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Wherever one looks, Russia is carrying out aggressive military and informational attacks against the West in Europe, North and South America, the Arctic, and the Middle East. This "war against the West" actually began over a decade ago, but its most jarring and shocking event, the one that started to focus Western minds on Russia, was the invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Given this pattern, the National Security Council (NSC) in 2014 invited Stephen Blank to organize a conference on the Russian military. We were able to launch the conference in 2016 and bring together a distinguished international group of experts on the Russian military to produce the papers that were then subsequently updated for presentation here.The results presented here are sobering, to say the least. Ray Finch and Aleksandr Golts highlight the domestic program of military mobilization of Russian society that began before 2014 and has only intensified since then. It aims to engender a positive, heroic image for the military and the idea that Russia is under siege from the West. This campaign has also gone hand in hand with signs of greatly enhanced defense spending, although there have been cuts in 2017-2018 due to sanctions. However, despite the fact that Paul Schwartz rightly points out that Russia's science and technology sectors are wounded and suffer from excessive militarization, he and Steven Rosefielde undermine the complacent and excessively comfortable notion that Russian economic weakness which is real-will lead to the collapse of the system or its retreat from its current posture.

Lisa, écrivain, est sélectionnée par « Les Éditions Étoilées » pour participer à une résidence d¿artistes dans le Haut-Jura. Sous l¿égide de l¿événement « Une histoire, un film¿», 7 écrivains vont bûcher sur le thème de la résilience. Mais comment raconter les souffrances de l¿autre sans faire face à ses propres blessures, à ses craintes et à ses doutes ? L¿écrivain sera-t-elle à la hauteur de ce défi ? Emmanuelle Nativel vous plonge dans un univers fantastique et magique pour un voyage dans l¿imaginaire de la psyché et une initiation au symbolisme littéraire.

Am 22. Juni 1941 entfesselt sich die Hölle: Drei Millionen deutsche Soldaten stürmen über die sowjetische Grenze.Leutnant Friedrich "Fritz" Thibaut und seine Kameraden strotzen vor Siegesgewissheit, doch der Krieg verschlägt sie nicht nach Moskau, sondern in die trostlose Weite der russischen Steppe. Jahre des entfesselten Grauens, des immerwährenden Hungers und des erbarmungslosen Kampfes erwarten sie. Nichts ist wie erhofft. Die Sommer sind feurig heiß und die Winter eisig kalt. Die Gedanken an die ferne Heimat spenden Trost und zermürben zugleich.Inmitten des Infernos von Stalingrad stehen sie nicht nur Feind und Kälte gegenüber, sondern auch ihren eigenen inneren Dämonen.Am Ende sind es 200 Meter, die über alles entscheiden sollen.Der Sinn? Verloren in den Abgründen der Menschheit.

Tapping into the emergence of scholarly comedy studies since the 2000s, this collection brings new perspectives to bear on the Dostoevskian light side. Funny Dostoevksy demonstrates how and why Dostoevsky is one of the most humorous 19th-century authors, even as he plumbs the depths of the human psyche and the darkest facets of European modernity. The authors go beyond the more traditional categories of humor, such as satire, parody, and the carnivalesque, to apply unique lenses to their readings of Dostoevsky. These include cinematic slapstick and the body in Crime and Punishment, the affective turn and hilarious (and deadly) impatience in Demons, and ontological jokes in Notes from Underground and The Idiot. The authors - (coincidentally?) all women, including some of the most established scholars in the field alongside up-and-comers - address gender and the marginalization of comedy, culminating in a chapter on Dostoevsky's "funny and furious" women, and explore the intersections of gender and humor in literary and culture studies. Funny Dostoevksy applies some of the latest findings on humor and laughter to his writing, while comparative chapters bring Dostoevsky's humor into conjunction with other popular works, such as Chaplin's Modern Times and Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. Written with a verve and wit that Dostoevsky would appreciate, this boldly original volume illuminates how humor and comedy in his works operate as vehicles of deconstruction, pleasure, play, and transcendence.

