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- The lost pianos of Siberia / by Roberts, Sophy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos--grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble, Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos travelled into this snow-bound wilderness in the first place is testament to acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have accompanied extraordinary feats, from the instrument that Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decembrist revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That these instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia is largely a story of music in this fascinating place, following Roberts on a three-year adventure as she tracks a number of different instruments to find one whose history is definitively Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one that is also profoundly beautiful-and peppered with pianos"--- Subjects: Piano;
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- The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia / by Gessen, Masha,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Biographies.;
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- The nineties : a book / by Klosterman, Chuck,1972-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--- Subjects: Popular culture;
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- After the Romanovs : Russian exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque through revolution and war / by Rappaport, Helen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution, never more so than before and after the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty. For years, Russian aristocrats had enjoyed all Belle Époque Paris had to offer, spending lavishly when they visited. It was a place of artistic experimentation such as Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. But the brutality of the Bolshevik takeover forced Russians of all types to flee their homeland, sometimes leaving with only the clothes on their backs. Arriving in Paris, former princes could be seen driving taxicabs, while their wives who could sew worked for the fashion houses, their unique Russian style serving as inspiration for designers like Coco Chanel. Talented intellectuals, artists, poets, philosophers and writers struggled in exile, eking out a living at menial jobs. Some, like Bunin, Chagall and Stravinsky, encountered great success in the same Paris that welcomed Americans like Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Political activists sought to overthrow the Bolshevik regime from afar, while double agents plotted espionage and assassination from both sides. Others became trapped in a cycle of poverty and their all-consuming homesickness for Russia, the homeland they had been forced to abandon. This is their story"--- Subjects: Exiles; Political refugees; Russians; Russians; Russians; Russians;
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- Nature's mutiny : how the little Ice Age of the long seventeenth century transformed the West and shaped the present / by Blom, Philipp,1970-author,translator.; translation of:Blom, Philipp,1970-Welt aus den Angeln.English.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe. Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and "frost fairs" were erected on a frozen Thames--with kiosks, taverns, and even brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city. Recounting the deep legacy and far-ranging consequences of this "Little Ice Age," acclaimed historian Philipp Blom reveals how the European landscape had suddenly, but ineradicably, changed by the mid-seventeenth century. While apocalyptic weather patterns destroyed entire harvests and incited mass migrations, they gave rise to the growth of European cities, the emergence of early capitalism, and the vigorous stirrings of the Enlightenment. A timely examination of how a society responds to profound and unexpected change, Nature's Mutiny will transform the way we think about climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond."--- Subjects: Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Glacial climates.; Climatic changes;
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- The free world : art and thought in the Cold War / by Menand, Louis,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A history of the thinkers, writers, and artists who shaped intellectual culture in Cold War Europe and America"--- Subjects: Cold War; Political culture; Popular culture;
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- The complete journals of L.M. Montgomery : the PEI years, 1901-1911 / by Montgomery, L. M.(Lucy Maud),1874-1942.; Rubio, Mary,1939-; Waterston, Elizabeth,1922-;
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- Subjects: Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942; Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942; Novelists, Canadian (English);
- © c2013., Oxford University Press,
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- The complete journals of L.M. Montgomery : the PEI years, 1889-1900 / by Montgomery, L. M.(Lucy Maud),1874-1942.; Rubio, Mary,1939-; Waterston, Elizabeth,1922-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942; Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942; Novelists, Canadian (English);
- © c2012., OUP Canada,
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- Redeemers : ideas and power in Latin America / by Krauze, Enrique.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-516), Internet addresses and index.LSC- Subjects: Intellectuals; Politicians; Revolutionaries; Political science; Political science; Power (Social sciences);
- © c2011., HarperCollins,
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- Citizen Trudeau : an intellectual biography, 1944-1965 / by Mills, Allen George,1945-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Trudeau, Pierre Elliott, 1919-2000; Trudeau, Pierre Elliott, 1919-2000; Trudeau, Pierre Elliott, 1919-2000; Prime ministers; Prime ministers;
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