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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 )
Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

( Category: Political January 19,2020 )
Russian Cosmism by Groys Boris; & Russian Cosmism
epub |eng | 2018-03-08 | Author:Groys, Boris; & Russian Cosmism

Hence, it is clear that if we completely destroyed the albedo, which is impossible, Earth’s average temperature would climb to 104 degrees Celsius. But even a slight decrease in the ...
( Category: Criticism January 19,2020 )
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty by Smolkin Victoria;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Smolkin, Victoria; [Smolkin, Victoria;]

FIGURE 6.5. “ ‘Strong family-strong state’: Solemn act of registering newlyweds in the Gorky Palace of Culture, conducted by the directorate of the Palace of Weddings No. 1, ZAGS division ...
( Category: Atheism January 19,2020 )
Russia's Crony Capitalism by Anders Aslund
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anders Aslund [Aslund, Anders]

Year Global Financial Integrity: Licit and illicit IMF: Capital flight 1994 20 16.7 1995 0 4 1996 20.3 25 1997 0.9 22.3 1998 57.2 26.8 1999 21.4 22 2000 15.6 ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 18,2020 )
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia by Joshua Yaffa
epub |eng | 2020-01-14 | 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 January 15,2020 )
Russia by Carleton Gregory
epub |eng | 2017-04-23 | Author:Carleton, Gregory [Carleton, Gregory]

Brest follows this Western tradition, but it does so while also operating as a model of Russia itself, which is why I highlight it here instead of more famous and ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 2,2020 )
Russia: A Short History by Abraham Ascher
epub |eng | 2017-09-07 | Author:Abraham Ascher [Ascher, Abraham]

8 THE SOVIET UNION UNDER LENIN AND STALIN Rarely in the history of any country has one man cast so long a shadow as V. I. Lenin has over Russia. ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union December 17,2019 )
From Russia with Blood by Heidi Blake
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Heidi Blake

Something was wrong with Anna Politkovskaya. When Litvinenko met his friend at a Caffè Nero on one of her visits to London, he saw that her face was drawn with ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 20,2019 )
On my country and the world by Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-11-13 | Author:Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev

THE UNION COULD HAVE BEEN PRESERVED « it is important, vitally important, that this very complex process not intensify destructive tendencies that can be observed in society. After all, it ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 14,2019 )
The Zookeepers' War by J.W. Mohnhaupt
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:J.W. Mohnhaupt

* * * In the GDR, any mention of environmental pollution was taboo, and reporting on it was forbidden. Economic progress was the top priority and so, according to the ...
( Category: Wildlife November 14,2019 )
Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by Baier Bret & Whitney Catherine
azw3 |eng | 2018-05-14 | Author:Baier, Bret & Whitney, Catherine [Baier, Bret]

REAGAN WAS NERVOUS. It had been the hardest year of his presidency, weighted down by scandals and staff upheavals. His poll numbers had dipped by more than twenty points, and ...
( Category: Americas February 18,2019 )
Cause and Effect: Understanding Chernobyl by Marianne Barisonek
mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Marianne Barisonek

Chapter 6: The Liquidators “I lost the sensation in my left hand, later of the left arm, finally of half of my body. Later I suffered from palsy of the ...
( Category: Russia February 14,2019 )
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Massie Robert K
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Massie, Robert K. [Massie, Robert K.]

On October 18, 1963, the cover of Life, the nation’s most prominent and widely read weekly magazine, displayed a picture of Nicholas II’s five children. The headline was “THE CASE ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2019 )

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