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The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity by Mastny Vojtech;
epub |eng | 2015-03-07 | Author:Mastny, Vojtech;

Win the War at Home In one of the Cold War’s many ironies, Western fear of Soviet threat increased just as Stalin’s rule was entering the stage of its terminal ...
( Category: Russia February 28,2020 )
Revolutionary Days: Recollections of Romanoffs and Bolsheviki 1914-1917 by Julia Cantacuzene
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Julia Cantacuzene

CHAPTER XIV KERENSKY AND BOLSHEVIKI I reached Petrograd on July fourteenth, a Saturday, and settled down at once in my old apartments at the Hotel d’Europe to the complicated measures ...
( Category: Historical February 27,2020 )
Stalin and the Fate of Europe by Norman M. Naimark
epub |eng | | Author:Norman M. Naimark

While Clay and his supporters worked the corridors of power in Washington, trying to convince the waverers in the administration that Berlin was strategically crucial to the American position in ...
( Category: History & Theory February 27,2020 )
Sovietistan by Erika Fatland
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Erika Fatland

The sun had not yet risen when the older men went out into the blue light of dawn to wash and say their morning prayers. By six o’clock, they were ...
( Category: Women in History February 27,2020 )
A Course in Russian History by Vasili O. Kliuchevsky
epub |eng | | Author:Vasili O. Kliuchevsky

Catherine As a Young Girl. Engraving by Rosina Lischevska, 1740. Empress Elizabeth. Portrait by Vigilius Ericksen. Grand Duke Peter. Portrait by Georg Groot. Grand Duchess Catherine. Portrait by Georg Groot. ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies February 26,2020 )
The Russia Trap by George S. Beebe
epub |eng | | Author:George S. Beebe

In the years leading up to the Pearl Harbor attack, the United States had put Japan under increasingly severe economic pressure in response to Japanese military conquests and expansionist policies ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union February 23,2020 )
Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era by Prokhorov Alexander Prokhorova Elena
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Prokhorov, Alexander,Prokhorova, Elena

Figure 3.1: Kalugina as the gloomy Soviet bureaucrat Figure 3.2: A character mocks the humorless boss In Office Romance, a loud and obnoxious group of workers dressed, significantly, in uniform ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies February 22,2020 )
Judgment in Moscow by Vladimir Bukovsky
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Vladimir Bukovsky

It will be considered by the Soviet Government to be some kind of provocation to stop all the good developments which have resulted from American policy over the last few ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 19,2020 )
Alexander I- the Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon by Marie-Pierre Rey
mobi |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Marie-Pierre Rey

CHAPTER 11 1812 The Duel of the Emperors The huge bibliography devoted to the Napoleonic campaigns and in particular to the war of 1812 makes one dizzy: no fewer than ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 17,2020 )
The Soviet Theater by Laurence Senelick
epub |eng | 2014-02-16 | Author:Laurence Senelick

Golubovsky, Bol’shie malen’kie teatry, 177. Okhlopkov’s name as an innovative director first echoed throughout all Moscow at the Realistic Theater in 1932. It was his first theatrical love. So what ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources February 17,2020 )
Between Two Fires by Joshua Yaffa
epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Joshua Yaffa

* * * — TWO DAYS AFTER THE vote, Putin gathered Russia’s political elite in the Kremlin’s Saint George Hall to announce Crimea’s formal annexation. He cited the peninsula’s historic ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union February 16,2020 )
Grigori Rasputin: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History
epub |eng | 2017-11-21 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Six Powerful Enemies and Powerful Friends “Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.” —Leo Tolstoy Through his conniving appointments, intrigue, ...
( Category: Mysticism February 11,2020 )
The Putin System: An Opposing View by Grigory Yavlinsky
epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Grigory Yavlinsky

THE SOCIAL BASE OF PUTIN’S POWER Another important feature of a peripheral-type autocracy is the distinctive configuration of its social base of support. But before undertaking a description and analysis ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )
The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Mark Galeotti [Galeotti, Mark]

Grandfather Hassan’s boys We are peaceful people and don’t bother anybody . . . We are for peace, in order to prevent lawlessness. Aslan Usoyan, 200818 If Oniani’s gang represents ...
( Category: Criminology January 19,2020 )
Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union by Etty John
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Etty, John [Etty, John]

CHAPTER SIX Making the Risible Visible: The Performative Construction of Non-Soviet Ideology in Krokodil Performance has been an important theme implicit in the discussion of Krokodil so far. Krokodil embodied ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )

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