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  • Baikonur Man
    Barry L. Stoddard
    Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challenger explosion and grounding of the US space shuttle program, the agreement was negotiated and approved behind the backs of NASA and Congress, with the help of US...
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    16,57 €

  • Baikonur Man
    Barry L. Stoddard
    Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challenger explosion and grounding of the US space shuttle program, the agreement was negotiated and approved behind the backs of NASA and Congress, with the help of US...
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    23,51 €

  • Night Attack by a Soviet Battalion
    James F. Gebhardt
    As war rages between Russia and Ukraine, the doctrines and tactics of the Soviet military legacy remains of great concern. The Soviet Union’s doctrine of night attack, or ''nochnoy udar,'' was a key component of the Soviet military’s ability to achieve surprise and shock in the early stages of a conflict. This report is a comprehensive case study of the Soviet doctrine of nigh...
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    24,63 €

  • Slavonic & East European Review (100
    Simon Dixon
    The October 2022 issue of Slavonic & East European Review.The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and EastEuropean Studies, is published quarterly by the Modern Humanities Research Association(MHRA). Issues are numbered serially, the four annual issues constituting a volume. ...
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    116,47 €

  • Journey into Other Worlds
    Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
    Journey into Other Worlds: Discoveries at the Boundary of Russia and Mongolia is an account of author Esther Jacobson-Tepfer’s intellectual journey from a youthful fascination with Chinese landscape poetry to decades of study and field work in the Altai Mountains at the boundary between Russia and Mongolia. In the process of their inquiry, the author and her husband, photograph...
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    45,34 €

  • Fire & Ice Arctic Convoys 1941-1945
    Vice-Admiral Sir Simon Lister KCB OBE
    The Arctic convoys run to the ports of Northern Russia from 1941 to 1945 combined the man-made and maritime horrors of the Battle of the Atlantic with the unforgiving ferocity of one of the most inhospitable of the world’s climates. Maintaining that lifeline through the waters of the Arctic circle was essential to the development and maintenance of the Anglo-American alliance w...
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    66,06 €

  • Slavonic & East European Review (100
    Simon Dixon
    The July 2022 issue of Slavonic & East European Review.The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and EastEuropean Studies, is published quarterly by the Modern Humanities Research Association(MHRA). Issues are numbered serially, the four annual issues constituting a volume. ...
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    116,50 €

  • The Oldest Art of Siberia
    Liudmila V Lbova / Pavel V Volkov / Richard L Bland
    Primitive art is inseparable from primitive consciousness and can be correctly understood only with the correct socio-cultural context. This book examines the ancient art of Siberia as part of the integral whole of ancient society. ...
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    200,01 €

  • Dnipro
    Andrii Portnov
    Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern EurasiaThis first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyda...
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    47,42 €

  • МАРАФОН 365+1
    Олексiй Лях-Породько
    Мої 365+1 це справжній марафон емоцій та вражень (у першій частині презентовано 180 коротких оповідань). Це марафон щоденних історій про спорт, змагання, життя, перемоги, поразки, злети, боротьбу, незламність, мотивацію, успіх, лідерство, унікальність. Тобто кожного дня від мене нова історія від перемог та трагедій на Олімпійських іграх до успіхів й злетів Вейна Грецькі, від жа...
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    25,68 €

  • Alexander Serov and the Birth of the Russian Modern
    Paul du Quenoy
    When did Russia become 'modern?' Historians of Russia - including even many Russian historians - have long tried to identify Russia’s 'modern' moment. While most scholars have looked to economic or ideological transitions, noted historian and critic Paul du Quenoy approaches the problem through culture, and specifically the performing arts, as told through the prism of one of i...
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    114,17 €

  • One Against All
    Roberto Echavarren
    After decades of misinformation during the Soviet period, we can today, with historical hindsight and a better grasp of old and new sources, appraise what Lenin’s government meant for Russia and the world.Without Lenin, the alternative models of totalitarian dictatorships in the 20th century, so aptly characterized this way by Hannah Arendt, would have been unthinkable. In what...
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    68,54 €

  • Don’t Be a Stranger
    Jason Galie
    This study explores the consequences of being marked an outsider in the Russian-speaking world through a close study of several seminal works of Russian literature. The author combines the fields of literary studies, linguistics, and sociology to interpret these works for both the specialist and the general reader. ...
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    38,64 €

  • A History of Russian Women
    Barbara Engel / Olga Poley
    Synthesizing decades of scholarship with her own work in primary and archival sources, Barbara Alpern Engel skillfully evokes the voices of individuals to enliven the account. The book captures the diversity of women’s lives, detailing how women of various social strata were affected by and shaped historical change. Adopting the perspective of women provides fresh interpretatio...
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    40,49 €

