Russia category: 2582 books
Gorbachov
El último dirigente de la URSS
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Gorbachov, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Comprender el contexto que rodea la vida de Gorbachov, en plena Guerra Fría entre el bloque occidental y oriental•...
Stalin
El hombre de acero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Stalin, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Descubrir la vida de Stalin y el contexto en el que vivió, marcado por las revoluciones y el desarrollo de las ideas...
by William Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Intrepid's Last Case chronicles the post-World War II activities of Sir William Stephenson, whose fascinating role in helping to defeat the Nazis was the subject of the worldwide bestseller A Man Called Intrepid. Sir William Stephenson (Intrepid) still stood at the center of events when he and author...
Spies in the Family
An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer—the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War.
In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon was living in New Delhi with her family...
by Bill Browder
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Nadat Bill Browders advocaat Sergei Magnitsky een gigantische misdaad openbaar heeft gemaakt waarbij Poetin zelf betrokken is, wordt hij opgepakt, gearresteerd, gemarteld en in de gevangenis vermoord. Browder was een zeldzaam succesvolle hedgefundmanager; als een van de eersten had hij door hoe krankzinnig...
Alexandra
The Last Tsarina
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, Erickson portrays Alexandra's story as a closely observed, enthrallingly documented, progressive psychological retreat from reality.
The lives of the Romanovs were full of color and drama, but the personal life of...
Stalin
The Man of Steel
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Stalin in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life of Joseph Stalin. Following the death of Lenin, who had overthrown the tsarist regime with the Russian Revolution, Stalin carefully...
Tent Life in Siberia
An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2007
This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
Staline
Du rêve socialiste au cauchemar de la terreur
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Staline en moins d’une heure !
Personnalité marquante de l’URSS, Staline a marqué de son empreinte l’histoire du XXe siècle. Auréolé de gloire suite à la victoire des Alliés pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, son souvenir incarne le combat...
Lénine
Aux origines de l'URSS
Language: French
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Lénine en moins d’une heure !
Figure légendaire du prolétariat russe, Lénine demeure aujourd’hui encore une figure incontournable de l’histoire du XXe siècle. L’homme a pourtant plongé le pays dans une guerre civile des plus meurtrières....
Raspoutine
Entre sainteté et imposture
Language: French
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Raspoutine en moins d'une heure !
Grigori Raspoutine est une source intarissable de fantasmes et de mystères : d'abord simple paysan puis "saint homme", Raspoutine a su gravir les échelons pour atteindre le haut lieu du pouvoir, la famille impériale...
Alexandre Ier
Le tsar européen
Language: French
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Alexandre Ier en moins d'une heure !
Petit-fils de Catherine II et continuateur de sa politique libérale, le tsar de Russie Alexandre Ier a su, en quelques années, changer le visage de son pays et de l'Europe. Bien que sa volonté d'occidentaliser...
Het einde van de rode mens
leven op de puinhopen van de Sovjet-Unie
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Een hartverscheurend epos over leven en lot na de Sovjet-Unie. Meer dan twintig jaar geleden viel de Sovjet-Unie uit elkaar, ontdekten de Russen de wereld, en ontdekte de wereld de Russen. Even leek een romance in de maak, maar de liefde was snel voorbij. Terwijl men in het Westen nog steeds Gorbatsjov...
Everything Is Wonderful
Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
“Pages of dreamlike prose explore Estonia’s terrible Nazi-Soviet past, the trauma of dictatorship, and how memory processes that trauma.” —The Financial Times
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
Just like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned and slowly...