Russia
epub |eng | | Author:Lee Edwards

AFGHANISTAN After a string of notable foreign policy successes, the Soviets were about to encounter an unexpected setback. In October 1979, Hafizulah Amin, a formerly reliable communist politician, engineered a ...
( Category: European March 5,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

We find the same system, with only slight difference, in French banking. For instance, one of the three largest French banks, the Credit Lyonnais, has organized a financial research service ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union February 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Srećko Horvat & Igor Štiks [Horvat, Srećko & Štiks, Igor]

It is not so much the suppression of communism as a historical fact, the erasure of the communist past with all its intellectual and political complexity from the historical consciousness ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union February 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:John Mosier [Mosier, John]

The two armies were evolving in different directions. A Red Army mechanized and armored corps had a tank strength that was hardly equal to anyone else’s armored division, while for ...
( Category: World War II January 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:Eugenia Maresch [Maresch, Eugenia]

c. The Propaganda Pamphlet On 2 June 1943, the PCK Chairman was informed that the German Propaganda Department was thinking of writing a pamphlet about Katyn; the proposition came with ...
( Category: Great Britain January 16,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2007-09-05 | Author:Clark Christopher

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 January 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-03 | Author:Sienkiewicz, Henryk [Sienkiewicz, Henryk]

Chapter XXXIV Ok a certain calm night a band of horsemen, about twenty in number, moved along the right bank of the Valadinka in the direction of the Dniester. They ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Dennis E. Showalter [Showalter, Dennis E.]

PART III THE BLOOD-SWOLLEN GOD 7 The Province of Uncertainty I On a map, the advance of the Russian 2nd Army was a deadly thrust. An attack northwest towards the ...
( Category: World War I January 6,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-01-03 | Author:Linda Himelstein

They [the Smirnovs] will terrorize you because of me! They will torment you! They are animals, monsters!…Your father, though he gave you both education and good breeding, he still remains ...
( Category: Russia January 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-17 | Author:Tzouliadis, Tim [Tzouliadis, Tim]

IN JANUARY 1944, Kathleen Harriman was invited to visit a clearing in the Katyn Forest of Byelorussia, where the mass graves of several thousand Polish officers missing since 1940 had ...
( Category: Immigrants January 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Cohen, Paul A

THE DIMMING OF POPULAR MEMORY: JOAN OF ARC AFTER THE WAR Joan of Arc is visually omnipresent in today’s France. “A high percentage of churches,” according to one observer, “have ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Harrison Salisbury [Harrison E. Salisbury]

In these conditions to talk of mounting a counteroffensive was impossible. The best Voroshilov had been able to do was to carry out local counterattacks. Voroshilov’s presentation was accurate. It ...
( Category: Asian December 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 1969-12-04 | Author:Robert F. Kennedy

NEW CHECKS AND BALANCES In warmaking, the Constitution contemplated enforced collaboration between the President and his fellow politicians on Capitol Hill. In practice, as the missile crisis illustrates, a strong ...
( Category: Nuclear December 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Giles Whittell [Whittell, Giles]

What were the wives doing there? Why double the number of people who had seen the “giant black crow” close up? Why treble (at least) the amount of gossip about ...
( Category: Nuclear December 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-07 | Author:Service, Robert

29. THE LEAVING OF AFGHANISTAN Strange as it may seem, questions about East Germany, Hungary and even Poland cropped up little in the talks between America and the Soviet Union. ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 25,2015 )