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Hadrian
Here is a tour through the ruins of empire. Ryszard Kapuscinski has lived through the Soviet Union
during its worst stretches of tyranny, and is now a dutiful chronicler of its long dissolution.
This is not a political history, and not about the mechanisms of power. Instead, it is about the very
fringes of empire, where power once hoped to reach and is now wasting away. He journeys to the
very edges of empire, and talks to the ordinary people. He starts in what was a part of Poland, and
goes to
Here is a tour through the ruins of empire. Ryszard Kapuscinski has lived through the Soviet Union
during its worst stretches of tyranny, and is now a dutiful chronicler of its long dissolution.
This is not a political history, and not about the mechanisms of power. Instead, it is about the very
fringes of empire, where power once hoped to reach and is now wasting away. He journeys to the
very edges of empire, and talks to the ordinary people. He starts in what was a part of Poland, and
goes to Armenia, Azerbaijan, the republics of Central Asia, the northern tips of Siberia, the prisons
of Magadan.
The
, the Soviet ruling class, are fleeing Eastern Europe like the British or the French or the Portugese
fled Africa, out of fear that their former colonial subjects would start some uprising to avenge the
past. The prison camps crumble and are buried under the blizzards of Siberia.
This is an extraordinary travel-memoir, with a wise look at people and their history.
Jonfaith
Imperium isn't merely a travel narrative; such would ignore its vitality as palimpsest. It traverses the
same roads again and again over time, it returns to immense crime scenes and it ponders a policy
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of ecological suicide. The book was published in 1994 just before a number of the text's issues
came to boil: the two Chechen Wars. There are whispers of the rise of the oligarchs and somewhere
lurking is in the frozen mist is Putin. Kapuściński has penned an amazing account of an empire.
He often
Imperium isn't merely a travel narrative; such would ignore its vitality as palimpsest. It traverses the
same roads again and again over time, it returns to immense crime scenes and it ponders a policy
of ecological suicide. The book was published in 1994 just before a number of the text's issues
came to boil: the two Chechen Wars. There are whispers of the rise of the oligarchs and somewhere
lurking is in the frozen mist is Putin. Kapuściński has penned an amazing account of an empire.
He often suffers the human failing of bullshit philosophy and guessing wrong about an inchoate
state of affairs.
Stalin's chessboard left nascent atrocities across Central Asis. The author notes that dissent
could've been crushed with death camps and mobile killing units, but then there would be a culpable
element. Famine and cold spread the blame around. There is a sting of commiseration at the book's
conclusion. I felt the stab of such as well.
Maciek
Moja babcia urodziła się w małej wsi pod Lwowem w 1937 roku. Wraz z prababcią
przeżyły najazd OUN-UPA chowając się w piwnicy swojego domostwa, podczas gdy wieś
płonęła żywym ogniem i płynęła krwią pomordowanych. Obie jakimś cudem
przetrwały rozmaite okupacje i represje, aż w końcu po wojnie zostały ostatecznie
przesiedlone do małej miejscowości na nowym p
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Moja babcia urodziła się w małej wsi pod Lwowem w 1937 roku. Wraz z prababcią
przeżyły najazd OUN-UPA chowając się w piwnicy swojego domostwa, podczas gdy wieś
płonęła żywym ogniem i płynęła krwią pomordowanych. Obie jakimś cudem
przetrwały rozmaite okupacje i represje, aż w końcu po wojnie zostały ostatecznie
przesiedlone do małej miejscowości na nowym południu Polski - zabranej Niemcom, których
wysiedlono jeszcze dalej na zachód. Dziś tam gdzie dorastały znajduje się Ukraina - i
wciąż żyją tam potomkowie naszych krewnych. Pomimo tego że jesteśmy jedną
rodziną, staliśmy się sobie obcy - mówimy w innych językach, obracamy się w innej
kulturze, należymy do innych narodów. Lata (i historia) zrobiły swoje.
Kapuścińskiego to ZSRR - ogromna część naszej planety stanowiąca ostatnie imperium
kolonialne 20 wieku, w którego burzliwą historię miało nieszczęście zaplątać się
wiele narodów - w tym mój i autora. Książka Kapuścińskiego nie pretenduje do miana
historii lub etnografii terenów byłego ZSRR - dzieło takie mierzone byłoby w tomach, nie
stronach.
to kolekcja wspomnień, refleksji i spostrzeżeń autora zebranych z podróży jakie odbył po
jego terytorium, odwiedzając zapomniane przez czas zakamarki środkowej Azji i dalekiej
Północy, różne od siebie jak noc od dnia. Książka dzieli się na trzy sekcje:
otwiera prolog składający się ze wspomnień Kapuścińskiego o jego pierwszym
zetknięciu z Imperium - wkroczeniu Armii Czerwonej do jego rodzinnego Pińska we wrześniu
1939, i powoli rozprzestrzeniajÄ…cym siÄ™ terrorze okupacji - pierwszych represjach,
zniknięciach i deportacjach. Podobnie jak Lwów, Pińsk zostanie Polsce odebrany i wcielony do
granic ZSRR - dzisiaj jest tam Białoruś.
Drugą część tego rozdziału stanowi relacja Kapuścińskiego z podróży Koleją
Transsyberyjską, z Pekinu do Moskwy, przez niezmierzone połacie Syberii. Każda droga
zdaje się nie mieć końca w tym oceanie białych stepów, stanowiących dumę i
przekleństwo Rosjan: ta sama ogromna, potężna, i majestatyczna przestrzeń przytłacza
swoim ogromem i bezkresnością, odbierając całą energię potrzebną do normalnego
życia.
