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Georgian and Soviet investigates the constitutive capacity of Soviet nationhood and empire. The Soviet republic of Georgia, located in the mountainous Caucasus region, received the same nation-building template as other national republics of the USSR. Yet Stalin's Georgian heritage, intimate knowledge of Caucasian affairs, and personal involvement in local matters as he ascended to prominence left his homeland to confront a distinct set of challenges...
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Monuments for Posterity challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined posterity. In this respect, even while pursuing its monument-building program with a singular ruthlessness and on an unprecedented scale, the Stalinist regime was broadly in step with transnational monument-building trends of...
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World War II, known as the Great Patriotic War to Russians, ravaged the Soviet Union and traumatized those who survived. After the war, memory of this anguish was often publicly repressed under Stalin. But, that all changed by the 1960s. Under Brezhnev, the idea of the Great Patriotic War was transformed into one of victory and celebration.
In Russia's Hero Cities, Ivo Mijnssen reveals how contradictory national recollections were revised into an...
384) Historia de Rusia: Un apasionante recorrido por los principales acontecimientos de la historia de Ru
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Princesas perdidas, una reina que destronó a su propio marido, el país que derrotó a Napoleón y un perro que viajó al espacio son solo algunos de los fascinantes aspectos de la historia rusa.
La historia de Rusia ha cautivado al público durante generaciones. Desde las hazañas de Iván el Terrible hasta el asesinato de la familia real Románov, hay mucha historia que explorar. ¿Cómo se ganó el título Iván el Terrible? ¿Quiénes eran los...
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Are you ready to embark on an exciting journey through some of the most dramatic events in Russian history?
In this book, readers will gain an understanding of the Russian Revolution, the Civil War, World War I, the decline of the Russian Empire, and how these events shaped Russia's future.
From learning about Lenin and the Red Army to discovering how and why Stalin rose to power and his eventual leadership during World War II and beyond.
This...
386) Slavs and the Slave Trade: The History of Enslaved Slavs across Eastern Europe and the Islamic World
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some historians have aligned the term Slav as deriving from descriptions of slaves: "The word "slave" and its cognates in most modern European languages is itself derived from "sclavus," meaning "slav," the ethnic name for the inhabitants of this region." Some historians have outlined how they believe that Slavic slaves were used intensively in the ninth and tenth centuries and acted as a driver of Western European economic growth and allowed them...
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Did you know that Russia, as a united state, was not formed until the 16th century?
Today, Russia is the biggest and one of the most populous countries in the world. From the early, primitive state-like formations in the 9th century, all the way to the creation of the first true tsardom of Russia in 1547, the history of medieval Russia is one filled with constant struggles for power, personal rivalries between various princes, bloody wars, and a search...
388) The Soviet Union: The History and Legacy of the Ussr From World War I to the End of the Cold War
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For 30 years, much of the West looked on with disdain as the Bolsheviks took power in Russia and created and consolidated the Soviet Union. As bad as Vladimir Lenin seemed in the early 20th century, Joseph Stalin was so much worse that Churchill later remarked of Lenin, "Their worst misfortune was his birth... their next worst his death." Before World War II, Stalin consolidated his position by frequently purging party leaders (most famously Leon...
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Empire of Corruption is Vladimir Soloviev's attempt to share his opinions on Russia's ways of dealing with corruption. With a certain irony, Soloviev calls the issue 'the Russian national pastime', explaining why in the country where everyone is supposedly fighting corruption, corruption still rules. The author's detailed research into the corruption structure in Russia, with concrete examples and historical references, is now available to the reader...
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Dawn on Sunday 22 June 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces stormed forward into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five long years of bitter struggle.
A posting to the Eastern Front during the Second World War was rightly regarded with dread by the German soldiers. They were faced by the unremitting hostility of the climate, the people and even, at times, their own leadership. They saw epic battles...
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A survey of the key political, economic, social, and cultural developments in Russian women's history from 900 to 2010, and their impact on the nation.
Synthesizing several decades of scholarship by historians East and West, Barbara Evans Clements traces the major developments in the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of the nation. Sketching lived experiences across the centuries, she demonstrates the key roles that women...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Winter Is Coming tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Garry Kasparov's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Winter Is Coming includes: Historical context; Chapter-by-chapter overviews; Profiles of the main characters; Detailed timeline...
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Georgian Portraits chronicles everyday life in the Republic of Georgia in the decade that followed the Rose Revolution of 2003. Recent anthropological developments argue for the use of "afterlives" as an analytical notion through, which to understand processes of socio-political change. Based on a series of portraits, Martin Demant Frederiksen and Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen employ the theory of social afterlives to examine the role of revolution...
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« La Russie moderne est une vaste télé-réalité, à commencer par le Kremlin lui-même. »
De la Sibérie, o les gangsters produisent leurs propres séries télé et tirent à balles réelles, à Moscou, o les orphelines ukrainiennes rêvent d'être enlevées par un Poutine charmant, la machine médiatique orchestrée par le Kremlin travaille la psyché russe avec les recettes d'Hollywood et de la BBC. Un reality show permanent qui berce les...
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Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year was a notable point, but not a unique one, in a generations-long history of conflict between the workers and management at one of the nation's largest privately owned transit systems. In Running the Rails, James Wolfinger uses the history of Philadelphia's sprawling public transportation system to explore how labor relations shifted from the 1880s to the 1960s. As transit workers...
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The central idea of The Idiot, according to its author, was "to depict a completely beautiful human being." More prosaically, the novel was intended to shore up Dostoyevsky's professional and financial state. The portrait of Prince Myshkin, a holy fool, was created in desperation amidst the squalid poverty engendered by the Russian writer's compulsive gambling. Dostoyevsky's entire future depended on the success of his next novel, which began as one...
398) Le Faux Coupon
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Écrit en 1904, mais publié de façon posthume en 1911, Le Faux Coupon est une des dernières œuvres de Léon Tolstoï.
Deux lycéens, pour payer une dette, commettent un faux. Passant de main en main, celui-ci va semer le malheur mais aussi la rédemption. En montrant l'enchaînement terrible des actes humains et de leurs conséquences, Tolstoï donne à son récit l'intemporalité des paraboles bibliques.
Traduction et préface de Pierre Skorov,...
399) A Double Life
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An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative prose that details balls, tea parties, and horseback rides with poetic interludes that depict her protagonist's inner world-and biting irony that pervades a seemingly romantic description of a young...
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This illustrated WII history provides a vivid account of the Red Army's devastating offensive against the invading German army.
In the summer of 1944, the Soviet Army launched Operation Bagration. This massive offensive led to the destruction of the German Army Group Center and was the greatest military defeat ever experienced by the German Army during World War Two. With rare and previously unpublished photographs, this book provides an absorbing...