Moscow, 1958. At the height of the Cold War, secretary Lois Vale is on a deep-cover MI6 mission to identify a diplomatic traitor. She can trust only one man: Johann, a German journalist also working covertly for the British secret service. As the tra...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691258669)
The issues that are the most and the least divisive in RussiaThe collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 created a new Russia, with new territorial boundaries and new political and economic systems. The hybrid political economy that emerged incorporated...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691258669)
The issues that are the most and the least divisive in RussiaThe collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 created a new Russia, with new territorial boundaries and new political and economic systems. The hybrid political economy that emerged incorporated...Daugiau...
The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "e;wicked and sentimental"e; Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons-the impulsive...Daugiau...
Etot roman vykhodit k 50-letiyu gibeli Gennadiya Shpalikova. Napisal knigu amerikanets bez russkikh korney Greg Bleyk Miller, kotoryy vpervyye v 1993 godu syezdil v Rossiyu i nikogda uzhe ne mog izbavitsya ot oderzhimosti yeyu. Veroyatno, eto luch...Daugiau...
When Stalin came to power, making music in Russia became dangerous. Composers now had to create work that served the socialist state, and all artistic production was scrutinized for potential subversion. In The Sound of Utopia, Michel Krielaars vivid...Daugiau...
Escape From the Soviets by Tatiana Tchernavin is a gripping and deeply personal memoir of survival, resilience, and courage during one of the darkest periods in Soviet history. Written with raw honesty and vivid detail, the book chronicles Tatiana an...Daugiau...
Russias Iron Age by William Henry Chamberlin provides a comprehensive and incisive analysis of the Soviet Union during one of its most transformative and turbulent periods. With his keen journalistic eye and deep understanding of Russian history, Ch...Daugiau...
The Memoirs of Count Witte is a riveting first-hand account by one of the most influential statesmen of late Imperial Russia, offering unparalleled insight into the political, economic, and social upheavals of the era. Count Sergei Witte, a pivotal f...Daugiau...
In Tallinn, Estlands Hauptstadt an der OstseekĆ¼ste, finden sich gotische Giebel und verspielte Jugendstilfassaden, wuchtige WehrtĆ¼rme und orthodoxe Kirchen, skandinavisch geprƤgte HolzhƤuser und hypermoderne GlastĆ¼rme auf kleinstem Raum versamme...Daugiau...
In Tallinn, Estlands Hauptstadt an der OstseekĆ¼ste, finden sich gotische Giebel und verspielte Jugendstilfassaden, wuchtige WehrtĆ¼rme und orthodoxe Kirchen, skandinavisch geprƤgte HolzhƤuser und hypermoderne GlastĆ¼rme auf kleinstem Raum versamme...Daugiau...
As the Second World War raged in the Baltics, thousands of escape boats set course for Sweden. On board were not only refugees, but also suitcases and trunks packed with the things they could not bear to leave behind. And so photo albums, silver cutl...Daugiau...
In the early 1920s, Soviet writers and literary theorists were convinced that adventure fiction held the key to developing a new kind of narrative. The call for a Russian Stevenson (Lev Lunts) profoundly impacted the theory of prose and different not...Daugiau...
Eta kniga zadumyvalas avtorom kak uchebnik, a prevratilas po mere raboty nad ney v ispoved cheloveka, vlozhivshego zhizn v pogibshee, no ot etogo ne menee interesnoe delo ā issledovanie rossiyskoy kultury. Bolnoe porozhdenie bolnoy si...Daugiau...
Retired US Ambassador John J. Maresca draws on his personal papers to offer a first-hand account of his role in negotiating the end of the Cold War with the USSR. As a special American Ambassadorial envoy, he symbolically opened direct US diplomatic...Daugiau...
1830, Russia and Poland.In a time of war and cholera, two men compete for a Prince s fortune, but in autocratic Russia, fame and riches come at a cost.When Andrey, a disgraced and impoverished young officer, claims to be the heir to Vasily s family w...Daugiau...
The book by the well-known journalist and political analyst Sergei Shelin (and also, according to the Kremlin, a foreign agent) is quite unlike either scientific or journalistic works devoted to the fate of Russia and Russians. It is an extremely s...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691230030)
A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth centurys biggest refugee crisesWhen World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in...Daugiau...
