Andropov discusses his rise to leadership in the Soviet Union, h is roles in the KGB and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, his campaign against dissidents and detente, his impact on the Polish crisis, and his future plans.

Yuri Andropov: A Secret Passage into the Kremlin

History

Solovyov, Vladimir

Klepikova, Elena

Americas

Macmillan Pub. Co.

The first study in the West of Russia's would-be dictator, who rose to international prominence in Russia's 1993 election, discusses his origins, his politics, his connection to the KGB, and the political situation that makes him a savior to many.

Zhirinovsky: Russian Fascism And The Making Of A Dictator K/cd Pkg

Europe

Da Capo Press

Vladimir Solovyov, one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest Christian philosophers, was renowned as the leading defender of Jewish civil rights in tsarist Russia in the 1880s. The Burning Bush: Writings on Jews and Judaism presents an annotated translation of Solovyov's complete oeuvre on the Jewish question, elucidating his terminology and identifying his references to persons, places, and texts, especially from biblical and rabbinic writings. Many texts are provided in English translation by Gregory Yuri Glazov for the first time, including Solovyov's obituary for Joseph Rabinovitch, a pioneer of modern Messianic Judaism, and his letter in the London Times of 1890 advocating for greater Jewish civil rights in Russia, printed alongside a similar petition by Cardinal Manning. Glazov's introduction presents a summary of Solovyov's life, explains how the texts in this collection were chosen, and provides a survey of Russian Jewish history to help the reader understand the context and evaluate the significance of Solovyov's work. In his extensive commentary in Part II, which draws on key memoirs from family and friends, Glazov paints a rich portrait of Solovyov's encounters with Jews and Judaism and of the religious-philosophical ideas that he both brought to and derived from those encounters. The Burning Bush explains why Jews posthumously accorded Solovyov the accolade of a "righteous gentile," and why his ecumenical hopes and struggles to reconcile Judaism and Christianity and persuade secular authorities to respect conscience and religious freedom still bear prophetic vitality.

The Burning Bush: Writings on Jews and Judaism

Russia

University of Notre Dame Press

This is the first full biography of Boris Yeltsin, and a rare glimpse inside the Soviet power structure, by two acclaimed ex-Soviet journalists. Few political leaders have so electrified the world in recent years as Yeltsin. He was the first Kremlin dissident, the first democratically elected leader in Russia's thousand-year history. Even before the abortive coup of August 1991, he was constantly in the news for his history- making moves, his battles with Mikhail Gorbachev, and his flamboyant, sometimes mysterious personal life. Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova are uniquely placed to provide the first investigative biography, one that goes far beyond the official accounts, including Yeltsin's own politically cautious autobiography. Closely connected with Yeltsin's friends and opponents alike, the writers are the founders of the Soviet Union's first independent press agency. Theirs is a behind-the-scenes look at Yeltsin's rise and fall and rise again, at his political transformation, his duel with Gorbachev, of the rise of the democratic movement in the Soviet Union - the new Russian revolution. In part political thriller, in part cutting-edge analysis, this is the book that must be read to understand what Yeltsin and the Russian Commonwealth have in store for us. Including 8 pages of black and white photographs.

Boris Yeltsin: A political biography

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

After passing through deism, pantheism, and sundry atheistic visions of life, Vladimir Solovyov emerged as a Christian thinker of irrepressible conviction and uncommon genius. The Justification of the Good, one of Solovyov's last and most mature works, presents a profound argument for human morality based on the world's longing for and participation in God's goodness. In the first part of the book Solovyov explores humanity's inner virtues and their full reality in Christ, weaving his moral philosophy with threads drawn from Orthodox theology. In the second part Solovyov discusses the practical implications of Christian goodness for such areas as nationalism, war, economics, legal justice, and family. This edition of The Justification of the Good reproduces the English edition of 1918 and is the only new publication of this work since that date. The book includes explanatory footnotes by esteemed scholar Boris Jakim and a bibliography, compiled by Jakim, of Solovyov's major philosophical and religious works.

The Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philosophy

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov was an intriguing figure whose religious path took him from Russian Orthodoxy to nihilism and subsequently Roman Catholicism, and finally back to Russian Orthodoxy. The Philosophical Principles of Integral Knowledge is the earliest elaboration of the major ideas that occupied Solovyov throughout his life. Completed when he was only twenty-four, this wide-ranging, poetry-sprinkled treatise critically examines Western civilization and religion, proposing in its place a new model for faith and survivability, the integral spiritual knowledge attained by the Russian nation. / As a whole, Solovyov's philosophy offers a powerful defense of religion in both mystical and logical terms. Translator Valeria Z. Nollan skillfully brings out the nuances of Solovyov's rigorous writing in this first-ever English translation of his Philosophical Principles of Integral Knowledge.

