Download or read book Uncovering Russia written by and published by 35725340532. This book was released on 2003 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of analyses and opinions by some of the leading columnists of the newspaper, The Russia journal, regarding Russian society, its government, economy, and relations with the rest of the world.
Download or read book Uncovering Soviet Disasters written by James E. Oberg and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oberg investigates modern disasters in the Soviet Union--from space shots to industrial catastrophes, to pollution, floods and fires. What really happened, why were they covered up, and how were they finally discovered? This book explains it all. 8 pages of black-and-white photos.
Download or read book Inside the Stalin Archives written by Jonathan Brent and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most Westerners, Russia remains as enigmatic today as it was during the Iron Curtain era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country had an opportunity to confront its tortured past. In INSIDE THE STALIN ARCHIVES, Jonathan Brent asks why this didn't happen. Why are the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion sold openly in the lobby of the State Duma? Why are archivists under surveillance and phones still tapped? Why does Stalin, a man responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people, remain popular enough to appear on boxes of chocolate sold in the Moscow airport? Brent draws on fifteen years of access to high-level Soviet archives to answer these questions. He shows us a Russia where, in 1992, used toothbrushes were sold on the sidewalks, while now shops are filled with luxury goods and the streets are jammed with BMWs. Stalin's spectre hovers throughout, and in the book's crescendo Brent takes us deep into the dictator's personal papers, an unnerving prophecy of the world to come. Both cultural history and personal memoir, INSIDE THE STALIN ARCHIVES is a deeply felt and vivid portrait of Russia in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Inside the Stalin Archives written by Jonathan Brent and published by Atlas and Company. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many people, Russia remains as enigmatic today as it was during the Iron Curtain era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country had an opportunity to face its tortured past. Here, Brent asks - why didn't this happen? To answer such a question, he draws on 15 years of unprecedented access to high level Soviet archives. He shows readers a Russia where, in 1992, women sold used toothbrushes on the street to survive, yet now the shops are filled with luxury goods. Brent encounters Stalin's spectre through these changes and takes readers deep inside his archives.
Download or read book Discovering Russia written by Murray Seeger and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 years, journalists explored Russia to gather enough information so that Americans could form valid opinions about that infamous “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Each generation of American writers rediscoveredRussia as national interest in the country waxed and waned. Discovering Russiadescribes the work of well-known journalists like John Reed, Walter Duranty, Harrison Salisbury, Hedrick Smith and David Remnick as well as remarkable characters whose names and work are nearly forgotten. The cast includes brave reporters, sycophants, naive pilgrims and one reporter-spy. The author concludes that the sum of the journalism done under difficult conditions proved to be remarkably valid, giving Americans the information to form their opinions about Russia. Murray Seeger is a veteran journalist who has worked in Washington, Asia and Europe and who has studied Russia over 40 years. Of his reporting fromMoscow, Time Magazine said, he “offers cross-cultural information in the style of Alistair Cooke.” Seeger was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, won a Loeb Award for reporting economics and has written for many magazines in addition to major newspapers.
Download or read book Discovering Russia written by Jay Higginbotham and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russia written by Sarah De Capua and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the geography, people, food, schools, recreation, celebrations, and language of Russia.
Download or read book Discovering Russia written by Alfred McCroskey and published by Jones Harvest Pub. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred and Jean McCroskey were earnestly praying about their future lives in 1985. After much counseling, reading and writing, their prayers started being answered. God was leading them to be "full-time, non-resident, foreign missionaries to the Soviet Union." By 1988, Alfred and Jean had sold everything they owned, including home, farm, a car and business, and were living by faith alone. That same year Alfred made his first venture into Russia as a Bible "smuggler" and ministered to pastors of "underground" churches.Seventeen years, over sixty mission trips, and 800+ "fellow travelers" going with them, the McCroskey's tell their fascinating story in a most personal readable account simply called Discovering Russia. Read for yourself and learn how God used an ordinary couple through simple faith and obedience to literally touch a nation, the old "evil empire," with the good news about their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Download or read book Status of the Russia Investigation by the Democratic Minority written by the HPSCI Minority and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the detailed status report on the Russia Investigation presented by the HPSCI Minority. This document offers a unique perspective on the investigation's progress and findings, emphasizing the role of the Democratic Minority. A crucial read for those keen on understanding U.S. political dynamics in the 2010s.
Download or read book Freezing Order written by Bill Browder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once a financial caper, an international adventure, and a passionate plea for justice, Freezing Order is a stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most dangerous and ruthless villains in the world.
Download or read book Gangs of Russia written by Svetlana Stephenson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their spectacular rise in the 1990s, Russian gangs have remained entrenched in many parts of the country. Some gang members have perished in gang wars or ended up behind prison bars, while others have made spectacular careers off the streets and joined the Russian elite. But the rank and file of gangs remain substantially incorporated into their communities and society as a whole, with bonds and identities that bridge the worlds of illegal enterprise and legal respectability.In Gangs of Russia, Svetlana Stephenson explores the secretive world of the gangs. Using in-depth interviews with gang members, law enforcers, and residents in the city of Kazan, together with analyses of historical and sociological accounts from across Russia, she presents the history of gangs both before and after the arrival of market capitalism.Contrary to predominant notions of gangs as collections of maladjusted delinquents or illegal enterprises, Stephenson argues, Russian gangs should be seen as traditional, close-knit male groups with deep links to their communities. Stephenson shows that gangs have long been intricately involved with the police and other state structures in configurations that are both personal and economic. She also explains how the cultural orientations typical of gangs—emphasis on loyalty to one's own, showing toughness to outsiders, exacting revenge for perceived affronts and challenges—are not only found on the streets but are also present in the top echelons of today's Russian state.
