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Author : l. f Stéfanovich
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Mission & Avenir de la Russie written by l. f Stéfanovich and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Odile Jacob
ISBN 13 : 2738170765
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (381 download)
Download or read book written by and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Smele
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441119922
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 written by Jonathan Smele and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-04-15 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Revolution and Civil War in the years 1917 to 1921 is one of the most widely studied periods in history. It is also somewhat inevitably one that has generated a huge flow of literature in the decades that have passed since the events themselves. However, until now, historians of the revolution have had no dedicated bibliography of the period and little claim to bibliographical control over the literature. The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921offers for the first time a comprehensive bibliographical guide to this crucial and fascinating period of history. The Bibliography focuses on the key years of 1917 to 1921, starting with the February Revolution of 1917 and concluding with the 10th Party Congress of March 1921, and covers all the key events of the intervening years. As such it identifies these crucial years as something more than simply the creation of a communist state.
Author : Paul Robinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609091639
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich written by Paul Robinson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (1856–1929) was a key figure in late Imperial Russia, and one of its foremost soldiers. At the outbreak of World War I, his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II, appointed him Supreme Commander of the Russian Army. From 1914 to 1915, and then again briefly in 1917, he was commander of the largest army in the world in the greatest war the world had ever seen. His appointment reflected the fact that he was perhaps the man the last Emperor of Russia trusted the most. At six foot six, the Grand Duke towered over those around him. His fierce temper was a matter of legend. However, as Robinson's vivid account shows, he had a more complex personality than either his supporters or detractors believed. In a career spanning fifty years, the Grand Duke played a vital role in transforming Russia's political system. In 1905, the Tsar assigned him the duty of coordinating defense and security planning for the entire Russian empire. When the Tsar asked him to assume the mantle of military dictator, the Grand Duke, instead of accepting, persuaded the Tsar to sign a manifesto promising political reforms. Less opportunely, he also had a role in introducing the Tsar and Tsarina to the infamous Rasputin. A few years after the revolution in 1917, the Grand Duke became de facto leader of the Russian émigré community. Despite his importance, the only other biography of the Grand Duke was written by one of his former generals in 1930, a year after his death, and it is only available in Russian. The result of research in the archives of seven countries, this groundbreaking biography—the first to appear in English—covers the Grand Duke's entire life, examining both his private life and his professional career. Paul Robinson's engaging account will be of great value to those interested in World War I and military history, Russian history, and biographies of notable figures.
Author : Widmer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684172004
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking During the Eighteenth Century written by Widmer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the first analytical treatment in any language of the “most durable ‘sino–foreign’ institution in modern Chinese history.” It traces the beginnings of a Russian-Orthodox presence in Peking several decades back before the commonly held date of its origin. It also shows how the news of the plight of prisoners from the Russian fortress of Albazin (taken by the Ch’ing in 1685) was transmitted back to Russia, and how the indecisiveness of the official Russian response colored the entire subsequent history of the mission. The chapters on the Orthodox missionary life in Peking and on the institutions of the mission provide us with new insight into life in the Ch’ing capital. The tentative beginnings of Russian scholarly and scientific interest in Chinese matters, an outgrowth of the missionary presence in Peking, are also discussed. The book tackles an especially difficult case, for by ordinary standards the Russian ecclesiastical mission was a failure, not a success. The monks and students were an unruly lot, the mission itself never functioned as a full diplomatic institution, and the Chinese frequently treated the missionaries with neglect or disdain. Yet, as the author demonstrates, even this apparent failure had a purpose. The mission served to maintain a minimal contact between the two empires throughout a long period of conflicting ambitions and actions in the Inner Asian theater."
