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The book ""The Russians At Home And The Russians Abroad V2: Sketches, Unpolitical And Political, Of Russian Life Under Alexander II (1879)"" is a comprehensive account of Russian life during the reign of Alexander II. Written by Henry Sutherland Edwards, the book provides a detailed description of the social, cultural, and political aspects of Russian society during this period.Divided into two parts, the book covers the lives of Russians both at home and abroad. The first part focuses on the daily lives of ordinary Russians, including their customs, traditions, and beliefs. It also explores the role of women in Russian society and the education system at the time.The second part of the book delves into the political landscape of Russia during the reign of Alexander II. It discusses the political reforms implemented during his reign, including the abolition of serfdom and the establishment of local self-government. It also explores the rise of radical political movements such as nihilism and socialism.Overall, ""The Russians At Home And The Russians Abroad V2: Sketches, Unpolitical And Political, Of Russian Life Under Alexander II (1879)"" provides a fascinating insight into Russian life during a period of significant change and upheaval. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Russian history, culture, and politics.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

""St. Petersburg to Plevna"" is a historical book written by Francis Stanley in 1878. The book is a collection of interviews with prominent Russian statesmen and generals during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. The author, who was a correspondent for the London Daily News, traveled to Russia and Turkey to gather information about the war and its impact on the region. The book begins with an introduction that sets the context for the war and its causes. It then moves on to a series of interviews with key figures in the Russian military and political establishment, including Grand Duke Nicholas, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, and Count Ignatieff, the Russian ambassador to Turkey. Throughout the book, Stanley provides detailed accounts of military operations, diplomatic negotiations, and political developments. He also offers insights into the personalities and motivations of the people he interviews. The book concludes with an analysis of the war's outcome and its implications for Russia and the wider region. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of the Russo-Turkish War and the political and military strategies employed by the major powers of the time.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Out of Russia is a book written by Crittenden Marriott and published in 1911. The book is a travelogue that documents the author's journey through Russia, detailing his experiences and observations of the country's culture, society, and politics. Marriott delves into the history of Russia and its people, exploring the country's rich heritage and traditions. The author also provides insights into the political climate of Russia at the time, discussing topics such as the role of the Tsar, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of socialism. Throughout the book, Marriott provides vivid descriptions of the various cities and regions he visits, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Caucasus Mountains. The author's engaging writing style and his ability to capture the essence of Russia make Out of Russia a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating country.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Due North: Or Glimpses Of Scandinavia And Russia is a travelogue written by Maturin Murray Ballou in 1887. The book takes the reader on a journey through Scandinavia and Russia, describing the author's experiences and observations during his travels. It covers various topics such as the history, culture, and people of the countries he visited, as well as the landscapes and natural wonders he encountered. The book is divided into several chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of the author's journey. The writing is descriptive and engaging, providing readers with a vivid picture of the places he visited. Overall, Due North is a fascinating account of travel in Scandinavia and Russia during the late 19th century.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

The first generation of Russian modernists experienced a profound sense of anxiety resulting from the belief that they were living in an age of decline. What made them unique was their utopian prescription for overcoming the inevitability of decline and death both by metaphysical and physical means. They intertwined their mystical erotic discourse with European degeneration theory and its obsession with the destabilization of gender. In Erotic Utopia, Olga Matich suggests that same-sex desire underlay their most radical utopian proposal of abolishing the traditional procreative family in favor of erotically induced abstinence.2006 Winner, CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Titles, Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Honorable Mention, Aldo and Jean Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association"Offers a fresh perspective and a wealth of new information on early Russian modernism. . . . It is required reading for anyone interested in fin-de-siècle Russia and in the history of sexuality in general."--Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Slavic and East European Journal "Thoroughly entertaining."--Avril Pyman, Slavic Review

Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle Babyboomer, die sich zu jung für ein Rentnerdasein fühlen und einen Neuanfang wünschen. Ob Sie sich ihren Lebenstraum verwirklichen, oder nur ein Stück Freiraum erschaffen wollen, hier finden Sie die Anleitung zum Gelingen. Besonders pflegende Angehörige fühlen sich oft nicht mehr in der Lage, etwas Neues zu starten. Dabei ist es leicht möglich, wenn Sie Ihre Wünsche und Träume wirklich ernst nehmen. Um sich den eigenen Traum tatsächlich zu verwirklichen, liefert dieses Buch einfach anzuwendende Übungen. Die Autorin möchte darüber hinaus den enormen Einsatz der Babyboomer in der Gesellschaft sichtbar machen. Sie haben sehr viel geleistet und tun es noch immer, und kaum jemand spricht darüber! Die über 5 Millionen pflegenden Angehörigen leisten im Stillen ihre Arbeit und beklagen sind nicht. Niemand sieht ihren Beitrag für diese Gesellschaft. Man stelle sich nur vor, sie würden diese Arbeit von heute auf morgen den Pflegeheimen überlassen. Ab sofort wären alle Kapazitäten der Pflegekassen gesprengt. Was diese Generation alles aufgebaut hat und zusammen hält, wird als selbstverständlich hingenommen. Dabei sind das die wahren Helden in diesem Land! Gleichzeitig zeigt die hier skizzierte Frauenbiografie, dass ein Neustart selbst unter den schwierigsten Umständen machbar ist. Wenn Sie es wollen, findet sich immer eine gute Lösung. Dieses Buch ist ein Weckruf an alle, die sich die Frage stellen, ob es das in diesem Leben schon alles gewesen sein soll. Wer noch mehr vom Leben erwartet, kann sich ein MEHR jederzeit selbst erschaffen. Wie es möglich wird, lesen Sie hier.

In Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery Margaret Nowaczyk explores different facets of her life, from listening to the radio dramas of her childhood in Communist Poland to her work now as a pediatric clinical geneticist. These are beautifully crafted essays, full of hard-won truths and insights, generously shared with the reader.

In the latter part of 1939, German leader Adolf Hitler made a pact with the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to invade Poland. Confident that British and French leaders would opt for a weak peace settlement, Hitler's army stormed in from the north, south and west on September 1st, while Stalin's Red Army invaded from the east on September 17th. This story, part fact and part fiction, is an account of the suffering endured by the Polish people at this time, many of whom were imprisoned in Siberia and forced to work under dreadful conditions. Yet when Hitler turned on Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Poland's exiled found common cause with their Russian captors to take up arms against Nazi oppression. Though the Allies emerged victorious in 1945, a heavy price was exacted from occupied Poland. Many survivors discovered they no longer had homeland to which they could return, their former communities now under firm Soviet control.

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Traces the roots of the Turkish Republic to the Ottoman Empire

In this international bestseller investigating the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the various plots and plans to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible.The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime, and its anniversary was largely ignored. In stark contrast, the centenary of the massacre of the Imperial Family was commemorated in 2018 by a huge ceremony attended by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.While the murders themselves have received major attention, what has never been investigated in detail are the various plots and plans behind the scenes to save the family-on the part of their royal relatives, other governments, and Russian monarchists loyal to the Tsar. Rappaport refutes the claim that the fault lies entirely with King George V, as has been the traditional view for the last century. The responsibility for failing the Romanovs must be equally shared. The question of asylum for the Tsar and his family was an extremely complicated issue that presented enormous political, logistical and geographical challenges at a time when Europe was still at war. Like a modern day detective, Helen Rappaport draws on new and never-before-seen sources from archives in the US, Russia, Spain and the UK, creating a powerful account of near misses and close calls with a heartbreaking conclusion. With its up-to-the-minute research, The Race to Save the Romanovs is sure to replace outdated classics as the final word on the fate of the Romanovs.

In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War-and more perilous. It was in that hot summer that the Berlin Wall was constructed, which would divide the world for another twenty-eight years. Then two months later, and for the first time in history, American and Soviet fighting men and tanks stood arrayed against each other, only yards apart. One mistake, one nervous soldier, one overzealous commander-and the tripwire would be sprung for a war that could go nuclear in a heartbeat.On one side was a young, untested U.S. president still reeling from the Bay of Pigs disaster and a humiliating summit meeting that left him grasping for ways to respond. It would add up to be one of the worst first-year foreign policy performances of any modern president. On the other side, a Soviet premier hemmed in by the Chinese, East Germans, and hardliners in his own government. With an all-important Party Congress approaching, he knew Berlin meant the difference not only for the Kremlin's hold on its empire-but for his own hold on the Kremlin.Neither man really understood the other, both tried cynically to manipulate events. And so, week by week, they crept closer to the brink.Based on a wealth of new documents and interviews, filled with fresh-sometimes startling-insights, written with immediacy and drama, Berlin 1961 is an extraordinary look at key events of the twentieth century, with powerful applications to these early years of the twenty-first.Includes photographs

No other thinker so engaged the Russian cultural imagination of the early twentieth century as did Friedrich Nietzche. The Revolution of Moral Consciousness shows how Nietzschean thought influenced the brilliant resurgence of literary life that started in the 1890s and continued for four decades. Through an analysis of the Russian encounter with Nietzsche, Edith Clowes defines the shift in ethical and aesthetic vision that motivated Russia's unprecedented artistic renascence and at the same time led its followers to the brink of cultural despair. Clowes shows how in the last years of the nineteenth century a diverse array of writers and critics discovered Nietzsche's thought, embracing or repudiating it with equal vigor. The literary storm brewing around Nietzsche and the concurrent relaxation of censorship combined to attract a public eager to follow the new intellectual fashion. Young writers, such as Andreev and Kuprin, welcomed the idea of the "superman" as a promising path to personal fulfillment. The tragic fates of their protagonists and the alluring gospel of the vulgar Zarathustra-like characters of such bestselling authors as Boborykin, Artsybashev, and Verbitskaia found enthusiastic, if indiscriminating, audiences ready to be "taught" how to "find themselves." By considering this Nietzschean cult, Clowes draws fresh insight into the nature of the budding popular-culture industry in Russia and the fast-growing reading public. From this ferment emerged the greatest Russian literary voices of the early twentieth century. The revolutionary romantics, Gorky and Lunacharsky, sought in Nietzsche's writing a new vision of total social and cultural change. Merezhkovsky led a generation of mystic symbolists in the search for a literary myth of resurrection. Ivanov, Blok, and Belyi appropriated the image of the "crucified Dionysus" as the central symbol of spiritual transfiguration. Their encounters with Nietzschean thought disclose an even more profound creative struggle with their own cultural past and its established formulations of nation and individual, culture and history. Clowes uses the term future anxiety to speak of a creative mentality that strove to assert itself by diminishing the impact of powerful literary precursors, such as Tolstoi, Dostoevsky, and Solovyov, and opening to the imagination the vision of a future full of vast creative possibility.

