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review 2015-12-30 15:04

bookshelves: published-2008, ukraine, series, spring-2013, fraudio, recreational-drugs, serial-killer, debut, slavic, gorefest, lifestyles-deathstyles, mystery-thriller, historical-fiction, families, winter-20152016, dec-2015-free-for-all, re-visit-2015

Read from April 14, 2013 to December 23, 2015

23.12.2015: Re-visit via the film

Had binned this but after such glowing reviews by trusted friends it went back on the shelves.

Read by Dennis Boutsikaris

Excellent mid three. #87 TBR Busting 2013

NEWS 15:04:2015 - Hollywood's Child 44 pulled in Russia after falling foul of culture ministry: Fears of censorship in Russia as Ridley Scott film about serial killer, starring Gary Oldman, withdrawn over ‘distortion of facts and interpretation of events’. Source

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review 2015-02-07 16:38

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Bettie's Books

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,Ralph Parker

bookshelves: re-read, published-1962, slavic, re-visit-2015, film-only, winter-20142015, nobel-laureate, prisoner

Recommended for: Laura, Wanda et al

Read from January 01, 1989 to February 07, 2015, read count: 2

Re-visit 2015 via film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqG1u...

Trivia from wiki: Finnish film director Jörn Donner tried to get the film to Finland, but the Finnish Board of Film banned the showing of the film. In 1972 Donner complained to Supreme Administrative Court of Finland. The Supreme Administrative Court voted for the banning 5-4 on 28 February 1972. When, in 1972 and 1974, Swedish television showed the film, the Swedish television mast on the Åland Islands was subsequently shut down during the movie to prevent Finns from seeing the film.

Director of the Finnish Board of Film Jerker Eeriksson said that the banning of the film was political because it harmed the Finnish-Soviet relationship. Director of the film Caspar Wrede, who then lived in England, refused to campaign against the banning in order to avoid bad publicity abroad.

The film was shown in Finland in 1993 and 1994 in the movie theater Orion in Helsinki, as well as in the cinema club in Vaasa. Finnish television showed the film in 1996 on the TV1 YLE channel.

First Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6th June 2003.
Rebroadcast on 7th September 2008 to mark Solzhenitsyn's death.
Recorded from BBC Listen Again with Audiob Hijack Pro.

One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich was a literary earthquake with profound political implications. At the height of the Cold War, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn exposed to the Soviet Union, and the world, the suffering which Stalin had imposed on his own people. Revealing the bitter conditions and arbitrary cruelties of the Soviet prison camps which became known as the Gulag Archipelago, the lies at the heart of Soviet history became impossible to hide.

re-read slavic published-1962

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review 2014-05-17 07:34

Crime and Punishment

Bettie's Books

bookshelves: teh-brillianz, slavic, absolute-favourites, re-visit-2014, re-read, re-visit-2013, spring-2014

Read from January 01, 1978 to May 17, 2014, read count: ad infinitum

Description: Raskolnikov, a former student who is morbidly self-obsessed, murders an old woman money-lender with a borrowed hatchet in a desperate attempt to free himself from poverty. From the opening pages Dostoyevsky attaches us unflinchingly to his intense and mysteriously anti-hero, creating a web of intimacy and tension which is increasingly claustrophobic. Crime and guilt - its traumatic and inevitable successor - are the central themes running through the novel and the notions of 'justifiable' murder and the worldly retribution are depicted with a deft and razor-sharp precision.

Crime and Punishment both haunts and disturbs, yet, as the critic John Jones wrote, it is 'the most accessible and exciting novel in the world'.

Many reads, and the Kingsley film is a perennial in our house. Now Brazilliant gives me the link to a 2002 BBC version

I'm in raptures... let's see how this pans out.

The massive dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral is made of 100 kilos of pure gold. Designed and built by French architect Auguste de Montferrand.

Great men are not aftraid to be criminals. Does Putin see himself as a great man?

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review 2014-01-12 11:04

The House by the Dvina

Bettie's Books

bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, published-1984, autobiography-memoir, autumn-2010, slavic, history, under-500-ratings, britain-scotland, paper-read, nonfiction

Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brazilliant Laura

Read from September 08 to 22, 2010

I remember the station. Nikolayevsky Vokzal, it was called in those days.

This is rich pickings indeed; thoroughly compelling and beautifully written, with memories through a young girl's eyes and laced with stories told by older generations.

Found by Gaeta:
Off The Page : Eugenie Fraser

'Drdushka decided to take a trip to the famous Solovetsky Monastry on the White Sea.'

autobiography-memoir autumn-2010 history one-penny-wonder published-1984 slavic

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review 2012-07-01 00:00

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The Dawn of Slavic: An Introduction to Slavic Philology - Alexander M. Schenker

I'm not sure I really think this is an introduction to Slavic philology; I'd rather say it's an excellent book of reference for when you want to check something OCS related. Reading it all in one go wasn't very exciting, partly because I am familiar with lots of the material already, and partly because there is just so much detail about for example vocabulary, scribes or monasteries. Brilliant for when you are working with something related to that and want to check it, but for just reading? Forgotten the second I start a with new sentence. I skimmed parts of the book, and a large section in the back is dedicated to OCS text samples with translations, which is excellent. There are very nice IE ending charts, and a thorough section on the missionary work of Constantine and Methodius. It's really the kind of book you should have on your bookshelf if you are interested in Slavic philology. You don't have to be a linguist to enjoy the book either, since Schenker is actually - wait for it - pedagogic! I know. Shocking.