Historical Russia Biographies
epub |eng | 2011-07-28 | Author:Freidin, Gregory.

. . . everything resumed movement: the coachmen loosened the reins, lowered their long whips; the horses, animated, shook their harness chains, tossed foam around them, and the hindquarters and ...
( Category: Russian August 6,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-06 | Author:Karl Marx [Marx, Karl]

8. The Working Day The sum of the necessary labour and the surplus-labour, i.e., of the periods of time during which the workman replaces the value of his labour-power, and ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism July 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Norman Ohler

The description of this gruesome occurrence isn’t all. Adam and John write about the psychological consequences, and their so innocuously titled Open Letter to the Eastern Front leads directly into ...
( Category: World War II July 21,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2015-12-13 | Author:Richard Pipes [Pipes, Richard]

From Troepol’skii and Ovechkin, from Zhestev and Kalinin, from the writings of Tendriakov and Zalygin of this period, the prose about the countryside inherited, so to say, “the economic analysis ...
( Category: Political July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Virginia Rounding [Rounding, Virginia]

CHAPTER EIGHT Grigory the Wonder-Worker 1912 Simple-lifers, utopian socialists, spiritualists, occultists, theosophists, quietists, pacifists, futurists, cubists, zealots of all sorts in their approach to life and art, later to be ...
( Category: Russia July 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-14 | Author:Edvard Radzinsky;

Dostoevsky published The Devils in 1873, when he had returned to Russia. In explaining the novel, Dostoevsky wrote that The Devils was not specifically about the Nechaev case, but much ...
( Category: United States July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-14 | Author:Archie Brown [Brown, Archie]

Almost on the eve of the elections to the Congress of People’s Deputies, Gorbachev put the finishing touches to a new book manuscript written in 1988 and early 1989. A ...
( Category: Diplomacy July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Benson Bobrick

* * * * These details are translated from Kurbsky’s subsequent History of Ivan’s reign. † Makary had written to Ivan at Kazan: “If the Tsar’s heart is in the ...
( Category: Historical Russia Biographies June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

CHAPTER 15 What Lies Ahead? Today, with the benefit of hindsight, I believe that those who signed the Belovezh accord had no intention, even from the outset, of carrying out ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union June 29,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-23 | Author:Isaiah Berlin [Berlin, Isaiah]

Belinsky was not torn between incompatible ideals. He was an integrated personality in the sense that he believed in his own feelings, and was therefore free from the self-pity and ...
( Category: Essays June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-10 | Author:Mikaberidze, Alexander;

The six years of Minto’s administration coincided with the height of the Napoleonic Wars. The Treaty of Tilsit (1807) and the resulting Franco-Russian alliance revived British fears of a French-sponsored ...
( Category: World June 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-06-14 | Author:Shapovalov, Veronica;

CHAPTER NINE Irina Zalmanovna Tsurkova 1959– Born in Leningrad, Irina Zalmanovna Tsurkova (b. Lopotukhina) graduated from high school in 1976. She applied to a medical institute but was refused admission ...
( Category: Women in History June 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-28 | Author:Grand Duke Alexander of Russia [Russia, Grand Duke Alexander of]

2 The fiancée of the new Czar, Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, had arrived from Germany on the eve of the death of Alexander III. The Minister of the Imperial Court ...
( Category: Royalty June 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-02 | Author:Elisa Brodinsky Miller

Yet . . . yet . . . It was not that pogrom but one in 1920 that devastated Manya’s family. General Anton Denikin, Commander of the pro-Tsarist counter-revolutionary forces, ...
( Category: Women in History June 10,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Pilyushin

The only available wartime portrait of Yosif Pilyushin Disregarding the danger to his life in every battle, under artillery and machine-gun fire, he went into the front line in order ...
( Category: World War II June 6,2020 )