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Journey to Russia

Author : Miroslav Krleža
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789533510293
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Journey to Russia written by Miroslav Krleža and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Miroslav Krleza traveled through Russia for six months between the end of 1924 and the beginning of 1925, the celebrated Croatian writer was there to figure out what it all meant. The sprawling country was still coming to terms with the events of the 1917 revolution and reeling from Lenin's death in January 1924. During this period of profound political and social transition, Krleza opened his senses to train stations, cities, and villages and collected wildly different Russian perspectives on their collective moment in history. Krleza's impressionistic reportage of mass demonstrations and jubilant Orthodox Easter celebrations is informed by his preoccupation with the political, social, and psychological complexities of his environment. The result is a masterfully crafted modernist travelogue that resonates today as much as it did when first published in 1926.

The Invention of Russia

Author : Arkady Ostrovsky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399564187
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Russia written by Arkady Ostrovsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD FINALIST FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR “Fast-paced and excellently written…much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable.” —New York Times “Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis.” –The Wall Street Journal The breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of optimism around the world, but Russia today is actively involved in subversive information warfare, manipulating the media to destabilize its enemies. How did a country that embraced freedom and market reform 25 years ago end up as an autocratic police state bent once again on confrontation with America? A winner of the Orwell Prize, The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the cold war to tell the story of Russia's stealthy and largely unchronicled counter revolution. A highly regarded Moscow correspondent for the Economist, Arkady Ostrovsky comes to this story both as a participant and a foreign correspondent. His knowledge of many of the key players allows him to explain the phenomenon of Valdimir Putin - his rise and astonishing longevity, his use of hybrid warfare and the alarming crescendo of his military interventions. One of Putin's first acts was to reverse Gorbachev's decision to end media censorship and Ostrovsky argues that the Russian media has done more to shape the fate of the country than its politicians. Putin pioneered a new form of demagogic populism --oblivious to facts and aggressively nationalistic - that has now been embraced by Donald Trump.

The Border - a Journey Around Russia

Author : ERIKA. FATLAND
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 9780857057785
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Border - a Journey Around Russia written by ERIKA. FATLAND and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Putin Country

Author : Anne Garrels
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374247722
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Putin Country written by Anne Garrels and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Portrait of the mid-size city of Chelyabinsk and how it is faring in the new Russia"--

The Return

Author : Daniel Treisman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416560726
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Return written by Daniel Treisman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Daniel Treisman answers some of scholars' most pressing questions that haunt modern day Russia. Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate, and could its collapse have been avoided? Did Yeltsin destroy too much or too little of the Soviet political order? What explains Putin's unprecedented popularity with the Russian public? How did the "oligarchs" reshape the Russian economy? Treisman suggests that these questions can be answered by looking back through the dynamic political and social traditions of the region. Rigorous rather than rhetorical, this book uses historically documented evidence with modern day conditions to paint a complete picture of Russia today. In a time when global politics are more important than ever, it is critical for us to understand the inner workings.

To Russia with Love

Author : Victor Fischer
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602231419
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book To Russia with Love written by Victor Fischer and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends’ parents disappear after political arrests. Eleanor Roosevelt personally engineered the Fischer family’s escape from Russia, and soon after Victor was serving in the United States Army in World War II and fighting opposite his childhood friends in the Russian and German armies. As a young adult, he went on to help shape Alaska’s map by planning towns throughout the state. This unique autobiography recounts Fischer’s earliest days in Germany, Russia, and Alaska, where he soon entered civic affairs and was elected as a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention—the body responsible for establishing statehood in the territory. A move to Washington, DC, and further government appointments allowed him to witness key historic events of his era, which he also recounts here. Finally, Fischer brings his memoir up to the present, describing how he has returned to Russia many times to bring the lessons of Alaska freedom and prosperity to the newly democratic states.

The Border

Author : Erika Fatland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643136577
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Border written by Erika Fatland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe. Imperial, communist or autocratic, Russia has been—and remains—a towering and intimidating neighbor. Whether it is North Korea in the Far East through the former Soviet republics in Asia and the Caucasus, or countries on the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea. What would it be like to traverse the entirety of the Russian periphery to examine its effects on those closest to her? An astute and brilliant combination of lyric travel writing and modern history, The Border is a book about Russia without its author ever entering Russia itself. Fatland gets to the heart of what it has meant to be the neighbor of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history. As we follow Fatland on her journey, we experience the colorful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations along with their cultures, their people, their landscapes. Sharply observed and wholly absorbing, The Border is a surprising new way to understand a broad part our world.

Russia

Author : Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Russia written by Nikos Kazantzakis and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Last Temptation of Christ and Zorba the Greek comes a penetrating account of three long journeys that he made to the Soviet Union between 1925 and 1930. It is a journal that delineates the nature of the greatest upheaval of our time--the Bolshevik Revolution--and its impact on the social and spirtual evolution of mankind. Photos.

Journey for Our Time

Author : Astolphe marquis de Custine
Publisher : Regnery Gateway
ISBN 13 : 9780895267863
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Journey for Our Time written by Astolphe marquis de Custine and published by Regnery Gateway. This book was released on 1987 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation is based on the 3rd French ed. of La Russie en 1839."A Gateway edition."

Black Earth

Author : Andrew Meier
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393051780
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Black Earth written by Andrew Meier and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the power of "Lenin's Tomb" and "Balkan Ghosts, " this is an illuminating portrait of contemporary Russia--a country in limbo, a land of vast potential struggling with an unfinished past. "Black Earth" is a penetrating view of the new Russia from a bold new voice in political journalism. 7 maps.

Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia

Author : John Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia written by John Bell and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journey to the North of India

Author : Arthur Conolly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey to the North of India written by Arthur Conolly and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Brown Man in Russia

Author : Vijay Menon
Publisher : Glagoslav Publications
ISBN 13 : 1911414771
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book A Brown Man in Russia written by Vijay Menon and published by Glagoslav Publications. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brown Man in Russia describes the fantastical travels of a young, colored American traveler as he backpacks across Russia in the middle of winter via the Trans-Siberian. The book is a hybrid between the curmudgeonly travelogues of Paul Theroux and the philosophical works of Robert Pirsig. Styled in the vein of Hofstadter, the author lays out a series of absurd, but true stories followed by a deeper rumination on what they mean and why they matter. Each chapter presents a vivid anecdote from the perspective of the fumbling traveler and concludes with a deeper lesson to be gleaned. For those who recognize the discordant nature of our world in a time ripe for demagoguery and for those who want to make it better, the book is an all too welcome antidote. It explores the current global climate of despair over differences and outputs a very different message – one of hope and shared understanding. At times surreal, at times inappropriate, at times hilarious, and at times deeply human, A Brown Man in Russia is a reminder to those who feel marginalized, hopeless, or endlessly divided that harmony is achievable even in the most unlikely of places.

Siberian Dawn

Author : Jeffrey Tayler
Publisher : Ruminator Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Siberian Dawn written by Jeffrey Tayler and published by Ruminator Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No guidebook existed for my route; no one had ever done it before", writes Tayler. As the first American to visit many of the places he goes, his reports on a country in transition are timely and unforgettable. It is also the account of one man's love for a fragile, desperately troubled country.

The Amur River

Author : Colin Thubron
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063099705
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Amur River written by Colin Thubron and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping read with fascinating political insight." (Sunday Times, London) "Elegant, elegiac and poignant...Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide... to the river, much of it along the border between these two powers at a time of rapid and tense reconfiguration of global geopolitics." (Washington Post) The most admired travel writer of our time—author of Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet—recounts an eye-opening, often perilous journey along a little known Far East Asian river that for over a thousand miles forms the highly contested border between Russia and China. The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific. For 1,100 miles it forms the tense border between Russia and China. Simmering with the memory of land-grabs and unequal treaties, this is the most densely fortified frontier on earth. In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic journey from the Amur’s secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles. Harassed by injury and by arrest from the local police, he makes his way along both the Russian and Chinese shores, starting out by Mongolian horse, then hitchhiking, sailing on poacher’s sloops or travelling the Trans-Siberian Express. Having revived his Russian and Mandarin, he talks to everyone he meets, from Chinese traders to Russian fishermen, from monks to indigenous peoples. By the time he reaches the river’s desolate end, where Russia’s nineteenth-century imperial dream petered out, a whole, pivotal world has come alive. The Amur River is a shining masterpiece by the acknowledged laureate of travel writing, an urgent lesson in history and the culmination of an astonishing career.

Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia

Author : Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia written by Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of the Risala, letters by the 10th century scholar Ibn Fadlan, one of the great medieval travellers. He journeyed from Baghdad to Bukhara in Central Asia and then continued across the desert to the town of Bulghar, near present Kazan. He describes the tribes he met on his way.

The Woman who Walked to Russia

Author : Cassandra Pybus
Publisher : Thunder's Mouth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568582900
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book The Woman who Walked to Russia written by Cassandra Pybus and published by Thunder's Mouth Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment Pybus first heard about Lillian Alling's trek across North America to her homeland of the Soviet Union, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. The result is an entertaining travel narrative that pieces together Alling's journey through the natural beauty and rich history of northwestern North America--a story never before told.