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  • Through the Maelstrom

    A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945

    Series series Modern War Studies
    The monumental battles of World War II’s Eastern Front—Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk—are etched into the historical record. But there is another, hidden history of that war that has too often been ignored in official accounts.Boris Gorbachevsky was a junior officer in the 31st Army who first saw front-line duty as a rifleman in the 30th Army. Through the Maelstrom recounts his three harrowing years on ... Leer más

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    A Memoir of Food and Longing

    A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations“Delicious . . . A banquet of anecdote that brings history to life with intimacy, candor, and glorious color.”—NPR’s All Things ConsideredBorn in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where ... Leer más

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  • A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka

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    de Lev Golinkin ...
    A compelling memoir—"hilarious and heartbreaking" (The New York Times)—of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family in Ukraine fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered pastIn the twilight of the Cold War (the late 1980s), nine-year old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border, leaving Ukraine with only ten suitcases, $600, and the vague promise of help ... Leer más

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  • Russian at Heart

    de Olga Hawkes ...
    From revolutionary Russia to exile and love in war-torn Shanghai, then eventually refuge in America, is the true story of a remarkable woman's survival against the odds during some of the twentieth century's greatest upheavals.Sonechka Balk was born into the Crimean gentry in 1904, the youngest of four children. But World War One and the Russian Revolution tear her family and its idyllic life ... Leer más

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  • Great Catastrophe

    Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

    The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide of 1915 is still a live and divisive issue that mobilizes Armenians across the world, shapes the ... Leer más

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  • The Numbers Had to Tally

    On 1st September 1939, Poland was invaded from the west, north and south by the Nazis. Three weeks later the Soviet Red Army moved in and occupied the remainder of the country. Twenty three year old Kazimierz Szmauz was picked up and taken into custody by Red Army border guards whilst trying to cross between the Soviet and Nazi occupied zones of Poland.After months of interrogation by the NKVD, ... Leer más

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  • Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700

    de Brian Davies ...
    Series series Warfare and History
    This crucial period in Russia's history has, up until now, been neglected by historians, but here Brian L. Davies' study provides an essential insight into the emergence of Russia as a great power.For nearly three centuries, Russia vied with the Crimean Khanate, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire for mastery of the Ukraine and the fertile steppes above the Black Sea, a ... Leer más

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  • Slovakia in History

    Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992–3. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and ... Leer más

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  • The Inspector

    Series series TCG Classic Russian Drama Series
    Called “the greatest play written in Russian” by Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol’s immortal comedy is a pitch-perfect satire of social corruption. Now, renowned American playwright Richard Nelson and the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, collaborate on a revelatory new translation of Gogol’s biting masterpiece. With an ... Leer más

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  • Uncertain Empire

    American History and the Idea of the Cold War

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    Historians have long understood that the notion of "the cold war" is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was a war that fell ambiguously short of war, an armed truce that produced considerable bloodshed. Yet scholars in the rapidly expanding field of Cold War studies have seldom paused to consider the conceptual and chronological ... Leer más

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  • Kuchmagate

    And Collapse of the Orange Idea

    28 November 2000 was the day when the foundations of a young and fragile Ukrainian democracy were fundamentally shaken. The national deputies and the entirety of the Ukrainian population became aware of the records made by the former officer of the State Security Service, Mykola Melnichenko, which implicated the then President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, in being involved in the murder of an ... Leer más

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  • A Prince in Prison

    The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe's Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927.It was the author, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch, who spearheaded the underground Jewish resistance to Stalin's ideological Final Solution — and paid for it by brutal incarceration and a capital sentence from which he was miraculously liberated.In this unparalleled historic first-person ... Leer más

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