Russia category: 2582 books
by Alena Alshanskaya
Language: German
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Die zeitgeschichtliche Studie widmet sich dem Anspruch der Russischen Orthodoxen Kirche, der größten religiösen Institution Russlands, nicht nur im Inland, sondern auch außerhalb ihres Pastoralgebietes öffentlich-politisch wahrgenommen zu werden. Die Verfasserin analysiert unter dem Blickwinkel...
Ada Blackjack
A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
From the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret...
What You Did Not Tell
A Russian Past and the Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
****NAMED FINANCIAL TIMES "TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR"**
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**NAMED NEW STATESMAN "BEST BOOK OF 2017"**
A warm and intimate memoir by an acclaimed historian that explores the European struggles of the twentieth century through...
Towers of Stone
The Battle of Wills in Chechnya
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In Towers of Stone, award-winning Polish reporter Wojciech Jagielski brings into focus the tragedy of Chechnya, its inhabitants, and the war being waged there by a handful of desperate warriors against a powerful and much more numerous army. Jagielski's narrative is told through the lens of two men:...
by Holiday FM
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This is the official Holiday FM Guide to Prague. This handy bitesize guide gives you everything you might want for the ideal trip to the big city. Background information about the history of the City will hopefully give you a better understanding of its origins and make your visit more enjoyable. ...
by Major James G. Pangelinan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This monograph examines Chinese warfare and suggests that three and a half millennia of Chinese military history have produced a distinctive and enduring Chinese Way Of War. While the art and science of war in China have evolved considerably throughout its history, the characteristics and philosophies...
The Secret Team
The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
With a new foreword by Jesse Ventura: A government insider’s shocking exposé of crimes committed by America’s intelligence agencies during the Cold War.
L. Fletcher Prouty—decorated Air Force officer, former chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President John...
by Andrew Whittaker
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
The fifth book in Thorogood’s groundbreaking series of cultural guides takes Poland as its subject. Written and produced in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Speak the Culture: Poland provides a fast track to understanding the key events, figures and customs of this richly creative...
Twilight of Splendor
The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Power, pageantry, and pride
Queen Victoria ruled the most powerful empire the world has ever seen, covering one fourth of the earth's land surface, reigning over subjects on every continent, and exercising undisputed mastery of the oceans in between. She was the "Grandmother of Europe,"...
Lara
The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya—the true tragedy behind the timeless classic, and a harrowing look at how the Russian government has treated dissidents
When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government...
Anna of All the Russias
A Life of Anna Akhmatova
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of newly available material–including memoirs, letters, journals, and interviews with surviving friends and family–to produce a revelatory portrait of both the artist and the woman.Anna Akhmatova rose...
The Soviet Theater
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years’ worth of archival documentation, the authors celebrate in words and pictures a vital,...
by Halina Ogonowska-Coates
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A piecing together of a Polish child's journey through Europe at war, and a young woman's bewildering encounter with rural New Zealand.*'As a child I loved my mother but she seemed different from other mothers. She didn't know how old she was. She couldn't remember where she was born. I wondered what...
Near and Distant Neighbors
A New History of Soviet Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A revelatory and pathbreaking account of the highly secretive world of the Soviet intelligence services
A uniquely comprehensive and rich account of the Soviet intelligence services, Jonathan Haslam's Near and Distant Neighbors charts the labyrinthine story of Soviet intelligence from the October...