On the Way to Red Square is a compelling collection of short stories set in Soviet Moscow in the 1980's. Julieta Rodrigues meshes fictional personal subject matter with social and political issues to produce a moving and thought-provoking book.  "On the Way to Red Square exceeds the boundaries it has created for itself: between the private and the political, the everyday and the theatrical, love and alienation, informers and their victims, life and death, joy and sadness, Russians and foreigners, 'us' versus 'them.' The ineffable language of pain and inquisitive openness and the resulting vision of the stern Soviet Moscow is hauntingly revealing, at the same time the distant and the close glance that Victor Shklovsky aptly defines." -Olga Meerson, Professor of Russian,  Georgetown University "Julieta Rodrigues has neatly captured the gray, gritty, every-day essence of life in the Soviet Union that I saw in the early 1980's. From the snowy and dismal streets to the bathhouses and garish hotels, she has preserved lost fragments of communist Moscow in her amber stories." - Jon Purnell, Tashkent, Uzbekistan "In a book as teeming with characters as a 19th century Russian novel, but entirely modern in its concerns, we accompany Laura, narrator and protagonist, through gripping and candid stories: the angry young man in 'Caged,' living in a cramped collective where people must line up to use the toilet; the disappointed, power-abusing official, Lyudmila, in 'Glass Silhouettes,' obsessed with her collection of glass miniatures; and, in the last story, 'New Year's Eve at the Praga,' an enigmatic blonde dancing alone, as intriguing and ambiguous to the little band of Americans as is Moscow itself. Rodrigues reminds me of Chekhov. - Robbie Murphy, Best American Short Stories  (under the name of Roberta Gupta)

On the Way to Red Square

Julieta Almeida Rodrigues

Scarith

Dictators' pets are too often ignored - but no longer! They're all here in this hilarious collection of madcap ditties: Lenin's cat, Hitler's dog, Qaddafi's sweet-scented camel, Caligula's horse, Mao's cockroach (he banned real pets), Stalin's spider, Pinochet's mutant turtles, Ivan the Terrible and his terrible goldfish, Tito and his self-managing goat, Gierek the leader and his toad Melsor, and many more. The volume also includes a Holy Roman Opera, "Turmoil in Brindisi" about a long-forgotten ecumenical council called by Pope Sixtus the Sixth, an equally forgotten pope, and philosophers' songs. Now you can sing along with "The Ballad of Thomas Hobbes", "Dancing Mind to Mind", "Taxidermy daddy", "Ce la Marx", "Sein und Zeit - what does it mean?", "Wie einst, Platon Liebling", and other philosophically revealing songs. Written over a period of 35 years, these jottings are also a record of a lifetime of laughter. "Sabrina Ramet's collection of ditties is sidesplittingly hilarious! What a great idea to deal with the defining concept or characteristics of the world's dictators and their pets and of philosophers in poetry in a humorous way! Among my favorites is Tito and his pet - the self-managing goat, Hector. What is even more important, Ramet with her poems touches us on a deeper level - as human beings with universal human traits." - Lea Plut-Pregelj, University of Maryland "This is a unique publication. Professor Sabrina Ramet has shown how humour can (and should) be used to unmask and demystify dictators and dictatorships. Funny and serious at the same time, these ditties include many authentic touches, such as the reference to self-criticism in the ditty about Ceausescu. The philosophers' song are also great fun, combining witty summaries of some of their major ideas with wild humour." - Knut Erik Solem, The Norwegian University of Science & Technology

Pets of the Great Dictators & Other Works

Humor & Entertainment

Ramet, Sabrina P.

