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  • Tolstoy On War

    Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace"

    Edited by Rick McPeak, Donna Tussing Orwin ...
    In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays the history and military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for the soldiers ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    by Thomas Seltzer ...
    12 illustrations. This collection includes: THE QUEEN OF SPADES by Pushkin, THE CLOAK (AKA The Overcoat) by Gogol, THE DISTRICT DOCTOR by Turgenev, THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING by Dostoyevsky, GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS by Tolstoy, HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS by Saltykov, THE SHADES, A PHANTASY by Korolenko, THE SIGNAL by V.N. Garshin, THE DARLING by Chekhov, THE BET by Chekhov, VANKA ... Read more

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  • The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War

    Enriched edition. Unveiling Mujahideen's Strategic Brilliance in the Afghan War

    by Ali Ahmad Jalali, Maxwell Clark ...
    In "The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War," Ali Ahmad Jalali offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the guerrilla warfare techniques employed by the Afghan Mujahideen during the conflict with Soviet forces from 1979 to 1989. Written with meticulous attention to detail, Jalali's work combines firsthand accounts, strategic assessments, and a critical ... Read more

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  • A Writer at War

    A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • History of the Cossacks

    by William Cresson ...
    THE level plains and steppes of South Russia were known to the ancients as the broad channel followed by the ebb and flow of every fresh wave of conquest or migration passing between Europe and Asia. The legions of Rome and Byzance found this territory as impossible to occupy by military force as the high seas. The little known history of "Scythia" – from the earliest times until the thirteenth ... Read more

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  • The Plot to Scapegoat Russia

    How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia

    by Dan Kovalik ...
    An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future. Since 1945, the US has justified numerous wars, interventions, and military build-ups based on the pretext of the Russian Red Menace, even after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991 and Russia stopped being Red. In fact, the two biggest post-war American conflicts, the ... Read more

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  • What Is to Be Done?

    by Nikolai Chernyshevsky ...
    Translated by Michael R. Katz ...
    No work in modern literature, with the possible exception of Uncle Tom's Cabin, can compete with What Is to Be Done? in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution.―The Southern ReviewAlmost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • French Guardsman vs Russian Jaeger

    1812–14

    by Laurence Spring ...
    Series Book 4 - Combat
    The Russian Jaeger regiments and Napoleon's Young Guard clashed repeatedly during the campaigns of 1812–14.The Russian Jaeger were light infantry who gained enormous experience and prestige during the struggle to rid Europe of Napoleon's armies, while the Young Guard was expanded to become the main strike force of the French field armies. In appalling winter conditions in 1812, the Young Guard ... Read more

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  • The Putin Interviews

    by Oliver Stone ...
    WITH SUBSTANTIAL MATERIAL NOT INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENTARYAcademy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin.The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span—never before has the Russian leader ... Read more

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  • The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45

    A Documentary Reader

    by Alexander Hill ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the ‘Great Patriotic War’ of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45.Despite the historical significance of the war, few Soviet documents have been published in English. This work provides translations of a range of extracts from Soviet documents relating to the titanic struggle on the Eastern ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military

    by Zoltan Barany ...
    A rare, behind-the-scenes look at Russian military politicsWhy have Russian generals acquired an important political position since the Soviet Union's collapse while at the same time the effectiveness of their forces has deteriorated? Why have there been no radical defense reforms in Russia since the end of the cold war, even though they were high on the agenda of the country's new president in ... Read more

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  • Fear and the Muse Kept Watch

    The Russian Mastersfrom Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and EisensteinUnder Stalin

    by Andy McSmith ...
    In this dazzling exploration of one of the most contradictory periods of literary and artistic achievement in modern history, journalist Andy McSmith evokes the lives of more than a dozen of the most brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. Taking us deep into Stalin's Russia, Fear and the Muse Kept Watch asks the question: can great art be produced in a police state? For although ... Read more

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