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Akaki Akakievitch Bachmatchkine, un petit fonctionnaire pétersbourgeois, consacre l'essentiel de son temps à des copies d'actes, tâche qu'il accomplit avec zèle au milieu des moqueries et des vexations. Une catastrophe chamboule un jour sa vie : son manteau, usé jusqu'à la corde, doit être remplacé. Ceci donne subitement une autre dimension à l'existence d'Akaki. Il commence à économiser, kopeck après kopeck, pour se procurer le vêtement dont l'acquisition vire à l'obsession. Il est un homme heureux, le jour où il l'endosse pour la première fois. Malheureusement, en rentrant d'une fête organisée par ses collègues pour célébrer le grand événement, Akaki est agressé et son manteau volé. Pour la première fois de sa vie, le malheureux se révolte contre le sort et entame des démarches pour récupérer son cher manteau. Malheureusement, un personnage considérable et important auquel il demande secours s'en prend violemment à lui afin d'impressionner une connaissance qui lui rendait visite. C'est le coup de grâce pour Akaki, qui meurt de froid quelques jours plus tard. C'est alors que commencent à se produire des événements inexplicables : un spectre apparaît dans différents quartiers de Pétersbourg, effrayant les passants et leur dérobant leurs manteaux. Le fantôme, qui n'est autre que celui d'Akaki, attaque finalement le personnage important qui avait renvoyé si durement le petit fonctionnaire et lui vole son manteau. Un nouveau spectre apparaît dans Pétersbourg.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the Wagner Group, a private military company with ties to the Russian government. It covers the origins and expansion of the group, its involvement in conflicts around the world, including Syria, Ukraine, Libya, and Africa, as well as its controversial relationship with the Russian government. The book provides a detailed account of the group's tactics and strategies in military operations, resource extraction, and political interference, and analyzes the implications for regional security and international relations. The author, Sahil A Gosalia, is an expert in international relations and security studies and has extensively researched the Wagner Group and its activities. His fascination with secretive and often controversial topics led him to delve deep into the workings of this elusive private military company. This book is a result of his years of research, interviews, and analysis, and provides a unique insight into the Wagner Group and its impact on global security. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of modern warfare and the role of private military companies in it.

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"... Chez nous, chers lecteurs, cela soit dit sans vous fâcher (peut-être vous fâcherez-vous qu'un éleveur d'abeilles vous parle aussi familièrement qu'à son compère), chez nous, à la campagne, voici ce qui se passe de toute éternité : aussitôt que les travaux des champs sont terminés, le moujik grimpe pour tout l'hiver sur son poêle, et nous autres, nous cachons nos abeilles dans une cave obscure. Quand il n'y a plus une seule grue dans le ciel, plus une seule poire sur l'arbre, alors, aussitôt le soir arrivé, vous êtes sûrs d'apercevoir, au bout de la rue, une maisonnette éclairée d'où sortent des bruits de rires, de chansons qui s'entendent au loin; la balalaika résonne et quelquefois aussi le violon mêlés au brouhaha des conversations. Ce sont nos vetchernitsy. Elles ressemblent, voyez-vous, à vos bals; seulement, on ne peut pas dire que ce soit tout à fait la même chose. Quand vous vous rendez au bal, c'est uniquement dans le bût de faire aller vos jambes et de bâiller dans vos mains ; tandis que chez nous, une foule de jeunes filles se réunissent non pas pour danser, mais pour faire marcher la quenouille et le fuseau..."

Im digitalen Zeitalter wird Kommunikation zu einer zentralen Ressource der Kriegsführung, wie der Russland-Ukraine-Konflikt zeigt: Die Kriegsparteien bedienen sich modernster Methoden strategischer Kommunikation, um den politischen und öffentlichen Diskurs in ihrem Sinne zu beeinflussen. In diesem "Krieg der Narrative" prallen widersprüchliche Sichtweisen aufeinander. Das stellt nicht nur das Publikum, sondern auch den qualitätsorientierten Journalismus vor besondere Herausforderungen - bei der Berichterstattung über die Kämpfe aus den Kriegsgebieten, bei der Faktenprüfung und beim Quellenabgleich ebenso wie bei der Visualisierung der Berichte und Reportagen. Nicht nur die Kriegsparteien, auch der Kriegs- und Krisenjournalismus rüsten daher kommunikativ auf - etwa im Hinblick auf den Einsatz von Systemen der Künstlichen Intelligenz oder der Virtuellen Realität. Expert/-innen aus Wissenschaft und Journalismus widmen sich in diesem Band ausführlich den Strategien und Methoden der Kriegskommunikation. Dabei analysieren sie das Vorgehen der ukrainischen und russischen Regierungen, aber auch die Kriegsberichterstattung und deren Wirkungen auf die Öffentlichkeit, die von Zweifeln an der journalistischen Objektivität oder einem nachlassenden Interesse geprägt sind.

