Russia category: 2582 books
The Eyes of Reason
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This is a novel by renowned German writer Stefan Heym, first published in 1951, in which fact and fiction relating to the Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia are skillfully blended in a gripping tale of one of the enigmas of our times.
As the story—which centers around three brothers,...
by Peter Ruggenthaler
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Drawing on recently declassified Soviet archival sources, this book sheds new light on how the division of Europe came about in the aftermath of World War II. The book contravenes the notion that a neutral zone of states, including Germany, could have been set up between East and West. The Soviet...
I Confess
The Truth About American Communism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
In 1940, American socialist-turned-conservatist politician Benjamin Gitlow first published this work of political autobiography, I Confess: The Truth About American Communism. The book proved to be controversial and widely noticed, pushing Gitlow into the public eye as a leading opponent of American...
Cowards. Or, Blood Is Thicker than Water.
SHORT STORY 14. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
Some people do sensational acts to attract mass, or world attention to themselves. Why some cowards even defected to their country’s enemy? This story is described and examined this kind of people, 2 defectors from the Soviet Union who defected to the United States. These defectors lived privileged...
Socialism in Practice
The Transformation of East Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
First published in 1962, this book is a study by author Scott Nearing on Communism in Eastern Europe, where he spent three months during the winter of 1961-1962. Together with his wife Helen, he visited Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia.
As...
The Modern Uzbeks
From the Fourteenth Century to the Present: A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this study of the modern Uzbeks, Professor Edward A. Allworth provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of an important group of Muslim people who live within the boundaries of the Soviet Union. After the Russians and the Ukranians, the Uzbeks are the largest ethnic group in the Soviet...
Making Uzbekistan
Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on...
by Charles Edward Russell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
The Great Game in Cuba
CIA and the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Joan Mellen tells a brilliantly researched, meticulously supported, and compulsively readable tale that everyone concerned with how America operates should know.” -Samuel R. Delany, author of Dhalgren and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
This completely revised and newly updated...
by Charles King
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
"Rich and riveting, complex and compelling, powerful and poetic."—Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday
In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from the writers Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir...
Children of Rus'
Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation
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...
Epic Rivalry
Inside the Soviet and American Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in 1969, they personified an almost unimaginable feat-the incredibly complex task of sending humans safely to another celestial body. This extraordinary odyssey, which grew from the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during...
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
William Frank Buckley Jr.’s third book, originally published in 1959, is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners and meaning of American Liberalism in the 1950s. His thesis is that the leading American liberals can be shown, in their speeches and statements, in the tacit premises that...