Download or read book The Guards Spoke Russian written by Aryeh Malkish and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aryeh Malkish, a Ukrainian Jew, was an engineering student in Ryazan when the KGB arrested him in 1969 for organizing a group of political dissidents. He was sent to the gulag for seven years, where Ukrainians accounted for nearly half of Russia's millions of political prisoners. Originally published in 1978, his trenchant memoir vividly describes life in a Soviet labor camp, where disfiguring pathologies flourished in an atmosphere of unrelenting suspicion and cruelty and intrenched antisemitism.
Download or read book The Guards Spoke Russian written by Aryeh Malkish and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aryeh Malkish, a Ukrainian Jew, was an engineering student in Ryazan when the KGB arrested him in 1969 for organizing a group of political dissidents. He was sent to the gulag for seven years, where Ukrainians accounted for nearly half of Russia's millions of political prisoners. Originally published in 1978, his trenchant memoir vividly describes life in a Soviet labor camp, where disfiguring pathologies flourished in an atmosphere of unrelenting suspicion and cruelty and intrenched antisemitism.
Download or read book With Napoleon s Guard in Russia written by Louis Joseph Vionnet and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Louis Joseph Vionnets memoirs of Napoleons disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdote and vivid glimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier. His account concentrates in particular on the retreat from Moscow, but he was present at all the major actions and followed the entire course of the campaign from the opening moves in July 1812 to being chased through Prussia by bands of Cossacks in early 1813. He was present at the destruction of Smolensk, toured the battlefield of Borodino and witnessed the great fire in Moscow. Vionnet was a major in the Fusiliers-Grenadiers, a regiment of veterans in the Imperial Guard, and his account provides a wonderful insight into the lan, morale and cohesion of this elite fighting force. Jonathan North has translated Vionnets memoirs for the first time for this English edition. In addition to providing detailed explanatory notes, he quotes from the accounts left by five other soldiers from the same regiment, and these extracts allow the reader to follow the ups and downs of the unit as a whole. Louis Joseph Vionnet, Vicomte de Maringon, was born in Longueville in 1769, the son of a peasant and a lace maker. He joined the artillery in 1793 and was promoted to captain in the line in 1794. He fought in Italy in 1796, in the line infantry in 1798 and the Guard grenadiers in 1806, and campaigned in Prussia, Poland and Spain. In 1809, he joined the Fusiliers of the Guard, fought again in Spain in 1811 and then, with the rank of major, he took part in the 1812 Russian campaign, which he survived. He retired in the 1830s and died in 1834.
Download or read book Journey of the Russian Mission from Orenbourg to Bokhara written by Yegor Fiodorovich Meyendorff and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Download or read book Just Breathe written by Ilona Salley and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 1900s were a time of great turmoil in both North America and Europe—two great wars devastated the lives of all. As if that were not enough, the Great Depression threw the world into chaos, the Spanish Flu decimated populations, and the Dust Bowl disrupted all of North America. Everywhere, there was a terrible struggle just to survive. People looked to the USA and Canada for a better life, and immigration flooded North America. This story follows one family caught up in all the best and all the worst that life has to offer, a family torn apart, striving to reunite. Moments of joy lighten the load, along with feelings of tenderness; they learn forgiveness for their own human failings and for those of others. Courage grows within them as they face adversity. And they experience the greatest gift of all—love.
Download or read book The White Guard written by Mikhail Bulgakov and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2016-03-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kyiv family is caught up in the Ukrainian War of Independence in this novel by the author of The Master and Margarita, drawing from his own life. Reds, Whites, German troops, and Ukrainian nationalists battle for control of the city of Kyiv as the war becomes more tumultuous in Mikhail Bulgakov’s debut novel, The White Guard. Drawing heavily from the author’s own experiences in Ukraine during the period of the Russian Civil War—he witnessed ten changes of government himself—The White Guard is told from alternating points of view and takes an unusual angle in the conflict between Russian Whites (with whom the Turbin family identify) and Ukrainian nationalists. It elegantly portrays the chaos of a civil war in which there is no good or evil, only loyalty to one’s friends, family, and convictions. First appearing in partial form in a Soviet-era literary journal, the story was turned into a play under the title The Days of the Turbins—a long-running hit that Stalin himself attended twenty times—yet was not published widely until decades after Bulgakov’s death.
Download or read book Bearing Secrets written by Layla Nash and published by Ravenheart Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunshine Wilkes runs a shelter and escape route for women with nasty husbands. She handles whatever the world throws at her... until she rescues a crazy pregnant lady raving about werewolves -- and carrying a little boy with a puppy tail. Sunny realizes she's in over her head in a magical world she didn't know existed. So when a detective pal recommends a gorgeous Russian thug as a bodyguard, Sunny doesn't mind at all. Sasha Medvedev survived a Siberian prison, his parents' murder, roaming the Russian wilderness as a bear, and dealing death as a hitman for the Russian mob. All he wants is a quiet den, strong vodka, and vengeance for his parents. He's got one man left to punish for their death when Sunny careens into his life, bringing chaos and the first glimpse of hope he's had in years. Sunny can handle a guy with a dodgy past -- everyone's got secrets to hide, including her. Even him being a werebear is something she can come around to, once she gets used to the idea. But when her budding relationship with Sasha makes Sunny the target of an evil wolf pack and Russian mobsters, she starts to think some of his secrets are too dark to survive. Will Sasha's secrets ruin his future with Sunny, or will he finally break free of the past?
