mobi |eng | 2009-01-03 | Author:Bannister, Nonna & Denise George & Carolyn Tomlin [Bannister, Nonna]

26: Papa Is Found in Hiding One day a man from Grandmother’s neighborhood came looking for Mama and told her that she needed to go back home because her husband ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-02-24 | Author:Julia P. Gelardi [Gelardi, Julia P.]

For the normally indefatigable Marie of Romania, the task of rallying those around her proved daunting. In mid-December 1916, she confessed in her diary that many were coming to her, ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David North [North, David]

25 Thatcher, pp. 14-17. 26 Thatcher claims that “Deutscher simply puts thoughts into his subjects’ heads for which there is no evidence.” Thatcher cites a passage from Deutscher “which compares ...

mobi |eng | 2006-11-14 | Author:Edvard Radzinsky; Antonina Bouis

A GAME FROM THE GRAVE Indeed, by then it had already begun. This happened on New Year’s Eve: In the Church of the Protective Veil of the Virgin, where the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Volkogonov, Dmitri [Volkogonov, Dmitri]

Lenin's Entourage From the beginning of his revolutionary career, people were drawn to Lenin. They may have argued and quarrelled with him, but they could not ignore him. By the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Kim Philby

VIII. THE VOLKOV CASE I now come to the Volkov case, which I propose to describe in some detail, both because of its intrinsic interest and because it nearly put ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1980-09-11 | Author:Robert K. Massie

entrenched army. The rear of the new Russian camp overlooked the bluff of the Vorskla at a point where the bank was so steep and the river so broad and ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Figes, Orlando [Figes, Orlando]

Five days later, Sveta had not yet left Moscow. There were difficulties getting train tickets (not uncommon in the Soviet Union, where people queued for days at ticket-offices). ‘Goodness knows ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mary McGrigor

While there, because it was a common topic, even if he did not buy a newssheet, he must have heard of the tsar’s visit to London, widely reported as it ...

epub |eng | 2005-06-15 | Author:Robert Service [Service, Robert]

32. THE CULT OF IMPERSONALITY The Lenin cult glistened like a film of oil over the dark ocean of Soviet reality in the late 1930s. Stalin had always presided over ...