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Author : Birgit Borowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749511012
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Baedeker Moscow written by Birgit Borowski and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernhard Pollmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Baedeker's Moscow written by Bernhard Pollmann and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780130947727
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Baedeker's Moscow written by and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Birgit Borowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749511012
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Baedeker Moscow written by Birgit Borowski and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rodric Braithwaite
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847650627
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Moscow 1941 written by Rodric Braithwaite and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the invasion of Moscow, told through its people. Fought over a territory the size of France, the Battle of Moscow in 1941 cost the Russians as many casualties as the British lost in WW1. It marked the first strategic defeat of the Wehrmacht and halted their seemingly unstoppable advance across Europe. This is the story of that battle - and the ordinary men and women who fought it. Based on huge research and scores of interviews, this book offers an unforgettable and richly illustrated narrative of the military action that took place in Moscow during 1941. It paints telling portraits of Stalin and his generals: some apparatchiks, some great commanders. It also traces the individual stories of soldiers, politicians and intellectuals, writers and artists and dancers, workers, schoolchildren and peasants. Putin's invocations in contemporary propaganda shows that the Great Patriotic War remains highly emotional for Russia, and many former Socialist Republics. Many of these countries must grapple with troubling legacies behind the appalling cost of victory - from the role of Stalin to the complicity of collaborationist forces from the occupied USSR in atrocities both behind the front line and the rapid Nazi advance.
Author : Michael Wild
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0956528902
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Baedekeriana written by Michael Wild and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Michael Wild, the Baedeker historian, this is an anthology of articles about, and extracts from, Baedeker guidebooks of the past. There is much to amuse and enlighten the reader, who is taken to Troy, Poland under German occupation, the Berlin to Baghdad railway, India and many other fascinating places which one might otherwise never see.
Author : Michael Wild
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326174479
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Baedeker's Constantinople written by Michael Wild and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first official translation of Baedeker's "Konstantinopel und Kleinasien" by Michael Wild, Baedeker chronicler and historian. This title, published in 1914, covers not only Constantinople but also Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia and the route down the Danube to the Black Sea, as well as the railway routes. The Asia Minor section deals with Troy, Smyrna, Pergamon, Ephesus and the Greek islands including Rhodes. There is a useful introduction with tips for the traveller and essays on Byzantine & Turkish art, along with a comprehensive historical survey from 1500 B.C. to 1913 A.D.
Author : Andrei Bely
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253035538
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Petersburg written by Andrei Bely and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel, as well as a foreword by Olga Matich, acclaimed scholar of Russian literature. Set in 1905 in St. Petersburg, a city in the throes of sociopolitical conflict, the novel follows university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, who has gotten entangled with a revolutionary terrorist organization with plans to assassinate a government official–Nikolai's own father, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov. With a sprawling cast of characters, set against a nightmarish city, it is all at once a historical, political, philosophical, and darkly comedic novel.
Author : Vladimir Alexandrov
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802193765
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Black Russian written by Vladimir Alexandrov and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “altogether astonishing” true story of a black American finding fame and fortune in Moscow and Constantinople at the turn of the 20th century (Booklist, starred review). The Black Russian tells the true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, a man born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. But when his father was murdered, Frederick left the South to work as a waiter in Chicago and Brooklyn. Seeking greater freedom, he traveled to London, then crisscrossed Europe, and—in a highly unusual choice for a black American at the time—went to Russia. Because he found no color line there, Frederick settled in Moscow, becoming a rich and famous owner of variety theaters and restaurants. When the Bolshevik Revolution ruined him, he barely escaped to Constantinople, where he made another fortune by opening celebrated nightclubs as the “Sultan of Jazz.” Though Frederick reached extraordinary heights, the long arm of American racism, the xenophobia of the new Turkish Republic, and Frederick’s own extravagance brought his life to a sad close, landing him in debtor’s prison, where he died a forgotten man in 1928. “In his assiduously researched, prodigiously descriptive, fluently analytical” narrative (Booklist, starred review), Alexandrov delivers “a tale . . . so colourful and improbable that it reads more like a novel than a work of historical biography.” (The Literary Review). “[An] extraordinary story . . . [interpreted] with great sensitivity.” —The New York Review of Books
Author : Chicago Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Books Added written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Baedeker's Handbook for Travellers: Russia written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janet M. Hartley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245645
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Volga written by Janet M. Hartley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga--the first to fully reveal its vital place in Russian history The longest river in Europe, the Volga stretches over three and a half thousand km from the heart of Russia to the Caspian Sea, separating west from east. The river has played a crucial role in the history of the peoples who are now a part of the Russian Federation--and has united and divided the land through which it flows. Janet Hartley explores the history of Russia through the Volga from the seventh century to the present day. She looks at it as an artery for trade and as a testing ground for the Russian Empire's control of the borderlands, at how it featured in Russian literature and art, and how it was crucial for the outcome of the Second World War at Stalingrad. This vibrant account unearths what life on the river was really like, telling the story of its diverse people and its vital place in Russian history.
Author : Nora Kershaw Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107431883
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Russian Heroic Poetry written by Nora Kershaw Chadwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1932, this book presents a collection of Russian heroic poems, or byliny, edited and translated into English. The selections run in chronological order from the medieval period through to the nineteenth century, with particular focus on major historic figures such as Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great.
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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9781001287942
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Russian Heroic Poetry written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1932 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward V. Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400854636
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Bells of Russia written by Edward V. Williams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generously illustrated book records the story of Russia's bells--the thousands of awe inspiring instruments that gave voice to the visual splendors of Russian Orthodoxy and to the political aspirations of the tsars. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Lawrence A. Coben
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356738
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Anna's Shtetl written by Lawrence A. Coben and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare view of a childhood in a European ghetto Anna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian town on the Ros River, eighty miles south of Kiev. Held by Poland until 1768 and annexed by the Tsar in 1793 Korsun and its fluid ethnic population were characteristic of the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe: comprised of Ukrainians, Cossacks, Jews and other groups living uneasily together in relationships punctuated by violence. Anna’s father left Korsun in 1912 to immigrate to America, and Anna left in 1919, having lived through the Great War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and part of the ensuing civil war, as well as several episodes of more or less organized pogroms—deadly anti-Jewish riots begun by various invading military detachments during the Russian Civil War and joined by some of Korsun’s peasants. In the early 1990s Anna met Lawrence A. Coben, a medical doctor seeking information about the shtetls to recapture a sense of his own heritage. Anna had near-perfect recall of her daily life as a girl and young woman in the last days in one of those historic but doomed communities. Her rare account, the product of some 300 interviews, is valuable because most personal memoirs of ghetto life are written by men. Also, very often, Christian neighbors appear in ghetto accounts as a stolid peasant mass assembled on market days, as destructive mobs, or as an arrogant and distant collection of government officials and nobility. Anna’s story is exceptionally rich in a sense of the Korsun Christians as friends, neighbors, and individuals. Although the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe are now virtually gone, less than 100 years ago they counted a population of millions. The firsthand records we have from that lost world are therefore important, and this view from the underrecorded lives of women and the young is particularly welcome.
Author : Ottorino Cappelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135236461
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Transition written by Ottorino Cappelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of course we watched it all on television, day by day, as the Evil Empire transmuted into the Circus Bear, but seeing it and knowing what to think about it are not the same. Scholars from eastern and western Europe and North America help out, in 14 papers from an April 1992 conference in Naples.
