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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin & Lyudmila Trut
epub |eng | 2017-03-23 | Author:Lee Alan Dugatkin & Lyudmila Trut [Dugatkin, Lee Alan]

BACK WHEN DMITRI HAD FIRST EXPLAINED HIS plan for domesticating foxes to Lyudmila, she had thought about the moving words of the fox character in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic story, ...
( Category: Evolution February 8,2018 )
The Baltic by Michael North
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Michael North [North, Michael]

[CHAPTER EIGHT] Revolutions and New States Focus on Riga By the eve of World War I, the port city of Riga, which to that point had been shaped largely by ...
( Category: Europe February 6,2018 )
In Broad Daylight by Father Patrick Desbois
epub |eng | 2017-12-13 | Author:Father Patrick Desbois [Desbois, Father Patrick]

More than ten thousand of them went toward the station, thinking they would be taking the train. The German units corralled them into what could only be called ravines of ...
( Category: World February 5,2018 )
The Velizh Affair by Eugene M. Avrutin
epub |eng | 2017-08-21 | Author:Eugene M. Avrutin [Avrutin, Eugene M.]

6 The Inv• estigation Widens in the summer Of 1827, the investigation took on a bureaucratic life of its own. The work was long and exhausting. Most days started promptly ...
( Category: Europe February 4,2018 )
Ivan the Terrible by Ian Grey
mobi |eng | 2016-09-29 | Author:Ian Grey

The year 1560 was notable in Ivan’s reign, for it marked the beginning of his unfettered personal rule. Historians have often described it as the year of his dramatic transformation ...
( Category: Historical January 27,2018 )
In Broad Daylight by Father Desbois
epub |eng | 2017-12-13 | Author:Father Desbois

More than ten thousand of them went toward the station, thinking they would be taking the train. The German units corralled them into what could only be called ravines of ...
( Category: World January 24,2018 )
Delta by L. Todd Wood
epub |eng | | Author:L. Todd Wood

Chapter Thirteen The Aeroflot jet descended towards Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation. The flight had been a pleasant one, the Russian female flight attendants taking ...
( Category: Russia January 10,2018 )
Stalin's Meteorologist by Olivier Rolin
epub |eng | 2017-12-12 | Author:Olivier Rolin

1 at the end of October 1937, 1,116 prisoners embark for Kem and from that moment all trace of them is lost for sixty years. It is a dismal autumn ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 10,2018 )
Moscow Calling by Angus Roxburgh
epub |eng | | Author:Angus Roxburgh

23 The KGB Gets Me NOBODY PREDICTED THE convulsions that would occur in the world in 1989. I certainly didn’t predict those that would happen in my own life. Though ...
( Category: Memoirs January 10,2018 )
The House of Government by Slezkine Yuri
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Slezkine, Yuri

Mikhail Poloz with his daughter Rada, with her hair shaved off for the summer Five days later, she wrote again: 17 January Mikhasik, my darling, my very own, beloved Mikhasik! ...
( Category: Russia January 10,2018 )
Leningrad by Brian Moynahan
epub |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Brian Moynahan

The assistant director at the Capella, Mikhlachevsky, tried to cheer himself up by planning a list of concerts for the first quarter of the year. None took place. Bogdanov-Berezovsky had ...
( Category: Military January 9,2018 )
The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power, and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II by Greg King
epub |eng | 2018-01-08 | Author:Greg King [Greg King]

Standart But above all other vessels, Nicholas II preferred Standart, commissioned from Copenhagen’s Burmeister and Wain Shipyard in 1893. The public rooms were nearly twice as large as those on ...
( Category: Russia January 8,2018 )
A Writer at War Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
epub |eng | 2007-03-13 | Author:Vasily Grossman [Grossman, Vasily]

‘When Germans had pushed us right back to the Volga, their sub-machine-gunners were shouting: “Rus, glug-glug!” And we shouted back: “Hey, come here, you’re thirsty, aren’t you?”’13 Soldiers burned to ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 5,2018 )
The Diary of Olga Romanov by Helen Azar
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Helen Azar [Azar, Helen]

— Saturday. 31st December. We 2 to Znamenie and to the infirmary. Rita was helping to replace Val.[lentina] Iv.[anovna]30 in the operating room, and I was [helping] a little on ...
( Category: Russia January 4,2018 )
The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century by Angela Stent
epub |eng | 2014-01-04 | Author:Angela Stent [Stent, Angela]

The Arctic On August 2, 2007, the Kremlin dispatched a nuclear-powered icebreaker and two submarines to plant the Russian flag on the floor for the North Pole’s sea—an act made ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 2,2018 )

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