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After the War: A Southern Tour May 1, 1865 to May 1, 1866 written by Whitelaw Reid. This book was published in 1866. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original...

“A subtly crafted reflection of both the bleak and golden shadings of Russian life . . . Its tones belong more to the realm of poetry than journalism.” –The New York Times Book Review At age twenty-five, Andrea Lee joined her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, for...

The shocking and absorbing account of life in the hell of the Soviet Gulag system is told in all his horrific details here by Elinor Lipper. “IN THIS BOOK I have described my personal experiences only to the extent that they were the characteristic experiences of a prisoner in the Soviet...

Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books byFyodor Dostoyevsky:Crime and PunishmentThe GamblerThe Grand InquisitorThe IdiotNotes From The UndergroundPoor FolkPossessed

"38000+ Czech - English English - Czech Vocabulary" is a list of more than 38000 words translated from Czech to English, as well as translated from English to Czech. Easy to use- great for tourists and Czech speakers interested in learning English. As well as English speakers interested in learning Czech.

Friedrich Engels (28 November 1820 5 August 1895) was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, working in close collaboration alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal...

Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role...

《泰晤士報》、《經濟學人》、《標準晚報》、《每日電訊報》年度好書 《金融時報》、《紐約時報》、《華爾街日報》、《華盛頓郵報》、《文學評論》、 《旁觀者》、《觀察家報》、《新政治家》、《每日郵報》、《獨立報》、《出版商週刊》、 《衛報》等十數家媒體一致推薦 劍橋大學歷史博士、大眾歷史學家蒙提費歐里繼《耶路撒冷三千年》後，又一史詩巨作 【內容簡介】 羅曼諾夫王朝是近代最偉大的王朝，曾統治地球表面達六分之一，幅員從歐洲一路延展到亞洲。羅曼諾夫一族也是近代最戲劇性的家族，他們曾重建遭戰火蹂躪的莫斯科公國，使其搖身一變成為歐陸強權，但又帶領帝國逐漸走向衰敗，最後落得沙皇一家遭滅門的命運。這一切故事都要從兩位小男孩說起，他們名叫米哈伊爾與阿列克謝。 本書是二十位沙皇和女皇的故事，其中有不世出的天才，如彼得大帝、葉卡捷琳娜大帝，有的是瘋子，更有能力不足以承擔帝國的平庸之人，如末代皇帝尼古拉二世。但無論如何，這些沙皇都受到神聖獨裁統治和帝國野心的激勵，展現他們的無止盡權力跟無情的統治。 統治俄國既是沙皇的神聖使命，他們自認為是人民的「父親」與「牧者」，但同時沙皇寶座也是一杯毒酒。在羅曼諾夫王朝三百年歷史中，共有六位沙皇遭到謀殺，對沙皇來說，掌握權力、制衡派系是門藝術，更是保命的關鍵。因為失去權力的下場可能是遭到廢黜，而廢黜則意味著死亡。 在本書中，我們會瞻仰彼得大帝的明君形象，如何推行西化，將俄國發展成歐陸強國，但也會目睹彼得大帝如何殘忍地將兒子折磨至死。我們會讚嘆葉卡捷琳娜大帝光輝燦爛的統治生涯，也會耳聞她諱莫如深的宮廷醜聞。就如作者所言，這不是一本俄國全史、政治史、經濟史或軍事史的專書，它記述的是羅曼諾夫王朝的家族史，它描寫的是人性的光明與陰暗、高潔與低劣，這是一部關於父母與兒女、天才與庸才、聖人與怪物的王朝編年史。 【國際書評】 蒙提費歐里的《沙皇時代》是一部規模極其宏大的史詩。……故事包括陰謀、政變、暗殺、酷刑、刺刑、輪刑、致命的鞭笞、荒淫、縱酒、庸醫、皇位覬覦者、通過殘酷的農奴制獲得的巨額財富，以及，不足為奇地，鎮壓與反叛的惡性循環。與之相比，《冰與火之歌》簡直就是鄉村牧師的茶話會。……讀了蒙提費歐里的絕妙敘述，讓人覺得，在沙皇的災難性領導下，俄國君主制的滅亡是個必然。 ——安東尼．比弗（Antony...

The worst maritime disaster ever occurred during World War II, when more than 9,000 German civilians drowned. It went unreported. January 1945: The outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour...

Extrait : "Lecteurs, j'aime mieux vous l'avouer tout de suite que de vous donner la peine de vous apercevoir ; peut-être alors me reconnaîtrez-vous une qualité : la franchise. Eh bien ! ma mission n'est pas précisément de vous amuser, mais de faire faire connaissance avec la Russie à ceux de vous qui n'ont pas visité cette contrée."

Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia. It is the second largest country of the former Soviet Union, after the Russian Federation, and has rich natural resources, particularly oil, which is being exploited through massive US investment. Kazakhstan has...

It is well known that the Soviet Union strongly influenced China in the early 1950s, since China committed itself both to the Sino-Soviet alliance and to the Soviet model of building socialism. What is less well known is that Chinese proved receptive not only to the Soviet economic model but also...

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always...