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The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine represents a Zeitenwende - a turning point - in German foreign and security policy, which requires a complete redefinition of Germany's role within the future European security order. Through contributions by renowned experts, this anthology provides information on the causes, developments and foreseeable consequences of the Russian war of aggression. This open access book will appeal to scholars, decision-makers, students, and anyone interested in international politics, conflict studies, and military-strategic dimensions of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Despite peacebuilding efforts between Ukraine and Poland, the author shows that the conflict between the two nations, with its violent zenith in the 20th century, remains unresolved. Looking at Andrei Sheptyts'kyi, Ukrainian Greek Catholic metropolitan between 1901 and 1944, as well as the insights from conducting qualitative research with contemporary representatives of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the author argues that Sheptyts'kyi must be considered a peacebuilder, and that, following his example, representatives of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church are uniquely situated to be peacebuilders in the Polish-Ukrainian conflict. Lastly, the author suggests several avenues for future peacebuilding.

Heinrich Bader ist 19 Jahre alt und hat das Leben noch vor sich. Geboren zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik, wächst er behütet bei seiner Familie in Memmingen auf und genießt zusammen mit seinem Freund Wilhelm seine Kindheit. Wie alle Jungs träumen auch sie von der großen Welt und einer glücklichen Zukunft. Mit Johanna, der Tochter des örtlichen Wachmanns, beginnt er eine zärtliche Tändelei.Alles verändert sich, als Heinrich 1944 eingezogen und an die Ostfront geschickt wird. Als er einige Zeit später verwundet wieder heimkehrt, glaubt er sich dem Alptraum entronnen.Doch es kommt anders.

This book explores the dilemmas of Georgian foreign policy since independence in 1991. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgiäa Caucasian republic with a fiercely independent national identity¿has sought its own special path to European modernity, a promised land of prosperity and peace. Foreign policy has sought to reconcile the dream of European identity with the reality of being a small, post-colonial nation that was governed from Russia for nearly two centuries and remains mired in border conflicts with Russia. In an era when Russian concerns about sovereignty are once again dominating geopolitics, this book interests historians, scholars of imperialism, and scholars of the former Soviet Union and its messy politics.Mariam Bibilashvili has a Ph.D. degree in Social Sciences from the University of Tsukuba, affiliated with the Special Program in Japanese and Eurasian Studies.

Title: Rasputin and the Russian RevolutionAuthor: Catherine RadziwillDescription:In "Rasputin and the Russian Revolution," Catherine Radziwill, a prolific writer and a witness to the tumultuous events of her time, delivers an enthralling and deeply insightful account of one of the most enigmatic figures in Russian history and his influence on the seismic events that shaped the course of the Russian Revolution.Radziwill's narrative unveils the captivating and controversial life of Grigori Rasputin, the Siberian mystic who held a mystifying sway over the Russian imperial family. With meticulous research and a discerning eye for detail, Radziwill delves into the mystique surrounding Rasputin, exploring his rise from obscurity to the inner circle of the Romanovs.Through Radziwill's vivid prose, readers are transported to the opulent world of pre-revolutionary Russia, where political intrigue, societal upheaval, and Rasputin's charismatic presence intersect. She explores the charismatic mystic's relationships with the Romanovs, particularly with the ill-fated Tsarina Alexandra, and examines the controversial role he played in advising the royal family.But Radziwill's narrative doesn't stop at Rasputin's life; it also paints a vivid backdrop of the broader sociopolitical landscape of Russia in the early 20th century. She skillfully weaves together the complex threads of discontent, unrest, and revolutionary fervor that ultimately led to the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the emergence of the Russian Revolution."Rasputin and the Russian Revolution" is not only a captivating biography of Rasputin but also a thought-provoking analysis of the sociocultural and political forces that contributed to the demise of the Russian Empire. Radziwill's work stands as a testament to her keen historical acumen and her ability to breathe life into the past, making this book an essential read for history enthusiasts and anyone intrigued by the enigmatic figure of Rasputin and the seismic events that reshaped Russia and the world.

British government pronouncements since Russia's 24 February 2022 invasion of Ukraine have been resolute yet self-congratulatory. The UK is leading the way among western allies in providing Ukraine with the support it needs. Putin's regime is globally isolated as never before. The Russian economy is crumbling under unprecedented sanctions. Let's stick with the plan. Our strategy is working! But is that really true? How engaged was the Conservative government in efforts to prevent conflict in Ukraine after tensions with Russia ramped up ten years ago? Have any of the seven Foreign Secretaries since 2014 altered Putin's calculus? Have western sanctions really worked? And does 'the best diplomatic service in the world' have the skills to understand and outsmart Russia? From seeing Putin in Northern Ireland in 2013, to living through the expulsion of British diplomats from Moscow in 2018, then authorising sanctions against Russia in 2022, Ian casts a sceptical eye over these questions. Ian Proud was a member of HM Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. Ian organised the 2013 G8 Summit in Northern Ireland which marked Vladimir Putin's last visit to the UK. From July 2014 to February 2019 he was posted to the British Embassy in Moscow where he advised UK Ministers on sanctions against Russia. He was Chair of the Russia Crisis Committee, Director of the Diplomatic Academy for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Anglo-American School of Moscow. He speaks Russian and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development.

