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On December 8, 2012, Grigory Oster became a winner of the 2012 Korney Chukovsky Prize for children literature.
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The Triumph of Provocation, collected essays by Józef Mackiewicz
Original Polish title: Zwycięstwo prowokacji
Rights status: available for all languages less Polish and English.
Published by: English - Yale University Press (2009), Polish - Kontra, Russian - Zarya, German - Bergstadtverlag W.G. Korn
This masterful political treatise, first published in 1962, examines the history and nature of Communism as it developed in the Soviet Union and in Poland. Józef Mackiewicz, known for his relentless opposition to Communism, argues that accommodation with the Communists simply helped them to impose their vision of the world and pursue their goal of global domination. He compares Communism to Nazism and insists that the former was the greater threat to the future of humanity.
Mackiewicz's unique interpretation of the differences and similarities between Communism and Nazism is highly relevant to debates about these two systems and to major contemporary issues which are of particular importance to the U.S. and Europe, including radical Islam...
Read moreThe Triptych, by Sasha Sokolov (2012)
Rights sold: Italy - MIRAGGI, Russia - OGI
The most Triptych reviewers tend to believe they are dealing with the famous author’s fiasco. However, this is not so. By keeping distance, and keeping to his creative principles, speaking almost the bird language, Sasha Sokolov stages little tragedies for the elect.
The book consist of three standalone masterpieces:
- Gazibo (complete manuscript available at http://magazines.russ.ru)
- Filornit (complete manuscript available at http://magazines.russ.ru)
- Rassuzhdenie (Reflection, complete manuscript available at http://magazines.russ.ru)
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