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Teacher and Comrade

Author : Alan Wieder

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 19,99 MB

Release : 2014-01-21

Category : Education

ISBN : 0791478459

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Teacher and Comrade explores South African resistance in the twentieth century, before and during apartheid, through the life of Richard Dudley, a teacher/politico who spent thirty-nine years in the classroom and his entire life fighting for democracy. Dudley has given his life to teaching and politics, and touched and influenced many people who continue to work for democracy in South Africa and abroad. Whether it was students, comrades, or opposition, life was always teaching and relational for Dudley. He challenged power throughout the apartheid era, and his foundational beliefs in anti-imperialism and nonracialism compel him to continue to talk, teach, and speak to power. Through Dudley's story, Teacher and Comrade provides a rare portrait of both Cape Town and South Africa, as well as the struggle against racism and apartheid.



Comrade Pavlik

Author : Catriona Kelly

Publisher : Granta Books

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 41,45 MB

Release : 2014-04-03

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1783780711

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It was September, 1932. Gerasimovka, Western Siberia. Two children are found dead in the forest outside a remote village. Both have been repeatedly stabbed and their bloody bodies are covered in sticky, crimson cranberry juice. Who committed these horrific murders has never been proved, but the elder boy, thirteen-year-old Pavlik Morozov, was quickly to become the most famous boy in Soviet history - statues of him were erected, biographies published, and children across the country were exhorted to emulate him. Catriona Kelly's aim is not to find out who really killed the boys, but rather to explore how Stalin's regime turned Pavlik into a hero designed to produce good Soviet citizens. Pavlik's story is intriguing and multi-layered: did he denounce his own father to the authorities? Was he murdered by members of his own family? Did he ever belong to the Pioneers, the Communist youth organization who claimed him as member No. 001? This is the first book in English on Pavlik's legend, using previously inaccessible local archives.



Good Morning Comrades

Author : Ondjaki

Publisher : Biblioasis

Page : 129 pages

File Size : 49,50 MB

Release : 2008-03-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1926845692

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Luanda, Angola, 1990. Ndalu is a normal twelve-year old boy in an extraordinary time and place. Like his friends, he enjoys laughing at his teachers, avoiding homework and telling tall tales. But Ndalu's teachers are Cuban, his homework assignments include writing essays on the role of the workers and peasants, and the tall tales he and his friends tell are about a criminal gang called Empty Crate which specializes in attacking schools. Ndalu is mystified by the family servant, Comrade Antonio, who thinks that Angola worked better when it was a colony of Portugal, and by his Aunt Dada, who lives in Portugal and doesn't know what a ration card is. In a charming voice that is completely original, Good Morning Comrades tells the story of a group of friends who create a perfect childhood in a revolutionary socialist country fighting a bitter war. But the world is changing around these children, and like all childhood's Ndalu's cannot last. An internationally acclaimed novel, already published in half a dozen countries, Good Morning Comrades is an unforgettable work of fiction by one of Africa's most exciting young writers.





The "Plebs" Magazine

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Page : 680 pages

File Size : 38,80 MB

Release : 1916

Category : Socialism and education

ISBN :

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Born for Freedom

Author : Lina Zilionyte

Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.

Page : 424 pages

File Size : 24,53 MB

Release : 2023-08-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1638608571

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Just six-year-old Lucy was aware already that she lived in two different worlds. One world was her home, village, and the people where old traditions and customs prevailed. Another world was where the soviet ruling claimed its dominance over every aspect of their daily life. Lucy faced the first challenges of the new ruling at the elementary school, and in no time, she learned to cover up her true belief for her country and its people. She became silent but conscious worrier for her national identity and freedom of her country. She knew what it meant to be deprived of freedom as nation and as a Lithuanian. She graduated from the university as a non-party member; and it seemed, at least at that moment, that she had sealed her convictions and national identity for good. When she got a job as a translator, there was a hope, although short lived, that she might be able to create a comfortable life even in the Soviet paradise. However, when she began to climb her career ladder, the inevitable happened. During the interview with the chief of the KGB, Lucy rejected the proposal to become a party member and join the ranks of the Soviet spies abroad. Instead, she quit her favorite job. It did not take long for her to realize that she was jobless in the country where unemployment was equal to crime, meaning that she could be persecuted as a criminal. So now she would have to choose one out of two: either to be persecuted as a political criminal or leave her beloved Lithuania for good. And she chose the latter.



Voices from the Past

Author : Orest M. Gladky

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 778 pages

File Size : 47,20 MB

Release : 2011-06-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1456858378

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The anthology Voices From The Past by the late Russian immigrant writer Orest M. Gladky presents a six-part collection of short stories preserving facts and thoughts about the tumultuous history of Russia—Soviet Union from 1917 to 1971. In the first Part of this stirring collection, “In Whose Name?”, stories follow the period when the civil war engulfed the Motherland and the White Army volunteers are defending Holy Russia from the Reds. In “The Dispossessed,” stories describe tragic times when Stalin reneges on the promise of the revolution—All land to the peasants—and launches an onslaught on peasants through forced farm collectivization and deportation of millions to Siberia. Stories in “I Believe” tell how the Communists imposed Marxist dogma to eradicate belief in God, they close churches, kill and send clergymen to the concentration camps and conduct relentless anti-religious propaganda. In the fourth part State secret police watchdogs relentlessly hound “The Enemies of the People” and send millions without trial to prisons and gulags. In “The Humdrum Life in Socialist Paradise” stories capture snapshots of ordinary citizens’ days in the Socialist-Communist state and their struggle to survive under Soviet rule and Bolshevik dictatorship. The last Part, “Behind the Iron Curtain,” tells with wry humor stories about events after World War Two, Cold War Years, and Collective Leadership in Soviet Union.



