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Power Game
How Washington Works
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Washington, D.C. The one city that affects all our lives. The one city where the game has only one name: Power. Hedrick Smith, the Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, takes us inside the beltway to show who wields the most power—and for what ends.
The...
Olga's Story
Three Continents, Two World Wars and Revolution--One Woman's Epic Journey Throug h the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When Canadian journalist Stephanie Williams set out to discover her Russian grandmother’ s long-lost history, what she unearthed was this stunning, sprawling portrait of a life lived on the grand stage of the 20th century.
Born in remote Siberia in 1900, Olga Yunter was the youngest of five...
by Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role...
The Discovery of Chance
The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
The intellectual Alexander Herzen was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought. For Herzen, history, like Darwinian nature, was an improvisation both constrained and encouraged by chance.
by Broomhandle Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This particular short essay on P.A. Stolypin's Agrarian Reforms is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories, historical events and essays.In some cases, the manuscripts presented in this Continuing Education...
Barbarossa Derailed
The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August-10 September 1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Führer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal...
by Victor Serge
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Written by a participant and sympathizer 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
Path of Thorns
Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Under Bolshevik and Nazi rule, nearly one-third of all Soviet Mennonites – including more than half of all adult men – perished, while a large number were exiled to the east and the north by the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Others fled westward on long treks, seeking refuge in Germany during the...
Wise Thoughts for Every Day
On God, Love, the Human Spirit, and Living a Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
During the last years of his life, Leo Tolstoy kept one book invariably on his desk, read and reread it to his family, and recommended it to all his friends: a compendium of wise thoughts gathered over the course of a decade from his wide-ranging readings in philosophy and religion, and from his own...
by Vasily Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
An NYRB Classics Original
Few writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different...
Down with Big Brother
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
"One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the...
Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism
Radical Politics After Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical “democracies.” The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who...
by Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer J. Adler
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
In 1956, a U.S. lawyer-economist, Louis O. Kelso, created the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) to enable the employees of a closely held newspaper chain to buy out its retiring owners. Two years later, Kelso and his co-author, the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, explained the macro-economic theory...
The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine
Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
One of the most important realist novelists of nineteenth-century Ukraine, Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi was caricatured and then forgotten by a generation of literary modernists who rejected his aesthetic and ideological views. In The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorough...