Former Soviet Republics category: 758 books

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Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror

Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror

by Nechama Tec
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Holocaust and the experience...
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by V.S. Pritchett
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011

'I am,' writes Mr. Pritchett, 'an offensive traveller'-meaning not that he is rude to porters, but that his praise of a country has sometimes been taken by its inhabitants as abuse or ridicule. Be that as it may, his book, which is based upon sojourns in Spain, Turkey, Persia, and the Iron...
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Libertà, prassi, soggettività

La filosofia di Marx

by Guido Grassadonio
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 14, 2013

Scrivere su Marx sperando di essere assolutamente originali vorrebbe dire essere non solo presuntuosi, ma dichiarare di non conoscere nemmeno nominalmente la grande mole di opere che sul tema sono state scritte durante il secolo scorso. Ma un pensiero che parla della libertà come processo continuo...
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by Victor Serge
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011

NYRB translations have given new attention to the works of Victor Serge
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by Victor Serge, Peter Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017

Written by a sympathizer and participant in the events Title will benefit from renewed interest in Serge following the recent translation of several of his novels by the New York Review of Books
Cover of Ukraine Encyclopedia: Comprehensive Coverage from History to the Current Crisis with Russia, Official Reports and Guides, Crimea, Military, Orange Revolution, Economy, Culture and People
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014

Discover every aspect of Ukraine and Crimea in this massive, authoritative compilation of up-to-date official documents with details about everything from history and geography to the crisis with Russia in 2014. Thirty-six parts total over one thousand pages of informative coverage, with extensive...
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by Dr. Andrew Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006

The remarkable popular protest in Kiev and across Ukraine following the cooked presidential election of November 2004 has transformed the politics of eastern Europe. Andrew Wilson witnessed the events firsthand and here looks behind the headlines to ascertain what really happened and how it will affect...
Cover of Czech Republic in Perspective: Orientation Guide and Cultural Orientation: Geography, History, Economy, Security, Religion, Prague, Praha, Brno, Communism, Velvet Revolution, Elbe River
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2015

These two unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in the Czech Republic, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups,...
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One More 'Lost Peace'?

Rethinking the Cold War After Twenty Years

by Raffaele D'Agata, Lawrence Gray
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010

Were there any missed chances to build a more peaceful world than the present one after the Cold War? Were there any attempts at working out a more comprehensive and more cooperative way to overcome it? What was precisely at stake during the Cold War? What was really at stake for the 'losers' and...
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by David Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015

This book is dedicated to my mother Eve who sadly left this mortal life a few years ago. She died in the right way in so much that she just closed her eyes and went to sleep, forever. But she left us far too early in her life and she had a lot to live for. She was much loved and is sorely missed. It...
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by Konstantin Averin Tatiana Pavlova
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011

The authors are neither professional writers nor social commentators. They have carried out this joint research in the national consciousness of Russians on the basis of their personal convictions, citizenship and love to their Motherland. Konstantin Averin is an economist. His main areas of activity...
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Children of Rus'

Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation

by Faith Hillis
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013

In Children of Rus’, Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire’s...
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Key Facts on Russia

Essential Information on Russia

by Patrick W. Nee
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013

The Key Facts on Russia provides readers with essential statistical and business information on the world's largest country, including: -Background of Russia -Geography of Russia -People and Society of Russia -Government of Russia, including Key Leaders -Economy of Russia -Energy Resources of Russia...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015

In a time of national introspection regarding the country’s involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in this...
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