Prison Break which he wrote for BBC Radio 3 asking if it is ever ok to escape from prison available on BBC Sounds. He was chosen as a New Generation Thinker in 2020 on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to put research on radio.

Strong Sense of Place
Amusement Parks: Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!

Strong Sense of Place

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2023 62:56


The gates of an amusement park are a portal to a magical realm of thrill rides and fantasy worlds, larger-than-life characters, and the best portable foods on the planet. (We're looking at you, corn dogs and kettle corn!) And it's been that way since the beginning. The first quasi-amusement park entertained revelers in 1133 with merry-go-rounds, extravagant stage shows, gingerbread, sausages, and dancing in the streets. All that merriment made it easy to forget it was all meant to honor St. Bartholomew. Eventually, the rides got bigger (and faster and more hair-raising), the shows more over-the-top, and the spectacle more spectacular. Roller coasters! Carousels! Tilt-a-Whirls! Mickey and Donald and Cinderella! Legos! Quidditch! Funnel cakes! Turkey legs! And fireworks! In this episode, we take a fast romp through the history of amusement parks, revel in an essay by Russian writer Maxim Gorky, and celebrate the magical world of Walt Disney. Then we recommend five books that took us to amusement parks on the page, including a comedy-thriller set in Helsinki, a nonfiction exploration of delight, a dystopian disaster tale, and historical mysteries set in 1915 Chicago and 1911 Coney Island. Here are the books about amusement parks we recommend on the show: The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen, David Hackston (translator) Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven For more on the books we recommend, plus the other cool stuff we talk about, visit our show notes. Transcript of Amusement Parks: Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!. Do you enjoy our show? Do you want access to awesome bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon! Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talks from the Hoover Institution
Hoover Book Club: Bread + Medicine: American Famine Relief in Soviet Russia, 1921–1923 | Bertrand Patenaude and Bill Whalen | Hoover Institution

Talks from the Hoover Institution

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2023 58:20


June 1, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University Join the Hoover Book Club for engaging discussions with leading authors on the hottest policy issues of the day. Hoover scholars explore the latest books that delve into some of the most vexing policy issues facing the United States and the world. Find out what makes these authors tick and how they think we should approach our most difficult challenges.  In our latest installment, watch a discussion between Bill Whalen, the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Distinguished Policy Fellow in Journalism and Bertrand M. Patenaude, a research fellow and author of the recently released Hoover Institution Press book Bread + Medicine: American Famine Relief in Soviet Russia, 1921–1923 on Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 10:00 am PT/ 1:00pm ET. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bertrand M. Patenaude is the author of The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (Stanford University Press, 2002). Joan Nabseth Stevenson received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Stanford University. She is the author of Deliverance from the Little Big Horn: Doctor Henry Porter and Custer's Seventh Cavalry. ABOUT THE BOOK  A century ago, the Soviet Union faced a catastrophic famine, brought on by the disruptions of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Russian Civil War; draconian Soviet economic policies; and a severe drought. As millions of people faced starvation and hunger-related disease, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky issued an appeal for help, asking “all honest European and American people for prompt aid to the Russian people. Give bread and medicine.” One person was uniquely situated to answer the call: Herbert Hoover, chair of the American Relief Administration (ARA), who had achieved worldwide fame as the organizer and administrator of large-scale humanitarian relief operations during and following World War I. American relief helped millions survive the famine of 1921–23. While the role of food aid has been well documented, Bread + Medicine focuses on the lesser-known story of America's medical intervention, including a large-scale vaccination drive, and treatment of famine-related diseases such as cholera, typhoid, and typhus and hunger-related deficiency diseases, especially among children. The ARA's medical relief program proved essential to the overall success of its mission. Bread + Medicine, richly illustrated with photographs, posters, and documents from the Hoover Library & Archives, tells that story in vivid detail.

First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film
Thinking Aloud About Film: The Bill Douglas Trilogy

First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2023 27:18


https://notesonfilm1.com/2023/04/29/thinking-aloud-about-film-the-bill-douglas-trilogy/ We discuss The Bill Douglas Trilogy. The first with it's echoes of Maxim Gorky must be one of the greatest films in the history of cinema, and a discovery. My Ain Folk, also medium length, we also claim is a great film. We hae greater doubts about the third film, My Own Way Home, the only one that really qualifies as feature length. We compare the films to Turkish films we've been seeing recently that describe a way of life that seems centuries old. We also compare the works to the novels of Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain; Young Mungo). Lastly, we wonder to what extent class bias affected Bill Douglas' career, a talent as is evident here with such a short filmography....

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
A Word in Edgewise 11/21/22: Of Maxim Gorky, COP27, & Goldie Hawn . . .

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2022 8:53


Producer/Host: R.W. Estela The post A Word in Edgewise 11/21/22: Of Maxim Gorky, COP27, & Goldie Hawn . . . first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

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A Word In Edgewise | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
A Word in Edgewise 11/21/22: Of Maxim Gorky, COP27, & Goldie Hawn . . .

A Word In Edgewise | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2022 8:53


Producer/Host: R.W. Estela The post A Word in Edgewise 11/21/22: Of Maxim Gorky, COP27, & Goldie Hawn . . . first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

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Russian Rulers History Podcast
Episode 242 - Maxim Gorky

Russian Rulers History Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2022 25:29


Today, we finish our three-part series on famous Russian and Soviet writers, with Maxim Gorky.

Russian Rulers History Podcast
Episode 240 - Ivan Bunin - Russia's First Nobel Prize Winner in Literature

Russian Rulers History Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2022 28:02


Today, we begin our three-part series on some of the giants of Russian literature, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Maxim Gorky. Listen to the tale of Russia's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Oddity Poddity: A Paranormal PodcastTerrifying tales of the supernatural! Love a good haunt? A spine-tingling urban legend?...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) with Dean L. Fanelli, Ph.D.
Some hoped FDA approval of Pfizer's COVID vaccine would convince unvaccinated Americans. It didn't, study finds.

Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) with Dean L. Fanelli, Ph.D.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2022 21:23


Biden jokes about expanded fight with Russia: 'If I gotta go to war, I'm going with you guys' Biden tells union workers, 'This fight is far from over' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-jokes-war-russia-ukraine-union-sanctions President Biden joked about the possibility of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to expand to directly involve the U.S. military on Wednesday, telling union workers, "If I gotta go to war, I'm going with you guys." Biden made the statement during an address to union workers at the North American Building Trades Unions legislative conference Wednesday. Biden opened his speech with a lengthy section addressing new sanctions against Russia. "This fight is far from over," Biden said. "Here's the point: This war could continue for a long time, but the United States will continue to stand with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in their fight for freedom." "And by the way, if I gotta go to war I'm going with you guys. I mean it," he added. Biden's statement comes after months of he and other administration officials stating that the U.S. will not deploy troops to Ukraine. The U.S. military has limited its deployments to nearby NATO countries, and warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that invasion of one of those countries would mean direct war with the U.S. --------------------------- In fiery speech, Ukraine's Zelensky implores U.N. Security Council to hold Russia to account https://ca.news.yahoo.com/zelensky-address-security-council-renewed-115338286.html Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an impassioned address to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, likened perceived Russian atrocities in his homeland to Nazi war crimes, calling for Nuremberg-style tribunals to hold Moscow accountable. “They shot and killed women outside their houses. They killed entire families, adults and children, and they tried to burn the bodies,” Zelensky said in a video appearance before the Security Council, a day after an emotional visit to the ravaged town of Bucha, outside the capital, Kyiv. “They cut off limbs, slashed throats, raped women in front of their children," the Ukrainian leader said in his most forceful excoriation to date of the Russian invasion. In a perhaps risky strategy of sharply criticizing the body from which he is seeking help, Zelensky issued a stark challenge to world institutions such as the United Nations to make sweeping changes to the global security architecture, asking sardonically at one point: "Are you ready to close the U.N.?" “It is obvious that the key institutions of the world … simply cannot work effectively,” said the 44-year-old president, who has won worldwide accolades for presiding over his compatriots' fierce and sustained resistance to the Russian attempt to subjugate Ukraine. ----------------------------- Some hoped FDA approval of Pfizer's COVID vaccine would convince unvaccinated Americans. It didn't, study finds. But a study published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open found the shift from emergency use authorization of the vaccine to full approval did not sway unvaccinated Americans. Researchers from the University of Utah analyzed vaccination data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention starting July 25, a month before full FDA approval, to Sept. 9, the day before President Joe Biden made his vaccine mandate announcement. Using the vaccination rate leading up to full approval, they estimated how many doses would have been administered compared to the actual recorded number. Study authors found FDA approval was associated with an overall 36% increase in vaccinations, but most were second doses. First doses, they found, were 16% lower than predicted. Health experts are not surprised by the study's findings. “The reason why people get vaccinated has very little correlation with whether or not something is approved or an EUA,” said Dr. Jay W. Lee, a family physician and chief medical officer of Share Our Selves community health center in Orange County, California, who is not affiliated with the study. ---------------------------- Anti-vaccine beliefs come from a childhood of mistrust, study claims Are recent politics really to blame for the widespread resistance to the COVID-19 vaccine? A new study suggests that the real answer may go much deeper than people think. Researchers from Duke University say the passionate opposition to vaccinations and policies like mask mandates can trace its roots back all the way to a person's childhood. Their study claims that growing up in an atmosphere of mistrust leads to these attitudes later in life. “We had so many friends and family who initially said that the pandemic was a hoax, and then refused to wear a mask or social-distance, and kept singing in the choir and attending events,” says study senior author Terrie Moffitt in a university release. “And then when the vaccines came along, they said ‘over their dead bodies,' they would certainly not get them,” adds Moffitt, Duke's Nannerl O. Keohane University Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience. “These beliefs seem to be very passionate and deeply held, and close to the bone. So we wanted to know where they came from.” ‘Don't trust the grownups' Researchers used data from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, which has been tracking nearly all of the 1,000 people born between 1972 and 1973 from a single town in New Zealand. Researchers have been measuring each person's social, psychological, and health factors since childhood — giving scientists insights into how these early years impact adulthood. Study authors conducted a special survey of the group in 2021 to examine each participant's stance on the COVID-19 vaccine before the shots became available in the country. The team then matched each person's responses to the records on their upbringing and personality over the years. Results show that, 40 years ago, respondents who are now vaccine-resistant or express vaccine hesitancy had more adverse childhood experiences than others. These include incidents of abuse, neglect, threats, and other hardships such as poverty. -------------------------- Democrats Interrogate Oil Executives About "America's Pain At The Pump" As public opinion poll after public opinion poll has confirmed, surging gas prices is one of the most controversial issues in the US. As President Biden made clear when he announced his plans to release 180 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Democrats are doing everything they can to try and blame rising prices on President Putin and the American energy industry (which Biden accused of greedily holding back on production, even though his own energy policies have made it harder for shale producers to do so). So, in their latest attempt to blame the spike in prices on evil corporate America, Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations are holding a hearing on Wednesday, where they will interrogate the CEOs of Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell USA, Devon Energy Corp and Pioneer about the dynamics driving the surge in prices at the pump. The title of the hearing tells one everything they need to know about the overall tone: "Gouged At The Gas Station: Big Oil And America's Pain At The Pump". In testimony submitted to the subcommittee, the oil executives explained that a combination of labor and supply shortages have stopped their companies from raising output back to pre-pandemic levels, while the price of oil and gas are largely determined by international market conditions beyond their control. Of course, this reasoning was apparently lost on the Democrats. In an interview with Reuters, Democrat members of the committee are already sharpening their knives. "We will not sit back and allow the fossil fuel industry to take advantage of the American people and gouge them at the pump," Diana DeGette, a Democrat and chair of the subcommittee, said about the hearing at which executives from Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell USA , Devon Energy and Pioneer will testify. "We want to know what's causing these record-high prices and what needs to be done to bring them down immediately," she said. Many Democrats have complained that oil companies have made record profits while consumers face high prices. In addition to the executives, former Trump Administration National Security Advisor HR McMaster, now a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute, will also participate. ----------------------- FEATURED GUEST NEW BOOK from #1 Nationally Bestselling Author: The Dancer and The Devil April 6, 2022, Washington, D.C.—Communism must kill what it cannot control. So, for a century, it has killed artists, writers, musicians, and even dancers. It kills them secretly, using bioweapons and poison to escape accountability. Among its victims was Anna Pavlova, history's greatest dancer, who was said to have God-given wings and feet that never touched the ground. But she defied Stalin, and for that she had to die. Her sudden death in Paris in 1931 was a mystery until now. The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic by nationally bestselling author John O'Neill and international lawyer Sarah Wynne traces Marxism's century-long fascination with bioweapons, from the Soviets' leak of pneumonic plague in 1939 that nearly killed Stalin to leaks of anthrax at Kiev in 1972 and Yekaterinburg in 1979; from the leak of a flu in northeast China in 1977 that killed millions to the catastrophic COVID-19 leak from biolabs in Wuhan, China. Marxism's dark past must not be a parent to the world's dark future. COMMUNIST CHINA PLAYED WITH FIRE AND THE WORLD IS BURNING Nearly ten million people have died so far from the mysterious COVID-19 virus. These dead follow a long line of thousands of other brave souls stretching back nearly a century who also suffered mysterious "natural" deaths, including dancers, writers, saints, and heroes. These honored dead should not be forgotten by an amnesiac government trying to avoid the inconvenient truth. The dead and those who remember and loved them deserve answers to two great questions. How? Why? The Dancer and the Devil answers these questions. It tracks a century of Soviet and then Chinese Communist poisons and bioweapons through their development and intentional use on talented artists and heroes like Anna Pavlova, Maxim Gorky, Raoul Wallenberg, and Alexei Navalny. It then tracks leaks of bioweapons beginning in Saratov, Russia, in 1939 and Soviet Yekaterinburg in 1979 through Chinese leaks concluding with the recent concealed leak of the manufactured bioweapon COVID-19 from the military lab in Wuhan, China. Stalin, Putin, and Xi, perpetrators of these vast crimes against humanity itself, should not be allowed to escape responsibility. This book assembles the facts on these cowardly murderers, calling them to account for their heartless crimes against man culminating in COVID-19.