"A delightful and evocative memoir by Leacock Medal nominee Antanas Sileika. The acclaimed novelist who wrote this book wasn't always Antanas. Growing up in the immigrant hub of Weston, Ontario -- with a child- hood of Lithuanian summer camp, folk dancing, and booze-soaked Christmases -- Sileika was known to friends and teachers as Tony. It wasn't until he entered university and began to understand his deep attachment to his heritage that he shed the anglicized name and became Antanas Sileika, the writer who straddles two worlds. In animated, entertaining prose, Sileika recounts his time as a young writer in Paris, the dramatic events surrounding Lithuanian independence and the fall of the Soviet Union, and his growing involvement in Lithuania's political and cultural spheres. Proud of his heritage but unafraid to explore its darker chapters, he touches in this book on the Holocaust and the gulag, as well as the new threats facing Eastern Europe today. Laced with humour and wry observations, The Death of Tony is a tribute to the immigrant experience, a primer for Canadian readers on the history and culture of an underrepresented nation, and above all a sensitive exploration of this author's bifurcated identity."--

"The book is relevant to persons interested in public governance, comparative politics and the politics of Brazil, Russia, and the United States. It would also be accessible to Ph.D. and motivated upper-division students, and to practitioners. The arguments are presented rigorously, but also in a captivating manner"--

This book examines the period of political violence in Turkey between 12 March 1971 and 12 September 1980. It sets out a close analysis of the tactics used by the various protagonists in the conflict, showing how they took over public institutions, the first of which was the police. This book challenges the myth of a 'strong' Turkish state viewed as authoritative and autonomous from society, instead reflecting a state that was unable to contain the political mobilisation actually taking place. In the book, Benjamin Gourisse analyses the structure, mobilisation, and strategies of antagonistic radical political groups caught up in this dynamic of violence, including the far-left organisations and the Nationalist Movement, comprising the Nationalist Movement Party and its satellite organisations. Gourisse demonstrates that from 1975 to 1980, the state was never "out of play". Quite the contrary, in fact, for its institutions, together with the practices, beliefs, and representations of their members and users, were central to the processes constituting the crisis.

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.'Reads like a great novel' SEBASTIAN JUNGER'An instant classic' STEVE COLL----Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war's decisive moments-from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut-to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. Putin had intended to conquer Ukraine with a vicious blitzkrieg, in a few short weeks. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what looked like certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues to seesaw to this day. This is the story of their epic bravery in the face of almost unthinkable aggression.For Trofimov, this war is deeply personal. He grew up in Kyiv and his family has lived there for generations. He tells the story of how everyday Ukrainian citizens-doctors, computer programmers, businesspeople, and schoolteachers-risked their lives and lost loved ones. At once heart-breaking and inspiring, and combining vivid reportage with expert military analysis and rare insight into the thinking of Ukrainian leadership, Our Enemies Will Vanish tells the riveting story Ukraine's fight for survival and refusal to surrender as it has never been told before.----'An essential first draft' ANNE APPLEBAUM'Essential reading' CLARISSA WARD'Outstanding' PETER FRANKOPAN'Achieves the highest level of war reporting I did not really understand Ukraine until I read Trofimov's account' SEBASTIAN JUNGER, bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'A stunning work of eyewitness reportage and literary nuance that brings alive both the brutalities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war's small absurdities and comic interludes' STEVE COLL, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ghost Wars 'An essential document for our times' DEXTER FILKINS, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Forever War 'Takes the reader from the corridors of power to frontline trenches. Trofimov's gripping account is full of crisp details' QUENTIN SOMERVILLE, BBC Middle East Correspondent

James Bond, the secret service's most lethal agent, is a marked manDeep inside the Soviet Union, a plot is taking shape. Under the fiendish Colonel Rosa Klebb, the Russian counter-intelligence organisation SMERSH are laying a trap that will not only eliminate Bond, but strike at the very heart of the British establishment. The bait is the irresistible 'defector' Tatiana Romanova and a precious coding machine. The weapon is the psychotic assassin, Grant. As 007 is lured to Istanbul, a deadly game begins.

Great European planetary festival in Dresden: a serial killer sends out poison horoscopes.Police student Max, severely disturbed by combat missions in Afghanistan, and his Evi, a petty criminal bakery clerk from Upper Lusatia, go in search of clues. While she hunts poisoners in the pulsating Florence on the Elbe, he accompanies the star astrologer Scultetus as a bodyguard to the end of the world.Art Nouveau palace in Prague, Chinese pagoda on the Canary Islands, heavenly priests of the Sahara, Istanbul horoscope scholars, alpine castle with scary witch, planetary avenues on the Atlantic, Scottish druid circles, star hall in Øresund, secret studies in Warsaw, examination by granite-headed lodge brothers and odyssey through the Zittau mountains, escape and return to Dresden.Showdown on the roof of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main. And on, on and on, to the city of dawn in distant India.

