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In 1941, Lenin's body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. Stalin imposed the most draconian controls-unbending censorship, no visits to the battlefront, and a ban on contact with ordinary citizens.

Catherine the Great is one of the most influential rulers in Russian history. Though born in Prussia, she endeavored to gain the throne of Russia and went on to be the longest-ruling empress in Russian history. She ruled as an enlightened despot, promoting the principles of the European Enlightenment as she sought to modernize her beloved country. She reformed the educational system of Russia, creating a national system that utilized modern educational theory in a co-educational setting.

Russia is an assortment of the world’s most beautiful cultures and religions. But how did Russia become home to such a diverse population and tradition that is redolent of so many parts of the world? How much does Russia owe to its spellbinding steppe in respect to its unparalleled history? This audiobook uncovers the mystery behind this and many other little known facts about Russia.

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive. Facing them was an equally large Soviet force, but whose soldiers were neither as well trained nor as confident. When the Germans struck, disaster soon befell the Soviet defenders.

The prize-winning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia. Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel - the setting of the New York Times best-selling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals who were reduced in the wake of the Russian Revolution to waiting in bread lines.

It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the beginning of the 19th century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia. Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it.

True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American, spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then, a pawn in Stalin's sinister master strategy, Field was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his own Communist comrades.

Год 1944-й. Советские войска победно вступают в Западную Европу и движутся к Брюсселю. Вам кажется, что все было не совсем так? Вы, конечно, правы! Но вы когда-нибудь задумывались, что было бы, если бы все вышло именно так?

Stingray’s memoir vividly shows how the energy of youth culture and an international love affair with rock ‘n’ roll forged alliances among a new generation who brought an end to the U.S.S.R.

This Very Short Introduction provides a guide to understanding Russian Politics that goes beyond the headlines, offering a vivid account of the key forces driving Russian politics. It places Russia in a global context while explaining its internal political development. Several major themes run through the book, including the primacy of the state over society, the role of the so-called "West," which has represented a source of inspiration, of threat, and of competition for generations of Russians, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

For many, the Rus might be synonyms for Russia or Russians, perhaps an early form of the civilization that later became Russia. This is partly true. Modern-day Russia lays claim as a successor to the Rus, particularly the Kievan Rus empire that dominated, with oscillating borders, the area around today’s Kiev and Ukraine between the 8th and 11th centuries. Crucially, the Rus had roots in the Nordic region. Initially, they would travel into modern-day Russia, Ukraine, and beyond to trade. Only later would they start to settle in the region and then become known as the Rus.

The State and Revolution (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin began the composition of an early draft of State and Revolution while in exile in Switzerland in 1916, under the title "Marxism on the State". "Soviets", legislative bodies of workers and peasants were the de facto governments of Petrograd and many smaller cities.

One of the most idiosyncratic horrors of Soviet Russia was the Gulag system, an extensive network of forced labor and concentration camps. Part of the rationale behind this system was that it could serve as slave labor in the drive for industrialization, while also serving as a form of punishment. The name Gulag is in fact an acronym, approximating to “Main Administration of Camps” (in Russian: Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei) and operated by the Soviet Union’s Ministry of the Interior.

Умирая, Иван Грозный оставил царство своему сыну Федору. Понимая, что немощный сын не в силах будет удержать царский венец, он оставил при нем могучих советчиков: Бориса Годунова, Ивана Шуйского, Никиту Романовича Юрьева и Ивана Мстиславского. Другому сыну, двухлетнему Дмитрию он назначил в удел богатый город Углич и поручил своему любимцу Богдану Вельскому охранять жизнь сына. Но уже в ночь после смерти Иоанна началось шатание умов- кому присягать. Заговорили о немощах убогого Федора и предложили целовать крест малолетнему Дмитрию.

Год 1944-й. Советские войска победно вступают в Западную Европу и движутся к Брюсселю. Вам кажется, что все было не совсем так? Вы, конечно, правы! Но вы когда-нибудь задумывались, что было бы, если бы все вышло именно так?

Татары лишились гвардии и своего истинного вождя Субэдэя, в распоряжении Батыя осталось всего четыре тумена. Но там, где монголы не справляются силой оружия, в ход идет хитрость и дипломатия. Резкое усиление Владимира и провозглашение царства нравится на Руси далеко не всем. Так и не познав настоящей силы поганых и не испытав ужаса перед их нашествием, многие князья рассматривают их не как общего врага, а как союзника в борьбе с возросшим могуществом Всеволодовичей.

Il volume, in un costante rimando tra dinamiche storiche e attualità geopolitica, si rivela uno strumento utile per l’analisi dei complessi fenomeni che hanno condotto, nei secoli, all’odierno conflitto in Ucraina, ad oggi la più importante crisi politico-militare su suolo europeo del XXI secolo. Una lunga traiettoria che dai tempi di Erodoto giunge sino ad Euromajdan, dove l’attenta ricostruzione storica si interseca con efficaci chiavi interpretative.

In 1914, the Great War was raging all around the globe. It was by far the largest and bloodiest conflagration the world had ever seen. The balance of vast imperial powers the world over was shifting in tectonic, unpredictable ways.

Rusia fascina y atrae: con la misma fuerza que despierta admiración, genera rechazo y temores. ¿Qué sucedió en la historia rusa para producir pasiones tan encontradas? A partir de este interrogante, esta obra propone un recorrido por el pasado de esta nación que llegó a convertirse en una potencia mundial. Rusia ocupó una sexta parte de la masa continental planetaria cuando fue el centro de un imperio y, más tarde, de la Unión Soviética. Hoy es el país más extenso del mundo y su territorio alberga uno de los mayores arsenales nucleares.

Ленинград, Москва, местечко под Могилевом — проза Елены Минкиной-Тайчер переносит через время и пространство, выхватывая из круговорота событий эпизоды жизни еврейской семьи, на долю которой выпали, кажется, все испытания столетия. Но эта история — не только (да и не столько) о бедах и трагедиях. В ней — свадебные песни, вложенные в томик Пушкина любовные стихи и пахнущий пирогами и шалфеем дом. И, конечно же, семья, которой суждено воссоединиться спустя несколько десятилетий в Израиле. В аудиоверсии эту лиричную историю чутко и нежно исполнила актриса Ксения Раппопорт.