Reading Envy
Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction

Reading Envy

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022


Lauren W. will be co-hosting this non-fiction quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We share books we have already read and freely recommend, and also chat about the piles and shelves of books we are considering. Let us know your recommendations and where you hope to start in the comments, or join the conversation in Goodreads.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books we can recommend: Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi by TeffiSecondhand Timeby Svetlana AlexievichThe Unwomanly Face of Warby Svetlana AlexievichLast Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Pevear & VolokhonskyZinky Boysby Svetlana AlexievichVoices of Chernobyl (also titled Chernobyl Prayer) by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith GessenOther Russias by Victoria Lomasko, translated by Thomas CampbellThe Future is History by Masha Gessen Never Rememberby Masha Gessen, photography by Misha FriedmanWhere the Jews Aren't by Masha Gessen Pushkin's Children by Tatyana Tolstaya The Slynx by Tatyana TolstayaImperium by Ryszard Kapucinski, translated by Klara GlowczewskaA Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy DronfieldPutin Country by Anne GarrelsLetters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke Sovietistan by Erika Fatland The Commissar Vanishes by David King Gulag by Anne Applebaum The Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum The Magical Chorus by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina Bouis  Shostaskovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov The Tiger by John Vaillant Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut Please to the Table by Anya von Bremzen Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen Books we are considering: All Lara's Wars by Wojchiech Jagielski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesGulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Eric Ericson (there is a unabridged 1800+ pg, and an author approved abridged version, 400-some pages) Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, translated by Paul Stevenson, Max Hayward Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, translated by John GladRiot Days by Maria AlyokhinaSpeak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov The Life Written by Himself by Avvakum Petrov My Childhood by Maxim Gorky Teffi: A Life of Letters and Laughter by Edythe Haber Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam, tr. Max Hayward The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy by Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait. A Russian diary: a journalist's final account of life, corruption, and death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya Notes on Russian Literature by F.M. DostoevskyThe Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece by Kevin Birmingham The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin BirminghamLess than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky Tolstoy Together by Yiyun Li The Border by Erika Fatland Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder The Last Empire: Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii PlokhyThe Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii PlokhyChernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii PlokhyNuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii PlokhyMan with the Poison Gun: a Cold War Spy Story by Serhii PlokhyBabi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov, tr. David Floyd Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster by Kate Brown Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate BrownA Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland by Kate BrownOctober: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev Across the Ussuri Kray by Vladimir Arsenyev, translated by Slaght An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army by Vasily GrossmanThe Road by Vasily GrossmanStalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and Depraved of Chernobyl by Markiyan Kamysh Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia by David Greene Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine & beyond by Olia HerculesRed Sands by Caroline EdenBlack Sea by Caroline Eden Tasting Georgia by Carla Capalbo  Other mentions:PEN list of writers against PutinNew Yorker article about Gessen siblings Thanksgivukkah 2013  League of Kitchens - Uzbek lessonLeague of Kitchens - Russian lessonMasha Gessen on Ezra Klein podcast, March 2022Related episodes:Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella) Episode 084 - A Worthy Tangent with Bryan Alexander Episode 138 - Shared Landscape with Lauren Weinhold Episode 237 - Reading Goals 2022Episode 243 - Russian Novel Speed Date Stalk us online:Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia)Lauren at GoodreadsLauren is @end.notes on InstagramJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org.

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Success Made to Last
Success' Author's Corner with John O'Neill and Sarah Wynne-The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic

Success Made to Last

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2022 26:52


Authors John O'Neill and Sarah Wynne debut The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic. Communism must kill what it cannot control. So for a century, it has killed artists, writers, musicians, and even dancers. It kills them secretly, using bioweapons and poison to escape accountability. Among its victims was Anna Pavlova, history's greatest dancer, who was said to have God-given wings and feet that never touched the ground. But she defied Stalin, and for that she had to die. Her sudden death in Paris in 1931 was a mystery until now. The Dancer and the Devil traces Marxism's century-long fascination with bioweapons, from the Soviets' leak of pneumonic plague in 1939 that nearly killed Stalin to leaks of anthrax at Kiev in 1972 and Yekaterinburg in 1979; from the leak of a flu in northeast China in 1977 that killed millions to the catastrophic COVID-19 leak from biolabs in Wuhan, China. Marxism's dark past must not be a parent to the world's dark future.COMMUNIST CHINA PLAYED WITH FIRE AND THE WORLD IS BURNINGNearly ten million people have died so far from the mysterious Covid-19 virus. These dead follow a long line of thousands of other brave souls stretching back nearly a century who also suffered mysterious “natural” deaths, including dancers, writers, saints and heroes. These honored dead should not be forgotten by amnesiac government trying to avoid inconvenient truth. The dead and those who remember and loved them deserve answers to two great questions. How? Why?The Dancer and the Devil answers these questions. It tracks a century of Soviet and then Chinese Communist poisons and bioweapons through their development and intentional use on talented artists and heroes like Anna Pavlova, Maxim Gorky, Raoul Wallenberg and Alexis Navalny. It then tracks leaks of bioweapons beginning in Saratov, Russia in 1939 and Soviet Yekaterinburg in 1979 through Chinese leaks concluding in the recent concealed leak of the manufactured bioweapon Covid-19 from the military lab in Wuhan, China. Stalin, Putin, and Xi, perpetrators of these vast crimes against humanity itself, should not be allowed to escape responsibility. This book assembles the facts on these cowardly murderers, calling them to account for their heartless crimes against man concluding in Covid-19.

Hôm nay ngày gì?
28 tháng 3 là ngày gì? Hôm nay là sinh nhật của Lady Gaga

Hôm nay ngày gì?

