Andropov S Cuckoo

Author : Owen Jones
Publisher : Megan Publishing Services
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Andropov's Cuckoo by Owen Jones Pdf

Andropov’s Cuckoo A dying man recounts the story of the most amazing person he has ever met, a brilliant, Soviet linguist whom he calls Youriko. It is a tale of love, daring-do, spies and danger set in Japan, Germany, Turkey, the USA, Canada and the UK, but mostly in the Soviet Union of the Seventies. Two girls, born thousands of miles apart in Kazakhstan and Japan just after World War II, meet and are like peas in a pod. They also get on like sisters and keep n touch for the rest of their lives. However, one wants to help her battle-scarred country and the other wants to leave hers for the West. They dream up a daring, dangerous plan to achieve both goals, which Andropov, the chief of the Soviet KGB, is told about. He dubs it Operation Youriko and it is set in motion, but does it have even the remotest chance of success? Andropov’s Cuckoo is based on a ‘true story’ related to the author by one of the protagonists.

Author : V. Sridhar,M.C. Padma,K.A. Radhakrishna Rao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811358029

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Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Technology by V. Sridhar,M.C. Padma,K.A. Radhakrishna Rao Pdf

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Technology (ICERECT) organized by PES College of Engineering in Mandya. Featuring cutting-edge, peer-reviewed articles from the field of electronics, computer science and technology, it is a valuable resource for members of the scientific research community.

Author : Andrei Soldatov,Irina Borogan
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781586488024

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The New Nobility by Andrei Soldatov,Irina Borogan Pdf

A penetrating investigation into how the KGB rose from the ashes of the Soviet Union and reinvented itself at the heart of the Russian state during Vladimir Putin's rule

Author : Oksana Sarkisova,Péter Apor
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155211430

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Past for the Eyes by Oksana Sarkisova,Péter Apor Pdf

How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past.

Author : Owen Jones
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1475216882

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Behind The Smile by Owen Jones Pdf

This copy of the book is no longer available, but the new version is here:https://www.createspace.com/4296805 Behind The Smile:The Story of Lek, a Thai Bar Girl in Pattaya.Book One: Daddy's HobbyLek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand. Typically that would be: work in the fields for a few years; have a few babies; give them to mum to take care of and back to work until her kids had their own children and she could stop working to take care of them.One day a catastrophe occurred out of the blue - her father died young and with huge debts that the family knew nothing about. Lek was twenty and she was the only one who could prevent foreclosure. The only way she knew was to go to work in her cousin's bar in Pattaya.She went as a waitress-cum-cashier, but when she realised that she was pregnant by her worthless, estranged husband, things had to change. She had the baby, gave it to her mum and went back to work. However, now she needed real money to provide a better life for her child and to make up for spending its whole youth 500 miles away. She drifted into the tourist sex industry.The book relates some of her 'adventures', her dreams and nightmares and her 'modus operandi'. It tries to show, from Lek's point of view, what it really is like to be a Thai bar girl - the hopes and frustrations, the hopes and the let-downs, the hopes and the lies and deceit that are part of her every day life.Thailand is often referred to as the Land of Smiles and the author of this book agrees that it is, having spent nearly a decade there.

Author : Boris Chertok
Publisher : Military Bookshop
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 178039831X

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Rockets and People Volume I (NASA History Series. NASA Sp-2005-4110) by Boris Chertok Pdf

Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program, but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoir of academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. Chertok began his career as an electrician in 1930 at an aviation factory near Moscow. Thirty years later, he was deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, the mysterious "Chief Designer" Sergey Korolev. Chertok's 60-year-long career and the many successes and failures of the Soviet space program constitute the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread over four volumes (volumes two through four are forthcoming), academician Chertok not only describes and remembers, but also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society's quest to explore the cosmos. This book was edited by Asif Siddiqi, a historian of Russian space exploration, and General Tom Stafford contributed a foreword touching upon his significant work with the Russians on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Overall, this book is an engaging read while also contributing much new material to the literature about the Soviet space program.

Author : Owen Jones
Publisher : Litres
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785043200662

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The Disallowed by Owen Jones Pdf

Heng Lee starts to feel very strange all of a sudden, so he calls in to see the local shaman, who happens to be his aunt. She carries out a few tests and decides that Heng has no blood, but how is he going to tell his family, and what will they do about it?Heng Lee is a goatherd in the remote mountains north-east of Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, very close to the border with Laos. It is a tight-knit community where everyone knows one another.Heng gets sick all of a sudden, but not too sick to take the goats out, until one day he has to go to see the local shaman, because he has started fainting.There are no medical doctors in the vicinity and the Shaman has been good enough for most people for centuries.The Shaman takes some specimens and comes to the conclusion that Heng’s kidneys have stopped functioning and so has little time left to live.The battle is on to save Heng’s life, but there are other forces at work too.What will become of Heng, his family and the rest of the community, if he takes the Shaman’s advice?

