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A Soviet Journey : A Critical Annotated Edition.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Africana StudiesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498536035
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Soviet JourneyDDC classification:
  • 947.0853092
LOC classification:
  • DK29.L3 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Edits and Annotations -- Introduction -- Epigraph -- Prologue -- Chapter One: Flashbacks -- "Do Svidanya," Moscow -- Phantoms -- Chapter Two: The Footsteps of Alexander -- Into Central Asia -- The Monday City -- Writers -- Tea House and Ballet -- To Nurek -- The River Tamers -- The Hunting Mayor -- Gentlemen of the Road -- Confectioners et Cetera -- Star Gazers and Cotton-Raisers -- Chapter Three: The Big Sky -- A Welcome to the Prairies -- The City of Apples -- Stone Age to Socialism -- Jambul -- "Tsygane" [Gypsies] -- Change Planes for a Dream -- Notes above Ground Level -- "Cherchez la Femme" -- Faraway Places -- The Sky Is with Me -- On Borodin -- The Young Guard -- The Blue Mountains -- "Kumiss" Is Good for You -- Legends -- . . . And Beyond -- Chapter Four: The Golden Road -- Orchestras and Conductors -- Between Two Rivers -- The Uzbek Pearl -- The White Worm -- Mountain Thunder -- A Silken Beauty -- Melons and Movies -- Pottery, Pipelines, and Protein -- The Hunt of the Sun -- The Silent Bells -- Among the Antiquities -- The Black Lake -- Rubáiyát in a Tea House -- Leave-Taking -- The Trumpet of Spring -- Chapter Five: A Giant of Great Promise -- "Neither Tree nor Bread" -- At the Crossroads -- The Pearl of Siberia -- Asides in Irkutsk -- An Old Acquaintance -- Out of Tribalism -- To Bratsk -- The Carpenter of Bratsk -- The Musical City -- The Silent Town -- The Science Town -- "Siberian Lights" -- The Titan Makers -- "The 2,000 Soldiers" -- St. Vladimir of Tyumen -- The Discoverers -- The Burning Land -- The Conquerors -- A Boat Ride -- The Bashkirs -- Here Comes the Bride -- Farewell to Siberia -- Ulyanovsk -- Chapter Six: Harvest Home -- Three Thousand Lakes -- Old and New -- The Bells of Kaunas -- Pirčiupis's Mother -- Trakai's Castle -- To Die a Little.
Epilogue -- State of the People -- The Communist Party -- The Bull's Death -- Bibliography -- Index -- Biographical Notes.
Summary: A Soviet Journey by the South African activist and novelist Alex La Guma (1925-1985) is one of the longest and most substantive accounts of the USSR by an African writer. It is a rare and important document of the antiapartheid struggle and the cold war period.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Edits and Annotations -- Introduction -- Epigraph -- Prologue -- Chapter One: Flashbacks -- "Do Svidanya," Moscow -- Phantoms -- Chapter Two: The Footsteps of Alexander -- Into Central Asia -- The Monday City -- Writers -- Tea House and Ballet -- To Nurek -- The River Tamers -- The Hunting Mayor -- Gentlemen of the Road -- Confectioners et Cetera -- Star Gazers and Cotton-Raisers -- Chapter Three: The Big Sky -- A Welcome to the Prairies -- The City of Apples -- Stone Age to Socialism -- Jambul -- "Tsygane" [Gypsies] -- Change Planes for a Dream -- Notes above Ground Level -- "Cherchez la Femme" -- Faraway Places -- The Sky Is with Me -- On Borodin -- The Young Guard -- The Blue Mountains -- "Kumiss" Is Good for You -- Legends -- . . . And Beyond -- Chapter Four: The Golden Road -- Orchestras and Conductors -- Between Two Rivers -- The Uzbek Pearl -- The White Worm -- Mountain Thunder -- A Silken Beauty -- Melons and Movies -- Pottery, Pipelines, and Protein -- The Hunt of the Sun -- The Silent Bells -- Among the Antiquities -- The Black Lake -- Rubáiyát in a Tea House -- Leave-Taking -- The Trumpet of Spring -- Chapter Five: A Giant of Great Promise -- "Neither Tree nor Bread" -- At the Crossroads -- The Pearl of Siberia -- Asides in Irkutsk -- An Old Acquaintance -- Out of Tribalism -- To Bratsk -- The Carpenter of Bratsk -- The Musical City -- The Silent Town -- The Science Town -- "Siberian Lights" -- The Titan Makers -- "The 2,000 Soldiers" -- St. Vladimir of Tyumen -- The Discoverers -- The Burning Land -- The Conquerors -- A Boat Ride -- The Bashkirs -- Here Comes the Bride -- Farewell to Siberia -- Ulyanovsk -- Chapter Six: Harvest Home -- Three Thousand Lakes -- Old and New -- The Bells of Kaunas -- Pirčiupis's Mother -- Trakai's Castle -- To Die a Little.

Epilogue -- State of the People -- The Communist Party -- The Bull's Death -- Bibliography -- Index -- Biographical Notes.

A Soviet Journey by the South African activist and novelist Alex La Guma (1925-1985) is one of the longest and most substantive accounts of the USSR by an African writer. It is a rare and important document of the antiapartheid struggle and the cold war period.

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