Die in Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa wahrnehmbaren arbeitsmarktorientierten Anforderungen verweisen auf den Mehrwert von Deutsch als Berufs- und Fachsprache in dieser Region. Der Band verdeutlicht aus der Sicht eines dynamischen Arbeitsmarktes und der gesteigerten Nachfrage nach deutschsprechenden Fachkräften, wie fach- und berufsbezogenes (Sprach-)Wissen in der universitären Ausbildung in den vertretenen Ländern trainiert werden kann und welche Herausforderungen länderübergreifend auftreten. Die einzelnen Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit den Besonderheiten berufsorientierter und fachspezifischer Kommunikation und deren Vermittlung und Übertragung, wobei auch praxisbezogene Überlegungen zum professionellen Dolmetschen angestellt und interkulturelle Ansätze vorgestellt werden.

Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание Prestuplenie i nakazanie) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia, and the first great novel of his mature period.Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of an evil, worthless parasite. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by relating himself to Napoleon, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose. About the author: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His 1864 novella, Notes from Underground, is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into Saint Petersburg's literary circles. However, he was arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group, the Petrashevsky Circle, that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia. Dostoevsky was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. In the following years, Dostoevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own and later A Writer's Diary, a collection of his writings. He began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers. Dostoevsky's body of work consists of thirteen novels, three novellas, seventeen short stories, and numerous other works. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers including Russians such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov, poet Yegor Letov, philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre, and the emergence of Existentialism and Freudianism. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages, and served as the inspiration for many films. (wikipedia.org)

Cezary, jeune citoyen polonais d'un Etat fantôme, voit sa vie bouleversée par la Grande Guerre et la Révolution bolchevique. Il entame sa longue marche vers le remembrement de son âme et de son pays.

Since 2014 the conflict in Ukraine has escalated from an internal crisis into an ongoing full scale conventional war. The extensive public documentation and commentary on these unfolding events present an opportunity for empirical research yet untainted by hindsight perspectives. Drawing on an extensive regional network of local stakeholders and experts, this book combines theoretical insights with practical reflections on the efficacy of a selected range of tools employed by the West to assist Ukraine, such as the provision of military assistance, troop training, intelligence sharing, information campaigns, early crisis signaling by aircraft carrier deployments, and coalition building efforts. Bridging the gap in open-source studies between academic research and practitioner assessments, the authors discuss how these specific measures correspond with theoretical assessments of the effects they are due to produce, as well as with the expectations about their performance held by the deploying policy makers and their audience. As the war continues to unfold, and the reality on the ground, as well as emerging new data, mean a constantly shifting landscape, this volume will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the conflict in Ukraine.

Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders closely during his time in Russia. John Reed died in 1920, shortly after the book was finished, and he is one of the few Americans buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, a site normally reserved only for the most prominent Soviet leaders.THIS book is a slice of intensified; history as I saw it. It does not pretend to be anything but a detailed account of the Russian Revolution, when the Bolsheviki, at the head of the workers and soldiers, seized the state power of Russia and placed it in the hands of the Soviets. John Reed John Reed was on an assignment for The Masses, a magazine of socialist politics, when he was reporting the Russian Revolution. Although Reed states that he had "tried to see events with the eye of a conscientious reporter, interested in setting down the truth" during the time of the event, he stated in the preface that "in the struggle my sympathies were not neutral" (since the book leans towards the Bolsheviks and their viewpoints) Before John Reed left for Russia, the Espionage Act was passed on June 15, 1917, which fined and imprisoned anyone who interfered with the recruiting of soldiers and prohibited the mailing of any newspaper or magazine that promoted such sentiments. The U. S. Post Office was also given leave to deny any mailing that fitted these standards from further postal delivery, and then to disqualify a magazine because it had missed a mailing (due to the ban) and hence was no longer considered a "regular publication."

This collection features works by members of the Millburn Literary Club: Yuri Blagoveschensky, Aleksander Brodsky, Slava Brodsky, Ben-Eph, Elvira Fagel, Victor Fet, Jacob Fraden, Michael Goldshvartz, Pyotr Ilyinskii, Mir Karger, Ilya Lipkovich, Igor Mandel, Lazar Marmur, Alexxander Matlin, Zoya Polevaya, Yuri Solodkin, Gary Tabach, Olga Ushakova, and Dmitry Zlotsky.

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects. Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita.