Russian Politics

This Very Short Introduction provides a guide to understanding Russian Politics that goes beyond the headlines, offering a vivid account of the key forces driving Russian politics. It places Russia in a global context while explaining its internal political development. Several major themes run through the book, including the primacy of the state over society, the role of the so-called "West," which has represented a source of inspiration, of threat, and of competition for generations of Russians, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Книга бывшего президента Армении и бывшего президента непризнанной Народно-Карабахской республики проливает свет на события одного из самых сложных периодов новейшей истории армянского народа. Перед вами версия организатора и участника важнейших событий в Армении и Карабахе. Эти сведения ранее нигде не публиковались. Здесь вы найдете засекреченные документы, а также исторические фото из личного архива Роберта Кочаряна.

Bloomsbury presents The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes, read by David Sibley. A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History ‘The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM ‘A...

Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself.

Brought to you by Penguin. Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad -...

The Russian Revolution may be the most misunderstood and misrepresented event in modern history, its history told in a mix of legends and anecdotes. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths and pry fact from fiction, putting at the heart of the story the Russian people who are the true heroes of this tumultuous tale.

Bloomsbury presents Putin and the Return of History by Martin Sixsmith, read by Jonathan Keeble. An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped...

Russian President Petrov is determined to restore his country’s dominance on the world stage at any price. In order to develop deadlier nuclear weapons, he recruits Ilana Rabinovich, a beautiful but lethal scientist, to infiltrate the Mossad and steal their research. What no one expects is for the Israelis to then assign her an even more dangerous mission of their own: to penetrate the US nuclear facilities in the deserts of Los Alamos. If the information falls into the wrong hands the results could be devastating.

Leo Tolstoy was born to an aristocratic Russian family, became a world-famous influential novelist, and then chose to lead the simple life of a peasant. Dating from this last part of his life, Tolstoy’s influential book What I Believe takes readers along on the path to a life modeled literally on Jesus Christ’s "Sermon on the Mount" and the teachings of the Gospels. In revealing and frank essays he reimagines a faith without dogma, centered solely on Jesus’ doctrine of love, humility, and self-denial.

When the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best place to find world-class players who could turn things around more quickly were conscripted servants behind the Iron Curtain. All they had to do to get them was make history by drafting them and then figure out how to get them out of the Soviet Union.

Осенью 1999 года в Лондоне активно готовят боевиков-исламистов для новой войны в Чечне. Вместе со своим близким другом Алексеем Кудиновым и сотрудником резидентуры СВР Владимиром Моховым секретный агент Пако Аррайя пытается завербовать агентов в этой сети. Египетский разведчик, алжирские террористы, ливанский коммерсант, чеченский врач — всё это кусочки пазла, который едва складывается, когда становится ясно, что исламисты действуют при попустительстве британских спецслужб. Но тут Пако с Кудиновым похищают, и теперь речь идет уже об их выживании.

Socialism 101 is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the historical and modern applications of socialism. In today’s political climate, more and more presidential candidates are espousing socialist—or democratic socialist—policies. Once associated with oppression, socialism is now a...

"An important and necessary book... a work of honesty and humanity," Mishal Husain "This is a unique and necessary book. The Good Russian takes us inside wartime Russia, to a city that Jana Bakunina knows intimately. She brings us face to face with ordinary Russians, and also tells her own...

Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading American newspaper as the greatest spy story of World War II. This dramatic yet little-known saga, replete with telephone taps, kidnappings, and police surveillance, centres on the furtive escapades of Tyler Kent, a handsome, womanising 28-year-old Ivy League graduate who doubles as a US Embassy code clerk and Soviet agent.

Среди изданных в эмиграции книг Н.А. Бердяева следует назвать Новое средневековье, О назначении человека, О рабстве и свободе человека, Русская идея, и, наконец, Самопознание, опубликованное посмертно. Самопознание — одно из последних произведений Бердяева, своеобразный итог его размышлений. Опыт философской автобиографии — так автор определил жанр своей книги, основными темами которой являются личность и время, личность и эпоха, личность и ее внутренняя свобода.

Bloomsbury presents Nuclear Russia by Paul Josephson, read by Leighton Pugh. In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthusiastic pursuit of military and peaceful nuclear programs through the...

Меньше чем через десять лет наша планета изменится до неузнаваемости. Пенсионеры, накопившие солидный капитал, и средний класс из Индии и Китая будут определять развитие мирового потребительского рынка, в Африке произойдет промышленная революция, в списках богатейших людей женщины обойдут мужчин, на заводах роботов будет больше, чем рабочих, а главными проблемами человечества станут изменение климата и доступ к чистой воде.

Uncover the dramatic rise and fall of empires in this gripping geopolitical history of autocracy and revolution. Whether you're commuting to work or seeking clarity on today’s global conflicts, this immersive narrative transforms complex centuries into an intense, character-driven journey. You...

Lust...Nowhere on Earth is the very essence of the word nurtured, encouraged, and exploited more than deep inside Sin City. Russian SVR assassin-turned-American-agent Anya Burinkova must relive the horrors of her training at the hands of her former Soviet masters to claw her way into a terrifying world where human life is little more than a commodity for sale to the highest bidder in this journey behind the glittering lights, and into the depths of the real Las Vegas that few ever see and even fewer survive.

Исследователь психологии социальных взаимодействий Роберт Грин, автор бестселлера «48 законов власти», анализирует механизмы человеческих отношений, оказывающих колоссальное влияние на нашу судьбу. Автор рассказывает о 18 особенностях, в той или иной степени присущих каждому человеку; учит, как превращать недостатки в достоинства, противодействовать агрессивности, нарциссизму и заносчивости и не попадаться на уловки манипуляторов, вовремя распознавая токсичные типы личности.