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2022 3:21


28 tháng 3 là ngày gì? Hôm nay là sinh nhật của Lady Gaga SỰ KIỆN 1910 - Henri Fabre trở thành người đầu tiên lái thủy phi cơ Fabre Hydravion , sau khi cất cánh từ một đường băng gần nước Pháp. 1842 - Buổi hòa nhạc đầu tiên của Dàn nhạc Giao hưởng Vienna , do Otto Nicolai chỉ huy . [12] 1930 – Hai thành phố lớn của Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ là Constantinopolis và Angora đổi tên thành Istanbul và Ankara 1863 –Tổ chức "Lễ đặt viên đá đầu tiên" xây dựng nhà thờ Saigon ở Việt Nam bằng gỗ bên bờ "Kinh Lớn". Sinh 1986 - Lady Gaga, ca sĩ, nhạc sĩ người Mỹ gốc Ý 1836 - Frederick Pabst , nhà sản xuất bia người Mỹ gốc Đức, thành lập Công ty sản xuất bia Pabst (mất năm 1904) [56] 1868 - Maxim Gorky, tác gia người Nga (m. 1936) 1979 - Park Chae-rim, nữ diễn viên người Hàn Quốc Mất 2020 - Mai Phương, diễn viên người Việt Nam (s. 1985) 2020 - Phong Nhã, nhạc sĩ người Việt Nam (s. 1924) 1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, nhà soạn nhạc, nghệ sĩ dương cầm người Nga (s. 1873) Chương trình "Hôm nay ngày gì" hiện đã có mặt trên Youtube, Facebook và Spotify: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aweektv - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AWeekTV - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rC4CgZNV6tJpX2RIcbK0J - Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../h%C3%B4m-nay.../id1586073418 #aweektv #28thang3 #LadyGaga #Gorky #maiphuong #Rachmaninoff Các video đều thuộc quyền sở hữu của Adwell jsc (adwell.vn), mọi hành động sử dụng lại nội dung của chúng tôi đều không được phép. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aweek-tv/message

Gresham College Lectures
Prokofiev The Soviet Artist

Gresham College Lectures

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2022 74:50 Transcription Available


This lecture will follow the tortuous path of Prokofiev's transformation into a Soviet artist. Prokofiev had pursued his career abroad and returned to (Soviet) Russia as a major international celebrity. Even though he was willing, in principle, to write “music for the people”, he found it very difficult to meet the precise demands of the state. Prokofiev was one of the most highly honoured Soviet artists, but he was still hounded into near silence towards the end of his life.During the lecture, the Bodman String Quartet performs Prokofiev's String Quartet No. 2:Polina Makhina (violin)Mila Ferramosca (violin)Charles Whittaker (viola)Laura Armstrong (cello) A lecture by Marina Frolova-WalkerThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/soviet-prokofievGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.ukTwitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollegeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

Gresham College Lectures
Terror and the Rule of Law

Gresham College Lectures

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2022 65:54 Transcription Available


The Revolutionary tribunals in 1790s Paris; the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s; and the prosecution of conspirators in the assassination attempt on Hitler by the so-called “People's Court”, are well-known examples of the way the law and its processes can be misused in totalitarian societies. These were trials designed to terrorize the population and solidify the power of the state. This lecture will explore how the courts can be the vehicles of despotic power.A lecture by Thomas Grant QCThe transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/terror-lawGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.ukTwitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollegeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

The CodeX Cantina
Twenty-Six and a Girl by Maxim Gorky - Short Story Summary, Analysis, Review

The CodeX Cantina

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2021 21:39


Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Today we look at Russia's Maxim Gorky (Maksim Gorky) and "Twenty-Six and One" (Twenty-Six and a Girl) which was published in 1899. A great piece that shows the plight of the working life under the Russian Empire at the time. Possible influences and interpretations of religion in here as well. I hope you enjoy the piece! Our version was translated by Ivan Strannik. Maxim Gorky Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4yTAi9Fzio&list=PLHg_kbfrA7YB41-cMB7W8Ol8F4Of-vTKe ✨Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Submit an entry via the Wheel of Destiny on Patreon.

Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine
THE BOMBAY PRINCE by Sujata Massey, read by Sneha Mathan

Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2021 7:30


With her easy to listen to voice, and her subtly changing accents and rhythm for the Indian and British characters, Mathan performs the third in the Perveen Mistry series. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Robin Whitten discuss this series that evokes the feel of the heat of Bombay. Mistry, the only female lawyer in India, seeks justice for a female Parsi student found dead on the day of Prince Edward VIII's arrival in Bombay, November 1921. Massey paints detailed pictures of a city divided by religions and dominated by British rule. Listeners will find themselves engaged with the well-written and well-performed invitation into Mistry's complex world. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Recorded Books. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Support for Behind the Mic comes from Naxos AudioBooks. Read by Nicholas Boulton, MY CHILDHOOD is the first in an autobiographical trilogy by the Russian writer and five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Gorky's depiction of 19th-century Russia through the eyes of his younger self is remarkable. As he recalls memories of his youth, contrasting themes and emotions are revealed, from barbaric joy to dark gloom, genuine cruelty and saint-like forbearance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ciampa and Klein: The Knight Rider Years
#135 - Maxim Gorky Gerkins (Airwolf S2E12)

Ciampa and Klein: The Knight Rider Years

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2021 95:02


Archangel joins us for this week's episode which sees Hawke and Caitlin face off with the Russians to find an antidote for a virus that's killing everyone. It's always a good time when Archangel shows up!Episode Title: Condemned Original Airdate: January 5th, 1985-----Airwolf Years Theme Song by: Steve Corning, http://thinkfishtank.comAirwolf Years Logo Design by: Luke Larsson, http://www.meaningfullymaed.comFollow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ciampakleinInstagram: @airwolfyearsTwitter: @AirWolfPodEmail us: letusblowyourmind@gmail.comCall our Hotline: (207) 835-1954Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts!-----Find Courtney's website and podcasts below:https://traviandesigns.com/Courtney's Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29282112/chapters/71907822 Courtney's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7mBU2OeCLxPmUuQ24eON6A60 Seconds To Comply: https://60-seconds-to-comply.simplecast.comCovenant Minute: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/covenant-minute/id1332252643-----The Airwolf Years is a proud member of The Podfix Network Check us out and all the other amazing podcasts at www.podfixnetwork.comInstagram: @official_podfixTwitter: @podfixFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/podfixnetwork

For Reading Out Loud
Maxim Gorky, One Autumn Night

For Reading Out Loud

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2021 26:48


An unforgettable story by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky, five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Podcast Teman Buku
Review Si Tukang Onar, Maxim Gorky | Diterjemahkan oleh Eka Kurniawan

Podcast Teman Buku

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2021 8:58


Kali ini aku nge-review buku klasik lagi dari Maxim Gorky dengan gaya cerpen realisme sosialis. Yang paling menarik, buku ini diterjemahkan oleh Eka Kurniawan --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ikari/support

All Bad Things - A Disaster Podcast
Episode 196: The Maxim Gorky

All Bad Things - A Disaster Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2021 97:05


David and Rachel discuss an early Russian documentary/stunt flight gone awry. Research courtesy of Aces California.

