Russia
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Serhii Plokhy [Plokhy, Serhii]

VLADIMIR LENIN NEVER SHARED SHULGIN’S CONCERNS ABOUT the unity of the Russian nation. In June 1917, he went out of his way to manifest his support for the Rada, not ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Miles

Massacre in Palace Square on ‘Bloody Sunday’, 1905. Kokovtsov managed to get out by mid-afternoon and noted that the demonstration had been effectively broken up. There were stragglers rioting and ...
( Category: Russia March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marvin Kalb

I had asked myself when I arrived in this historic city whether twentieth-century Samarkand could somehow match the allure of fifteenth-century Samarkand. My answer was no. The beauty of old ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-12 | Author:Slezkine, Yuri

Most members of the new Soviet elite were not Jews, and most Jews were not members of the new Soviet elite. But there is no doubt that the Jews had ...
( Category: World March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Reed, W. Craig [Reed, W. Craig]

THE BEGINNING OF THAT END STARTED when Captain Kaye, at McNamara’s bidding, promoted Reed to one of the most prestigious positions in A22: head of field operations. In short, he ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-03 | Author:Hatherley, Owen [Hatherley, Owen]

Half-lit chandeliers at Pushkinskaya, Kharkiv So how was it that the underground labourers’ nights remained so exhausting? One explanation can be found in the depths of the Leningrad Metro. The ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 11,2018 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Charles Winchester

Paulus rejected an offer to surrender on 9 January and directed that flags of truce were to be fired on in future. The next day the Russians attacked the western ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-19 | Author:Beevor, Antony

Dawn on Wednesday 18 April produced a red sky along the eastern horizon. Those still fighting to cling on to the Seelow Heights were filled with foreboding. It was not ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nik Cornish

Men of North Western Front's First Shock Army patrol the edges of the Ramushevo corridor between the main German lines and the Demiansk pocket. It was through this gap in ...
( Category: Military March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Dominic Lieven [Lieven, Dominic]

CHAPTER 5 CRISIS FOLLOWS CRISIS, 1909–13 Recovering from Humiliation The Russian press coined the unhelpful phrase “diplomatic Tsushima” to describe Russia’s surrender to German and Austrian pressure at the climax ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-02-02 | Author:Victor Serge [Serge, Victor]

The law of the sword Here, today, Lev Davidovich Trotsky is the soul of the resistance. If, a few miles from here, the attack waves are being reformed and methodically ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-24 | Author:Douglas Boyd

( Category: Military March 9,2018 )
epub |spa | 2006-12-31 | Author:unknow

CHAPTER SIXTEEN I was carrying Nala out of the media center—the cat had been so sound asleep that she hadn't even bothered to complain at me when I picked her ...
( Category: Russia March 7,2018 )
epub |zho | 2010-04-14 | Author:Lieven, Dominic [Lieven, Dominic]

if Napoleon wins a battle it will be useless for most certainly the Austrian armies will not permit him to pursue his success: if he loses his fate is decided…the ...
( Category: Military March 7,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Leon Trotsky

30 Kerensky’s Plot The Moscow Conference damaged the position of the government by revealing, as Miliukov correctly states, “that the country was divided into two camps between which there could ...
( Category: Russia March 5,2018 )