This book explores the postcolonial discourse and decolonization processes in modern Kazakhstan and beyond. It pays particular attention to such areas as national and religious identity, language, literature, and historical narratives. Despite the fact that the post-colonial theory initially emerged in other regions of the world, it has increasingly been applied in the scholarship on Central Asia. Exploring recent debates on post-coloniality in Kazakhstan, this book is an attempt to bring together two bodies of scholarly literature: scholarship on culture and society in post-Soviet Central Asia and research on post-colonial theory. This volume will be of interest to scholars of Eurasian studies as well as researchers and students of post-colonialism in various contexts beyond Eurasia.

- [...] Finalement, qu'ils soient partisans d'une méthode ou d'une autre, les socialistes sont internationalistes et ont pour objectif ultime la fusion des nations en une communauté socialiste mondiale qui elle-même évoluera vers une société communiste. Il s'agit donc de défragmenter le monde en blocs toujours moins nombreux et toujours plus vastes, jusqu'à ce qu'il ne reste plus qu'un seul bloc; la communauté de destin pour l'humanité. L'Union européenne est l'un de ces blocs. Elle a été créée pour cette raison, pour défragmenter l'Europe. - Je ne sais quoi répondre à vos théories. Il semblerait que l'Occident ait adhéré au modèle de l'État multinational. Ces idées politiques d'extrême gauche amènent sur notre territoire des hordes de migrants dont on ne sait rien et, avec eux, le fanatisme religieux, le communautarisme, le séparatisme, le nationalisme. Où est l'unité tant recherchée ? Tout cela est contre-productif et dangereux. Les islamistes n'ont que faire de vos projets utopiques, ils avancent leurs pions. La guerre civile n'est plus très loin. Nous vivons dans une poudrière et vous autres gauchistes en êtes les responsables, observe Monsieur Bourgeois. - Je comprends très bien votre inquiétude. Le fondamentalisme est un problème au même titre que le racisme et l'individualisme. Et vous vous demandez comment le résoudre. De mon temps, nous avions les fosses à problèmes. - Que voulez-vous dire, Monsieur Djougachvili ?>Naviguez à travers le brouillard idéologique et politique du XXIe siècle, et explorez les grands fonds de la conscience dans ce roman court qui ressuscite, l'espace d'un moment, des esprits hors du commun.

В сборник Новый Браунинг вошли новые стихотворения и поэмы Дмитрия Быкова, написанные во время войны России против Украины.Дмитрий Быков (р.1967) - прозаик, поэт, публицист, литературный критик, журналист, телеведущий, преподаватель, политический мыслитель и активист. В издательстве Freedom Letters вышли книги Дмитрия Быкова Боль/шинство и VZ. Портрет на фоне нации.

Reconstructs the infamous New Year assault on Grozny, detailing the chaotic defeat of Russian forces through veteran accounts, research, and footage.The New Year assault on Grozny by Russian forces was the most famous and controversial action of the 1st Chechen War. Entering Grozny from four directions, Russian troops with poor knowledge of the city and totally unprepared found themselves trapped, isolated and annihilated by numerous Chechen detachments. Unfortunately, due to the complexity and chaotic nature of the events, almost no official documentation exists. The reconstruction of the assault has been created from numerous veteran accounts, research publications, and video footage. Battle for Grozny is the first attempt to present a complete picture to the English-speaking audience.At first, the resistance offered by Chechens on 31 December 1994 had been relatively moderate and sporadic. All Russian forces besides the Group West managed to reach their objectives way before the planned timeline. The 131st Separate Motor-Rifle Brigade received a controversial order to move towards the railway station. With no knowledge of Grozny and never having trained for urban combat, the Brigade moved in and reached the station by noon, meeting the 81st Motor-Rifle Regiment. In the late afternoon, Chechens started to hammer Russian forces from multiple directions, knocking out the armor one by one. Trying to organize defensive lines, both units were suffering heavy casualties while all relief efforts were completely blocked by Chechens. During the night and the next day most of the Russian units left Grozny with disastrous losses in men and materiel. On the morning of 1 January, Russian aviation mistakenly attacked the positions of the 129th Motor-Rifle Regiment with devastating results - making it the worst friendly fire incident of the entire war. The only Group that managed to hold their positions was that of General Lev Rokhlin, who skillfully organized the defenses of the city hospital and cannery plant, leaving a narrow corridor for reinforcements.Battle for Grozny, Volume 2, is based on numerous little-known publications, veterans' accounts from both sides, extensive pictorial and video footage, and focuses on the reconstruction of the events that happened over two days of a New Year.