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
Into the Depths: Kentucky Route Zero - Part 3

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2021 108:34


In the third installment of our Kentucky Route Zero miniseries, we take a seat for The Entertainment interlude, before exploring the physical manifestation of debt in Act III. With recurring guest co-hosts Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux, and bonus guest Sarah Elmaleh! Show notes: Kentucky Route Zero Stephanie Boluk  Patrick LeMieux Sarah Elmaleh Giving Games a Voice with Sarah Elmaleh Resonance game The Consolidated Power Company The Entertainment paperback Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh The Last of Us Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Julee Cruise, Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart on Twin Peaks Colossal Cave Adventure Junebug, Too Late to Love You Vannevar Bush, As We May Think Steve Russell et al., Space War! Joseph Weizenbaum, Eliza/Doctor Eliza   Douglas Engelbart, The Mother All Demos   Ted Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines Roberta and Ken Williams, Mystery House David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years IF titles: the next generation of generation

Adbi Duniya
Shaadi l Maxim Gorky

Adbi Duniya

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2021 9:50


We are uploading this short story in Tasneef Haider's voice.

Kathaipoma Tamil Audio Books
அந்தப்பையன் - தமிழில் : புதுமைப்பித்தன் The Little boy - Maxim Gorky Narrated by Prabakaran.Raju

Kathaipoma Tamil Audio Books

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 8:58


The Little boy - Maxim Gorky அந்தப்பையன் - தமிழில் : புதுமைப்பித்தன் Narrated by Prabakaran.Raju Photo by Jean soumet dutertre on Unsplash

Adbi Duniya
26 Mazdoor Aur Ek Doshiza ll Short Story ll Maxim Gorky ll Urdu Trans ll Saadat Hasan Manto

Adbi Duniya

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 33:51


We are uploading this short story in Tasneef Haider's voice.

Free Audiobooks
Mr Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells - Book 11, Part 1

Free Audiobooks

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 347:37


Mr Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells - Book 11, Part 1 Title: Mr Britling Sees It Through Overview: Mr. Britling Sees It Through is H.G. Wells's "masterpiece of the wartime experience in southeastern England." The novel was published in September 1916. Mr. Britling Sees It Through tells the story of a renowned writer, Mr. Britling, a protagonist who is quite evidently an alter ego of the author. The garrulous, easy-going Mr. Britling lives with family and friends in the fictional village of Matching's Easy, located in the county of Essex, northeast of London. The novel is divided into three parts. Book the First, entitled "Matching's Easy At Ease," is set in June–July 1914 and is at first narrated from the point of view of an American, Mr. Direck, who visits Mr. Britling's establishment in Dower House and falls in love with Cissie, the sister of Mr. Britling's secretary's wife. Also in the company are Mr. Britling's son Hugh and a visiting German student, Herr Heinrich, who is forced to leave when war breaks out. Book the Second, "Matching's Easy at War," covers August 1914 to October 1915, when Mr. Britling's son Hugh is killed at the front. In Book, the Third, "The Testament of Matching's Easy," Mr. Britling learns that Herr Heinrich has also been killed, and writes a long letter to the dead German soldier's parents. Mr. Britling is a complex character whose conflicts are the chief concern of the plot. Mrs. Britling (Edith) runs the household, but she does not engage her husband's affections entirely. On the one hand, he is involved in "his eighth love affair" with Mrs. Harrowdean (though this affair does not survive the beginning of the war). At a deeper level, he feels" profoundly incompatible" with Edith, his present wife, whom he married after the death of his first wife Mary, with whom he had been "passionately happy. His deep love of the son they had together, Hugh, is inflected by his continued emotional attachment to the memory of his first wife. Mr. Britling Sees It Through is of note for its extended exposition of Wells's non-sectarian religious faith: "Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end. He may have his friendships, his partial loyalties, his scraps of honor. But all these things fall into place and life falls into place only with God. Only with God. God, who fights through men against Blind Force and Night and Non-Existence; who is the end, who is the meaning." The novel was used as a text at chaplains' school and was embraced by military officers and religious leaders. Mr. Britling Sees It Through was one of the most popular novels in the United Kingdom and Australia during World War I. Wells's American publisher paid £20,000 for it. Maxim Gorky called the novel "the finest, most courageous, truthful, and humane book written in Europe in the course of this accursed war . . at a time of universal barbarism and cruelty, your book is an important and truly humane work." Published: 1916 Author: H. G. Wells Genre: Literary Fiction, War & Military Fiction, Published 1900 Onward, Novel Episode: Mr Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells - Book 11, Part 1 Part: 1 of 3 Length Part: 5:47:03 Book: 11 Length Book: 17:10:18 Episodes: 1 - 12 of 35 Narrator: Peter Eastman Language: English Edition: Unabridged Audiobook Keywords: adventure, hero, struggle, camaraderie, social commentary, history, satire, futurist, utopian, aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, technology Credits: All LibriVox Recordings are in the Public Domain. Wikipedia (c) Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. WOMBO Dream. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/support

Free Audiobooks
Mr Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells - Book 11, Part 3

