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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in a tumultuous period for Russia and Ukraine. The Soviet Union broke apart, Communism was exposed as morally bankrupt, and Russian leaders turned to the West for help. In an astonishing development, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin invited a group of American evangelicals to give advice on restoring morality to Russia. The nation was moving toward democratic and religious freedoms until, one decade later, Vladimir Putin abruptly reversed course. He labeled most religious organizations as "foreign agents" and set in motion an aggressive plan to restore the pride of the "Russian world." Putin's alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, and his hostility to true democracy, led to the brutal invasion of Ukraine, which had opted for freedom and democracy. Other books have analyzed the economic and social dynamics in Russia and Ukraine after 1991. This one chronicles a previously untold story: the role religion played in the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the rise of a newly autocratic Russia, and the emergence of democracy in Ukraine. What lay behind the radically different paths chosen by two former Soviet republics?

The novel that reportedly caused a walkout upon publication, this grotesque, absurdist work by Russia's de Sade follows four individuals set upon a common goal of destruction and violence.

"The startling, vivid debut novel by Alexey Navalny's press secretary, following a woman who is arrested at an anticorruption rally in Moscow and sentenced to ten days in a special detention center, where she shares a cell with five other women from all walks of life. The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 is the debut novel by Kira Yarmysh that follows a young woman, Anya, who is arrested at a Moscow anticorruption rally and, under false charges, sentenced to a ten-day stretch at a special detention center. In a large barren room furnished only by communal bunkbeds, Anya meets her cellmates: five ordinary Russian women arrested on petty charges. They come from all strata and experiences of Russian society, and as they pass the long hours waiting to be released, they slowly build trust and companionship while sipping lukewarm tea in plastic cups and playing games. Above all, they talk: about politics, feminism, their families, their sexualities, and how to make the most of prison life. Yet as the waking days stretch listlessly before Anya, soon she is plagued by strange nightmarish visions and begins to wonder if her cellmates might not actually be as ordinary as they seem. Will the facade of everyday life ultimately crack for good? A brilliant exploration of what it means to be marginalized both as an independent woman and in an increasingly intolerant Russia in particular, and a powerful prison story that renews a grand Russian tradition, The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 introduces one of the most urgent and gripping new voices in international literature"--

Den optimisme, der har præget os europæere i årtier, har i 2022 fået et alvorlig tilbageslag. Den ny krig iværksat af Rusland skaber usikkerhed om vores fremtid. Forfatteren af denne bog giver en samlet vurdering af udviklingen i vores verdensdel siden afslutningen af 2. Verdenskrig. Han tager udgangspunkt i konkrete erfaringer og pointerer, at vi betaler en pris for naivitet over for styret i Kreml. Viggo Fischer påpeger, at vi for længst burde have forstået den fare, vi var stillet overfor. Det gælder også i forholdet til det andet store diktatur, det kinesiske. Men udsigten er ikke alene mørk. Står demokratierne sammen, kan vi være forhåbningsfulde. Læserne tages med på en historisk rejse med nye perspektiver. Også til det store østasiatiske demokrati Japan, der er begyndt at finde sin form som en aktiv deltager i de frie landes samarbejde.Kan vi undgå en ny storkrig? Forfatteren er optimist, hvis demokratierne viser styrke og undgår de fejl, som førte til krigen i 1939. Danmark yder et bidrag ved at styrke sit forsvar, blandt andet med de nye avancerede amerikanske fly, som ses herunder.

Russian military deception, generally known as Maskirovka, is a centuries-old military concept that began to take on added importance at the start of the twentieth century. Now formally developed and practiced, the concept of Maskirovka encompasses a broad range of tactics, from the use of camouflage to the practice of denial and deception-all having applications in the military, intelligence, and political arenas. Maskirovka's arsenal of deceptive measures include concealment, manoeuvers intended to deceive, categorical denial, the use of decoys and dummies, and the spreading of propaganda and disinformation.

Drawing on previously neglected family sources and original interviews, Anna Pasternak tells the heartbreaking story of the love affair between her great uncle Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and his muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Filled with the rich detail of Boris's secret life, Lara unearths a moving love story of courage, loyalty, suffering, drama, and loss, casting a new light on the legacy of a timeless classic.