Author : David Parry,Patrick Withrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Kidnapping
ISBN : 0771591985

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The Last Cuckoo by David Parry,Patrick Withrow Pdf

Author : Dr. Vadim J. Birstein
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786751860

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The Perversion Of Knowledge by Dr. Vadim J. Birstein Pdf

During the Soviet years, Russian science was touted as one of the greatest successes of the regime. Russian science was considered to be equal, if not superior, to that of the wealthy western nations. The Perversion of Knowledge, a history of Soviet science that focuses on its control by the KGB and the Communist Party, reveals the dark side of this glittering achievement. Based on the author’s firsthand experience as a Soviet scientist, and drawing on extensive Russian language sources not easily available to the Western reader, the book includes shocking new information on biomedical experimentation on humans as well as an examination of the pernicious effects of Trofim Lysenko’s pseudo-biology. Also included are many poignant case histories of those who collaborated and those who managed to resist, focusing on the moral choices and consequences. The text is accompanied by the author’s own translations of key archival materials, making this work an essential resource for all those with a serious interest in Russian history.

Author : Neil C. Fernandez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1138608149

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Capitalism and Class Struggle in the USSR by Neil C. Fernandez Pdf

First published in 1997, this was the first Autonomist Marxist book on the USSR. The various theories of Soviet capitalism are considered more comprehensively than in any previous work, and are shown to be inadequate insofar as they fail to demonstrate satisfactorily the predominance of the category of capital. A powerful new theory is developed which does precisely this, introducing the concepts of bureaucratic forms of both exchange-value and money. This constitutes an important contribution to the overall theoretical critique of capital. Attention is then turned to the class struggle. For the first time, the various 'Marxist' theories of the USSR are systematically considered in relation to what they say about the working class and its struggle.

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781846312274

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Nuclear Papers by David Owen Pdf

This timely book, published in advance of 2010's inter-governmental Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, makes available for the first time newly declassified government correspondence from David Owen's tenure as Foreign Secretary. Nuclear Papers gives new insight into the work of, and response to, the last major strategic nuclear study of the UK's nuclear needs, which was undertaken in 1978. The book demonstrates sustained dialogue between the Callaghan and Carter administrations on the one hand but also the internal disputes and concerns of the UK government as the Cold War and a bleak economic outlook exerted equal pressures, in much the same way as recent foreign policy and the economic downturn have challenged the current government. Owen skilfully ties the events of 30 years ago to the present, highlighting Barack Obama's determination to "show the world that America believes in its existing commitment under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to work ultimately to eliminate all nuclear arms". As ever, David Owen is at the forefront of debate, arguing convincingly that momentum should be established towards the elimination of nuclear weapons by all five of the existing declared nuclear weapon states before the 2010 NPT Review Conference gets underway. This book, then, is an attempt to rejuvenate and expand discussions of the future of the world's nuclear weapons by exploring the classified and highly sensitive debates of the past. It will be required reading for anyone interested in UK and US nuclear policy.

Author : Yegor Ligachev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429979422

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Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin by Yegor Ligachev Pdf

This memoir by the second most powerful Communist Party leader during the early Gorbachev years provides an important alternative view of the USSR's transformation?a view that is gaining ground in Russian politics today. In a substantial new piece for this edition, Mr. Ligachev outlines the political agenda of today's communist coalition?the establishment of a new Soviet Union, with strong economic and political integration of its member-states.Yegor Ligachev, a seasoned Party boss from Siberia, made a solid career for himself in the capital during the Khrushchev era, but, following Khrushchev's ouster, chose to retreat to the provinces. In 1985, his political patrons brought him back to Moscow to help them build a dynamic new leadership team under Mikhail Gorbachev. The two reform-minded communists launched an effort to inject life and energy into the Party, economy, and society through a series of liberalizing measures. But when Ligachev saw the reforms moving into a revolutionary phase that could result in the Party's loss of control over the helm of state, he found himself increasingly siding with the opposition.In this gripping book, Ligachev describes the evolving confrontation between opposing forces at high-level Party meetings and sessions of the Politburo as well as in less formal conversations. Along the way, he gives revealing glimpses not only of Gorbachev but also of Yuri Andropov, Andrei Gromyko, Alexander Yakovlev, Eduard Shevardnadze, Boris Yeltsin, and other top leaders. Notorious events such as the 1989 massacre in Tbilisi and the Gdlyan/Ivanov affair?in which, Ligachev argues, he was unjustly implicated?are also highlighted.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781610162913

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Free Market Reader, The by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015028598855

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To Build a Castle by Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ Pdf

Author : Nicholas Thompson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429940504

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The Hawk and the Dove by Nicholas Thompson Pdf

A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era—written by the grandson of one of them Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning—and surviving—that harrowing conflict. Both men came to power during World War II, reached their professional peaks during the Cold War's most frightening moments, and fought epic political battles that spanned decades. Yet despite their very different views, Paul Nitze and George Kennan dined together, attended the weddings of each other's children, and remained good friends all their lives. In this masterly double biography, Nicholas Thompson brings Nitze and Kennan to vivid life. Nitze—the hawk—was a consummate insider who believed that the best way to avoid a nuclear clash was to prepare to win one. More than any other American, he was responsible for the arms race. Kennan—the dove—was a diplomat turned academic whose famous "X article" persuasively argued that we should contain the Soviet Union while waiting for it to collapse from within. For forty years, he exercised more influence on foreign affairs than any other private citizen. As he weaves a fascinating narrative that follows these two rivals and friends from the beginning of the Cold War to its end, Thompson accomplishes something remarkable: he tells the story of our nation during the most dangerous half century in history.