Free Audiobooks

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 325:23


Mr Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells - Book 11, Part 3 Title: Mr Britling Sees It Through Overview: Mr. Britling Sees It Through is H.G. Wells's "masterpiece of the wartime experience in southeastern England." The novel was published in September 1916. Mr. Britling Sees It Through tells the story of a renowned writer, Mr. Britling, a protagonist who is quite evidently an alter ego of the author. The garrulous, easy-going Mr. Britling lives with family and friends in the fictional village of Matching's Easy, located in the county of Essex, northeast of London. The novel is divided into three parts. Book the First, entitled "Matching's Easy At Ease," is set in June–July 1914 and is at first narrated from the point of view of an American, Mr. Direck, who visits Mr. Britling's establishment in Dower House and falls in love with Cissie, the sister of Mr. Britling's secretary's wife. Also in the company are Mr. Britling's son Hugh and a visiting German student, Herr Heinrich, who is forced to leave when war breaks out. Book the Second, "Matching's Easy at War," covers August 1914 to October 1915, when Mr. Britling's son Hugh is killed at the front. In Book, the Third, "The Testament of Matching's Easy," Mr. Britling learns that Herr Heinrich has also been killed, and writes a long letter to the dead German soldier's parents. Mr. Britling is a complex character whose conflicts are the chief concern of the plot. Mrs. Britling (Edith) runs the household, but she does not engage her husband's affections entirely. On the one hand, he is involved in "his eighth love affair" with Mrs. Harrowdean (though this affair does not survive the beginning of the war). At a deeper level, he feels" profoundly incompatible" with Edith, his present wife, whom he married after the death of his first wife Mary, with whom he had been "passionately happy. His deep love of the son they had together, Hugh, is inflected by his continued emotional attachment to the memory of his first wife. Mr. Britling Sees It Through is of note for its extended exposition of Wells's non-sectarian religious faith: "Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end. He may have his friendships, his partial loyalties, his scraps of honor. But all these things fall into place and life falls into place only with God. Only with God. God, who fights through men against Blind Force and Night and Non-Existence; who is the end, who is the meaning." The novel was used as a text at chaplains' school and was embraced by military officers and religious leaders. Mr. Britling Sees It Through was one of the most popular novels in the United Kingdom and Australia during World War I. Wells's American publisher paid £20,000 for it. Maxim Gorky called the novel "the finest, most courageous, truthful, and humane book written in Europe in the course of this accursed war . . at a time of universal barbarism and cruelty, your book is an important and truly humane work." Published: 1916 Author: H. G. Wells Genre: Literary Fiction, War & Military Fiction, Published 1900 Onward, Novel Episode: Mr Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells - Book 11, Part 3 Part: 3 of 3 Length Part: 5:24:48 Book: 11 Length Book: 17:10:18 Episodes: 25 - 35 of 35 Narrator: Peter Eastman Language: English Edition: Unabridged Audiobook Keywords: adventure, hero, struggle, camaraderie, social commentary, history, satire, futurist, utopian, aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, technology Credits: All LibriVox Recordings are in the Public Domain. Wikipedia (c) Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. WOMBO Dream. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/support

Free Audiobooks
Mr Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells - Book 11, Part 2

Free Audiobooks

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 359:03


Mr Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells - Book 11, Part 2 Title: Mr Britling Sees It Through Overview: Mr. Britling Sees It Through is H.G. Wells's "masterpiece of the wartime experience in southeastern England." The novel was published in September 1916. Mr. Britling Sees It Through tells the story of a renowned writer, Mr. Britling, a protagonist who is quite evidently an alter ego of the author. The garrulous, easy-going Mr. Britling lives with family and friends in the fictional village of Matching's Easy, located in the county of Essex, northeast of London. The novel is divided into three parts. Book the First, entitled "Matching's Easy At Ease," is set in June–July 1914 and is at first narrated from the point of view of an American, Mr. Direck, who visits Mr. Britling's establishment in Dower House and falls in love with Cissie, the sister of Mr. Britling's secretary's wife. Also in the company are Mr. Britling's son Hugh and a visiting German student, Herr Heinrich, who is forced to leave when war breaks out. Book the Second, "Matching's Easy at War," covers August 1914 to October 1915, when Mr. Britling's son Hugh is killed at the front. In Book, the Third, "The Testament of Matching's Easy," Mr. Britling learns that Herr Heinrich has also been killed, and writes a long letter to the dead German soldier's parents. Mr. Britling is a complex character whose conflicts are the chief concern of the plot. Mrs. Britling (Edith) runs the household, but she does not engage her husband's affections entirely. On the one hand, he is involved in "his eighth love affair" with Mrs. Harrowdean (though this affair does not survive the beginning of the war). At a deeper level, he feels" profoundly incompatible" with Edith, his present wife, whom he married after the death of his first wife Mary, with whom he had been "passionately happy. His deep love of the son they had together, Hugh, is inflected by his continued emotional attachment to the memory of his first wife. Mr. Britling Sees It Through is of note for its extended exposition of Wells's non-sectarian religious faith: "Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end. He may have his friendships, his partial loyalties, his scraps of honor. But all these things fall into place and life falls into place only with God. Only with God. God, who fights through men against Blind Force and Night and Non-Existence; who is the end, who is the meaning." The novel was used as a text at chaplains' school and was embraced by military officers and religious leaders. Mr. Britling Sees It Through was one of the most popular novels in the United Kingdom and Australia during World War I. Wells's American publisher paid £20,000 for it. Maxim Gorky called the novel "the finest, most courageous, truthful, and humane book written in Europe in the course of this accursed war . . at a time of universal barbarism and cruelty, your book is an important and truly humane work." Published: 1916 Author: H. G. Wells Genre: Literary Fiction, War & Military Fiction, Published 1900 Onward, Novel Episode: Mr Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells - Book 11, Part 2 Part: 2 of 3 Length Part: 5:58:28 Book: 11 Length Book: 17:10:18 Episodes: 13 - 24 of 35 Narrator: Peter Eastman Language: English Edition: Unabridged Audiobook Keywords: adventure, hero, struggle, camaraderie, social commentary, history, satire, futurist, utopian, aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, technology Credits: All LibriVox Recordings are in the Public Domain. Wikipedia (c) Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. WOMBO Dream. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/support

Tipsy Tolstoy: Russian Literature for the Inebriated
Ep07 - Twenty-Six Men and a Girl

Tipsy Tolstoy: Russian Literature for the Inebriated

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2021 31:32


Shownotes: This week Matt and Cameron read “Twenty-Six Men and a Girl,” by Maxim Gorky. Born Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, it was only when he had begun publishing fiction in his early twenties that Gorky would adopt his later-famous pseudonym, likely as a reflection of the critical lens he took in his analysis of the then-Russian Empire (‘Gorky,’ in Russian, means bitter). This story, published in 1899, serves as the prototype of a genre which would later be named “social realism, “ which focused on the struggles of working-class people to expose the structures of power which caused their conditions. Major themes: the alienation of labor, idealization/fetishization, pretzels. 17:00 - In fact, by 1871, every work by Karl Marx was banned with the exception of Das Kapital. In the words of one of the official readers in the office of Censors of Domestic Publications, Das Kapital was “a colossal mass of abstruse, somewhat obscure politico-economic argumentation.” He would go on to say that “[i]t can be confidently stated that in Russia few will read it and fewer will understand it.” As cited in “Das Kapital comes to Russia,” by Albert Resis. https://doi.org/10.2307/2493377 Follow us on Instagram, check out our website, if you’re so inclined, check out our Patreon! The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and YouTube.