Philosophical Principles of Integral Knowledge

In this prophetic, millennial work, written by Russia's greatest philosopher at the end of the last century, the great task facing humanity as progress races to end history is the resistance to evil. Solovyov addresses what seem to him the three main trends of our time: economic materialism, Tolstoyan abstract moralism, and Nietzschean hubris--the first is already present, the second imminent, while the last is the apocalyptic precursor of the Antichrist.

War, Progress, and the End of History: Three Conversations, Including a Short Story of the Anti-Christ (Library of Russian Philosophy)

Literature & Fiction

Lindisfarne Books

The Religious Poetry of Vladimir Solovyov

Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900) was one of the most remarkable figures of the 19th century. He was the most important Russian speculative thinker of that century, publishing major works on theoretical philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and ethics. He also wrote profound religious verse, much of which is translated into English here for the first time. Included are all of the short lyric poems; Three Meetings, an autobiographical poem of mystical visions; The White Lily, a comical-mystical play, a genre invented by Solovyov; and a ground-breaking essay (translated into English for the first time) on Solovyov’s poetry by the eminent theologian Sergius Bulgakov. The most important poems are sophianic, in that they express a personal relation to Sophia, whom Solovyov encountered several times during his life. This book presents an aspect of Solovyov’s work that most readers are unaware of; it enables us to watch a spiritual genius plumbing the depths of cosmic truth.

Jakim, Boris

History & Criticism

Semantron Press

Sophia, God & A Short Tale About the Antichrist: Also Including At the Dawn of Mist-Shrouded Youth

This volume contains several late works of Vladimir Solovyov, representing his final speculations about matters crucial to the destiny of humanity and of the world. As Solovyov’s life was coming to an end at the close of the 19th century, his thoughts were turned toward three things: the end of the world (the Antichrist), the beauty and wisdom of the world (Sophia), and the nature of God. A completely new translation of the famous “Short Tale About the Antichrist” is presented here, along with revised versions of “At the Dawn of Mist-Shrouded Youth,” “Three Meetings,” and “The Concept of God.”

World Literature

This volume contains several late works of Vladimir Solovyov, representing his final speculations about matters crucial to the destiny of humanity and of the world. As Solovyov's life was coming to an end at the close of the 19th century, his thoughts were turned toward three things: the end of the world (the Antichrist), the beauty and wisdom of the world (Sophia), and the nature of God. A completely new translation of the famous "Short Tale About the Antichrist" is presented here, along with revised versions of "At the Dawn of Mist-Shrouded Youth," "Three Meetings," and "The Concept of God." "An indispensable survey of Solovyov's 'late' and most visionary works. Boris Jakim is our most distinguished translator of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian religious thought, and this volume is further evidence of the fact."--DAVID BENTLEY HART, author of The Experience of God and Atheist Delusions "A Short Tale About the Antichrist is Vladimir Solovyov's last philosophical work, and to my mind his best. Its combination of profundity and wit is matchless, and its vision of the 21st century begins to have a haunting sense of prophetic truth. With this excellent new translation, combined with revised versions of other late works by Solovyov, Boris Jakim adds new dimensions to the English reader's understanding of one of the major Russian thinkers."--RICHARD PEVEAR, translator of War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov "This volume brings together some of the last and most significant writings of the nineteenth-century Russian writer who is widely regarded as the greatest of Russian philosophers and religious thinkers--Vladimir Solovyov. The works selected by Boris Jakim for this volume are perfectly chosen to demonstrate both the breadth and the principal concerns of Solovyov's mature thought, reflecting as they do not only his literary genius in poetry, prose fiction, and philosophical essays, but also his life-forming mystical experiences and his fascination with 'Sophia, ' or the feminine principle, in everything from his own biography to the structure of reality. Readers will welcome the scrupulous accuracy of Jakim's translations and their stylistic fidelity to the original Russian."--JAMES P. SCANLAN, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Ohio State University

Angelico PR

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Yuri Andropov: A Secret Passage into the Kremlin

Zhirinovsky: Russian Fascism And The Making Of A Dictator K/cd Pkg

The Burning Bush: Writings on Jews and Judaism

Boris Yeltsin: A political biography

The Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philosophy

Philosophical Principles of Integral Knowledge

War, Progress, and the End of History: Three Conversations, Including a Short Story of the Anti-Christ (Library of Russian Philosophy)

The Religious Poetry of Vladimir Solovyov

Sophia, God & A Short Tale About the Antichrist: Also Including At the Dawn of Mist-Shrouded Youth

Sophia, God & A Short Tale About the Antichrist: Also Including At the Dawn of Mist-Shrouded Youth