Author : David Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191006769
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 1917 written by David Stevenson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War One, David Stevenson, examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. He shows how in this one year the war was transformed, but also what drove the conflict onwards and how it continued to escalate. Two developments in particular—the Russian Revolution and American intervention—had worldwide repercussions. Offering a close examination of the key decisions, Stevenson considers Germany's campaign of 'unrestricted' submarine warfare, America's declaration of war in response, and Britain's frustration of German strategy by adopting the convoy system, as well as why (paradoxically) the military and political stalemate in Europe persisted. Focusing on the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, on the disastrous spring offensive that plunged the French army into mutiny, on the summer attacks that undermined the moderate Provisional Government in Russia and exposed Italy to national humiliation at Caporetto, and on the British decision for the ill-fated Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 1917 offers a truly international understanding of events. The failed attempts to end the war by negotiation further clarify the underlying forces that kept it going. David Stevenson also analyses the global consequences of the year's developments, showing how countries such as Brazil and China joined the belligerents, Britain offered 'responsible government' to India, and the Allies promised a Jewish national home in Palestine. Blending political and military history, and moving from capital to capital and between the cabinet chamber and the battle front, the book highlights the often tumultuous debates through which leaders entered and escalated the war, and the paradox that continued fighting could be justified as the shortest road towards regaining peace.
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Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Review of Current Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book British and Foreign State Papers written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Service
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610391411
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Spies and Commissars written by Robert Service and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years when the West strove to understand the new communist regime while also seeking to undermine it. Meanwhile, the Bolsheviks tried to spread their revolution across Europe at the same time they were seeking trade agreements that might revive their collapsing economy. This book tells the story of these complex interactions in detail, revealing that revolutionary Russia was shaped not only by Lenin and Trotsky, but by an extraordinary miscellany of people: spies and commissars, certainly, but also diplomats, reporters, and dissidents, as well as intellectuals, opportunistic businessmen, and casual travelers. This is the story of these characters: everyone from the ineffectual but perfectly positioned Somerset Maugham to vain writers and revolutionary sympathizers whose love affairs were as dangerous as their politics. Through this sharply observed exposéf conflicting loyalties, we get a very vivid sense of how diverse the shades of Western and Eastern political opinion were during these years.
Author : Richard K. Debo
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773508286
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Survival and Consolidation written by Richard K. Debo and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the Soviet Union is disintegrating, Richard Debo provides an intriguing and detailed examination of the new political realities that slowly and painfully emerged in eastern Europe out of the chaos left in the wake of the First World War. Revealing the reasons for the victory of Lenin's Bolshevik government in the Russian civil war, Debo demonstrates that Bolshevik political and diplomatic skills were far superior to those of either their indigenous opponents or their many foreign enemies. For much of 1919, enemies of the Soviet government were more interested in fighting each other than the Bolsheviks, and, although foreign powers sought to influence competing anti-Bolshevik generals, they actually contributed little to the defeat of the Red Army. Meanwhile, the Bolsheviks established realistic priorities, formulated flexible policies, and made political sacrifices unimagined by their enemies. As a result they were able to find allies and divide opponents.
Author : Joseph Garboso
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Mission in Russia written by Joseph Garboso and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Parliament
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Frank
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691014562
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Through the Russian Prism written by Joseph Frank and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays probe the culture that spawned the great novels of Dostoevsky and explore the author's influence on world literature.
Author : James Mavor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131727685X
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Russian Revolution written by James Mavor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolutionary movements of 1905-1907 formed the first stage of the Russian Revolution, followed by an interval of peace and economic prosperity, but the outbreak of WWI and social unrest led to further revolutionary action in 1917 resulting in the abdication and murder of Tsar Nicholas II and the creation of the Soviet Union. Originally published in 1928, this volume traces the course and the consequences of the Revolution with Mavor emphasising the economic aspect of the Revolution as the main cause of the upheaval, considering political and military affairs in so far as their relation to the course of economic development. This title will be of interest to students of history and economics.
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Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book International Labor Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : René De La Pedraja
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476684995
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Putin Confronts the West written by René De La Pedraja and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia's surprising return to the world stage since 2000 has aroused the curiosity--if not the fear--of the West. Gradually, the Kremlin went from a policy of deference to foreign powers to acting with independence. The driver of this transformation was President Vladimir Putin, who with skillful caution navigated Russia back into the ranks of global powers. In theaters of conflict such as Georgia, Syria and Ukraine, the Kremlin won significant victories at little cost to consolidate its decisive position. Following a chronological approach from the fall of the Soviet Union to the present, this book draws on new documents to describe how Russia regained its former global prominence. Clear accounts of key decisions and foreign policy events--many presented for the first time--provide important insights into the major confrontations with the West.
Author : C U Aitchison
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368721003
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (687 download)
Download or read book A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sunnuds Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries written by C U Aitchison and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
