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Book Russian Intrigues  Secret Despatches of General Ignatieff and Consular Agents of the Great Panslavic Societies

Download or read book Russian Intrigues Secret Despatches of General Ignatieff and Consular Agents of the Great Panslavic Societies written by Pavel Nikolaevich Ignat'ev (General.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian Dance

Download or read book Russian Dance written by Andrée Aelion Brooks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Helene Rubinoff, a Russian refugee in Jazz Age New York who forsook her comfortable life with her impresario husband and his celebrity salons, and her beloved daughter, to follow her lover back to an uncertain fate in 1930s Russia.

Book The Russian Imperial Conspiracy  1892 1914

Download or read book The Russian Imperial Conspiracy 1892 1914 written by Robert Latham Owen and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intrigue of the Russian Imperialists, who deliberately and intentionally brought about World War I.

Book In Search of the True Russia

Download or read book In Search of the True Russia written by Lyudmila Parts and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the contested place of the provinces in twenty-first-century Russia, surveying cultural discourse in journalism, literature, and film to analyze changing notions of nationalism, authenticity, and postimperial identity.

Book Indian Commerce and Russian Intrigue

Download or read book Indian Commerce and Russian Intrigue written by George Edward Westmacott and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oppressions  Crimes  Intrigues  and Cruelties of  Russia as it Is

Download or read book Oppressions Crimes Intrigues and Cruelties of Russia as it Is written by Jean Charles L. Simonde de Sismondi and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Russia Really Works

Download or read book How Russia Really Works written by Alena V. Ledeneva and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In How Russia Really Works, Alena V. Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the legal sphere in Russia in the 1990s—from the hiring of firms to create negative publicity about one's competitors, to inventing novel schemes of tax evasion and engaging in "alternative" techniques of contract and law enforcement. She discovers ingenuity, wit, and vigor in these activities and argues that they simultaneously support and subvert formal institutions. They enable corporations, the media, politicians, and businessmen to operate in the post-Soviet labyrinth of legal and practical constraints but consistently undermine the spirit, if not the letter, of the law. The "know-how" Ledeneva describes in this book continues to operate today and is crucial to understanding contemporary Russia. On December 6, 2009, Alena Ledeneva discussed her book on the BBC Radio program Forum. Here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00551mg#synopsis.

Book Russian Intrigues  Secret Despatches of General Ignatieff and Consular Agents of the Great Panslavic Societaties

Download or read book Russian Intrigues Secret Despatches of General Ignatieff and Consular Agents of the Great Panslavic Societaties written by Pavel Nikolajevic Ignatev and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oppressions  Crimes  Intrigues  and Cruelties of  Russia as it Is

Download or read book Oppressions Crimes Intrigues and Cruelties of Russia as it Is written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian Intrigues

Download or read book Russian Intrigues written by graf Nikolaĭ Pavlovich Ignatʹev and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russia and the Idea of the West

Download or read book Russia and the Idea of the West written by Robert D. English and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely as incidental to the broader considerations of power. English demonstrates that Gorbachev's foreign policy was the result of an intellectual revolution. He analyzes the rise of a liberal policy-academic elite and its impact on the Cold War's end.

Book Russian intrigues in Afghanistan

Download or read book Russian intrigues in Afghanistan written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Putin s Russia

Download or read book Putin s Russia written by Dale Roy Herspring and published by Carnegie Endowment. This book was released on 2003 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vodka Politics

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  • Author : Mark Lawrence Schrad
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-02-05
  • ISBN : 0199389470
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Vodka Politics written by Mark Lawrence Schrad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance. Beyond vivid anecdotes, Schrad scours original documents and archival evidence to answer provocative historical questions. How have Russia's rulers used alcohol to solidify their autocratic rule? What role did alcohol play in tsarist coups? Was Nicholas II's ill-fated prohibition a catalyst for the Bolshevik Revolution? Could the Soviet Union have become a world power without liquor? How did vodka politics contribute to the collapse of both communism and public health in the 1990s? How can the Kremlin overcome vodka's hurdles to produce greater social well-being, prosperity, and democracy into the future? Viewing Russian history through the bottom of the vodka bottle helps us to understand why the "liquor question" remains important to Russian high politics even today-almost a century after the issue had been put to bed in most every other modern state. Indeed, recognizing and confronting vodka's devastating political legacies may be the greatest political challenge for this generation of Russia's leadership, as well as the next.

Book The Russo Japanese War Fully Illustrated v 1 3 no 1 10 Apr 1904 Sept 1905

Download or read book The Russo Japanese War Fully Illustrated v 1 3 no 1 10 Apr 1904 Sept 1905 written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soviet Russia

Download or read book Soviet Russia written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The European Powers and the Near East  1875 1908

Download or read book The European Powers and the Near East 1875 1908 written by Mason Whiting Tyler and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: