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.

The Russian by Saul Herzog is the stunning second instalment in the series that has taken the publishing industry, and Hollywood rights departments, by storm. This dazzling tour de force is a full standalone novel. From the mind of one of the most creative and versatile writers working in America today, this book will surely go down as a classic of the spy thriller genre.

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...

The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution, and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked by not one but two revolutions?

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.

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 -...

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.

"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...

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...

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.

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.

"Russian history in the lives of its most important figures" - the classic work by prominent Russian historian, one of the founders of Russian historical thought Nikolai Kostomarov.

In a world where limitless violence defines the very nature of life on the depraved streets, respect is seized at the tip of the blade and the muzzle of the weapon that punctuate life and death when the line between the two is all but invisible. Follow Anya as she battles ultimate deceit, boundless depravity, and the endless thirst for more of everything the dark side of humanity has for sale when money is no object and human life is but a whisper between echoing eternities.

Риторика - филологическая дисциплина, изучающая искусство речи, правила построения художественной речи, ораторское искусство, мировоззрение, красноречие. Из определения риторики становится ясна цель, которую преследовал Аристотель в своём трактате.

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...

Прямо сейчас человечество достигает новых высот научного понимания—и в тоже время, кажется, постепенно сходит с ума. Почему вид, меньше чем за год разработавший вакцины против ковида, погряз в фальшивых новостях, медицинском шарлатанстве и теориях заговора? Пинкер сразу отказывается от циничного клише, гласящего, что человек попросту нерационален—что это вечный троглодит, готовый среагировать на льва в траве ворохом предрассудков, слепых пятен, ложных умозаключений и иллюзий.

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.

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