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Mutiny: The True Events That Inspired The Hunt For Red October by Boris Gindin & David Hagberg
epub |eng | 2008-05-13 | Author:Boris Gindin & David Hagberg [Gindin, Boris]

THE OFFICERS DIVIDED Gindin has made his choice and is waiting for the other officers to make theirs—white or black. Some of them seem to have calmed down a little. ...
( Category: Russia December 25,2017 )
Marshal K.K. Rokossovsky by Boris Sokolov
epub |eng | 2015-03-19 | Author:Boris Sokolov

Here’s how Rokossovsky recalled the start of the battle: In the early morning hours of 5 July, German sappers, who were clearing minefields, were captured in the sector of the ...
( Category: Historical December 24,2017 )
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East by David Stahel
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-09 | Author:David Stahel [Stahel, David]

Figure 6.2 As the Soviet armies near the border dissolved, countless armed groups hid in the extensive forests of Belorussia ambushing German supply columns. By the middle of July 1941 ...
( Category: Military December 23,2017 )
Ivan the Terrible by de Madariaga Isabel
azw3 |eng | 2006-09-25 | Author:de Madariaga, Isabel

But Viskovaty and Funikov were not the only targets.48 The heads of many other prikazy such as the prikaz of landed estates (Pomest'nyi), the principal office of revenue (Bol'shoi Prikaz), ...
( Category: Historical December 23,2017 )
Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Anna Politkovskaya [Politkovskaya, Anna]

57 HOURS November 4, 2002 The last few days have passed in a feverish delirium. Moscow is burying the hostages. Today, just like yesterday, just like tomorrow. It is unbearable. ...
( Category: Historical December 22,2017 )
The Lost Spy by Andrew Meier
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Andrew Meier

A DOZEN YEARS EARLIER, LENIN HAD SENT A FAMED SOVIET AGENT TO China. Mikhail Markovich Borodin, a thirty-nine-year-old Comintern envoy and comrade of the father of the revolution, arrived in ...
( Category: Americas December 19,2017 )
The Village by Ivan Bunin
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-10-06 | Author:Ivan Bunin

3 In that distant time when Ilya Mironov had lived for a couple of years in Durnovka, Kuzma had been no more than a child, and there remained in his ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 18,2017 )
A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Orlando Figes [Figes, Orlando]

This at last was mutiny: having been denounced as a rebel, Kornilov chose to rebel. Several senior generals declared their support for him. Now Kerensky had a real 'counter-revolution' to ...
( Category: Russia December 17,2017 )
From Russia with Lunch by David Smiedt
epub |eng | | Author:David Smiedt

7 Smiedt nothings After many years of being stranded on a desert island, a man is finally rescued. Before being taken home, he decides to give his saviours a tour ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 15,2017 )
Red Shambhala by Andrei Znamenski
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Andrei Znamenski

In desperation and losing the support of his Mongol hosts, Ungern decided to quickly boost his prestige through a military victory over the Red Russians in the summer of 1921. ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal December 13,2017 )
Death of a Dissident by Alex Goldfarb
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Alex Goldfarb [Goldfarb, Alex]

Sasha’s trial began in early October. The hearing was closed; Marina had to wait in the hallway. All she could think about was how to catch a glimpse of Sasha ...
( Category: Russia December 11,2017 )
History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918 by Armour Ian D.;
epub |eng | | Author:Armour, Ian D.;

10 The Ottoman Empire and the Balkan Nation-States The Ottoman imperium in the Balkans rested on a fundamental distinction between Ottoman Muslims and a variety of Christian underclasses. Yet until ...
( Category: World December 9,2017 )
Leon Trotsky by Paul Le Blanc
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Le Blanc

Destruction of the Soviet Oppositionists In 1937 small groups of dissident Communist heroes and heroines, the men and women of the Left Opposition, waged their final struggle against the bureaucratic ...
( Category: Historical December 9,2017 )
The Empire Must Die by Mikhail Zygar
epub |eng | 2017-11-01 | Author:Mikhail Zygar

A “SHAMELESS” LAW By the time the Duma is dissolved, a new electoral law has not only been written, but also adopted by the government and the State Council. The ...
( Category: Russia December 8,2017 )
Shostakovich by Fay Laurel;
epub |eng | 2000-12-07 | Author:Fay, Laurel;

14 1966–1969 Jubilees he new year 1966 got off to a productive start. While reports of his ostensible progress on the opera The Quiet Don continued to appear in the ...
( Category: Music December 7,2017 )

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