Dsangkakata
Cerpen oleh Maxim Gorky (terjemahan oleh Eka Kurniawan): Pemogokan

Dsangkakata

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2020 18:11


Dari Italia gaes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alpistasedo-pelawi/support

Adbi Duniya
Ghaddar Ki Maan ll Short Story ll Maxim Gorky

Adbi Duniya

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2020 18:32


We are uploading a short story written by Maxim Gorky in the voice of Tasneef Haidar.

Sanshiro's Boys - Akira Kurosawa Retrospective

Akira Kurosawa made a more successful return to Russian literature with The Lower Depths. Released the same year as Throne of Blood, yet quite the opposite in scale, this adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s early 1900s play features a strong ensemble of Kurosawa regulars for an atmospheric examination of poverty in Edo Period Japan. The Lower Depths is more loosely plotted than his other films, so this was certainly a difficult one to talk about, but Sanshiro’s Boys are going to try! Listen here: https://linktr.ee/sanshirosboys

Oeuvre Busters
Talking about The Lower Depths (1957)!

Oeuvre Busters

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2020 48:43


On this episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George plumb the depths to discuss Akira Kurosawa's The Lower Depths, starring, of course, the studly Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed: Maxim Gorky, wookie lookalike; fuck Richard Crenna; 24-hour TangoMan; Stalin and how he murked a few folks; Maxim Gorky, time traveler. Also, be obnoxious, go ahead!Topics not discussed? Wilson Harris's sublime Guyana Quartet, essential texts of the post-colonial canon. Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get bonus episodes and the occasional film essay by George. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Fruitless Meditations
Maxim Gorky - How Giovanni Became a Socialist. میکسم گورکی - اطالوی کہانیاں - گیوانی سوشلسٹ کیسے بنا؟

Fruitless Meditations

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2020 18:35


Maxim Gorky - How Giovanni Became a Socialist. میکسم گورکی - اطالوی کہانیاں - گیوانی سوشلسٹ کیسے بنا؟

Nuzzle House audiobooks
Leaves of Glen Reads: ‘Her Lover’ by Maxim Gorky

Nuzzle House audiobooks

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 20:35


The story of an unattractive woman who is lonely, but it doesn’t matter since she suddenly winds up in prison for no reason and dies.Go on, read it yourself:
https://bookshop.org/books/best-russian-short-stories-9798645523077/9798645523077 Be sure to check out "Besties with Katie & Emily" podcast:https://twitter.com/bwkepodhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/besties-with-katie-emily/id1430595555  Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

Nuzzle House audiobooks
Leaves of Glen Reads: ‘One Autumn Night’ by Maxim Gorky

Nuzzle House audiobooks

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2020 29:54


Another week, another depressing Russian short story. This one about a man who spends the night homeless, and gets hot kisses from a homeless lady.Go on, read it yourself:https://bookshop.org/books/best-russian-short-stories-9798645523077/9798645523077Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info.

1001 Greatest Love Stories
ONE AUTUMN NIGHT by MAXIM GORKY

1001 Greatest Love Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2020 27:28


An 18 year old young man, broke, beaten, and searching for food near a river comes upon a young woman who has been a victim of abuse and is also searching for food. The man learns the lesson of love and kindness while spending a cold and rainy night beneath a washed up boat. NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: ​​https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr.  Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone.

Hallowed Ground StoryCast
The Lives of Others

Hallowed Ground StoryCast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2019 65:19


Anya and Alan talk about the award-winning German-language thriller “The Lives of Others”. We loved this tightly plotted story about Art and Fascism in the 1980s. It resonated with the politics of our time, the fights over the importance of storytelling in culture, and why the truth is worth standing up for.Measures of Truth is a podcast about His Dark Materials- both the novels and the BBC TV show.What are the “Stasi”?Socialism has been co-opted by political operators that are not interested in the values that define the ideology. Freedom and independence for working class people, with no central authority that owns property. Most of what has been called Socialism has either been Fascism or Social Democracy.Vladimir Lenin was a hero to the East German government officials, and would have been lionized in bad plays like Weisler’s.Lenin’s quote about ‘Appassionanata’ was given second-hand years after the fact and might not be true at all. Here is the full quote as related by Maxim Gorky in Georg Lukács' "Lenin - Theoretician of Practice": “I know the Appassionata inside out and yet I am willing to listen to it every day. It is wonderful, ethereal music. On hearing it I proudly, maybe somewhat naively, think: See! people are able to produce such marvels!” He then winked, laughed and added sadly: “I’m often unable to listen to music, it gets on my nerves, I would like to stroke my fellow beings and whisper sweet nothings in their ears for being able to produce such beautiful things in spite of the abominable hell they are living in. However, today one shouldn’t caress anybody - for people will only bite off your hand; strike, without pity, although theoretically we are against any kind of violence. Umph, it is, in fact, an infernally difficult task!”The history of Prostitution in the German Democratic Republic.What’s a Toxic Masculinity?Bertolt Brecht had certain qualities in common with the playwright in the film. He was a playwright who was a loyal Marxist in East Germany who lived with his lead actress, Marianne Zoff.“The Power of the Powerless” was written by playwright Václav Havel about the USSR in Poland during the 1970s. Alan brought this essay up in the fifth episode of Measures of Truth’s coverage of ‘The Golden Compass’ which was about Chapters 18-20.What is Post Truth?“Man” as a gender-neutral word.You have to give your ID to buy allergy medicine?Haiku:Susan-You’re a fan like us,Locke- Buffy- Chidi- Lyra,So many stories…Sarah-Storms broke over us,We fought all broken-hearted,He Rā Ki TuaIf you would like a haiku, please leave a review on Apple Podcast!Next time we are watching The Mexican.Our theme song is Background Blues Guitar by Blowball Music.Please visit our website to find out what we will be talking about in the future. If you would like to give us feedback, please email us: contact@hallowedgroundmedia.comFollow the podcast on Twitter @HGStoryCast, follow Anya @StrangelyLiterl

Saturday Review
Play Well, Monos, Vassa, Elizabeth Strout, The Accident

Saturday Review

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2019 46:52


Play Well is a new exhibition opening at the Wellcome Collection in London, aiming to explore how play transforms both childhood and society. On a mountaintop in Colombia, eight children with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow, communicated with over the radio by a threatening commander. That's the basic plot of a new film Monos, which has won awards at international festivals. Vassa is the new production at London's Almeida Theatre, adapted from Maxim Gorky's play by Mike Bartlett and starring Siobhan Redmond. Elizabeth Strout's new novel Olive Again reintroduces readers to Olive Kitteridge, from her best-selling 2008 novel. Older and (maybe) wiser, she's as blunt and delightful as ever as she copes with a second marriage. The Accident is a new series beginning on Channel 4 written by Jack Thorne and starring Sarah Lancashire. Presented by Emma Woolf, the reviewers are Pat Kane, Alex Clark and Sally Gardner. The producer is Oliver Jones. Podcast Extra recommendations: Sally: Mystify Pat: The Emotional Mind by Stephen T Asma and Rami Gabriel Alex: The Reluctant Landlord on TV and the Kilkenny One Act Play festival Emma: George Gissing

Stories of Communism
Stories of Communism 6: Willful Ignorance

Stories of Communism

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2018 11:17


The story of author Maxim Gorky's visit to the Gulag, which began as comedy but ended in tragedy. (Send feedback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

Stories of Communism
Stories of Communism 6: Willful Ignorance

Stories of Communism

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2018 11:17


The story of author Maxim Gorky's visit to the Gulag, which began as comedy but ended in tragedy. (Send feedback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

Saturday Live
Robert 'Judge' Rinder; Amelia Dalton; Professor Clare Brant; Daragh O'Malley.