In this riveting, New York Times bestselling memoir?first published by Harper in 1967?Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan's critically acclaimed biography, Stalin's Daughter, describes the surreal experience of growing up in the Kremlin in the shadow of her father, Joseph Stalin. In 1967, she fled the Soviet Union for India, where she approached the U.S. Embassy for asylum. Once there, she showed her CIA handler something remarkable: a manuscript about her life that she'd written in 1963. The Indian Ambassador to the USSR, whom she'd befriended, had smuggled the manuscript out of the Soviet Union the previous year.Structured as a series of letters to a ?friend??Svetlana refused to identify him, but we now know it was her close friend, the physicist Fyodor Volkenstein?this astounding memoir, also in some ways a love letter to Russia, with its ancient heritage and spectacularly varied geography, exposes the dark human heart of the Kremlin. Each letter adds a new strand to her story; some are wistful, while others are desperate exorcisms of the tragedies that plagued her life. Candid, surprising, and compelling, Twenty Letters to a Friend offers one of the most revealing portraits of life inside Stalin's inner circle, and of the notorious dictator himself.

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PrefaceThere are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russian civilization. The celebrity, however, of the great Muscovite sovereign among young persons is due in a great measure to the circumstance of his having repaired personally to Holland, in the course of his efforts to introduce the industrial arts among his people, in order to study himself the art and mystery of shipbuilding, and of his having worked with his own hands in a ship-yard there. The little shop where Peter pursued these practical studies still stands in Saardam, a ship-building town not far from Amsterdam. The building is of wood, and is now much decayed; but, to preserve it from farther injury, it has been incased in a somewhat larger building of brick, and it is visited annually by great numbers of curious travelers.The whole history of Peter, as might be expected from the indications of character developed by this incident, forms a narrative that is full of interest and instruction for all.About the author: Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 - October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books. On November 14, 1803, Abbott was born in Hallowell, Maine to Jacob Abbott II and Betsey Chandler. He attended the Hallowell Academy. Abbott graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820. At some point during his years there, he supposedly added the second "t" to his surname, to avoid being "Jacob Abbot the 3rd" (although one source notes he did not actually begin signing his name with two t's until several years later).Abbott studied at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824. He taught in Portland academy and was tutor in Amherst College during the next year. From 1825 to 1829 Abbott was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829, and was principal of it in 1829-1833; was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church (which he founded), at Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1834-1835; and was, with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys, in New York City.He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He wrote 180 books and was a coauthor or editor of 31 more. He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time after 1839, and where his brother, Samuel Phillips Abbott, founded the Abbott School.His Rollo Books, such as Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe, etc., are the best known of his writings, having as their chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home, The History of Sandford and Merton, and The Parent's Assistant. To follow up his Rollo books, he wrote of Uncle George, using him to teach the young readers about ethics, geography, history, and science. He also wrote 22 volumes of biographical histories and a 10 volume set titled the Franconia Stories. (wikipedia.org)

This book examines Joseph Stalin's increasing popularity in the post-Soviet space, and analyzes how his image, and the nostalgia it evokes, is manipulated and exploited for political gain. The author argues that, in addition to the evil dictator and the Georgian comrade, there is a third portrayal of Stalinthe one projected by the generation that saw the tail end of the USSR, the post-Soviet millennials. This book is not a biography of one of the most controversial historical figures of the past century. Rather, through a combination of sociopolitical commentary and autobiographical elements that are uncommon in monographs of this kind, the attempt is to explore how Joseph Stalin's complex legacies and the conflicting cult of his irreconcilable tripartite of personalities still loom over the region as a whole, including Russia and, perhaps to an even deeper extent, Koba's native landnow the independent Republic of Georgia, caught between its unreconciled Soviet past and the potential future within the European Union.

30 Fictional Mystic and Enigmatic Stories from 28 of Russia's Finest Authors on Fantasy, Imagination, Mysticism, Supernatural, Religious Experience and Esoteric Encounters. All of them entertaining as well as thought-provoking, the happy and sad, tearful and cheerful, unusual and enigmatic, and always reflecting Russian and Soviet life. Authors include:Aleksandr Izmailov, Aleksandr Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanov, Aleksei Apukhtin, Aleksei Budischev, Andrei Zarin, Antoni Pogorelski, Dmitri Tzenzor, Feodor Dostoyevsky, Georgi Chulkov, Georgi Severtzev-Polilov, Gregori Danilevski, Ivan Turgenev, Konstantine Aksakov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Zagostin, Nikolai Melgunov, Nikolai Geintze, Osip Senkovski, Valentin Franchich, Valeri Brusov, Valerian Olin, Vasili Zhukovski, Vladimir Odoyevski, Grigori Skovoroda, and Mitrophan Lodizhenski.I have selected the best of them for this collection, and translated them personally from the original Russian for the contemporary English reader., with a biography of each author included. Most of them have never been published in English. Daniel H. Shubin has translated from Russian into English, and written on Russian history, biography, religion and philosophy, some 30 volumes.

