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The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash
epub |eng | 1993-08-29 | Author:Timothy Garton Ash [Ash, Timothy Garton]

Behind everything there was the benign presence of Gorbachev's Soviet Union: the Soviet embassy in Prague receiving a Forum delegation with ostentatious courtesy, Gorbachev himself giving marching orders to Party ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
Rasputin by Douglas Smith
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Douglas Smith

45. The Tovarpar After days of intense fighting, on 4 August the fortress of Kaunas in Lithuania, vital for Russia’s western defenses, fell to the Germans. The Russians suffered approximately ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2017 )
Russia's Dead End: An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin by Andrei A. Kovalev
mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2017-07-31 | Author:Andrei A. Kovalev [Kovalev, Andrei A.]

Postscript to an Epoch of Hope In the process of dismantling Soviet totalitarianism, colleagues who shared my democratic ideals and I tried to get rid of sticky, omnipresent spiderwebs. At ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 25,2017 )
Among the Living and the Dead by Inara Verzemnieks
epub |eng | | Author:Inara Verzemnieks

IN THOSE EARLY DAYS, the story of the missing is a story they tell one another without saying a thing, the anxious transmissions of a hive mind, the entire village ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy
epub |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Serhii Plokhy

The key figure in the transfer of the Galician experience to Dnieper Ukraine was a forty-year-old professor of Ukrainian history at Lviv University, Mykhailo Hrushevsky. An alumnus of Kyiv University, ...
( Category: Europe August 24,2017 )
The Dilemmas of Lenin by Tariq Ali
epub |eng | 2017-04-29 | Author:Tariq Ali

10 The Third International For most of September and October 1917, it appeared that Lenin saw the success of the October Revolution mainly as a springboard for revolutions throughout Europe. ...
( Category: World August 24,2017 )
Six Weeks in Russia, 1919 by Arthur Ransome
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-08-23 | Author:Arthur Ransome [Arthur Ransome]

Seven / An ex-capitalist FEBRUARY 13 I drank tea with an old acquaintance from the provinces, a Russian who, before the revolution, owned a leather-bag factory which worked in close ...
( Category: Russia August 23,2017 )
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1973-05-15 | Author:Rosa Luxemburg [Luxemburg, Rosa]

Part Two Chapter 6 Economic Development and Socialism The greatest conquest of the developing proletarian movement has been the discovery of grounds of support for the realisation of socialism in ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 22,2017 )
The Great Game. On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk
mobi, pdf |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Peter Hopkirk

But even now the Central Asian tragedy was not quite over for the British. Throughout that year the unfolding story had dominated the headlines both in India and at home. ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 22,2017 )
Spy Handler by Victor Cherkashin
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-29 | Author:Victor Cherkashin [VICTOR CHERKASHIN WITH GREGORY FEIFER]

8 After arriving in Washington, Yurchenko began riding waves of conflicting emotions. Escaping the Soviet Union and cooperating with former adversaries who now professed to be his best friends must ...
( Category: Military August 22,2017 )
Blind Man's Bluff by Christopher Drew
epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Christopher Drew [Sontag, Sherry]

(9) THE $500 MILLION SAND CASTLE It was October 22, 1973, and journalist Seymour M. Hersh was taking notes in a reporter’s staccato, partial sentences—partial secrets that he ingested along ...
( Category: Military August 22,2017 )
Khrushchev by Edward Crankshaw
epub |eng | 2017-08-18 | Author:Edward Crankshaw

It may well be that these last pages have a planless and inconsequent appearance: this is intended. It is impossible to make a neat pattern of the complex violence that ...
( Category: Russia August 20,2017 )
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped by Garry Kasparov
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Garry Kasparov [Kasparov, Garry]

OFF THE BOARD, INTO THE FIRE There’s a very long list of things my hardline Soviet Communist grandfather would never have believed would happen in my lifetime, and my becoming ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 20,2017 )
Red Mafiya by Friedman Robert I
epub |eng | 2009-11-29 | Author:Friedman, Robert I. [FRIEDMAN, ROBERT I.]

Tarzan found Brighton Beach to be an unsavory haunt for murderers and thieves. “It was the Wild West,” he recalled. “I took my gun everywhere.” His fortunes improved markedly when, ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
The New Nobility by Irina Borogan
epub |eng | | Author:Irina Borogan

THE BESLAN SIEGE cast a harsh light on the ability of the Russian security services to cope with large-scale hostage-taking and terrorism. All the various ministries and elite forces had ...
( Category: Russia August 19,2017 )

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