The Moscow Challenge

Author : Ion Rațiu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCAL:B4421823

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Moscow Challenges the World by Ion Rațiu Pdf

Author : Raymond Keene
Publisher : Hardinge Simpole Limited
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 1843820978

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The Moscow Challenge by Raymond Keene Pdf

Moscow, in the autumn of 1984, was the setting for a clash between two of the all-time greats of chess: defending champion Anatoly Karpov, the most deadly tournament player in the history of the game, and Gary Kasparov, the 21 year old from Baku who would become the youngest ever World Champion were he to overthrow his rival. This gruelling test of contrasting character, style and sheer physical reserves roused a wave of media interest and thrust chess into the forefront of public attention.

Author : Keir Giles,James Nixey,Roderic Lyne,Andrew Wood,James Sherr
Publisher : Chatham House (Formerly Riia)
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1784130540

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The Russian Challenge by Keir Giles,James Nixey,Roderic Lyne,Andrew Wood,James Sherr Pdf

The war in Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin's bid to overturn the post-Cold War international settlement in Europe, have forced many Western governments to reappraise their approach to Russia. Until 2003, it was widely believed that a modernizing Russia might be accommodated into the international system as a constructive and benign actor. Variations on this view have given way to the realization that Russia, on its present course, cannot be a partner or ally, and that differences outweigh any common interests. Russia needs reform, but the domestic political obstacles to it are daunting. At the same time, if Moscow maintains its current course, in both economic management and international relations, this will be increasingly dangerous for Europe and costly, if not disastrous, for Russia. The questions addressed in this report are how far those costs will rise, whether Russia can bear them, what will happen if it cannot, and how the West should respond in the near and longer term.

Author : Keir Giles
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815735755

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Moscow Rules by Keir Giles Pdf

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world—and its place in it—that the West can best meet the Russian challenge. Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a “rational” Western nation—even though Russian leaders for centuries have thought and acted based on their country's much different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders from the czars to Putin almost always act in their own very predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent crises. Keir Giles, a senior expert on Russia at Britain's prestigious Chatham House, describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem deeply alien in the West, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with Moscow. Giles argues that understanding how Moscow's leaders think—not just Vladimir Putin but his predecessors and eventual successors—will help their counterparts in the West develop a less crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia.

Author : Michael Rywkin
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 087332613X

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Moscow's Muslim Challenge by Michael Rywkin Pdf

Rywkin, (Russian area studies, CCNY) who spend his youth as a World War II refugee in the city of Samarkand in Soviet Uzbekistan, has devoted his career to study of the Soviet Union. In this revised edition, updated to cover the first five years of perestroika, he combines a history of the area with a probing analysis of current trends in one of the USSR's most turbulent and least understood minority regions. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Marlene Laruelle,Jean Radvanyi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538114872

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Understanding Russia by Marlene Laruelle,Jean Radvanyi Pdf

This timely book provides a balanced and comprehensive overview of the geographical, historical, political, cultural, and geostrategic factors that drive Russia today. Russia has long inspired fear in the West, but as the authors argue, Russia is fearful as well. Three decades after the transformations launched by perestroika, multiple ghosts haunt both Russian elites and ordinary citizens, ranging from concerns about territorial challenges, societal transformations, and economic decline to worries about the country’s vulnerability to external intervention. Faced with a West that emerged victorious from the Cold War, a shockingly dynamic China, and former Soviet republics claiming their right to emancipate themselves from Moscow’s stranglehold, Russia is constantly questioning its identity, its development path, and its role on the international scene. The country hesitates between two strategies: take refuge in a new isolation and revive the old notion of being a “besieged fortress,” or replay the messianic myth of a Third Rome, the last bastion of Christian values in the face of a decadent West. Explaining Russia’s perspective, Marlene Laruelle and Jean Radvanyi offers a much-needed analysis that will help readers understand how the country deals with its domestic issues and how these influence Russian foreign policy.

