Russia
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:1689-1917 Volume 2 -Imperial Russia [Volume 2 -Imperial Russia, 1689-1917]

b o r i s a n a n i c h Introduction The beginning of the eighteenth century was a period of radical change in Russia’s economy. These transformations ...
( Category: Russia November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

Heavy Industry Soviet industry moved forward, and staggered about the place, like a titanic infant, with every manner of thunderous accident (collisions, explosions), with peasant boys twirling off frozen scaffolding, ...
( Category: Historical November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-31 | Author:Stephen Kotkin

( Category: Russia November 2,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Victor Sebestyen

* The first person to propose, in print, the idea of separating India into two nations seems to have been the philosopher and great educator Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan, whose ...
( Category: Russia November 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-27 | Author:Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson [Zetterling, Niklas & Frankson, Anders]

As we have seen, Gruppe Stemmermann had been preparing to attack in a south-westerly direction. The 105th Infantry Regiment would lead 72nd Division’s attack on Novo Buda. Major Kaestner chose ...
( Category: Military October 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-16 | Author:David Edmonds & John Eidinow [Edmonds, David & Eidinow, John]

Fischer off-stage continues to command almost all the attention. In the press, much of it makes for uncomfortable reading. The Washington Post agonizes that “Fischer has alienated millions of chess ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-15 | Author:Michael W. Simmons [Simmons, Michael W.]

But then, something intensely peculiar occurred: Peter invited Poniatowski to visit him. He behaved in a friendly manner towards his wife’s lover and invited him to have dinner with himself ...
( Category: Russia October 23,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-10-20 | Author:Prit Buttar

CHAPTER 9 RUSSIA’S LOWEST EBB: BREST-LITOVSK The Russians were not the only ones keen to secure a peace. Germany had gambled everything on the submarine campaign to bring Britain to ...
( Category: Europe October 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-29 | Author:David H. Sharp

Day 22 (Thursday, July 11, 1974) Ironically, just when we finally had the capture vehicle and all systems ready to begin descent, the weather turned bad on us. The 0900 ...
( Category: Military October 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter Carlson [Carlson, Peter]

46. MARILYN MONROE TELLS HER MAID WHAT SHE REALLY THINKS OF KHRUSHCHEV When the chairman left the room, reporters swarmed around the stars, fishing for quotes about the historic event ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-18 | Author:Charlotte Hobson [Charlotte Hobson]

Back in the hostel, I pushed open the door and found the room had turned silver. Ira had pinned hundreds of single strands of tinsel to the ceiling. You couldn’t ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ivan Chistyakov

1 May 1936 So, uselessly, pointlessly, meaninglessly, life passes. Today is a holiday, but not for us. We have turmoil and muddle. Everyone confined to barracks. We can’t go anywhere ...
( Category: Historical October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:Eugenie Fraser [Eugenie Fraser]

CHAPTER 4 1914 On New Year’s morning I was woken by Mikhailo dropping his heavy load of firewood onto the floor. ‘It is a hard frost the New Year has ...
( Category: Historical October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Michael Dobbs [Dobbs, Michael]

For the FKR cruise missile convoy that had been ordered to the launch position west of Guantanamo Naval Base, it was turning into a chaotic and disastrous night. The missile ...
( Category: Americas October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Serhii Plokhy

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 October 13,2017 )