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"From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War"--
"From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective...
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The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of a broader strategy to send a message to the United States: that Russia is going to flex its muscle in the twenty-first century. A Little War that Changed...
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Get the Summary of Yaroslav Trofimov's Our Enemies Will Vanish in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Our Enemies Will Vanish" by Yaroslav Trofimov is a comprehensive account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent war. The book details the initial Russian expectations of a quick victory and the annexation of Crimea, followed by the Ukrainian revolutions that sought closer ties with the European Union....
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Nikolai Charushin's memoirs of his experience as a member of the revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to historians, but A Generation of Revolutionaries provides a broader and more engaging look at the lives and relationships beyond these memoirs. It shows how, after years of incarceration, Charushin and friends thrived in Siberian exile, raising children and contributing to science and culture there. While Charushin's memoirs end...
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Embark on a journey through the tumultuous days of the Russian Revolution with John Reed's 'Ten Days That Shook the World'-a book recommended by Lenin himself. Renowned journalist and eyewitness, Reed brings unparalleled authenticity to his work as a key figure who not only reported on the Russian Revolution but actively participated in and documented its revolutionary fervor. His unique perspective as both an observer and a participant adds depth...
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"White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a poignant and introspective short story that delves into the complexities of human emotions and the transient nature of romantic connections. Set against the backdrop of St. Petersburg's nocturnal charm, the narrative follows the lonely protagonist through four consecutive white nights, where he encounters a mysterious young woman. As the two form a deep but ephemeral connection, Dostoevsky explores themes of...
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Esta obra incide en una idea: el golpe de Estado del 23-F fue una compleja operación cívico-militar española cuyo objetivo era convertir al general Armada en presidente de un gobierno de concentración nacional. Roberto Muñoz Bolaños explica cómo se gestó esta operación, quiénes fueron sus planificadores y las diferentes variantes que tuvo hasta su culminación el 23 de febrero de 1981.
El estudio se centra para analizarlo detenidamente...
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L'oeuvre du Russe Nicolas Roerich (1874-1947) est marquée par ses nombreux voyages à travers l'Europe, l'Amérique et l'Asie, notamment l'Inde. Il a puisé dans ses pérégrinations une inspiration empreinte d'un certain mysticisme. Ainsi, ce passionné d'archéologie s'est plu à représenter l'origine du monde telle que la voient les grands mythes sacrés et profanes. Il a peint, dessiné et sculpté. La diversité de son oeuvre se retrouve dans...
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In a time of national introspection regarding the country's involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in this book explore issues of the restoration, restitution, memorializing, and tourism that have brought present inhabitants into contact with initiatives to revive...
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On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a 39-year-old Jewish manager at a factory near the site of the crime. Beilis's trial in 1913 quickly became an international cause célèbre. The jury ultimately acquitted...
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Convention on the definition of aggression signed on 3 July 1933, established the borders of modern Romania. As in the case of its neighbors, Czechoslovakia and Poland, revisionist currents in Europe during the interwar period threatened Romania' s newly established frontiers, one of the most serious threats being posed by the Soviet Union which sought to regain possession of Bessarabia, a Romanian territory that had been occupied by Russia from...
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Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey along a postal route, it blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expose social and economic injustices and their causes at all levels of Russian society. Not long after the book's publication in 1790, Radishchev was condemned to death for...
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Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is the first English translation of an important 19th-century Russian text describing everyday life in Uzbek communities. Vladimir and Maria Nalivkin were Russians who settled in a "Sart" village in 1878, in a territory newly conquered by the Russian Empire. During their six years in Nanay, Maria Nalivkina learned the local language, befriended her neighbors, and wrote observations about their lives from birth to...
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The world has long been fascinated with the compelling characters and cataclysmic events surrounding the end of the 300-year Romanov dynasty of Russia:
•The mystical (and some say mythical) Grigori Rasputin and his influence on the teenaged Alexei, the heir
•The four lovely Romanov daughters (OTMA): Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia)
•World War I and the Communist Revolution of 1917
Few books have touched on what was the greatest secret...
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Vladimir Maiakovski, cuyo nombre completo es Vladimir Vladimirovich Maiakovski, fue un influyente poeta y dramaturgo ruso del siglo XX. Nació el 19 de julio de 1893 en Baghdati, Georgia, en ese momento parte del Imperio Ruso. A lo largo de su vida, Maiakovski desempeñó un papel destacado en el movimiento futurista ruso, que buscaba romper con las tradiciones literarias y culturales del pasado y abrazar la modernidad y la innovación en todas las...
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From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested issue among educated Russians both inside and outside the government. As formulated in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Muslim Question comprised a complex set of ideas and concerns that centered on the problems of reimagining and governing the tremendously diverse Russian empire...
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A partir del siglo XIX, diversos autores rusos se adentraron en el escenario literario mundial con obras nada menos que geniales. Autores como Aleksandr Púchkin, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgueniev, Liev Tolstói, Anton Tchekhov, Fiodor Dostoievski... hoy son referentes como representantes clásicos de lo mejor de la literatura internacional. Lo que pocos lectores saben es que estos autores, además de las inolvidables novelas, se destacaron como grandes...
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Dale Herspring analyzes three key periods of change in civil-military relations in the Soviet Union and postcommunist Russia: the Bolshevik construction of the communist Red Army in the 1920s, the era of perestroika, when Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to implement a more benign military doctrine and force posture, and the Yeltsin era, when a new civilian and military leadership set out to restructure civil-military relations. The book concludes with...
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