ISBN10: 1852240636, ISBN13: 9781852240639, [publisher: Bloodaxe Books Jun 1989] Softcover Neuware - This comprehensive edition of Russia's greatest modern poet, Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966), includes the complete texts of her major works Requiem, commemorating all of Stalin's victims, and Poem Without a Hero. Akhmatova published her first book of poems in 1912, and in the same year founded the Acmeist movement with her husband, the poet Gumilev. Her intense, highly personal love lyrics were later attacked as anti-revolutionary, and in 1925 her poetry was banned. Gumilev was shot in 1921 for alleged involvement in an anti-Bolshevik plot, and in the years of terror which followed under Stalin, Akhmatova was persecuted for her work along with fellow poets Mandelstam, who died in a camp, and Tsvetaeva, who committed suicide. She was able to publish some work during the war, but in 1946 she again came under attack, this time from Zhdanov, who denounced her with Pasternak and others for trying to 'poison the minds' of Soviet youth. These were attacks on her published work. What she was writing - but could not publish - was far more dangerous. For she had entered her years of silence. As she fought for her son's release from prison, she was writing her greatest poetry: the cycle Requiem, which commemorated all of Stalin's victims, and Poem without a hero, which she began in 1940 and worked on for over 20 years. All she wrote she committed to ...
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ISBN10: 1852240636, ISBN13: 9781852240639, [publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd 1989-06-22, Newcastle upon Tyne] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]

Newcastle upon Tyne Bloodaxe Books 1989 Trade paperback New. Text in English, Russian. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p.

ISBN10: 1852240636, ISBN13: 9781852240639, [publisher: Bloodaxe Books Jun 1989] Softcover Neuware - This comprehensive edition of Russia's greatest modern poet, Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966), includes the complete texts of her major works Requiem, commemorating all of Stalin's victims, and Poem Without a Hero. Akhmatova published her first book of poems in 1912, and in the same year founded the Acmeist movement with her husband, the poet Gumilev. Her intense, highly personal love lyrics were later attacked as anti-revolutionary, and in 1925 her poetry was banned. Gumilev was shot in 1921 for alleged involvement in an anti-Bolshevik plot, and in the years of terror which followed under Stalin, Akhmatova was persecuted for her work along with fellow poets Mandelstam, who died in a camp, and Tsvetaeva, who committed suicide. She was able to publish some work during the war, but in 1946 she again came under attack, this time from Zhdanov, who denounced her with Pasternak and others for trying to 'poison the minds' of Soviet youth. These were attacks on her published work. What she was writing - but could not publish - was far more dangerous. For she had entered her years of silence. As she fought for her son's release from prison, she was writing her greatest poetry: the cycle Requiem, which commemorated all of Stalin's victims, and Poem without a hero, which she began in 1940 and worked on for over 20 years. All she wrote she committed to ...
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ISBN10: 1852240636, ISBN13: 9781852240639, [publisher: Bloodaxe Books] Softcover
[Milano, MI, Italy] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 1852240636, ISBN13: 9781852240639, [publisher: Bloodaxe Books] Softcover This comprehensive edition of Russia s greatest modern poet, Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966), includes the complete texts of her major works Requiem, commemorating all of Stalin s victims, and Poem Without a Hero.&Uumlber den AutorAnna A.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 1989]
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Dufour Editions, Date: 1989. Paperback. New. 338 pages. 8.75x5.50x1.00 inches. 1989. Dufour Editions ISBN 1852240636 9781852240639 [GB]

ISBN10: 1852240636, ISBN13: 9781852240639, [publisher: Dufour Editions] Softcover 338 pages. 8.75x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]

Newcastle upon Tyne Bloodaxe Books Ltd 1989 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.

ISBN10: 1852240636, ISBN13: 9781852240639, [publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd.] Softcover pp. 336
[Hounslow, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]

Bloodaxe Books, Date: 1989-06-22. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1989. Bloodaxe Books ISBN 1852240636 9781852240639 [US]