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La première question que nous avons à considérer aujourd’hui est celle-ci : L’émancipation des masses ouvrières pourra-t-elle être complète, tant que l’instruction que ces masses recevront sera inférieure à celle qui sera donnée...

Je ne suis ni un savant, ni un philosophe, ni même un écrivain de métier. J’ai écrit très peu dans ma vie et je ne l’ai jamais fait, pour ainsi dire, qu’à mon corps défendant, et seulement lorsqu’une conviction passionnée me forçait...

L'Association internationale des bourgeois démocrates, qui s'appelle «la Ligue internationale de la paix et de la liberté», vient de lancer son nouveau programme, ou plutôt elle vient de pousser son cri de détresse, un appel plutôt touchant à tous...

Czesław Miłosz, poet, literary critic, essayist and Nobel Laureate, is a familiar person to the Anglophone literary community. But American and British critics in the main are not very competent in the intimate features of Polish literary culture and have no access to the Polish language. This volume...

The book deals with the question of resistance to Soviet hegemony in Central Europe after 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. The political and cultural situation in the context of Central Europe is presented through the life and work of the Slovak dissident, the writer Dominik Tatarka,...

For more than three centuries, St. Petersburg, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's westward-oriented capital and as a visually stunning showcase of Russia's imperial ambitions, has been the country's most mythologized city. Like a museum piece, it has functioned as a site for preservation,...

This volume presents a number of contributions to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society held in Szczecin, Poland, October 26–28. The largest number of articles address issues related to the (morpho)syntactic level of language structure, and several papers describe results of...

Le 5 septembre eut lieu le combat de Schevardino ; le 6, pas un coup de fusil ne fut tiré de part ni d’autre, et le 7 vit la sanglante bataille de Borodino ! Pourquoi et comment ces batailles furent-elles livrées ? On se le demande avec stupeur, car elles ne pouvaient offrir d’avantages...

This book investigates the spectrum of meaning inherent in six orchestral works by Leoš Janáček. It codifies his compositional style, first through a thorough examination of its origins in folk music and speech-melody, then in discussions of the features of its melody and motivic techniques. His...

Un ermite vivait dans la forêt, sans avoir peur des bêtes fauves. L’ermite et les bêtes fauves conversaient ensemble et ils se comprenaient. Un jour, l’ermite s’était étendu sous un arbre ; là s’étaient aussi réunis, pour passer la nuit, un corbeau, un pigeon, un cerf et un serpent....

The book offers a novel attempt at recapitulating Gombrowicz’s aesthetics in the postmodern Anglo-American context. The research extends to English and American literary traditions in order to account for the ways the writer’s version of existentialism is interpreted in diverse contexts, generating...

Easy to make authentic, Ukrainian recipes from my mother’s kitchen are assembled in this ebook. Recipes include salads, soups, entrees and desserts such as borscht (beet soup), potato filled perogies, cabbage rolls, stuffed beet leaves, sour cream cucumber salad, Ukrainian sausage, kutya, meatballs,...

Zakuska precedes evening meals throughout the Soviet Union. Depending on the occasion, or the economic standing of the family, these "little bites" range from humble offerings of hard salami and bread to elaborate buffets complete with caviar and smoked salmon.