Download or read book Crisis of the Ottoman Empire written by James J. Reid and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses upon the military problems of the Ottoman Empire in the era 1839 to 1878. The author examines the Crimean War (1853 to 1856) from the perspective of the Ottoman army, using British and French sources, as well as the few available Ottoman materials. Scholarship on the war has ignored this aspect, but the high quality of work about the British, French, and Russian involvement in the war has enabled the present study to advance its own work. The inability of the Ottoman high command to learn the lessons of the Crimean War led to serious defeats in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. Revolts occurring in this period also receive attention. While the book analyzes the nature of war in the Balkans and Anatolia, its primary objective is the study of the war's social and psychological influences. This perspective runs as a theme throughout the book, but the author focuses on the psychological aspects in the final chapter using comparative perspectives. .
Download or read book Becoming a Romanov Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World 1807 1873 written by Marina Soroka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Great Reforms of the 1860s were the last major modernizing effort by the Romanov dynasty. From 1855 to 1861, Grand Duchess Elena, born Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (1807-1873), acted as the spokeswoman for the reform-minded circles of Russian society, bringing before her nephew Emperor Alexander II a group of civic-minded experts who formed the core of the committee that prepared the greatest and most complex of the reforms, the abolition of serfdom in Russia. The Grand Duchess’s involvement in these crucial events in Russian history highlights the considerable influence aristocratic women had in Russian society, quite unlike women of the same class and status in Western Europe. A study of the Grand Duchess Elena of Russia offers a new understanding of Russian and international events of the time, the Romanovs’ role in them, the degree of autonomy enjoyed by high-born women in Russia and the ways in which new ideas gained ground in the nineteenth-century Russian empire. Based on abundant and largely unused archival sources, published documents and literature of the period in French, Russian, German, Italian and English, this is the first book about Grand Duchess Elena and it expertly interweaves the story of a woman’s life with that of Imperial Russian high politics.
Download or read book Bulletin U S Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association written by United States Coast Guard Academy. Alumni Association and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haunted Village Series Books 7 9 written by Ron Ripley and published by Scare Street. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final battle between the living and the dead begins… Professor Abel Worthe has subjected the inhabitants of his village to unimaginable horrors. But the professor’s brutal experiment is finally coming to an end. And Worthe has saved his deadliest surprise for last. Book 7 - Christopher’s Blade: Within the walls of a rotting old New England cottage, the ghost of a vicious serial killer named Christopher longs to taste the blood of a fresh victim. Marcus must battle this undead killer, as a new enemy gathers beyond the village gates. Book 8 - Silent Death: As Marcus and the others struggle to escape the village, they find themselves stalked by a demented soul who hears voices in her head urging her to kill. But this deadly specter isn’t the only foe they must face. The sadistic Professor has set his eyes on one of the subjects, and Marcus must find a way to save him at all costs. Book 9 - Deranged Souls: Injured from his battles against the supernatural, Marcus confronts a ghost from his past, as another subject finds himself consumed by his growing paranormal abilities. The final battle draws near, and enemies and allies both converge on the village’s walls. Can Marcus finally beat the professor at his own sinister game? Marcus must overcome crippling pain and fear—and fight harder than he ever thought possible. But will courage be enough to defeat the enemies, and escape the professor’s sinister gauntlet? Or will Subject B finally join the tortured souls that haunt Worthe’s village…
Download or read book The Voice of Russia written by Dmitri Alexander Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bourne Legacy written by Eric Lustbader and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spy fiction thriller is the fourth installment in the bestselling Jason Bourne series.
Download or read book White Guard written by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakovs semi-autobiographical first novel, is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin have just lost their mothertheir father had died years beforeand find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the wake of the Russian Revolution. In the context of this familys personal loss and the social turmoil surrounding them, Bulgakov creates a brilliant picture of the existential crises brought about by the revolution and the loss of social, moral, and political certainties. He confronts the reader with the bewildering cruelty that ripped Russian life apart at the beginning of the last century as well as with the extraordinary ways in which the Turbins preserved their humanity. In this volume Marian Schwartz, a leading translator, offers the first complete and accurate translation of the definitive original text of Bulgakovs novel. She includes the famous dream sequence, omitted in previous translations, and beautifully solves the stylistic issues raised by Bulgakovs ornamental prose. Readers with an interest in Russian literature, culture, or history will welcome this superb translation of Bulgakovs important early work. This edition also contains an informative historical essay by Evgeny Dobrenko.
Download or read book All I Wanted Was a Puppy written by Theda Yager and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All I Wanted Was a Puppy is a fast-moving book with a touch of romance and a lot of suspense and intrigue.
Download or read book The Universe Behind Barbed Wire written by Miroslav Marinovič and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.
Download or read book Para Bellum written by Paul Simanauskas and published by Paul Simanauskas. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mankind has waged war throughout the ages. Gary Bronski loathes war as much as he loathes himself. As the end draws near, choices must be made which will impact every living soul on the planet. Gary must face his fears, face his enemies and prepare for war.
