Blogs about: Entries By Kirsty
Pablo Neruda: Confieso que he vivido / Memoirs
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kirstyjane wrote 7 months ago: Memoirs are not necessarily a good idea. At least, it’s often a bad idea to read them if you don … more »
Workers and Soldiers, Dogs and Cats: Mayakovsky's poetry for children
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kirstyjane wrote 1 week ago: In the introductory piece on Mayakovsky earlier in this series, we discovered that this chaotic and … more »
Restoring Grace, by Katie Fforde
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kirstyjane wrote 2 weeks ago: I am reviewing Restoring Grace - rather than one of Fforde’s more recent novels, or the brand … more »
Stalin's Russia, by Chris Ward
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kirstyjane wrote 3 weeks ago: But we need to remind ourselves of the point of academic history. It is not to establish a mythic t … more »
Lev Bronstein: A Life in Pictures
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kirstyjane wrote 1 month ago: I am a Trotsky specialist. Well, this is not entirely true. Technically, I am also a Bronstein spe … more »
The Paradise Will, by Elizabeth Hanbury
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kirstyjane wrote 1 month ago: The premise of The Paradise Will is really a very charming one. A young lady is compelled by her ecc … more »
Red Love, by Alexandra Kollontai
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kirstyjane wrote 1 month ago: There are so many myths and half-truths surrounding the name of Alexandra Kollontai that, rather tha … more »
Vladimir Mayakovsky: Poet, Hooligan, Bolshevik
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kirstyjane wrote 2 months ago: Mayakovsky is closer to the dynamic quality of the Revolution and to its stern courage than to the m … more »
Pushkin, Part I
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kirstyjane wrote 2 months ago: Half Milord, half middle class, Half wise man and half jackass, Half rogue, but it may come to pass … more »
Very Nearly All About Lermontov. Except the Bits About Pushkin.
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kirstyjane wrote 3 months ago: No, I am not Byron, but another, A chosen one as yet unknown, Like him a wanderer, an outcast, Only … more »
The Kreutzer Sonata by Count Lev Tolstoy
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kirstyjane wrote 3 months ago: Thus we passed two years more. The method prescribed by the rascals [doctors] had evidently succeede … more »
Undiscovered Pushkin fragment kicks off new Russian literature series!
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kirstyjane wrote 3 months ago: I originally intended to start my series on Russian literature with a piece on Ivan the Terrible: hi … more »
Lampa razyskivaet Alladina/Lamp Seeks Aladdin by Daria Dontsova
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kirstyjane wrote 4 months ago: “The population of Moscow is three-quarters idiot,” said the girl as we swapped shoes. “I hop … more »
Mother by Maksim Gorky
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kirstyjane wrote 4 months ago: Part of Mother’s Day Week on Vulpes: a week of items on the themes of mothers and motherhood The … more »
Leon Trotsky: My Life
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kirstyjane wrote 7 months ago: “This book is not an objective photograph of my life,” Trotsky writes in his foreword to My Life … more »
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