Andrew Baruch Wachtel: 2 books
by Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the...
by Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent conflict. The Balkans in World History re-defines...