Former Soviet Republics category: 758 books

Provides access to the thoughts of an officer at the forefront of the fighting in the Crimea. By turns gripping and analytical, colorful and bleak, the letters of George Frederick Dallas create an honest portrait of a war fought against a backdrop of terrible neglect.

People, food, alcohol and politics…is there anything else in life?Join author Kaz Augustin as she opines (loudly) on three booze-soaked weeks spentin southern Poland and eastern Czech Republic. From Silesia to Kraków to thespunky little Moravian capital of Brno, this short book covers tourist traps,socialising,...

This study examines the U.S. Military Commission sent by the Secretary of War to observe the Crimean War 1n 1855 and 1856, to determine why the commission was sent, where it went, and the results achieved by the commissions efforts. A survey of the literature on the U.S. Involvement In the Crimean...

This translation of Likhachev’s Poetika Drevnerusskoy Literatury (The Poetics of Early Russian Literature), provides a description of the basic themes of early (tenth to seventeenth century) Russian literature. Likhachev compares literary narrative with narrative used in the representational arts....

Stephen Harris is hopelessly addicted to travel.  With a strong fascination for all things foreign, including food, culture, and women Stephen recounts his adventures.  Stephen heads to Russia where he meets Absinthe, Vodka, and a beautiful girl who fulfills an old cliché.

Laissez-vous guider pour un merveilleux voyage dans la Russie du XIXe siècle Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872), le « fils du soleil », s’émerveille devant les prestiges de la capitale des neiges qu’il appelle « l’Athènes du Nord ». Ébloui par les palais et les cathédrales aux...

«A ogni passo in questa città mi viene in mente un libro o mi risuona in testa una musica. È una scoperta continua.» È il 1975 quando Jan Brokken rimane folgorato da San Pietroburgo, l’allora Leningrado, patria splendente e malinconica di poeti e dissidenti, folli e geni, disperati e amanti,...

Une histoire d'amour et d'aventures, voici La Boule de Neige. Dans le Daghestan du XIXe siècle, ce livre nous fait suivre l'épopée d'Iskander tandis que celui-ci échoit d'une mission délicate afin de préserver d'un terrible sort la ville de Derbent. Se débattant contre brigands et dilemmes,...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. Russia: from the Varangians to the Bolsheviks is a fabulous overview of t 1,000 years of Russian history.

The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games have become known as the ‘friendly games’, but East-West rivalry ensured that they were anything but friendly. From the bloody semi-final water polo match between the USSR and Hungary, to the 46 athletes who defected to the West, sport and politics collided during...

Azerbaijan Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

Welcome to the Making Money in Russia series: The key to a successful business is knowing your client. MAKING MONEY IN RUSSIA: RUSSIA COUNTRY GUIDE FOR BUSINESSES offers executives, investors, and entrepreneurs the need-to-know information about doing business in Russia. Written...

The history of Estonia book also has the following, Estonia ruling system, Estonia politics, Estonia culture, Estonia travel guide, Estonia people and relation, Estonia tourism.Estonia's struggles for independence during the twentieth century were in large part a reaction to nearly 700 years...

"[An] exemplary account of Europe's least-known large country... leavened by aphorism and anecdote." --Wall Street Journal Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents the authoritative history of Ukraine and its people from the time of Herodotus to the present crisis with Russia....