Den unge historiker Herman arbejder som uafhængig ekspert i Kharkiv, det står der i hvert fald på hans visitkort; selv er han i tvivl om, hvad han egentlig laver. Straks mere håndgribeligt er det, at hans bror driver en benzintank ude i Donbas. Men så forsvinder broderen pludseligt, er ifølge rygter rejst til Holland. Herman drager mod Donbas i en sort folkevogn med en høne på køleren for at rede trådene ud og vende hurtigst muligt tilbage til Kharkiv. Men ikke alt går, som præsten prædiker …Mellem en enorm himmel og uendelige majsmarker: Jazz i Donbas er ukrainske Sergij Zjadans prisbelønnede epos fra før verden gik af lave, en usentimental røverhistorie og en medrivende roadroman om bl.a. korruption, musik, gamle venner, nye fjender og – måske mest af alt – ansvarlighed og taknemmelighed.

The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the 'unknown war': the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires. Much has been written about the fighting in France and Belgium, yet the Eastern Front was no less bloody. Between 1914 and 1917, huge numbers of people - perhaps as many as 16 million soldiers and two million civilians - were killed, wounded or maimed in enormous battles that sometimes ranged across a front of 100 km in length. Through intimate eyewitness reports, diary entries and memoirs - many of which have never been translated into English before - Lloyd reconstructs the full story of a war that began in the Balkans as a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and which sucked in Russia, Germany and Italy, right through to the final collapse of the Habsburg Empire in 1918. The Eastern Front paints a vivid and authoritative picture of a conflict that shook the world, and that remains central to understanding the tragic, blood-soaked trajectory of the entire twentieth century, including the current war in Ukraine.

Reprint Faksimile. Verzeichnis sämtlicher Güter mit der Guts-Eigenschaft, des Grundsteuer-Reinertrages, der Gesamtfläche und des Flächeninhalts der einzelnen Kulturen, des Viehbestandes, aller industriellen Anlagen und der Fernsprechanschlüsse, Angabe der Besitzer, Pächter und Verwalter, der Post-, Telegrafen- und Eisenbahnstationen und deren Entfernung vom Gute, der evangelischen und katholischen Kirchspiele, der Standesamtsbezirke, der Stadt- bzw. Amtsbezirke, der Oberlandes-, Land- und Amtsgerichte, der Landwehrbezirke, sowie einem alphabetischen Orts- und Personenregister und einem Handbuch der Königlichen Behörden der Provinz. Zweite Auflage. Nach amtlichen Quellen und auf Grund direkter Angaben bearbeitet.Inhalt:Handbuch der Königlichen Behörden, die Provinz Pommern, Allgemeines über Geographie, Geschichte und Statistik1. Regierungsbezirk Stettin: Kreise Anklam, Demmin, Greifenberg, Greifenhagen, Kammin, Naugard, Pyritz, Randow, Regenwalde; Saatzig, Ückermünde, Usedom-Wollin.2. Regierungsbezirk Köslin: Belgard, Bublitz, Bütow, Dramburg, Kolberg-Körlin. Köslin, Lauenburg, Neustettin, Rummelsburg, Schivelbein, Schlawe, Stolp.3. Regierungsbezirk Stralsund: Kreise Franzburg, Greifswald, Grimmen, Rügen.Ortsregister, Namenregister.Reprint Facsimile. Fraktur Script; Directory of all estates with the characteristic of being a manor, the net income from property tax, the total area and the area content of individual crops, the livestock, all industrial facilities, and telephone connections, information on owners, lessees, and managers, the postal, telegraph, and railway stations and their distance from the estate, the Protestant and Catholic parishes, the registry office districts, the city or district jurisdictions, the higher regional, regional, and local courts, the military recruitment districts, as well as an alphabetical directory of places and persons and a handbook of the Royal Authorities of the province. Second edition. Edited based on official sources and direct information.Content:Handbook of the Royal Authorities, the Province of Pomerania, General information about geography, history, and statistics.Administrative district of Stettin: Districts of Anklam, Demmin, Greifenberg, Greifenhagen, Kammin, Naugard, Pyritz, Randow, Regenwalde; Saatzig, Ueckermünde, Usedom-Wollin.Administrative district of Köslin: Belgard, Bublitz, Bütow, Dramburg, Kolberg-Körlin. Köslin, Lauenburg, Neustettin, Rummelsburg, Schivelbein, Schlawe, Stolp.Administrative district of Stralsund: Districts of Franzburg, Greifswald, Grimmen, Rügen.Register of places, Register of names.