Russian & Former Soviet Union
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 | 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 | 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 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Haslam

8. THE GERMAN THEATRE From the end of 1944, Stalin had highlighted the United States as the next main enemy.1 Germany, where the Russians held the advantage, remained the chief ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arkady Ostrovsky

NTV seized on Chechnya several months before the war actually started. ‘Starting from June, there was hardly an Itogi programme that did not mention Chechnya,’ Kiselev recalled.19 In September, NTV’s ...
( Category: European November 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa & Ronald Rychlak [Pacepa, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai]

31 OPERATION “DRAGON” ON NOVEMBER 26, 1963, four days after President Kennedy was killed, General Sakharovsky landed unannounced in Bucharest, in what proved to be his first stop on a ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union October 12,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:M S King [King, M S]

1: Judo Master Putin plays coy; keeping the mighty Khodorkovsky close to him and at ease. 2: When the time came, the great Oligarch was arrested at gunpoint and thrown ...
( Category: European August 5,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:David E. Hoffman [Hoffman, David E.]

On Monday, December 8, 1980, at 8:25 p.m., Rolph went to see Tolkachev in a wooded park at the Moscow Zoo, located near Tolkachev’s apartment building. Tolkachev often passed the ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union July 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-03 | Author:Service, Robert [Service, Robert]

Dukes travelled about Russia under the alias of artillery commander V. Piotrovski.56 The runaway pianist became a Red Army officer who filed regular reports to London from whatever place he ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union June 20,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Kropotkin, Peter, McKay, Iain

159[] Toulmin Smith, English Guilds, London, 1870, Introd. p. xliii. 160[] The Act of Edward the Sixth—the first of his reign—ordered to hand over to the Crown “all fraternities, brotherhoods, ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union June 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Satter, David [Satter, David]

CHAPTER 11 History On November 7, 1941, with German units fifty miles away and the fate of the city hanging in the balance, preparations were completed in almost total secrecy ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union April 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky [KHODORKOVSKY, MIKHAIL]

The Down-and-out They brought him in and shoved him into the cell. He was a terrible sight, with a face the colour of mud, hands still black even after decontamination, ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:David Remnick [Remnick, David]

After the coup, a couple of workers play dominoes at a foundry that used to make busts of Lenin. The factory now operates for the tourist industry. (Reuters/Bettmann) PART III ...
( Category: European March 4,2015 )