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MOSCOW BELIEVES IN TEARS: Russians and Their Movies
by Louis Menashe
This is a collection of essays, reviews, interviews, reports, journal entries, and short takes on Soviet/Russian films which the author, a professor of history, wrote over a span of thirty years, from the last years of the Soviet Union to the first years of the Former Soviet Union. Besides publishing these and other articles in journals and magazines, the author also took part in several film projects about Soviet Russia, most notably as Associate Producer for two award-winning PBS documentaries, In the Shadow of Sakharov and Inside Gorbachev’s U.S.S.R. |
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FRAGMENTS FROM A LAND OF FREEDOM: Essays in American Culture and Civilization around the Year 2000
by Paolo L. Bernardini
This book was conceived and written in 1998-1999, during the last period of Bill Clinton’s second term. Nothing around the year 2000 warned us of the economic catastrophes that occurred after 2001, and the political upheaval caused by 9/11—two wars of invasion were certainly not looming on the horizon. Thus, this book is a picture of peace through a wide angle lens: America’s, and mankind’s, last happy days before a major, epoch-making crisis.
These essays show, first and foremost, the destiny of peoples and individuals as they evolved on the major background of a mighty nation and a stormy history. If America is the place where individuals might emerge and fulfill the “American dream,” that case is definitely made in this book. The opposite case, however, is made as well: the case of the dialectics between individual and society, a struggle which often ends up with the latter’s victory. This book was originally written for the Italian public, and came out in the Italian edition, but it should also be of interest to the American reader, who would see familiar history from the perspective of a foreign observer. |
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POWER SHARING AND ETHNICITY IN THE CARIBBEAN
by David Hinds
This book on Guyana can serve as a useful guide at large for understanding the problem of governance, democracy and society in ethnically divided countries and how to create a framework aimed at solving the problem. From 1950 to the present Guyana has experienced the worst of ethnically divided societies- ethnic violence, authoritarian rule, democratic exclusion and the general politics of revenge. However, it has alto experienced moments of ethic solidarity- the ore-1955 nationalist movement that managed to hold the ethnic groups under the same electoral party, and the anti-dictatorial movement 1974-1992 whose success was premised primarily on ethnic solidarity. Finally, the ethnically segmented societies has created for itself the opportunities for power sharing, which holds out the promise for the success of the approach. |
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