Saturday Live

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2017 85:12


Presenter and barrister Robert 'Judge' Rinder; actor Daragh O'Malley; Clare Brant, professor of 18th century literature and culture and ship's captain Amelia Dalton join Aasmah Mir and the Revd Richard Coles. Robert 'Judge' Rinder is a criminal law barrister and television court judge who is best known for his role on the reality courtroom series Judge Rinder - the British version of the American show Judge Judy. He came to widespread attention performing on Strictly come Dancing in 2016. He presents Judge Rinder's Crime Stories on ITV. Daragh O'Malley is an actor who stars in Maxim Gorky's the Last Ones at the Jermyn Street Theatre. He is best known for his role as Patrick Harper opposite Sean Bean in the television series Sharpe from 1992 to 2008. His film and television roles range from Withnail and I to The Long Good Friday and Waking The Dead to Silent Witness while his theatre work includes Dancing at Lughnasa and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The Last Ones is at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London. Clare Brant is professor of 18th century literature and culture at King's College London. She has curated Dear Diary: A Celebration of Diaries and their Digital Descendants. The exhibition explores what motivates diarists and charts the ways in which paper diaries have been joined by phones and tablets as our means of keeping track of daily life. Dear Diary is at King's College London in Somerset House. After the death of her son, Amelia Dalton took a step that would change her life forever. She transformed a neglected Arctic fishing boat into a chic expedition ship to run cruises to the Western Isles. Along the way, she had to navigate bloody-minded fisherman, red tape, bank loans and shareholders - and gained the respect of the tough, hard-working island community. She's written about her adventure in her book, Mistress and Commander, published by Sandstone Press. Also in the programme, writer Anthony Horowitz shares his Inheritance Tracks. Producer: Paula McGinley.

Morning Short
[Premiere] "Her Lover" By Maxim Gorky

Morning Short

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2017 13:47


Morning Short is back, with a third season of amazing curated short stories! Today’s episode is: A story written by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky, who created the socialist-realism literatary style. Learn more:http://listen.morningshort.com - Discuss:http://reddit.com/r/morningshort More Context: This particular story is gritty, but sweet. The characters (Theresa, the student) are imperfect and complex, but good at heart. There's a real humanity to them, which is why we selected it. Story Genres: Fiction, Literature, Russian, Soviet, Socialist Realism, Drama Famous books by this author: The Mother Children of the Sun My Childhood And many others. -----What is Morning Short? ------- Morning Short is a podcast and daily newsletter featuring amazing, curated short stories, handpicked for you. Our stories are like little audiobooks, and feature everything from romance, to sci-fi thrillers, to drama, and even detective/crime fiction. We sometimes even welcome special guests to our story, like Sherlock Holmes, everyone's favorite sleuth (or at least ours). Other popular genres are fantasy, comedy, satire, and tragedy. We even read some  narrative poetry sometimes! (Some say we're a bit like Audible for short stories) -----Why listen to Morning Short audiobooks? ------- Most of our readers just want a great story, every day or every week. They love the mystery aspect of it too, not knowing what story/genre/author will come next. Many readers use our service to improve their writing skills. We don't offer writing tips, but we feature a wide variety of legendary authors from around the world. Reading good literature is one of the best ways to improve your own writing skill. Others listen to us to improve their English. We're not an English-language course, but our stories are helpful for grasping idioms and english writing styles. They’re meant to entertain you while you commute or work out, help you improve your reading and writing skills, and generally just make you happier. Enjoy our amazing fiction! If you like the short audiobook format, let us know!

Witness History: Witness Archive 2015
The Controversial 'God of Vengeance'

Witness History: Witness Archive 2015

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2015 9:03


In 1923 the entire cast of a Yiddish play was arrested in New York and charged with staging an immoral performance. Written by the celebrated Polish-Jewish writer Sholem Asch, 'God of Vengeance' is set in a brothel and deals with themes such as prostitution, religion and corruption. David Mazower, the playwright's great-grandson, speaks about the controversy. (Photo: Sholem Asch, left, with Russian playwright Maxim Gorky,1920s. Courtesy of David Mazower)

Witness History: Archive 2014
The Mysterious Life and Loves of a Russian Baroness

Witness History: Archive 2014

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2014 8:53


Among the mourners at the funeral of the great Soviet writer, Maxim Gorky, in 1936 was a mysterious baroness. Moura Budberg had been Gorky's lover and, before that, the lover of a British secret agent who'd been thrown into a Soviet jail. Her extraordinary life led some to call her the Russian Mata Hari. But was she really a spy? (Photo: Baroness Moura Budberg. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What Makes Us Human with Jeremy Vine

Alexei Sayle, the godfather of alternative comedy, talks to Paddy O'Connell about serenity, consumerism and the 1000 year human experiment. And being named after Maxim Gorky.

Arts & Ideas
Night Waves - Morality and the Law

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2013 44:07


Anne McElvoy discusses ethics and the law after several politicians have complained recently about tax avoidance by big companies. To discuss are Geoffrey Robertson QC, Mark Littlewood and Angie Hobbs. Australian writer Andrew Upton talks about his sometimes controversial adaptations of classic Russian plays and explains to Anne why he inserted an egg fight into his recent production of Maxim Gorky's Children of the Sun. And writer Philip Hoare explores his fascination and fear of the sea when he talks to Anne about his new book; "The Sea Inside".

PZ's Podcast
Episode 121 - Hold That Ghost

PZ's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2012 35:26


Freedom and Love: Love can't exist from anything but, and Freedom can't result in anything but. This cast wants to consult St. Augustine, concerning human nature; and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, concerning intangibles. Maxim Gorky makes an appearance, too. I hope you'll like what he says.

Ghost and Horror Stories

This story was written by Maxim GorkyThis part is called, The Devil by Maxim GorkyRead by Miss AvariceyDownload the show