Humor

<p>Set on the West Coast during Bush II's first term, Out of What Chaos showcases the escapades of Rex and The Brains as they settle into the Portland rock scene, record their first CD, and tour from Vancouver to LA behind their chart-topping single, "F U. I Just Want To Get My Rocks Off." The boys party on, finding their way amidst the frenzied panorama of twenty-first century America. The country embraces them in all its crazy glory, from witches to priests, from groupies to politicians, from drug dealers to porno stars to college professors. As the band's fame grows, tragedy strikes, and Freddie finds himself torn between his rock-and-roll lifestyle and his girlfriend, Sheila Corcoran, whose claim on his heart continues to grow. In the end, the worlds of love and celebrity collide, and Freddie must make a decision about how to live. "This book is more or less what one would expect if Walker Percy wrote about a cynical rock musician who converts to Catholicism, and then Nabokov added some of his verbal pyrotechnics, and then Buster Keaton and the Marquis de Sade and Lionel Trilling inserted a few extra passages. It is a loving and yet appalled description of the underground music scene in the Pacific Northwest. And it is a convincing representation of someone very, very smart." -Matt Greenfield, The Valve, www.thevalve.org "In smart, wiry prose, Lee Oser has created a witty Bildungsroman set in the world of rockers in the Northwest. In a world where the "choices" offered are life-denying or trivial, Oser negotiates a set of alternatives for his characters-and his readers." -James Najarian, Boston College. "Well-versed in the lifestyle, Lee Oser has crafted a hedonistically spiritual rock 'n' roll morality play; one filled with characters culled from his own musical experience. Freddie Fontane is the new Holden Caulfield for the wi-fi generation-registering his every thought and impression upon the quickly turned page. In a world of transient American Idols, in relentless pursuit of their Warholian fifteen minutes, Freddie Fontane is the unfailing pragmatist, searching for truth in a world of pretense and artifice." -S. P. Clarke, Two Louies magazine.</p>

Out of What Chaos

Literature & Fiction

Oser, Lee

Contemporary

My story jumps across initial parts of going nowhere. The decision to cross the Atlantic was prompted by political developments totally outside of our control. We moved blindly, unprepared and oblivious of what to expect. A series of jobs, some typical for immigrants, some acquired by pure luck, followed. The message: have courage to open closed doors, be bold forgetting your ignorance, there will always be time to learn and to get educated. Above all, never allow yourself the luxury of not trying. The book that you are about to read does not convey heroism, it does not depict battles of major proportions. It is an attempt to project a journey that was neither planned nor anticipated, a journey of one family's adventure that started as a tragedy yet is about to end as fulfillment. The German invasion of Poland was the tragedy, living the final days in America the fulfillment. The title tells you what to look for. We started in Warsaw. We ended up in Washington. The 'wherever' was in between. -The Author

From Warsaw to Wherever

Biographies & Memoirs

Nagorski, Zygmunt

Memoirs

This book is a chronicle of vanishing worlds, yet worlds comprising a story worth telling. It conveys the impact of the most burning European and American issues of the twentieth century. This book encompasses the world of pre-war Polish Jewry, particularly the socialist and Yiddishist world of the Bund, the Jewish socialist party born in Tsarist Russia, and then striking firm roots in independent post- World-War Poland. It further depicts the war years in Poland, the Soviet Union, and Japan; the world of a young immigrant in California, in New York, and in the American army, and finally the world of a Sovietologist, a profession the author practiced while working for the United States government in several capacities and in the retirement years.

Journeys Through Vanishing Worlds

Brumberg, Abraham

Historical

Second edition enlarged. Dictators’ pets are too often ignored–but no longer! They’re all here in this hilarious collection of madcap ditties: Lenin’s cat, Hitler’s dog, Qaddafi’s sweet-scented camel, Caligula’s horse, Mao’s cockroach (he banned real pets), Stalin’s spider, and many more. The volume also includes philosophers’ songs and a Holy Roman opera, “Turmoil in Brindisi” about a long-forgotten ecumenical council called by Pope Sixtus the Sixth, an equally forgotten pope. Written over a period of 35 years, these jottings are also a record of a lifetime of laughter. “Sabrina Ramet's collection of ditties is sidesplittingly hilarious! What a great idea to deal with the defining concept or characteristics of world's dictators and their pets and philosophers in poems in a humorous way! What is even more important, Ramet with her poems touches us on a deeper level—as human beings with universal human traits.” -Lea Plut-Pregelj, University of Maryland. “This is a unique publication. Professor Sabrina Ramet has shown how humour can (and should) be used to unmask and demystify dictators and dictatorships. Funny and serious at the same time, these ditties include many authentic touches, such as the reference to self-criticism in the ditty about Ceausescu. The philosophers' songs are also great fun, combining witty summaries of some of their major ideas with wild humour.” - Knut Erik Solem, Norwegian University of Science & Technology.

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On the Way to Red Square

Pets of the Great Dictators & Other Works

Out of What Chaos

From Warsaw to Wherever

Journeys Through Vanishing Worlds

Pets of the Great Dictators & Other Works