Download or read book Song of the Forest written by Stephen Brain and published by Russian and East European Stud. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their rise to power, the Bolsheviks turned their backs on this tradition and adopted German methods, then considered the most advanced in the world, for clear-cutting and replanting of marketable tree types in "artificial forests." Later, when Stalin's Five Year Plan required vast amounts of timber for industrialization, forest radicals proposed "flying management," an exaggerated version of German forestry where large tracts of virgin forest would be clear-cut. Opponents who still upheld Morozov's vision favored a conservative regenerating approach, and ultimately triumphed by establishing the world's largest forest preserve. Another radical turn came with the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, implemented in 1948. Narrow "belts" of new forest planted on the vast Russian steppe would block drying winds, provide cool temperatures, trap moisture, and increase crop production.
Download or read book Discovering the Moscow Countryside written by Kathleen Berton Murrell and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discovering the Moscow Countryside" is a fascinating voyage into the history, architecture, people, and archaeology of the country that surrounds Moscow. The towns and villages dotted around this wooded landscape are rich in associations. Wave after wave of invaders--Tatars, Poles, French, and Germans--sought to conquer Russia through these lands. Now, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of the beautiful monasteries and little ruined country churches are coming back to life. This is also the land of the dacha--that special haven to which all city dwellers, at the first melting of the snow, escape: whether it be to a wooden mansion or a tiny room lost in the woods. This book is a practical guide for the tourist keen to explore this fascinating area of Russia, as well as for the curious armchair traveler.
Download or read book Discovering Russia written by Murray Seeger and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hey! Ho! It's the White Negro!" is a not so contemporary true story about a white boys odyssey (from his grammar school days in the late fifties to the present day) to find the meaning of life while having to struggle with all of its prejudices and the many deceptive women he meets along the way. The title directly reflects how he found himself caught in between both sides of one of society's biggest ills, and indirectly the women who changed him from a naïve romantic into the seasoned veteran he eventually becomes towards the opposite sex, because of their disingenuous ways. It is written entirely from his experiences as a streetwise kid to adulthood, and, although it is not a tame portrayal of what his life was like, it is a highly entertaining page-turner that would fascinate even the harshest cynic. In this politically correct world in which we live in, this tale boasts not only of the hypocrisy of correctness, but the fallacy of incorrectness as well, as he learns to deal with the inconsistencies of both views while trying to stay true to himself--A modern day "No Man is an Island." This first person narrative is not only an account of the quandary he found himself in (in being the "White Negro") but also relates all the hair raising exploits he got into (some very humorous) as they were the outlet he needed to forget about the total insanity that surrounded him. Along the way of this arduous journey he set forth for himself he recalls all the trials and tribulations that he felt were the important ingredients, which contributed to what ultimately became a full awareness of who he was, and to what he had learned while on this quest. Not only the hardships he endured, but also the camaraderie he formed with five unique individuals, an effervescent in-law, and a sport, which had the most therapeutic effect on him that no analyst could have ever accomplished. The power of "Hey! Ho! It's the White Negro!" comes from its main theme that compasses what most humans--on the surface--would never condone themselves; deception, prejudice, and/or self righteousness, but who internally think the opposite of what they preach no matter the race, age, sex or creed.
Download or read book From Russia with Drugs written by David Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary inside story of the couple who risked it all to reveal the scale of the doping and corruption in Russia, leading to one of the greatest sporting scandals of all time
Download or read book Discovering Russia written by Penelope Perrin and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Russia and Russian life and culture
Download or read book Trump Russia written by Seth Hettena and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hettena is a first-rate reporter and wonderful story-teller, and the tale he tells here is mind-boggling."—Jane Mayer, author of New York Times bestseller Dark Money "Hettena skillfully weaves many threads—most fresh or previously hidden—into a rich tapestry tying together decades of Donald Trump's deep involvement with Russia."—DAVID CAY JOHNSTON , author of New York Times bestseller The Making of Donald Trump Uncovering the decades-long association between Donald Trump and Russia Is the 45th President of the United States under the control of a foreign power? Award-winning Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena untangles the story of Donald Trump’s long involvement with Russia in damning detail—including new reporting never before published. As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the relationship between members of Trump’s campaign and Russian operatives continues, there is growing evidence that Trump has spent decades cultivating ties to corrupt Russians and the post-Soviet state. In Trump/Russia: A Definitive History, Seth Hettena chronicles the many years Trump has spent wooing Russian money and power. From the collapse of his casino empire—which left Trump desperate for cash—and his first contacts with Russian deal-makers and financiers, on up to the White House, Hettena reveals the myriad of shady people, convoluted dealings, and strange events that suggest how indebted to Russia our forty-fifth president might be. Using deeply researched reporting, along with newly uncovered information, court documents, and exclusive interviews with investigators and FBI agents, Hettena provides an expansive and essential primer to the Trump/Russia scandal, leaving no stone unturned.
