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Russian Saga

George Oscar Lee
Russian Saga Book PDF

Author : George Oscar Lee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469111810

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GEORGE OSCAR LEE was born on Sept. 1st, 1924 in Drohobycz, Poland. In June of 1941 he ran away to Russia just ahead of invading German troops. Shortly after he was arrested by the NKVD. Released as a Polish citizen, he joined the Polish Army at the end of 1943. He participated in the Liberation of Warsaw, street fights in Kolberg, Stettin, reaching Berlin in May 1945. After the war he came to D.P.Camp Foehrenwald, where he met his future wife, whom he married in Brooklyn in 1949. The union was blessed with two children, a daughter with U.N. and son attorney at law and four grandchildren. Having been a Vice-President of a Chemical Company, he retired to South Florida. He is the author of four books and many short stories and poems published in FORWARD, BIALYSTOKER SHTIME and in SLOWO ZYDOWSKIE, ZIEMIA DROHOBYCKA in Polish. He is a member of the Jewish War Veterans, guest speaker and lecturer.

The House of Government

Yuri Slezkine
The House of Government Book PDF

Author : Yuri Slezkine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400888177

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The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine Pdf

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building’s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.

Russian Saga

George Oscar Lee
Russian Saga Book PDF

Author : George Oscar Lee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469111810

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Russian Saga by George Oscar Lee Pdf

GEORGE OSCAR LEE was born on Sept. 1st, 1924 in Drohobycz, Poland. In June of 1941 he ran away to Russia just ahead of invading German troops. Shortly after he was arrested by the NKVD. Released as a Polish citizen, he joined the Polish Army at the end of 1943. He participated in the Liberation of Warsaw, street fights in Kolberg, Stettin, reaching Berlin in May 1945. After the war he came to D.P.Camp Foehrenwald, where he met his future wife, whom he married in Brooklyn in 1949. The union was blessed with two children, a daughter with U.N. and son attorney at law and four grandchildren. Having been a Vice-President of a Chemical Company, he retired to South Florida. He is the author of four books and many short stories and poems published in FORWARD, BIALYSTOKER SHTIME and in SLOWO ZYDOWSKIE, ZIEMIA DROHOBYCKA in Polish. He is a member of the Jewish War Veterans, guest speaker and lecturer.

The Russian Rockefellers

Robert W. Tolf
The Russian Rockefellers Book PDF

Author : Robert W. Tolf
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817965860

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The Russian Rockefellers by Robert W. Tolf Pdf

The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally prestigious prizes that bear his name. But Alfred was only one member of a creative and innovative family who built an industrial empire in prerevolutionary Russia. The saga begins with an emigrÉ from Sweden, Immanuel Nobel, who was an architect, a pioneer producer of steam engines, and a maker of armaments, including the underwater mines that were widely used in the Crimean War. Immanuel's sons included Alfred; Robert, who directed the family's activities in the Caspian oil fields; and Ludwig, an engineering genius and manufacturing magnate whose boundless energy and fierce determination created the Russian petroleum industry. Ludwig's son Emanuel showed similar mettle, shrewdly bargaining with the Rothschilds for control of the Russian markets and competing head-on with Standard Oil, Royal Dutch, and Shell for lucrative world markets. Emanuel not only expanded the Russian oil industry but also helped to modernize the Russian navy and commanded a fleet of three hundred ships. Perhaps no family in history has played so decisive a role in building an industrial empire in an underdeveloped but resource-rich nation. Yet the achievements of the Nobel family have been largely forgotten. When the Bolsheviks came to power, the empire, which had taken eighty years to design and build, was nearly destroyed, bringing a sudden and bitter end to one of the most remarkable industrial odysseys in world history.

The Beginnings of Russian History

Nora K. Chadwick
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Author : Nora K. Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107652569

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The Beginnings of Russian History by Nora K. Chadwick Pdf

Originally published in 1946, this book presents an examination by Nora Kershaw Chadwick of early Russian written sources.

Russia and Norway. Physical and Symbolic Borders

Сборник статей
Russia and Norway Physical and Symbolic Borders Book PDF

Author : Сборник статей
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9785457879027

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Russia and Norway. Physical and Symbolic Borders by Сборник статей Pdf

The book is a collection of papers presented at the conference «Russia and Norway: Physical and Symbolic Borders» held in St Petersburg in April 2005 in connection with the opening of the exhibition «Norway – Russia. Neighbours through the ages». In the book different aspects of the history of the Norwegian-Russian border are covered by historians from Moscow, St Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Bergen and Tromso. The papers are diverse and refer to different chronological periods. One group of articles deals with problems connected with the medieval border treaties between Norway and Novgorodian Russia, others with the diplomatic history of the border convention of 1826, as well as its effect on ethnic minorities living in the border area. One author addresses the present-day delimitation controversy between Norway and Russia in the Barents Sea. Other articles deal with symbolic borders, for example, barriers in translating Russian literature into Norwegian, and borders between the two cultures, experienced by the Russian emigrants in Norway after the Russian Revolution. And finally, there are articles without explicit references to the concept of borders, where the authors investigate in more general terms different aspects of Norwegian-Russian relations.

Russia

Gregory Carleton
Russia Book PDF

Author : Gregory Carleton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674978485

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Russia by Gregory Carleton Pdf

Outsiders view Russia as an aggressor, but Russians see themselves as surrounded by enemies, defensively fighting off invader after invader, or called upon by history to be the savior of Europe, or Christianity, or civilization itself, often at immense cost. As Gregory Carleton shows, war is the unifying thread of Russia’s national epic.

Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime

Mark Galeotti
Russian and Post Soviet Organized Crime Book PDF

Author : Mark Galeotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351550352

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Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime by Mark Galeotti Pdf

A timely look at a widespread yet largely uninvestigated area of Russian life. Chapters include: consideration of the history and basis in culture for the organization of crime in Russia; the actions of emigres to the USA; and the development of modern sophistications of exchange and networking that currently blight privatization. Diverse perspectives, including comparative, structural and ethnic frameworks, give unprecedented national and international insights into a pervasive element of modern Russia.

Ukraine and Russia

Roman Solchanyk
Ukraine and Russia Book PDF

Author : Roman Solchanyk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0742510182

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Ukraine and Russia by Roman Solchanyk Pdf

This timely study provides a clear analysis of both the domestic and foreign policies and security issues confronting RussiaOs largest and most important neighbor during its first decade as an independent state. Roman Solchanyk emphasizes throughout the book, the complex, centuries-old Ukrainian-Russian relationship, which is so central that the ORussian questionO plays the determining role in UkraineOs foreign and domestic politics. In turn, the policy choices of UkraineOs leaders influence the direction of RussiaOs own transformation. The book opens with a conceptual framework that addresses the key issues of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship. The initial chapters illustrate how relations between Kyiv and Moscow changed_in the final analysis, dramatically_under the conditions of a crumbling and ultimately collapsing Soviet state. This is followed by a discussion of how the ORussian questionO influences UkraineOs internal developments_political, social, and economic_as well as its behavior in the international arena. The concluding chapters focus specifically on Crimea, a microcosm of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship. Basing his argument on a wealth of primary source material, the author argues that the success of both UkraineOs and RussiaOs nation- and state-building projects will be largely determined by the normalization of their historically conditioned relationship. Indeed, success or failure will profoundly influence the direction of regional and European foreign policy and security.

Goofy Hustler

Dr. Yash Paul Soni
Goofy Hustler Book PDF

Author : Dr. Yash Paul Soni
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781664115347

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Goofy Hustler by Dr. Yash Paul Soni Pdf

In the 1970's people laughed at me because I was rude, crude, crass, loud-mouthed bigot... Today I would be leading the field of GOP Presidential candicates. Be careful when you blindly follow the masses... Sometimes the 'M' is silent.

Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia

ChaeRan Y. Freeze,Jay M. Harris
Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia Book PDF

Author : ChaeRan Y. Freeze,Jay M. Harris
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611684568

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Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia by ChaeRan Y. Freeze,Jay M. Harris Pdf

This book makes accessibleÑfor the first time in EnglishÑdeclassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotiation among and between neighbors, society, and the Russian state, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to World War I. Focusing on religion, family, health, sexuality, work, and politics, these documents provide an intimate portrait of the rich diversity of Jewish life. By personalizing collective experience through individual life storiesÑreflecting not only the typical but also the extraordinaryÑthe sources reveal the tensions and ruptures in a vanished society. An introductory survey of Russian Jewish history from the Polish partitions (1772Ð1795) to World War I combines with prefatory remarks, textual annotations, and a bibliography of suggested readings to provide a new perspective on the history of the Jews of Russia.

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF E. F. BENSON (Illustrated Edition)

E. F. Benson
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF E F BENSON Illustrated Edition Book PDF

Author : E. F. Benson
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 5626 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027202607

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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF E. F. BENSON (Illustrated Edition) by E. F. Benson Pdf

This carefully edited collection of "THE COLLECTED WORKS OF E. F. BENSON (Illustrated Edition)" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of contents Make Way For Lucia Queen Lucia Miss Mapp Dodo Trilogy Dodo: A Detail of the Day Dodo's Daughter or Dodo the Second Dodo Wonders David Blaize Series: David Blaize David Blaize and the Blue Door Other Novels The Rubicon The Judgement Books The Vintage Mammon and Co. Scarlet and Hyssop The Relentless City The Valkyries The Angel of Pain The House of Defence The Blotting Book Daisy's Aunt Mrs. Ames Thorley Weir Arundel Michael Up and Down Across the Stream Short Story Collections The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories Historical Work Crescent and Iron Cross Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories.

The Siberian Saga

Eva-Maria Stolberg
The Siberian Saga Book PDF

Author : Eva-Maria Stolberg
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063325925

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The Siberian Saga by Eva-Maria Stolberg Pdf

The immense size and natural resources of Siberia, and its crucial geopolitical position in Eurasian history, assure it a prominent place in the interests and concerns of Russia and the other powers of Northeast Asia and the Pacific Rim. The central issue of Siberian history is: What were the essential social, political and cultural factors which contributed to the emergence of Siberia as a - crossroads of civilizations between Europe and Asia? The book examines the expansion of the Siberian frontier since the sixteenth century by highlighting the role of individuals and state institutions in the colonizing process that made Siberia similar to legendary America's Wild West."

Up and Down

E. F. Benson
Up and Down Book PDF

Author : E. F. Benson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664607409

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Up and Down by E. F. Benson Pdf

"Up and Down" by E. F. Benson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Russian Intelligence Services

Vladimir Plougin
Russian Intelligence Services Book PDF

Author : Vladimir Plougin
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : 9781892941527

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Russian Intelligence Services by Vladimir Plougin Pdf

Moscow University Professor Ploughin delves into the roots of Russian statehood and pieces history together through tales of espionage.