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epub |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Robert Service
18 Hopes Unsettled (1961–1964) Khrushchëv still believed that history was on the side of communism. His confidence was infectious and attracted a lot of lower-echelon party functionaries and ambitious youngsters ...
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Russia
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephen Kotkin [Kotkin, Stephen]
escape the cul-de-sac whereby state socialism empowered a sclerotic bureaucracy while ‘market socialism’ proved dif- ficult to realize in practice. As of November 1991, how- ever, when Boris Yeltsin tapped ...
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Communism & Socialism
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Lawrence Scott Sheets [Sheets, Lawrence Scott]
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Essays
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VI During the next few days, as 90th Motorised reconnaissance units moved east along the coastal road in the wake of the retreating British, the defenders and population of the ...
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Germany
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Anne Applebaum [Applebaum, Anne]
Chapter 12 INTERNAL ENEMIES The Party promises only one thing: after the victory, one day when it can do no more harm, the material of the secret archives will be ...
( Category:
History & Theory
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Anne Applebaum [Applebaum, Anne]
Chapter 12 INTERNAL ENEMIES The Party promises only one thing: after the victory, one day when it can do no more harm, the material of the secret archives will be ...
( Category:
History & Theory
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Anna Politkovskaya [Politkovskaya, Anna]
September 1 Censorship and self-censorship in the mass media have reached new extremes and increased the probability that hundreds of adults and children in School No. 1 in Beslan, which ...
( Category:
European
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:David Hoffman
Chapter 12 The Embrace of Wealth and Power CHARLES RYAN, who delighted in buying a fistful of Menatep Bank shares on a street corner in 1991, became an adviser to ...
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European
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epub |eng | 2009-05-11 | Author:William Lubbeck [Lubbeck, William]
BATTLING IN A SWAMP: April June 1942 When the spring thaw arrived in early April, it swiftly turned the whole Volkhov battlefield into a muddy bog. The warmer weather was ...
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Veterans
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epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:Geoffrey Roberts [Roberts, Geoffrey]
The German attacks made some progress, but for the most part Soviet defenses held. The battle’s climax came at Prokhorovka on July 11–12 when General P. A. Rotmistrov’s 5th Guards ...
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World War II
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-10-05 | Author:Orlando Figes [Figes, Orlando]
( Category:
Russia
March 26,2014 )
epub |swe | 2012-10-09 | Author:Geoffrey Roberts
I denna rent helvetiska ”symfoni” av olika ljud sammansmälte det tunga artilleriets salvor, flygbombernas explosioner, M-31-granaternas och katjusjornas vinande och det oavbrutna dånet från flygplanens motorer. De fientliga trupperna befann ...
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Military
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]
PART THREE When the luminary full moon Drifts across the vault of the sky And its light, shining out, Begins to play on the azure horizon; When the nightingale’s whistling ...
( Category:
Presidents & Heads of State
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mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore
Malenkov was always punctilious in his reports but even the meticulous Zhdanov was sometimes distracted by battle, provoking another reprimand: “It’s extremely strange that Comrade Zhdanov feels no need to ...
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Presidents & Heads of State
March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Frazier
The urban or semi-urban landscape we had entered now became continuous. Soon we were in the valley of the great Angara River, approaching Irkutsk. The air turned smoky and gray, ...
( Category:
General
March 25,2014 )
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