Russia
mobi |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Martin Amis

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: Russia September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Anna Reid [ANNA REID]

A few weeks later Kravchenko found himself collectivising in person. Eighty young activists were summoned to a pep talk by the local Party committee. Dnipropetrovsk region had fallen behind schedule, ...
( Category: Human Geography September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Palmer

Ungern spoke of the necessity of the ‘discipline of the rod’ which had served his military heroes, Frederick the Great and Nikolas I. Nobody was immune from being seized and ...
( Category: Rome September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Gessen, Masha [Gessen, Masha]

I WAS ALREADY GONE, having taken the job at U.S. News & World Report the previous summer. Before I started, I had flown to the Black Sea for a short ...
( Category: Russia September 18,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-02-15 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

* * * IXToC INTERNATIONAL POLICY In the course of these chapters, I have had occasion to mention disagreeable features of the Bolshevik régime. But it must always be remembered ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union August 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Lovell, Stephen [Lovell, Stephen]

After Khrushchev, however, the rhetoric was rather more subdued. For the last 20 years of its existence, the Soviet Union achieved modest but tangible advances on the consumer front. Above ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union August 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Hosking, Geoffrey [Hosking, Geoffrey]

It is remarkable that such a far-reaching measure could be carried out at all in opposition to the interests of the ruling class. It was a vindication of the power ...
( Category: Europe August 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Plokhy, Serhii [Plokhy, Serhii]

George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at a press conference after signing the START1 agreement on the reduction of nuclear arsenals. Gorbachev managed to persuade his military to agree to unprecedented ...
( Category: Diplomacy August 18,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Antony C. Sutton

Morris Subsequently Morris, in Stockholm, requested disposal instructions for a $10,000 draft deposited in a Stockholm bank. His phrase "[this] has been my only connection with the affair" suggests that ...
( Category: Radicalism July 20,2014 )
epub |deu | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

One of the first things taught to a child is "DO NOT BREAK THE CIRCLE". This has both the internal meaning "don’t go after you own memories and the external ...
( Category: Europe July 10,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-29 | Author:Victor Sebestyen [SEBESTYEN, VICTOR]

In April 1988 Jaruzelski did what all his Communist predecessors in Poland had done. He raised prices - by 40 per cent on most foods. Within weeks much of the ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-10 | Author:Richard Overy

The command economies performed the functions of choice and allocation normally associated with the market under liberal capitalism. The consequence of displacing the market was a fundamental restructuring of the ...
( Category: European June 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Nikolai Tolstoy

12 THE END OF GENERAL VLASOV On 28 January 1945 it was officially announced in Berlin that the Russian army commanded by General Vlasov was no longer part of the ...
( Category: World War II June 9,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1972-12-31 | Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr]

35. Captain Lebedev, a "godfather' camp, who might become centers of rebellion, had to be suppressed and isolated. The bloody local boys immediately sensed the riches in this vein—their own ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union June 5,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-08-06 | Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr]

After this failure they started inflating balloons with smoke. 6. When it was all over and the women's column was marched through the settlement on the way to work, married ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union June 5,2014 )