Russian Military

Different countries carry revolutions differently. You probably know how Americans carried theirs, but do you know how the Russian Revolution went? If not, then this is the audiobook to listen to. It discusses important facts that will help create an overall picture of the key players and events that brought about change in the Russian leadership and society. Start listening today!

Sveta and her family have lived happily all their life in a quiet Ukrainian village. However, after their neighbor's block of flats is bombed by a Russian missile, and Sveta makes a gruesome discovery, her tiny safe world suddenly gets turned upside down.

Roza Shanina's biography reads like a comic book hero come to life, a heroic female assassin fighting off the Nazi forces at the height of World War II. Seeking vengeance for the death of her brother, Roza Shanina sacrificed her life for service in the Red Army's fight against the invading Nazis during World War II.

Кир узнал, кто убил его отца, узнал, кто друг, а кто враг. И пусть он не очень доволен тем, чью сторону ему пришлось принять, но ведь еще ничего окончательно не решено. Надо срочно становиться сильнее и готовится к большой драке. А, может быть, самому попробовать нанести первый удар?

О Бородинском сражении написано немало. Это битва стала одной из решающих для русской армии.

In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century.

Despite Russia's imposing image in the world, less apparent weaknesses within the tsarist government threatened the country's stability. Several events in the early 20th century led to an eroding loyalty among Russian military forces, and Potemkin was the first modern ship to reveal it, an act that would bring it fame and make it the subject of some of the most well-known works of film and literature in Russian history.