Search Results - War*

The war against the peasantry, 1927-1930 the tragedy of the Soviet countryside /

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The Russian folk theatre by Warner, Elizabeth, 1940-

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The church of Constantinople in the nineteenth century an essay in historical research / by Sokolov, I. I.

“…Greece History War of Independence, 1821-1829.…”
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A partisan from Vilna by Margolis, Raḥel

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Against their will the history and geography of forced migrations in the USSR / by Poli͡an, P. M.

Table of Contents: “…Forced migrations: pre-history and classification -- Forced migrations before Hitler and Stalin: historical excursus -- Forced migrations and Second World War -- Classification of forced migrations -- Part I. …”
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Stalin's secret pogrom the postwar inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee /

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August 1914 / by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-

A small corner of hell dispatches from Chechnya / by Politkovskai͡a, Anna

“…Chechni͡a (Russia) History Civil War, 1994- Press coverage.…”
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Master of the house Stalin and his inner circle / by Khlevni͡uk, O. V. (Oleg Vitalʹevich)

Table of Contents: “…The Stalinization of the politburo, 1928-1930 -- Power in crisis, 1931-933 -- A facade of liberalization, 1934 -- Terror and conciliation, 1935-1936 -- Stalin and the great terror, 1937-1938 -- On the eve of war : the new structure of Stalin's government -- Conclusion : master of the houses.…”
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Katyn a crime without punishment /

Table of Contents: “…Prisoners of an undeclared war, 23 August 1939-5 March 1940 -- Extermination, March-June 1940 -- Katyn and its echoes, 1940 to the present.…”
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Russia under Yeltsin and Putin neo-liberal autocracy / by Kagarlitsky, Boris, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The inevitable reaction -- The Russian intelligentsia between 'Westernism' and 'Patriotism' -- The rise of the Yeltsin regime -- Word and deed -- The corporatist model and social conflict -- The post-Soviet left -- The road to default -- The twilight of the 'Second Republic' -- The drift to the left (1998-99) -- The war of the Kremlin succession -- The Putin regime.…”
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Russia's penal colony in the Far East a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" / by Doroshevich, V. M. (Vlas Mikhaĭlovich), 1864-1922

Table of Contents: “…Portraits of Sakhalin -- First impressions -- The infirmary -- The Katorga cemetery -- A day in prison -- The chains prison -- The free prison -- Workshops -- "Aid station" -- The women's prison -- The isolators -- "Reformed" -- Two Odessans -- The murderers (a married couple) -- Grebeniuk and his homestead -- Paklin (from my notebook) -- Settlements (the exile-settlers) -- The female cohabitant -- The male cohabitant -- Those who've voluntarily followed -- The homeowners -- Reztsov -- Freemen on Sakhalin -- The Katorga theater -- Katorga actors -- The Brodiaga Sokolsky -- Crimes in Korsakovsk District -- Departure -- Real Katorga -- The capital of Sakhalin -- Aleksandrovsk post -- Sentenced to penal labor -- Who runs Katorga? -- Prison wardens -- The death penalty -- Executioners -- Corporal punishments -- Katorga's ways -- Matvey's trouble -- The indefinitely-sentenced probationer Glovatsky -- Katorga types -- Initiation into the penal laborers -- Educated persons in Katorga -- Talma on Sakhalin -- The card game -- Katorga's laws -- The language of Katorga -- Katorga songs -- Katorga and religion -- Sectarians on Sakhalin Island -- Criminals and crimes -- Criminals and justice (from observations on Sakhalin) -- Katorga labors of a Konovalova -- The most unfortunate of women -- Voluntary followers -- Natives of Sakhalin Island -- Golden hand -- Poluliakhov -- A famous Moscow murderer -- The specialist -- Cannibals -- The penal laborer baroness Heimbrück -- Landsberg -- The grandfather of Russian Katorga -- The apostate -- Katorga's aristocrat -- The plebeian -- The parricide -- Shkandyba -- Hired murderers -- The suicide -- The frenzied -- The educated man -- Poet-murderers (in the form of a preface) -- Mentally ill criminals -- Sakhalin's Monte Carlo (the Katorga almshouse in Derbinsk settlement).…”
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Poisons physiologically active substances / by Zotov, S. B. (Stanislav Borisovich)

Table of Contents: “…Poisons in mythology -- Poisons in ancient world -- Poisons in middle ages -- Development of the chemistry of physiologically active substances (PhAS) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Poisons and elementary bases of toxicology -- Muscarine -- Curare -- Strongest nonprotein poisons -- Toxins of protein and similar structure -- Chemical warfare agents -- Harmful substances in the environment -- Natural and synthetic PhAS.…”
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Long, long tales from the Russian North

Table of Contents: “…Dmitriev: About a mighty warrior, tsar Peregar, who reeked of drink -- Tales narrated by F.F. …”
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Orthodox Christianity in imperial Russia : a source book on lived religion /

Table of Contents: “…Demoskoff -- Letters to and from Russian Orthodox spiritual elders (startsy) / Irina Paert -- Sermons of the Crimean War / Mara Kozelsky -- The diary of a priest / Laurie Manchester -- "Another voice from the lord": an Orthodox sermon on Christianity, science, and natural disaster / Nicholas Breyfogle -- A Ukrainian priest's son remembers his father's life and ministry / Heather J. …”
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I, Maya Plisetskaya by Pliset͡skai͡a, Maĭi͡a Mikhaĭlovna, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…The dacha and Sretenka Street -- What I was like at five -- Relatives -- Spitzbergen -- I study ballet -- Back in school and father's arrest -- My mother disappears -- Chimkent -- Concert for the Cheka -- Tchaikovsky's ʼImpromptuʼ -- The war -- My first year at the Bolshoi Theater -- The apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage -- Mastering the ABCs of the theater -- ʼRaymondaʼ -- ʼSwan Lakeʼ -- Youth festivals -- My injuries, my healers -- Who'll get whom! …”
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The word that causes death's defeat poems of memory / by Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966

Table of Contents: “…Youth and early fame, 1889-1916 -- Revolution and civil war, 1917-1922 -- Outcast in the new order, 1922-1935 -- Terror and the muse, 1936-1941 -- War and late Stalinism, 1941-1953 -- Late fame and final years, 1953-1966 -- Requiem -- The way of all the earth -- Poem without a hero -- Bearing the burden of witness : Requiem -- Forward into the past : The way of all the earth -- Rediscovering a lost generation : Poem without a hero -- Commentary on Poem without a hero.…”
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