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In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

While Ibsen's plays were seldom performed in Romania in the first half of the 20th century, historical sources highlight his strong impact on the national theatre practice. To address this contradiction, Gianina Druta approaches the reception of Ibsen in the Romanian theatre in the period 1894-1947, combining Digital Humanities and theatre historiography. This investigation of the European theatre culture and the way in which the foreign acting and staging traditions influenced the Romanian Ibsenites provides new insights into mechanisms of aesthetic transmission. Thus, this study presents a European theatre landscape whose unpredictability and uniqueness cannot be confined to essentialist interpretations.

Formal categorization of people presents significant challenges. When politics and law become ethnicized, the pivotal question arises: who is who? This problem surfaced in Moravia after the 1905 Settlement. Other countries faced similar dilemmas decades later, during affirmative action implementation. Contemporary Moravians, like Americans or Brazilians later on, possibly grappled with a clash between traditional individual rights and modern collective rights. The critical inquiry: how far can we limit individual rights for collective rights (nation, race, minority)? Moravia, in the early 20th century, served as the first experimental laboratory.

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Lonely Planet's Experience Croatia is your guide to unforgettable experiences and local surprises. Explore Dubrovnik's city walls, stroll the streets in Zagreb and chill at a beach in Split - all guided by local experts with fresh perspectives. Uncover Croatia's best experiences and get away from the everyday!

Ela! Ela! is a collection of recipes and stories from cook and food writer Ella Mittas. Inspired by her time working in a village in the mountains of Crete and the hot, loud streets of Istanbul, as well as her Greek heritage, they represent a journey of food, culture and belonging. These simple, comforting recipes are a mix of things Ella saw, ate and was taught on her travels, though years of cooking them have made them something more her own. Above all, they represent community – the reason Ella ever wanted to cook at all.

In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded in secrecy after the Second World War. What broke the silence in Soviet Russia, Soviet Ukraine, and the Republic of Turkey were works of literature. These texts of poetry and prose - some passed hand-to-hand underground, others published to controversy - shocked the conscience of readers and sought to move them to action.Blood of Others presents these works as vivid evidence of literature's power to lift our moral horizons. In bringing these remarkable texts to light and contextualizing them among Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian representations of Crimea from 1783, Rory Finnin provides an innovative cultural history of the Black Sea region. He reveals how a "e;poetics of solidarity"e; promoted empathy and support for an oppressed people through complex provocations of guilt rather than shame.Forging new roads between Slavic studies and Middle Eastern studies, Blood of Others is a compelling and timely exploration of the ideas and identities coursing between Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine - three countries determining the fate of a volatile and geopolitically pivotal part of our world.

The world's first botrytis wine, Hungary's Tokaji won an enviable reputation centuries ago. But never before have the development of its winetypes and the story of its ups and downs in fame and prestige been presented so fully in English. Everything from Hungary's founding in the 10th century through the recent communist period is covered. Relying on an array of Hungarian source materials, Lambert-Gcs sets the information out in encyclopedia fashion, with easily digested A to Z entries in four categories: People; Places; Vineyard-Tracts; Grape Varieties and Wine-making. Each section concludes with essays that tie the entries together. Besides being an outstanding reference work, Tokaji Wine is sprinkled with fascinating notes and bacchic humor that make it a delight to read.

"Masterfully told and compellingly reinterpreted." The Moscow TimesStalinism at War tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two. Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and ending with a bloody counter-insurgency in the borderlands of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics, the Soviet Union's war was both considerably longer and more all-encompassing than is sometimes appreciated. Here, acclaimed scholar Mark Edele explores the complex experiences of both ordinary and extraordinary citizens - Russians and Koreans, Ukrainians and Jews, Lithuanians and Georgians, men and women, loyal Stalinists and critics of his regime - to reveal how the Soviet Union and leadership of a ruthless dictator propelled Allied victory over Germany and Japan. In doing so, Edele weaves together material on the society and culture of the wartime years with high-level politics and unites the military, economic and political history of the Soviet Union with broader popular histories from below. The result is an engaging, intelligent and authoritative account of the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1949.

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