Voina (1916) // War Elegies (1944) Lyuba Basin, Rare Books Curator, has been selected to represent The University of Utah in the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS)/ProQuest competition for the Distinguished Master's Thesis Award. The award recognizes scholarly achievement at the master's level, in both...
"But surely the book is now everything. It has become in our time what the cathedral with its frescoes and stained glass used to be, what the palaces and museums, where people went to look and learn, used to be. The book has become the...
“No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to...
“All for the People and all Through the People” — Programma Revolution had been bleeding red on the tongues of Russian citizens for a least a decade before the fateful Autumn of 1917 when the Bolsheviks seized power from Tsar Nicholas II, ending the 300 year...