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As the first in a larger series of publications which preserve and make accessible primary sources from various archives and other materials related to the history of Circassia, this volume contains the relevant dispatches of A. A. Challaye, the Consul of France in Odessa for the years 1836 to 1840. It offers a rare glimpse into the way French diplomacy was making sense of events in and around the North Caucasus and the eastern shore of the Black Sea at the time of increased tensions between Russia and Great Britain over the Circassian question - the political status of nations which inhabited the western part of the North Caucasus and of the North Caucasus in general.

Poems from the Volcano was written in a challenging and painful time in my life. Originally, I had bought a normal diary from WHSmiths with the thought that I would write my daily diary. I was rather overweight though. I had done a Prevention of Type II Diabetes Programme remotely using Microsoft Teams and because of this programme I was losing weight.From February 2022 I had also decided not to take any medication to treat my Bipolar Disorder. This had resulted in me not being able to sleep which resulted in me suffering horrific hallucinations. It was in the diary then I would write notes about my life. From the age of seventeen to twenty-two I had suffered different stages of mental illness which included, nervous tension, agoraphobia, schizophrenia. I was put in a psychiatric ward for four weeks. My life after that went into hell and out of sheer madness became obese. I began writing Poems from the Volcano in the Spring of 2022 and concluded in the Autumn of 2022. It is about adolescence heartbreak and the writing is inspired by own battle with heartbreak and depression. Some poems reflect political themes such as Ukraine and Russia. There is a historical poem called 'Tat', about Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh. These poems were a joy to pen.

Dive into the dark recesses of the human soul in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Follow the tormented Raskolnikov as he grapples with guilt, morality, and redemption in 19th-century St. Petersburg. A gripping exploration of the psyche, this timeless classic delves into the consequences of a daring and desperate act.

DostoevskySober Hope: Finding Faith in the Bleak Midwinter As winter descends to end the year 2023, it is a time for contemplation: a time to revel in the joys and find balm for the woes of the past year, a time to find the courage to hold on, and the hope to thrive in the new year. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) faced his own bleak (and Russian!) winters, from childhood play amongst the impoverished at his father's medical clinic to a last minute reprieve from the Tsar's firing squad for discussing banned books followed by ten years of prison camp and military service in exile. While his novels, such as Crime & Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov demonstrate human depravity they also give glimmers of grace, love, and beauty which have made him one of the most beloved novelists of all time. It is our hope that as you find time to relax during the holiday season (making it a habit for the new year!), that you will find these discussions deeply meaningful. Awaiting for you within are discussions of his characters from novels and short stories alike, Dostoevsky-inspired poems, and reviews of films, books, and even contemporary music which reflect the light and warmth he dared to find in his own bleak winter. CONTRIBUTORS"Dostoevsky for Our Times" by Editorial introduction by Seth Myers.DOSTOEVSKY: THE FUNDAMENTALS"Dostoevsky the Culturally Active Christian" by William Collen"Dostoevsky's Narrative of (Un)Belief: From Psychology to Theology" by John Givens "Underground Apologetics" by George Scondras "A Midterm in Russian Literature" by Tom SimsTHE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV"The Brothers Karamazov and the Existential Problem of Atheism" by Josiah Peterson "Fifty Shades of Bleak: The Karamazov Principle Explored" by Matthew Lilley "Dear, Kind God: A Divine Dilemma" by Grant Walker BroadhurstTHE IDIOT"Beauty in Tragedy: The Idiot, Dostoevsky, and Eucatastrophe" by Clark Weidner "Interpreting Prince Myshkin: The Idiot" by Joshua Jo Wah Yen CRIME AND PUNISHMENT"What Would I Be Without God?" by Sojourna Howfree "By Their Fruit: An Allegorical Tale" by Brian MeltonSHORT STORIES AND POEMS"Crazy Love: The Action and Call of Grace in Dostoevsky's 'The Dream of the Ridiculous Man'" by Theresa Pihl "The Heart of Christ and Dostoevsky's 'The Christmas Tree and a Wedding'" by Christy Luis "2057 Carnot Street" by Patricia Newberry "Another Magi's Journey" by Awara Fernandez "Necropolis and the Soul's Well" by Katie WindhamREVIEWS"From Literature to Film: Adapting Dostoevsky's Works" by Mary Lou Cornish "Soul Survival Kit: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky" by Seth Myers ."Dostoevsky, Man About Town: Gulags, Muscovite Gentlemen, and Murakami" by Seth Myers "Review of James Scanlan's Dostoevsky the Thinker," by Seth Myers"Dostoevsky in Midnights' Metropolis: Midnights' Anti-Hero and Marvel-ous Heroes" by Seth Myers Volume 6, Issue 4, Advent 2024330 pagesCover Image: Riz Crescini