Russia
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

On October 18, 1963, the cover of Life, the nation’s most prominent and widely read weekly magazine, displayed a picture of Nicholas II’s five children. The headline was “THE CASE ...
( Category: Historical August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-05 | Author:Christopher Clark

38. Old Lutheran settlement at Klemzig, South Australia, by George French Angas, 1845 The sharpening of confessional identities also unsettled relations between the state and its Catholic subjects, whose numbers ...
( Category: Europe August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-18 | Author:Norman M. Naimark [Naimark, Norman M.]

Some scholars would prefer not to use the term of genocide at all in historical studies of mass killing, argu-ing that it is too closely linked to international judicial norms ...
( Category: Russia August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:Stephen Walsh [Walsh, Stephen]

( Category: Military August 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Anne Applebaum

Hunger for Love: male prisoners peering over the fence into the women’s zone—a drawing by Yula-Imar Sooster, Karaganda, 1950 Such letters, remembered Leonid Sitko, were written on tiny pieces of ...
( Category: Russia August 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Service [Service, Robert]

32. THE LEFT OPPOSITION Practically nobody in mid-1923, not even his friends, appreciated that Trotsky lacked a firm desire to be the leader. With Lenin he was routinely mentioned as ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-14 | Author:Simon Ings [Simon Ings]

Also on the delegation was Ernst Kolman, whom the Politburo had charged with supervising and reporting on the political behaviour of two suspect members of the delegation: Boris Hessen; and ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Ignatieff

SIX REVOLUTION ‘Go to your mother’ had been the Tsar’s last words. After his final audience with the Tsar, Paul travelled down to Kroupodernitsa to be with his mother. In ...
( Category: Russia August 3,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Browder

23 Department K Ivan and I took the 3:00 p.m. Eurostar back to London. We needed to talk out of earshot, and the only place available was between cars, where ...
( Category: Historical August 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Condoleezza Rice

( Category: Politics & Government August 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-07 | Author:John Erickson [Erickson, John]

( Category: Europe August 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-09 | Author:Robert Service [Service, Robert]

( Category: World August 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Luke Harding [Luke Harding]

Brenton was an unusually frank diplomat. His reward was a campaign of Kremlin-sponsored harassment: the pro-Putin youth group Nashi picketed his public events, jumped in front of his car, and ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-26 | Author:Stuermer, Michael

More mosques The green night-sleeper train from Kazan to Moscow’s Kazan station takes eight hours, slowly rumbling over creaking tracks, while matrons in green uniforms serve tea and vodka in ...
( Category: Russia July 31,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-22 | Author:Kranzler, Bryna [Kranzler, Bryna]

That afternoon, a guard escorted me to a smithy. Not being a horse, I couldn’t imagine what business I had with a blacksmith. But the stocky, silent Pole with coal ...
( Category: Historical July 27,2017 )