Download or read book The Russian s Ultimatum written by Michelle Smart and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He'll make her an offer… Pascha Virshilas is on the brink of securing personal redemption when Emily Richardson breaks into his office and steals private company documents. And then she has the gall to blackmail him into clearing her father's name! She can't refuse! But Pascha has his own terms. He'll keep his side of the bargain, but the enticing Emily must accompany him to his private island—the only place he can ensure her silence. But in the midst of a tropical storm, the wind blows aside suspicions and secrets to reveal something much more dangerous—lust!
Download or read book The Russian Ultimatum to Iran in 1911 written by Alaedin Vahid Gharavi and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the obvious manifestations of Russian expansionism in Iran displayed at the dawn of the twentieth century and beginning of World War 1 was the Russian Ultimatum served to Iran. The pretext, for Russian Intervention in Iran was the appointment of the American national, Morgan Shuster, as Treasurer General by the Persian Government. His employment coincided with the failure of the deposed Mohammad Ali Shah to return to power in Iran. After Mohammad Ali Shah's defeat and his return to Russia, the Second constitutional Majlis ordained that the property of Shoa os-Saltaneh, the brother of the deposed king, should be confiscated because he had actively participated in the mobilisation of Mohammad Ali Shah's mercenary army against Iran. Upon the instruction of the Majlis, Morgan Shuster was instructed to seize the Prince's property. Russia considered this act as a breach of her interests in Iran because Shoa os-Saltaneh was indebted to the Russian Credit Bank and his property was under the bank's mortgage. Thus the seizure of the property was construed as seizure of Russian property in Iran. Following the confiscation of Shoa's property, Russia served two ultimatums to the Persian Government demanding the immediate extradition of Shuster from Iran and threatening, to send an army to capture northern Persian territories, should Iran fail to expel Shuster. This ultimatum produced various reactions in the Persian community; and the Government. Meanwhile England, increasingly alarmed at the emergence of a militant Germany, had signed the 1907 Convention with Russia on the eve of World War 1 and was desirous of consolidating her friendly ties with the Russians. As such London had assumed a conciliatory and complicit attitude towards Russian ambitions in Iran. This research aims to analyse the crucial problem of national awareness in Iran and the struggle the pioneers of Iran's independence waged against foreign powers seeking dominance over the country. It attempts to make a contribution to the literature on Iran's political history in the early twentieth century, examining the various factors contributing to the development of national sovereignty.........
Download or read book The End of Tsarist Russia written by Dominic Lieven and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize An Amazon Best Book of the Month (History) One of the world’s leading scholars offers a fresh interpretation of the linked origins of World War I and the Russian Revolution "Lieven has a double gift: first, for harvesting details to convey the essence of an era and, second, for finding new, startling, and clarifying elements in familiar stories. This is history with a heartbeat, and it could not be more engrossing."—Foreign Affairs World War I and the Russian Revolution together shaped the twentieth century in profound ways. In The End of Tsarist Russia, acclaimed scholar Dominic Lieven connects for the first time the two events, providing both a history of the First World War’s origins from a Russian perspective and an international history of why the revolution happened. Based on exhaustive work in seven Russian archives as well as many non-Russian sources, Dominic Lieven’s work is about far more than just Russia. By placing the crisis of empire at its core, Lieven links World War I to the sweep of twentieth-century global history. He shows how contemporary hot issues such as the struggle for Ukraine were already crucial elements in the run-up to 1914. By incorporating into his book new approaches and comparisons, Lieven tells the story of war and revolution in a way that is truly original and thought-provoking.
Download or read book The Britannica Year Book written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the world's progress since the completion in 1910 of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, comprising a register and review of current events and additions to knowledge in politics, economics, engineering, industry, sport, law, science, art, literature, and other forms of human activity, national and international.
Download or read book The Bourne Ultimatum written by Robert Ludlum and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER At a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed “Jason Bourne.” Only they know Bourne’s true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world’s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And furthermore, they know what the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped never to do again—assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically omnipotent Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap—a trap from which only one of them will escape.
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Download or read book The New Russia written by Ian Jeffries and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides full details of the many rapid changes in the Russian economy and the political system since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Covers the period up to 2000, offering a valuable guide to policies in the Putin era.
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Download or read book A Dictionary of Dates Relating to All Ages and Nations written by Joseph Haydn and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a historical dictionary, with particular emphasis on entries relating to the British Empire.
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Download or read book On Thermonuclear War written by Herman Kahn and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Thermonuclear War was controversial when originally published and remains so today. It is iconoclastic, crosses disciplinary boundaries, and finally it is calm and compellingly reasonable. The book was widely read on both sides of the Iron Curtain and the result was serious revision in both Western and Soviet strategy and doctrine. As a result, both sides were better able to avoid disaster during the Cold War. The strategic concepts still apply: defense, local animosities, and the usual balance-of-power issues are still very much with us. Kahn's stated purpose in writing this book was simply: "avoiding disaster and buying time, without specifying the use of this time." By the late 1950s, with both sides H-bomb-armed, reason and time were in short supply. Kahn, a military analyst at Rand since 1948, understood that a defense based only on thermonuclear arnaments was inconceivable, morally questionable, and not credible. The book was the first to make sense of nuclear weapons. Originally created from a series of lectures, it provides insight into how policymakers consider such issues. One may agree with Kahn or disagree with him on specific issues, but he clearly defined the terrain of the argument. He also looks at other weapons of mass destruction such as biological and chemical, and the history of their use. The Cold War is over, but the nuclear genie is out of the bottle, and the lessons and principles developed in On Thermonuclear War apply as much to today's China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea as they did to the Soviets.
Download or read book Investigation of Communist Takeover and Occupation of the Non Russian Nations of the U S S R written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Communist Aggression and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Russian Origins of the First World War written by Sean McMeekin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notions of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian preemptive strike or a “tragedy of miscalculation.” Instead, he proposes that the key to the outbreak of violence lies in St. Petersburg. It was Russian statesmen who unleashed the war through conscious policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East. Unlike their civilian counterparts in Berlin, who would have preferred to localize the Austro-Serbian conflict, Russian leaders desired a more general war so long as British participation was assured. The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia’s goal: partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Nearly a century has passed since the guns fell silent on the western front. But in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, World War I smolders still. Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Jews, and other regional antagonists continue fighting over the last scraps of the Ottoman inheritance. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin’s powerful exposé of Russia’s aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Haydn s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations written by Joseph Haydn and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