Somersaults

Author : Mira Mack

Publisher : New Generation Publishing

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 19,93 MB

Release : 2020-06-30

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1800317085

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There are somersaults and there are somersaults. Physically ... no big deal. Lots of people can do them. This book is about the other kind of somersaults - through life. In this case, from a little girl plunked into the mid-fifties in socialist Czechoslovakia to a rebel at school with beliefs twisted and turned by social storms. Then in 1968, her family lives through morphing into socialism with a human face, the consequent invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies, and ultimately, the Russian occupation. And eventually, for many ordinary people, the reality of the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989.When the girl grows into a young woman, she fights with traditions and old thinking. Plenty of humour, the discovery of limits, many sides of the same coin, the power of friendship, stepping into worlds of taboo, and challenging one's own fear - every somersault has consequences. Intimate, funny, honest.If you enjoyed this book, try the sequel: Czech Mate



The Book of Revenge

Author : Dragan Todorovic

Publisher : Vintage Canada

Page : 391 pages

File Size : 12,80 MB

Release : 2011-04-13

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0307366022

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A darkly comic recollection of a country that no longer exists, and a lyrical examination of the importance of taking a stand when it counts. Set against a backdrop of horrific world events, this is narrative non-fiction at its best. To a young boy growing up poor but happy in an industrial town in Serbia, politics means many national holidays that result in parades, piglets roasting on a spit, and getting to see both his hard-working parents at the same time. An observant child, Dragan Todorovic quickly learns the power of words. Even before he can read or write, he is mesmerized by the squiggles made by the grownups around him and diligently recreates them in the notebooks he carries with him always. He also learns that reciting naughty limericks usually yields some chocolate. This love of words eventually takes Dragan to Belgrade, as editor for a cultural magazine. He hopes to inspire and support the young and innovative artists of the time, but soon discovers that naughty articles do not yield the same results as limericks, and he finds himself constantly clashing with the system. His many questions get only one answer: he is drafted into the army. Dragan survives his tour of duty, but his return to Belgrade is unsettling. Everything is changing, rapidly. Friendships are collapsing, conversations are guarded, nothing is as it seems. Bit by bit, the country he knows and loves is being torn apart. Filled with great characters and poignant and often hilarious stories, The Book of Revenge is a superb duet of a citizen and his country, a universal exploration of just what it is that inoculates the human spirit from dangerous ideologies and toxic nationalism.



In the Shadow of Revolution

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 458 pages

File Size : 31,26 MB

Release : 2000-05-21

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780691019499

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Introduction. Lives and times / Sheila Fitzpatrick ; Lives as tales / Yuri Slezkine -- Part I. Civil war as a way of life (1917-1920) My reminiscences (1) / Ekaterina Olitskaia ; In 1917 / Anna Litveiko ; Where laughter is never heard / P.E. Melgunova-Stepanova ; A mother's story / Anna Andzhievskaia ; The road to exile / Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia ; Autobiography / Nadezhda Krupskaia ; Things seen and suffered / Tatiana Varsher ; Cavalry boy / Zinaida Patrikeeva ; Recollections / Irina Elenevskaia ; The way of bitterness / Sofia Volkonskaia -- Part II. Toward "new forms of life" (The 1920s) My life / Agrippina Korevanova ; What am I to do? / Anonymous ; My reminiscences (2) / Ekaterina Olitskaia ; Why I do not belong in the party / Paraskeva Ivanova ; Arina's children / Maria Belskaia ; Sent by the Komsomol / Antonina Solovieva ; Peasant narratives (1) / Nenila Bazeleva et al. ; A worker's life / Anna Balashova ; Students in the first Five-year plan / Valentina Bogdan ; Building the city of youth / Alla Kiparenko ; A Belomor confession / Anna Iankovskaia ; The green lamp / Lidia Libedinskaia -- Part III. "Life has become merrier" (The 1930s) The most important thing / Pasha Angelina ; Peasant narratives (2) / Efrosinia Kislova et al. ; We were fighting for an idea! / Fruma Treivas ; Speeches by Stakhanovites / N.I. Slavnikova et al. ; A cross-examination / Ulianova ; A sea captain's story / Anna Shchetinina ; Farewell to the Komsomol / Kh. Khuttonen ; Autobiography / Anastasia Plotnikova ; Speeches by Stakhanovites' wives / A.V. Vlasovskaia et al. ; A family chronicle / Inna Shikheeva-Gaister ; The story of my life / Evdokia Maslennikova ; Memoirs of an engineer / Valentina Bogdan ; Engineers' wives / Frida Troib et al. ; My reminiscences (3) / Ekaterina Olitskaia.