Author : Raymond D. Keene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Chess
ISBN : 002028750X

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The Moscow Challenge by Raymond D. Keene Pdf

Analyzes the forty-eight games in 1984 world chess tournament between Anatoly Karpov and Gary Kasparov

Author : Raymond D. Keene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Chess
ISBN : 0713450053

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The Moscow Challenge by Raymond D. Keene Pdf

Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780091944247

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The Songs of St Petersburg by Amor Towles Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility. 'A comic masterpiece.' The Times 'Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman.' New York Times Book Review 'A work of great charm, intelligence and insight.' Sunday Times 'Everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight.' Mail on Sunday 'If we do a better book than this one on the book club this year we will be very very lucky.' Matt Williams, Radio 2 Book Club 'Abundant in humour, history and humanity' Sunday Telegraph 'Wistful, whimsical and wry.' Sunday Express On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. But instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval, the Count, stripped of the trappings that defined his life, is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance of a glamorous actress, a cantankerous chef and a very serious child, Rostov unexpectedly discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose.

Author : Stephen Gundle
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0822325632

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Between Hollywood and Moscow by Stephen Gundle Pdf

DIVA study of the cultural policies of the Italian communist party following the collapse of fascismand the struggle with popular consumer culture that led to its demise in 1991./div

Author : Olga Shevchenko
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253002570

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Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow by Olga Shevchenko Pdf

In this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new identities and competencies that emerged in response to these challenges. Ranging from consumption to daily rhetoric, and from urban geography to health care, this study illuminates the relationship between crisis and normality and adds a new dimension to the debates about postsocialist culture and politics.

Author : Boris A. Kordemsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992-04-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486270784

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The Moscow Puzzles by Boris A. Kordemsky Pdf

A collection of math and logic puzzles features number games, magic squares, tricks, problems with dominoes and dice, and cross sums, in addition to other intellectual teasers.

Author : Daniel Silva
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451227386

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Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva Pdf

The death of a journalist leads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn in this #1 New York Times bestseller. Moscow is no longer the gray, grim city of Soviet times. Now it is awash with oil wealth and choked with bulletproof Bentleys. But in the new Russia, power once again resides behind the walls of the Kremlin. Critics of the ruling class are ruthlessly silenced. And a new generation of Stalinists plots to reclaim an empire—and challenge the United States. One of those men is Ivan Kharkov, ex-KGB, who built a financial empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Part of his profit comes from arms dealing. And he is about to deliver Russia’s most sophisticated weapons to the United States’ most dangerous enemy, unless Israeli foreign intelligence agent Gabriel Allon can stop him. Slipping across borders from Vatican City to St. Petersburg, Jerusalem to Washington, DC, Allon is playing for time—and playing by Moscow rules.

Author : Antonio J. Mendez,Jonna Mendez
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781541762176

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The Moscow Rules by Antonio J. Mendez,Jonna Mendez Pdf

From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo, discover the "real-life spy thriller" of the brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives who developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold War (Malcolm Nance). Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, and tapped their phones. Intelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever. The Moscow Rules tells the story of the intelligence breakthroughs that turned the odds in America's favor. As experts in disguise, Antonio and Jonna were instrumental in developing a series of tactics -- Hollywood-inspired identity swaps, ingenious evasion techniques, and an armory of James Bond-style gadgets -- that allowed CIA officers to outmaneuver the KGB. As Russia again rises in opposition to America, this remarkable story is a tribute to those who risked everything for their country, and to the ingenuity that allowed them to succeed.

Author : Robert D. Blackwill,Former Carol Deane Senior Fellow for Us Strategic Studies at Iiss and Former Teacher and Researcher Philip H Gordon
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Balance of power
ISBN : 0876097360

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Containing Russia by Robert D. Blackwill,Former Carol Deane Senior Fellow for Us Strategic Studies at Iiss and Former Teacher and Researcher Philip H Gordon Pdf

Russia not only meddled in the U.S. democratic process and sought to exacerbate American social divisions but also seeks to undermine U.S. power in Europe and around the world. Neither President Barack Obama nor President Donald J. Trump responded to Russia's intervention in a way sufficient to deter it from future attacks.