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The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police

By Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police

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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014

**“Remarkable . . . provides a graphic and unparalleled description of the conditions under which the Jews of Kaunas tried to live and survive.” —**The Forward As a force that had to serve two masters, both the Jewish population of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania and its German occupiers,...
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by Orlando Figes
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 30, 2014

In zijn nieuwste boek biedt de grote Ruslandhistoricus Orlando Figes een originele visie op de Russische Revolutie, waarbij hij deze historische omwenteling niet als een op zichzelf staande gebeurtenis bekijkt, maar als een honderdjarige poging om utopische dromen waar te maken. Met zijn elegante...
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Stalin's Meteorologist

One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death

by Olivier Rolin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

**Winner of the 2014 Prix du Style "Masterful . . . An eloquent addition to a violent episode in the history of science in the twentieth century." —Nature** In 1934, the highly respected head of the Soviet Union’s meteorology department, Alexei Feodosievich Wangenheim,...
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by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014

The Crimean War was the most destructive armed conflict of the Victorian era. It is remembered for the unreasoning courage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, for the precise volleys of the Thin Red Line and the impossible assaults upon Sevastopol's Redan. It also demonstrated the inefficiency and...
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Little Soldiers

How Soviet Children Went to War, 1941-1945

by Olga Kucherenko
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011

Germany's war against the Soviet Union raised a small army of child soldiers. Thousands of those below the enlistment age served with regular and paramilitary formations, even though they were not formally mobilised or allowed at the front. For several decades after the war, these youngsters played...
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by D. S. Likhachev, Christopher M. Arden-Close
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014

This translation of Likhachev’s Poetika Drevnerusskoy Literatury (The Poetics of Early Russian Literature), provides a description of the basic themes of early (tenth to seventeenth century) Russian literature. Likhachev compares literary narrative with narrative used in the representational arts....
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Rasputin

A Short Life

by Frances Welch
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

Told with humor, intrigue, and a shrewd eye for detail, this riveting short biography sheds much-needed light on the life of nineteenth-century Russian icon Grigory Rasputin. Grigory Rasputin, a Siberian peasant turned mystic and court sage, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played...
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Leningrad: Siege and Symphony

The Story of the Great City Terrorized by Stalin, Starved by Hitler, Immortalized by Shostakovich

by Brian Moynahan
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

The “gripping story” of a Nazi blockade, a Russian composer, and a ragtag band of musicians who fought to keep up a besieged city’s morale (The New York Times Book Review). For 872 days during World War II, the German Army encircled the city of Leningrad—modern-day St. Petersburg—in...
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Saint-Pétersbourg

Portrait d'une ville au travers d'un récit authentique

by Théophile Gautier
Language: French
Release Date: August 26, 2016

Laissez-vous guider pour un merveilleux voyage dans la Russie du XIXe siècle Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872), le « fils du soleil », s’émerveille devant les prestiges de la capitale des neiges qu’il appelle « l’Athènes du Nord ». Ébloui par les palais et les cathédrales aux...
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The Ochrana

The Russian Secret Police

by A. T. Vassilyev
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

Originally published in 1930, these are the memoirs of the last Tsarist chief of police, Okhrana, who was arrested by the revolutionaries, refused to be a Bolshevik spy, escaped to France, became a railway porter and died penniless. The book tells of the part he played in Rasputin’s death...
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by Jan Brokken
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 30, 2017

«A ogni passo in questa città mi viene in mente un libro o mi risuona in testa una musica. È una scoperta continua.» È il 1975 quando Jan Brokken rimane folgorato da San Pietroburgo, l’allora Leningrado, patria splendente e malinconica di poeti e dissidenti, folli e geni, disperati e amanti,...
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by Pierre Gillard
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Thirteen Years at the Russian Court is an inside view of Czar Nicholas II and his family, written by the tutor to his children. A table of contents is included.
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Épisode de l'histoire de Russie

Les faux Démétrius

by Prosper Mérimée, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: June 19, 2015

Extrait : "Ivan IV, tsar et grand-duc de Russie, mourut en 1584, après un long règne. Les étrangers, ses contemporains, l'ont surnommé le Bourreau ; les Russes l'appellent encore Ivan le Terrible. Pour ses sujets seulement, il fut terrible, car ni les Polonais ni les Tartares ne le virent sur un...
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Fall of the Double Eagle

The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary

by John R. Schindler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I, the impulses that precipitated the battle for Galicia in August 1914—and the unprecedented carnage that resulted—effectively doomed the Austro-Hungarian Empire just six weeks into...
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