Russia category: 2582 books
Stalin's Last Crime
The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin's last great conspiracy.
On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders. Mass arrests...
The Crisis Years
Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The groundbreaking and revelatory tale of the most dangerous years of the Cold War and the two leaders who held the fate of the world in their hands.
This bestselling history takes us into the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin Wall was built and the Bay of Pigs invasion...
by Friedrich Naumann
Language: German
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Michail W. Lomonossow (1711 - 1765) zählt zu den großen russischen Gelehrten des 18. Jahrhunderts. Nach seiner Ausbildung an der Universität Marburg unter der Obhut von Christian Wolff und in der Bergstadt Freiberg bei Bergrat Johann Friedrich Henckel vollbrachte er in seiner Heimat hervorragende...
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
This revelatory account unveils how Stalin became Stalin, examining his shadowy journey from obscurity to power—from master historian Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Based on ten years of research, Young Stalin—companion to the prizewinning Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar—is a brilliant prehistory...
Chernobyl
The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of...
Journey to Armenia
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was a Russian poet and essayist. He visited Armenia in 1930 and during his stay he was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. This edition includes the companion piece Conversa
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was a Russian poet and essayist. He visited Armenia in 1930 and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. Includes the companion piece Conversation About Dante. 'It takes its place among the outstanding masterpieces of twentieth century literature.' - Bruce Chatwin.
Zhivago's Secret Journey
From Typescript to Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Paolo Mancosu continues an investigation he began in his 2013 book Inside the Zhivago Storm, which the New York Book Review of Books described as "a tour de force of literary detection worthy of a scholarly Sherlock Holmes". In this book Mancosu extends his detective work by reconstructing...
by Vera Nikolaevna Figner
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2016
«Il bagno penale di Nertchinsk è immerso interamente nel lutto e nel sangue. Il «mondo dei reprobi» volge verso di voi i suoi occhi offuscati di pianto, ormai spenti alla vita, sperando da voi un aiuto fraterno. I forzati maltrattati, colpiti e vilipesi tendono verso di voi le loro scarne braccia...
Aprender Russo - Textos Paralelos | Fácil de ouvir | Fácil de ler CURSO DE ÁUDIO DE RUSSO N.º 1
Aprender Russo | Aprenda com Áudio, #1
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 3, 2016
O EASY READER
CURSO DE ÁUDIO DE RUSSO N.º 1
FÁCIL DE OUVIR - FÁCIL DE LER - FÁCIL DE APRENDER
Este é o nosso mais recente e definitivo curso para aprender idiomas.
É relativamente novo na aprendizagem de Russo ou precisa de rever as suas competências linguísticas?...
Щоб не забули. Пам'ять про тоталітаризм в Європі
Читанка для учнів старших класів
Language: Ukrainian
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Читанка для учнів старших класів середньої школи в усіх європейських країнах. Книжку створено в рамках спільного проекту організацій та установ, що працюють разом...
by Svetlana Alexievich
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident...
Enemy at the Gates
The Battle for Stalingrad
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A New York Times bestseller that brings to life one of the bloodiest battles of World War II—and the beginning of the end of the Third Reich.
On August 5, 1942, giant pillars of dust rose over the Russian steppe, marking the advance of the 6th Army, an elite German combat unit dispatched...
Midnight in Chernobyl
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.
Early...
Disaster at Stalingrad
An Alternate History
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A fascinating “what if” history of one of World War II’s most iconic battles.
It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. His primary mission was to take...