Download or read book Moscow Calling written by Angus Roxburgh and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British journalist offers an intimate view of Russia from the Cold War to the rise of Putin through his personal experiences as a correspondent. In the course of the past 45 years, Angus Roxburgh has translated Tolstoy, met four successive Russian presidents and been jinxed by a Siberian shaman. He has come under fire in war zones and been arrested by Chechen thugs. During the Cold War he was wooed by the KGB, who then decided he would make a lousy spy and expelled him from the country. In Moscow Calling, Roxburgh presents his Russia: not the Russia of news reports, but a quirky, exasperating, beautiful, tumultuous world that in four decades has changed completely—and not at all. Roxburgh narrates an incredible journey from the dark, fearful days of communism and his adventures as a correspondent covering the Soviet Union’s collapse to his frustrating work as a media consultant to Putin’s Kremlin. His memoir offers a unique, fascinating and at times hilarious insight into a country that today, more than ever, is of global political significance.
Download or read book Moscow Calling written by Angus Roxburgh and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal and revealing perspective of Russia by the acclaimed former BBC and Sunday Times Moscow correspondent, who worked in Russia for over 30 years and who witnessed first-hand the darkest days of communism and the rise of Putin.
Download or read book Assignment Moscow written by James Rodgers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off. From the revolutionary period of the First World War onwards, correspondents in Russia have striven to tell the story of a country known to few outsiders. Their stories have not always been well received by political elites, audiences, and even editors in their own countries-but their accounts have been a huge influence on how the West understands Russia. Not always perfect, at times downright misleading, they have, overall, been immensely valuable. In Assignment Moscow, former foreign correspondent James Rodgers analyses the news coverage of Russia throughout history, from the coverage of the siege of the Winter Palace and a plot to kill Stalin, to the Chernobyl explosion and the Salisbury poison scandal.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-02-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Year I Was Peter the Great written by Marvin Kalb and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia—and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents 1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called “the year of the thaw”—a time when Stalin’s dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing despair opened with a speech by Nikita Khrushchev, then the unpredictable leader of the Soviet Union. He astounded everyone by denouncing the one figure who, up to that time, had been hailed as a “genius,” a wizard of communism—Josef Stalin himself. Now, suddenly, this once unassailable god was being portrayed as a “madman” whose idiosyncratic rule had seriously undermined communism and endangered the Soviet state. This amazing switch from hero to villain lifted a heavy overcoat of fear from the backs of ordinary Russians. It also quickly led to anti-communist uprisings in Eastern Europe, none more bloody and challenging than the one in Hungary, which Soviet troops crushed at year’s end. Marvin Kalb, then a young diplomatic attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, observed this tumultuous year that foretold the end of Soviet communism three decades later. Fluent in Russian, a doctoral candidate at Harvard, he went where few other foreigners would dare go, listening to Russian students secretly attack communism and threaten rebellion against the Soviet system, traveling from one end of a changing country to the other and, thanks to his diplomatic position, meeting and talking with Khrushchev, who playfully nicknamed him Peter the Great. In this, his fifteenth book, Kalb writes a fascinating eyewitness account of a superpower in upheaval and of a people yearning for an end to dictatorship. "
Download or read book Transcaucasian Boundaries written by John Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcaucasian boundaries" provides the first insights into the geopolitical dynamics in this ethnically diverse and turbulent region of the former Soviet Union. The interplay between the former controlling powers of Iran, Turkey and Russia is examined, and the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabagh, Ossetia and Abkhazia are subject to expert analysis. The roles of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are considered in detail, their relative weakness having held back the transition towards democratic free-market entities of pluralist composition. Questions of minority rights, territorial settlement and the inviolability of state borders are central to an understanding of this part of the world; these issues are manifest all too violently when combined with the nationalist forces prevalent throughout Transcaucasia. All students of geopolitics and ethnic issues will find this volume a worthwhile contribution to understanding the complex geopolitical problems of a richly diverse and fascinating region.
Download or read book Russia after 2020 written by J. L. Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of Russia and how Russia is likely to develop in the immediate future. Not always sticking to the mainstream narrative, it covers political events including Putin’s constitutional reforms of January 2020 and their likely consequences, economic developments, Russia’s international relations and military activities, and changes and issues in Russian society, including in education, the place of women, health care and religion. Special attention is paid to manifestations of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book’s overall conclusion is that events of 2020 may compel Putin to ‘think again’ before he decides whether to run for office in 2024.
Download or read book Overseas Private Investment Corporation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Sino-Soviet relations, oil and Asia, and energy crisis in Asia. Also discusses the international legal snarl over the Straits of Malacca and Japan's new relationship as the third economic power with the U.S., and the common market countries of Western Europe.
Download or read book Oil and Asian Rivals Sino Soviet Conflict Japan and the Oil Crisis written by United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oil and Asian Rivals written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Sino-Soviet relations, oil and Asia, and energy crisis in Asia. Also discusses the international legal snarl over the Straits of Malacca and Japan's new relationship as the third economic power with the U.S., and the common market countries of Western Europe.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sino Soviet Conflict written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Far East and the Pacific and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews Sino-Soviet ideological and border disputes and their possible impact on U.S. policy and military objectives in Vietnam.
Download or read book Sino Soviet Conflict Report by the Subcommittee on the Far East and the Pacific Together with Hearings Held March 10 31 1965 written by United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs (1789-1975) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
