Brian Boeck: 2 books
by Brian Boeck
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.
Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov’s epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented...
Imperial Boundaries
Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Imperial Boundaries is a study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia's Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great. Brian Boeck connects the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman empires in the northern Black Sea basin to the social history of the Don Cossacks, who were transformed...