A brief look at the Babi and Bahai Faiths as an object of study in nineteenth century Russia and Britain -- Baron V.R. Rosen's archive in the Russian Academy of Sciences and this book -- From A.G. Tumanski's correspondence with V.R. Rosen -- Official reports and private letters …
"An uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors"--.
"Building that Bright Future examines letters and memoirs of Finnish North Americans to provide a rare glimpse of daily life in the 1930s from the edge of the Soviet Union."--.
"In 1919, Florence Deshon-tall, radical, and charismatic-was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to remain romantically involved with the well-known writer and socialist Max Eastman…
Collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum
This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and they reveal the composer's da…
"A systematic study of the role of the bishop in negotiating conflict within the church in the Mediterranean world of the seventh century, based on letters translated from Latin, Greek, and Syriac"--.
In 1980, Jacques Derrida published La carte postale: De Socrate à Freud et au-delà. At the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the English translation, Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida revisits this seminal work in Derrida's oeuvre. Derrida himself described The …
"Following the completion of his major novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Russian writer Leo Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis that led him to denounce the privileges of his social class and its attendant material wealth and embrace the simple rural life of the peasant…
