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Molotovs Toverlantaarn: Een Reis Door De Russische Geschiedenis (2000)

by Rachel Polonsky(Favorite Author)
3.52 of 5 Votes: 5
ISBN
9046807452 (ISBN13: 9789046807453)
languge
English
review 1: Ik keek er naar uit om dit boek te gaan lezen, maar wat een deceptie. Niet om door te komen en ik zag er steeds weer tegenop om verder te lezen. De laatste honderd bladzijden heb ik dan ook nagenoeg overgeslagen. Het boek heeft me op geen enkel moment 'te pakken gekregen'. Ik kreeg de indruk dat de schrijfster probeerde zoveel mogelijk te laten zien wat ze wel niet wist met zo moeilijk mogelijke en ellenlange zinnen. Het heeft er wel voor gezorgd dat ik enkele malen makkelijk in slaap viel.
review 2: I was disappointed in this book. Not necessarily because it was bad, just because it was very different from what I was expecting. It was dense and focused very heavily on Tsarist-era and early Soviet period intellectual history. It was rambling and difficult to fo
... morellow, at times incredibly minute in detail, but at other times very abstract. I can see the point of many of Polonsky's efforts in this text, but it was an awful lot of work to extract the relevance to modern-day Russia. I was hoping for a bit more of her travel experiences and stories, using the books in Molotov's library as a starting point. I'm giving it three stars for sheer erudition, but I can't honestly say I consistently enjoyed this book or learned a great deal that will stick with me. I do think I like the book a bit more when I reflect on it and get some distance from it. less
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leela
an okay idea for a book, but too wavering in its scope, and eventually it just caves in on itself
vai
Tasty. Last chapter is beautiful creative nonfiction and very evocative of contemporary Moscow.
riceroni
Molotovs toverlantaarn in NL
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