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epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Boris Groys

This is a statement that could be endorsed by more than one contemporary champion of postmodernism in the struggle against avant-garde “corporate art.”36 The vehemence with which Reingardt condemns the ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 6,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Eugene Yelchin

Zina opens and closes her mouth several times before she can speak again. “I’m not sure who’s reliable, Nina Petrovna,” she says quietly. “That’s it, Zina,” says Nina Petrovna. “The ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 27,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1996-04-25 | Author:Igor Lukes [Lukes, Igor]

Notes 1. AMFA, Bohdan Pavlů, the Czechoslovak Legation, Moscow, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prague, 2 August 1937. Pavlů heard from the deputy commissar on foreign affairs, Potemkin, that ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Ian Grey [Grey, Ian]

The First Five-year Plan was a program of production targets and slogans for Stalin’s assault on Russia’s backwardness. It came into operation in 1928 but was approved only in April ...
( Category: Russia September 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Gert Ledig

7 ‘Achtung! Achtung! Calling all men. Between 0801 and 0810, we will transmit the time in clear,’ a voice said in a forest, way behind the Front, into the microphone ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Leon Trotsky [Trotsky, Leon]

Chapter VIII: People’s Commissar [The Bolsheviks had laid the groundwork of winning over the armed forces of the country so thoroughly that their final victory on November 7th was achieved ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs September 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Littell [Littell, Robert]

TEN Zinaida Zaitseva-Antonova Monday, the 20th of May 1934 THE LAST THING I expected was a reward, but the Organs are known to treat collaborators generously, which is understood to ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 3,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Strain, Jack [Strain, Jack]

Chapter Twenty Six July 17, 1945, 10:45 p.m. Moscow, The Kremlin A crowd had gathered in the two outer rooms of his Stalin’s bedchamber. Everyone from Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana, to ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 2,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Paul M. Levitt [Levitt, Paul M.]

Only the Pitiless Although Dimitri’s desire for another man frightened him, he couldn’t suppress his love for Yuri Suzdal. At first they had retreated to Yuri’s apartment and merely kissed, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 28,2017 )
mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Simon Sebag Montefiore

PART EIGHT War: The Triumphant Genius 1942–1945 39 The Supremo of Stalingrad During Stalingrad, the Supremo usually fell asleep wearing all his clothes on the metal camp bed that stood ...
( Category: Russia August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-27 | Author:Ludo Martens [Martens, Ludo]

`According to their confessions, the `investigating commission' had consisted of conspirators, who traveled around from mine to mine lining up supporters. After they had been persuaded to join the conspiracy ...
( Category: other August 28,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:Martin Cruz Smith

14 Arkady was in a ward with eight beds, each with a curtain for privacy, a night table without a light and a call button that was disconnected. On the ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Donald Rayfield

When Kamenev and Zinoviev were charged with Kirov’s murder, the new edition of Machiavelli was stopped, and the volume with Kamenev’s foreword was pulped. Weeks passed before Zinoviev and Kamenev ...
( Category: Russia August 19,2017 )
epub | | | Author:Roger Moorhouse [Moorhouse, Roger]

BY THE LATE SUMMER OF 1940, THE GERMAN-SOVIET RELATIONSHIP was in trouble. Strategically, the two regimes appeared to be on a collision course. The mood of collaboration of late 1939 ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2017 )
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 )

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