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3) White nights
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Nikolai Rodchenko, a Russian ballet dancer who defected from the Soviet Union years ago, finds himself back in the motherland--trapped--thanks to an emergency airplane landing. The Soviets do not imprison him, however; they hope to score a propaganda victory by 'persuading' him to become Russian again. That is why he is sent to Siberia, to Raymond Greenwood and his Russian wife Darya. Greenwood is an American tap dancer who defected to Russia in opposition...
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Features former 'Economic Hitman' and New York Times bestselling author, John Perkins, along with the Venus Project, an organization for social redesign created by industrial designer Jacque Fresco. Broken into four chapters, the first explains 'Fractional reserve banking' and how debt and bankruptcy are inevitable realities. The second exposes various levels of international corruption via the financial/corporate system.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches...
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