books about: potemkin

books about: potemkin

books:

Potemkin

Love & Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin

Catherine, Grigorii Aleksandrovich Potemkin, ...

Northern Illinois University Press, 2004

Love, Conquest, and More
We've all seen the Hollywood melodramas about Catherine the Great with the heaving bosums and the dashing guards. Even the BBC version is mostly fluff. But the real history of Catherine's life, especially the story of her remarkable relationship with Count Potemkin, ...

The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village: Politics and Property Rights in the Black Earth
Jessica Allina-Pisano

Cambridge University Press, 2007

In the 1990s, as the Soviet Empire lay in ruins, the Russian and Ukrainian governments undertook a project to dismantle the collective farm system that was created under Stalin and in the process privatize an expanse of farmland larger than Australia. Ordinary people were supposed to benefit from the reform, but local government leaders quietly ...

Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2004

Adds to my understanding of an era
Potemkin : Prince of Princes by Simon Sebag Montefiore This book about Potemkin is as broad, expansive, and fascinating as the man himself. It's beautifully researched, based strongly on the correspondence of Potemkin and Catherine the Great, as well as the archives ...

Love And Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great And Prince Grigory...

Northern Illinois University Press, 2005

Of all the great imperial romances in European history, few can compare with that of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin. Their turbulent and complicated relationship shocked their contemporaries, and continues to intrigue observers of Russia centuries later. Lovers, companions, and, most likely, husband and wife, Catherine and ...

Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin

Neal Bascomb

Mariner Books, 2008

A Great Read - and a lesson in politcal leadership
The book's a great read regardless of factual content. I've not researched the events to agree or disagree with a previous reviewer's comment on the "credulous" nature of the book. However, events later in 1917 tend to give credence to the author's depiction of the ...

The Battleship Potemkin: The Film Companion (KINOfile)
Richard Taylor

I. B. Tauris, 2001

Thought by many to be the greatest film ever made, "The Battleship Potemkin" directed by Sergei Eisenstein is a key film in the history of Russian and world cinema. Based on a mutiny in Odessa during the 1905 revolution, the film is noted as a pioneering milestone in the development of world cinema?especially Eisenstein's breathtaking editing.

To Kill the Potemkin

Mark Joseph

Onyx, 1987

A 5-Star Undersea Adventure!
I bought this entirely because of how much I enjoyed Mark Joseph's 'Typhoon' (also exceptional) and it seems as though I made the right choice. Anyone who enjoys a good submarine story and wants it to be as realistic as it gets--as well as incredibly ...

Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Vintage, 2005

Why Catherine was Great
Frequently historians have chosen to focus on the more on the love affairs of Catherine the Great rather than on what she actually did to achieve greatness. After all of the things that Catherine is famous for are also things that won the Empresses Anna and Elizabeth ...

The Tsar and the President: Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln, Liberator and Emancipator

University of Wisconsin Press, 2009

In 1861 Abraham Lincoln had just been inaugurated as the sixteenth President of the United States. Fort Sumter had surrendered to Confederate forces, and soon the Civil War would tear the nation in two. Half a world away in Russia, Tsar Alexander II proclaimed his Manifesto liberating twenty million serfs, one of the most transformative ...