  • Foundations of Eurasianism
    A century ago, between the uneasy aftermath of the First World War and the chaos of the Russian Revolution, an elite group of Russian intellectuals announced the discovery of a new continent they called 'Eurasia', a sprawling landmass wedged between Europe and Asia fated to upend mainstream Eurocentric narratives on history and civilization. The intellectual trend these diverse...
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    30,07 €

  • History of the Russian Revolution
    Leon Trotsky
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 can be regarded as the greatest event in human history. For the first time, millions of workers and peasants took political power into their own hands, sweeping aside the despotic rule of the capitalists and landlords, and setting out to create a socialist world order based upon the rule of the Soviet of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies....
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    21,80 €

  • History of the Russian Revolution
    Leon Trotsky
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 can be regarded as the greatest event in human history. For the first time, millions of workers and peasants took political power into their own hands, sweeping aside the despotic rule of the capitalists and landlords, and setting out to create a socialist world order based upon the rule of the Soviet of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies....
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    16,94 €

  • Inheriting the Bomb
    Mariana Budjeryn
    The collapse of the Soviet Union unleashed the specter of the largest wave of nuclear proliferation in history. Why did Ukraine ultimately choose the path of nuclear disarmament?The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left its nearly 30,000 nuclear weapons spread over the territories of four newly sovereign states: Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. This...
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    44,38 €

  • Foundations of Eurasianism
    A century ago, between the uneasy aftermath of the First World War and the chaos of the Russian Revolution, an elite group of Russian intellectuals announced the discovery of a new continent they called 'Eurasia', a sprawling landmass wedged between Europe and Asia fated to upend mainstream Eurocentric narratives on history and civilization. The intellectual trend these diverse...
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    36,56 €

  • The Foreigner Group
    Carolus Löfroos
    Much has been said and written about the Azov Regiment, the now infamous volunteer unit formed during the long war in the Donbas. Amid the allegations and sensationalism from both Western and Russian media stands this unique first-hand account of what life was like in the notorious independent battalion.In The Foreigner Group, Swedish volunteer Carolus Löfroos offers in vivid d...
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    39,03 €

  • Wie der Westen den Krieg in die Ukraine Brachte
    Benjamin J Abelow
    Das westliche Narrativ zeichnet Wladimir Putin als unersättlichen, mit Hitler vergleichbaren Expansionisten, der grundlos in die Ukraine eindrang, um Land einzunehmen. Diese Darstellung ist jedoch falsch. In Wirklichkeit tragen die Vereinigten Staaten und die NATO eine erhebliche Verantwortung für die Ukraine-Krise. Durch eine fehlgeleitete Politik brachten Washington und seine...
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    7,82 €

  • My Life
    Leon Trotsky
    The only Bolshevik leader to write his memoirs, Leon Trotsky published this remarkable book in 1930, the first year of a perilous, decade-long exile that ended with his assassination in Mexico. Expelled from the Communist party and deported from the Soviet Union, the former People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs recalled his lifelong struggle in the world of revolutionary polit...
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    17,65 €

  • Beethoven in Russia
    Frederick W Skinner
    How did Ludwig van Beethoven help overthrow a tsarist regime? With the establishment of the Russian Musical Society and its affiliated branches throughout the empire, Beethoven’s music reached substantially larger audiences at a time of increasing political instability. In addition, leading music critics of the regime began hearing Beethoven’s dramatic works as nothing less tha...
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    114,10 €

  • Beethoven in Russia
    Frederick W Skinner
    How did Ludwig van Beethoven help overthrow a tsarist regime? With the establishment of the Russian Musical Society and its affiliated branches throughout the empire, Beethoven’s music reached substantially larger audiences at a time of increasing political instability. In addition, leading music critics of the regime began hearing Beethoven’s dramatic works as nothing less tha...
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    54,13 €

  • Slavonic & East European Review (100
    Simon Dixon
    The April 2022 issue of Slavonic & East European Review.The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and EastEuropean Studies, is published quarterly by the Modern Humanities Research Association(MHRA). Issues are numbered serially, the four annual issues constituting a volume. ...
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    116,52 €

  • A Voice out of Russia
    Anonymous
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    29,55 €

  • History of the Campaigns of Count Alexander Suworow Rymnikski, Field-Marshal-General in the Service of His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of All the Russias
    Frederic Anthing
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    26,94 €

  • A Short Account of the Historical Development and Present Position of Russian Orthodox Missions
    Eugenii Konstantinovich Smirnov
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    32,78 €

  • Glinka
    M. Montagu Nathan
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    32,83 €

  • Otvet na knigu Kirienko '1613 g. ot chesti i slavy k podlosti i pozoru fevralia 1917 g.'
    André Savine Collection / Obedinenie chinov Kornilovskag... polka
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    32,91 €