Trzecią częścią pierwszej sekcji książki jest wyprawa Kapuścińskiego na Południe
- do republik środkowej Azji oraz Kaukazu, gdzie odwiedza Gruzję, Armenię, Azerbejdżan,
Turkmenistan, Tadżykistan, Kirgistan i Uzbekistan. Mimo że na poznanie każdego z tych
krajów ma zaledwie kilka dni, Kapuściński wykazuje się niespotykaną zdolnością
obserwacji i z każdego z nich wynosi chociaż odrobinę historii i lokalnej kultury - szczególnie
interesujące są sceny z rozmaitych azjatyckich -stanów, oraz pełen współczucia i
zrozumienia opis tragedii narodu ormiańskiego.
to opis podróży Kapuścińskiego po ZSRR w czasach jego schyłku. Od Brześcia i Moskwy
Kapuściński podróżuje do Tbilisi i Erywania, gdzie widzi rozpadający się system sowiecki i
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wzrost nacjonalizmu, lokalnych konfliktów i ambicji - taki jak spór Armenii i Azerbejdżanu o
Górny Karabach; na dalekiej Północy odwiedza Magadan i Workutę, gdzie widzi dawne
Kołymskie łagry - miejsce katorgi setek tysięcy ludzi. Podróżuje też na południe, do
Uzbekistanu, gdzie plan stworzenia ogromnych pól bawełny doprowadził do tragicznego zaniku
morza Aralskiego i zniszczenia całego regionu. Kapuściński odwiedza jeszcze Donieck - gdzie
wspomina tragiczną dla narodu ukraińskiego Stalinowską kolektywizację rolnictwa, która
doprowadziła do Wielkiego Głodu - i kończy w Pińsku, mieście swojego dzieciństwa, gdzie
znajduje dawnych uczniów swoich rodziców.
Hana
In 1917 an entire world went mad; a madness that came to be called the Soviet Union. The
persecutions and wars that began with the October Revolution and that lasted for decades were
marked by an almost incomprehensible series of mass exterminations; between 1918 and 1953 an
estimated 54-110 million citizens of the USSR perished of unnatural causes. The Soviets left behind
an enduring legacy of poverty, demoralization and ecological catastrophe.
Deftly weaving historical narrative, personal trav
In 1917 an entire world went mad; a madness that came to be called the Soviet Union. The
persecutions and wars that began with the October Revolution and that lasted for decades were
marked by an almost incomprehensible series of mass exterminations; between 1918 and 1953 an
estimated 54-110 million citizens of the USSR perished of unnatural causes. The Soviets left behind
an enduring legacy of poverty, demoralization and ecological catastrophe.
Deftly weaving historical narrative, personal travel stories and the testimony of those he meets along
the way, Polish journalist, poet and traveler
bears compassionate, clear-sighted witness to this world and its disintegration.
In one of the book's opening chapters, Kapuściński sets out from Peking on the Trans-Siberian
railway in 1958 and reaches the border between China and the USSR: "Now it begins. The opening,
the unfastening, the untying, the disemboweling. The rummaging, the plunging in, the pulling out,
the shaking about. And what is this? And what is that for?...."
But the worst offenders are citizens of the Soviet Union who have brought in little sacs of kasha and
it is the job of a customs inspector to sift through it all: "A careful, meticulous sifting through the
fingers....The fingers, delicately and imperceptibly, but very carefully, very vigilantly, roll the grain
about. They investigate. The experienced finger...ready to throttle the grain instantly, catch it in a
trap, imprison it. But the little grain is simply what it is...."
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And then comes one of those passages that set Ryszard Kapuściński apart--the flash of empathy,
not for the more obvious victim of this nonsense, but for the inspector: "Why, these are fingers that
should be should be sculpting gold, polishing diamonds! What microscopic movements, what
responsive tremors, what sensitivity, what professional virtuosity!"
I have never read anything quite like this book. I finished it in just a couple of days and then
immediately turned back to read it---a second time. It's brilliant, beautiful, weird, astonishing, prescient, haunting and sometimes darkly
comedic; filled with word-pictures that seemed rather like the glittering tesserae of a smashed
mosaic. If you care about history, if you want to understand how and why the madness happened
and why the world is still paying the price of this terrible time--read this book.
Adam
Kapuscinski delivers in Imperium a near equal of his masterpieces (Another Day of Life, The
Emperor, and Shah of Shahs). Describing this makes it seems like an awful mess stitched together
from reportage on the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a memoir of the author’s own contact with
the empire, travelogue and history of the various regions (writer Geoff Dyer points out the section on
the history of the Armenian book as especially wonderful, and I agree.), and an indictment of
Stalin’s ruthless
Kapuscinski delivers in Imperium a near equal of his masterpieces (Another Day of Life, The
Emperor, and Shah of Shahs). Describing this makes it seems like an awful mess stitched together
from reportage on the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a memoir of the author’s own contact with
the empire, travelogue and history of the various regions (writer Geoff Dyer points out the section on
the history of the Armenian book as especially wonderful, and I agree.), and an indictment of
Stalin’s ruthless, brutal, and surreal rule. The beauty of the writing pulls this together into a
meditation on a collapsing empire and a changing of the world order with all the chaos and
transformation that is involved. The rot, decay, and weirdness of collapse are what Kapusciski crafts
his poetry from, and here he is frequently at his most poetic.
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