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Author : Malcolm Muggeridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : IOWA:31858032819322
Author : Thomas M. Muggeridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783731701
Author : Théophile Gautier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UCLA:L0097097257
Author : Anthony Charles Kevin
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1742589294
Forty-eight years ago, a young and apprehensive Tony Kevin set off with his family on his first diplomatic posting, to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. In the Russian winter of 2016 he returns alone, a private citizen, aged 73. What will he find? How has Russia changed since those grim Soviet days? Tony Kevin had a successful and challenging diplomatic career, ending with ambassadorships to Poland (1991-94) and Cambodia (1994-97). He now applies his attention to Vladimir Putin's Russia, a government and nation routinely demonized and disdained in Western capitals. Why does President Putin arouse such a high level of Western antagonism? Is the West throwing away the lessons of recent history in recklessly drifting into a perilous and unnecessary new Cold War confrontation against Russia? The author invites readers to see this great nation anew: to explore with him the complex roots of Russian national identity and values, drawing on its traumatic recent seventy-year Soviet Communist past and its momentous thousand-year history as a great Orthodox Christian nation that has both loved and feared 'the West, ' and which the West has loved and feared back in equal measure. Tony Kevin's previous books include A Certain Maritime Incident: the sinking of SIEV X (2004) and Reluctant Rescuers (2012) on Australia's well-resourced maritime border protection system. He published a travel memoir Walking the Camino (2007) about his long pilgrimage walk through Spain in 2006. In 2009, Crunch Time tackled issues, still unresolved, of framing an effective Australian policy against global warming. [Subject: Non-Fiction, Travel Memoir, Russian Studies
Author : David Stahel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374714253
A gripping and authoritative revisionist account of the German Winter Campaign of 1941–1942 Germany’s winter campaign of 1941–1942 is commonly seen as its first defeat. In Retreat from Moscow, a bold, gripping account of one of the seminal moments of World War II, David Stahel argues that instead it was its first strategic success in the East. The Soviet counteroffensive was in fact a Pyrrhic victory. Despite being pushed back from Moscow, the Wehrmacht lost far fewer men, frustrated its enemy’s strategy, and emerged in the spring unbroken and poised to recapture the initiative. Hitler’s strategic plan called for holding important Russian industrial cities, and the German army succeeded. The Soviets as of January 1942 aimed for nothing less than the destruction of Army Group Center, yet not a single German unit was ever destroyed. Lacking the professionalism, training, and experience of the Wehrmacht, the Red Army’s offensive attempting to break German lines in countless head-on assaults led to far more tactical defeats than victories. Using accounts from journals, memoirs, and wartime correspondence, Stahel takes us directly into the Wolf’s Lair to reveal a German command at war with itself as generals on the ground fought to maintain order and save their troops in the face of Hitler’s capricious, increasingly irrational directives. Excerpts from soldiers’ diaries and letters home paint a rich portrait of life and death on the front, where the men of the Ostheer battled frostbite nearly as deadly as Soviet artillery. With this latest installment of his pathbreaking series on the Eastern Front, David Stahel completes a military history of the highest order.
Author : M. Ripley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368853815
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : A. F. Chew
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 9781428915985
Author : Théophile Gautier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : OCLC:8449883
Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062291905
Inspired by a true story, prize-winning historian and acclaimed novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the consequences of forbidden love in this heartbreaking epic of marriage, childhood, danger, and betrayal that unfolds in Stalin's Moscow during the bleak days after World War II. As Moscow celebrates the motherland's glorious victory over the Nazis, shots ring out on the crowded streets. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl—dressed in traditional nineteenth-century costumes—lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy, because these are no ordinary teenagers. As the son and daughter of high-ranking Soviet officials, they attend the most elite school in Moscow. Was it an accident, or murder? Is it a conspiracy against Stalin, or one of his own terrifying intrigues? On Stalin's instructions, a ruthless investigation begins into what becomes known as the Children's Case. Youth across the city are arrested and forced to testify against their friends and their parents. As families are ripped apart, all kinds of secrets come spilling out. Trapped at the center of this witch-hunt are two pairs of illicit lovers, who learn that matters of the heart exact a terrible price. By turns a darkly sophisticated political thriller, a rich historical saga, and a deeply human love story, Montefiore's masterful novel powerfully portrays the terror and drama of Stalin's Russia.
Author : Vassily Aksyonov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679761822
Compared by critics across the country to War and Peace for its memorable characters and sweep, and to Dr. Zhivago for its portrayal of Stalin's Russia, Generations of Winter is the romantic saga of the Gradov family from 1925 to 1945. "A long, lavish plunge into another world."--USA Today.
Author : Julia Herzberg,Andreas Renner,Ingrid Schierle
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800731288
Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history. In chapters encompassing such diverse topics as polar exploration, the Eastern Front in World War II, and the iconography of hockey, it explores the multiplicity and ambiguity of “cold” in the Russian context and demonstrates the value of environmental-historical research for enriching national and imperial histories.
Author : Daphne Kalotay
Publisher : Random House
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448135516
Praise for Russian Winter 'An elegant, compelling puzzle of family, memory and solitude that brings to life modern day Boston and postwar Russia through a profound love story. Graceful, moving and unexpected' - Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club 'A tender and moving debut novel' - Candis Magazine 'An impressive debut: intelligent, moving, and flitting easily between the artistic salons of Soviet Russia and the Boston of today' - Guardian 'A memorable love story cleverly disguised as historical fiction' - Red Magazine 'Part romance, part mystery, this elegant debut captures the danger - and refuge - of love in Stalin's era' - Good Housekeeping
Author : Klaus Reinhardt
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029222331
Based on a wealth of source material, the author sets out to refute the widely held view among historians and military experts that the German defeat at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942/43 marked the turning-point in the war. He shows how Hitler's attempt to crush the Soviet Union in a Blitz campaign was doomed to failure from the beginning and how defeat outside Moscow compromised his plans for a successful conclusion to the war.
Author : Théophile Gautier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Russia
ISBN : OCLC:549537470
Author : Samuel A. Greene
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804792448
Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the summer of 2013, the book traces the evolution of the relationship between citizens and their state through a series of in-depth case studies, explaining how Russians mobilized to defend human and civil rights, the environment, and individual and group interests: a process that culminated in the dramatic election protests of 2011–2012 and their aftermath. To understand where this surprising mobilization came from, and what it might mean for Russia's political future, the author looks beyond blanket arguments about the impact of low levels of trust, the weight of the Soviet legacy, or authoritarian repression, and finds an active and boisterous citizenry that nevertheless struggles to gain traction against a ruling elite that would prefer to ignore them. On a broader level, the core argument of this volume is that political elites, by structuring the political arena, exert a decisive influence on the patterns of collective behavior that make up civil society—and the author seeks to test this theory by applying it to observable facts in historical and comparative perspective. Moscow in Movement will be of interest to anyone looking for a bottom-up, citizens' eye view of recent Russian history, and especially to scholars and students of contemporary Russian politics and society, comparative politics, and sociology.
