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Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin

Autor Catherine Merridale
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 noi 2014

The Kremlin is the heart of the Russian state, its very name a byword for enduring power. From Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin, generations of Russian leaders have sought to use the Kremlin to legitimize their vision of statehood. To this day, its red stars and golden crosses blazing side by side, the Kremlin fulfills a centuries-old role: linking the country's present to its distant past and proclaiming the eternal continuity of the Russian state.

Drawing on a dazzling array of sources from unseen archives and rare collections, renowned historian Catherine Merridale traces the full history of this enigmatic compound of palaces and cathedrals, whose blood-red walls have witnessed more than eight hundred years of political drama and extraordinary violence. And with the Kremlin as a unique lens, "Red Fortress" brings into focus the evolution of Russia's culture and the meaning of its politics.

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ISBN-13: 9781250056146
ISBN-10: 1250056144
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 144 x 244 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Picador USA

Notă biografică

Catherine Merridale is the author ofMoscowPolitics and the Rise of Stalin, Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia, which won the Heinemann Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, andIvan's War: The Red Army, 1939-45. She is Professor of Contemporary History at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Magnificent ... [a] a superbly written book ... Merridale's idea was to use the Kremlin like a backdrop to an opera - a screen on which to project scenes from Russia's violent and dramatic history. That way she tells the fortress's story without lapsing into architectural didacticism or guidebook prose, and it works wonderfully
This simply superb chronicle of the Kremlin is really a brilliant and unputdownable history of Russia itself from the early Tsars via Lenin and Stalin to Putin; anyone who wants to understand Russia today will not only learn a lot but will enjoy every page ... wonderful
[Merridale] combines impeccable scholarship with a deep feeling for the humanity of the people she writes about. Her style is accurate, spare, direct and warm-hearted, about as far from the academy as you can get ... [Red Fortress] is a brilliant meditation on Russian history and the myths with which the Russians have sought to console themselves
Addictively clever history ... Merridale whisks us through a series of terrific melodramas
A zingy, razor-keen history of the Kremlin
Merridale captures very well the suffocating atmosphere of those overheated corridors, where every room was bugged and mere proximity to power was often a death sentence ... she writes superbly. She has a gift for the tart insight ... and an eye for the telling anecdote
Exhilarating ... Both in its modernist sense of "time in flux" and in its style,Red Fortressis at the furthest possible remove from Soviet schoolroom sermons about "the period of feudal atomization" and the rise of the centralizing state ... This is a book of detail and imagination ... a neohistorical account of the Russian past ...Red Fortressmade me remember the open-mouthed delight I took when, hardly old enough to know where Russia was, I studied theémigréartist Boris Artsybashev's elegant, aetiolated portraits of medieval Russian princes
Red Fortressis a tour de force, as readable as it is extensively researched ... It never flags through nearly 10 centuries of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet history ... [Merridale] is both mythbuster and pilgrim, captivated by her subject even while turning an eye of scholarly detachment to it
One of the best popular histories of Russia in any language
Immensely readable ... Merridale recounts [the Kremlin's] eventful history with great skill and tremendous narrative verve
Merridale is a historian by training, but she has a detective's nose and a novelist's way with words
As with many important books, the reader will wonder why nothing like Catherine Merridale's work ... has been written before ... Merridale has succeeded in stripping off the veneer... She has the skills to get guardians of secret places talking and to negotiate access with Russian archivists, and thus penetrate the inner workings of the Kremlin. At the same time, she has a feeling for the site that brings dry archaeological and architectural facts to life: few writers can write the biography of a city or a citadel ... The Kremlin's history is likely to be frozen for decades to come. This unique and stunningly well-illustrated book is going to be a definitive study for just as long
Catherine Merridale's sparkling new book shows that it is people who dominate architecture
As usual, [Merridale's] engaging writing style combines a keen eye for detail with a human touch
[A] superb history of the Kremlin ... pages of lucid prose