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  • Negotiating the NWT Devolution of Lands & Resources
    Hal J. Gerein / Hal JGerein
    In this story, the author is the GNWT's Chief Negotiator for the devolution of lands and resources from Canada. Devolution means the transfer of authority from a senior level of government to a junior level. Many national governments today areinvolved with devolution as a means to "subsidiarity", the principle that politicalpower should be exercised by the least central or ...
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    44,75 €

  • 'THE TRIPLE WHAMMY' AND OTHER RUSSIAN STORIES
    Louis Menashe
    A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The author’s experiences as a radical in the turbulent 1960s, and his eventual disenchantment offer some precedents and perspectives to all those on the Left, Center or Right interested in the fluctuation...
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    26,31 €

  • Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war vol.17
    Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov / Mark Conrad
    This volume is related to the Russian Army during the zar Alexander I era, and are about the Guard cavalry regiments (part 1). Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology dev...
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    40,78 €

  • Fearful Majesty
    Benson Bobrick
    Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time.This acclaimed biography of one of Russia’s most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also surprisingly timely, revealing how many of the issues Russia faces today hav...
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    21,18 €

  • Jews in Service to the Tsar
    Lev Berdnikov / Nora Favorov
    Benjamin Disraeli advised, “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about th...
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    22,05 €

  • The Empire and Ukraine revisited
    Andrew Murray
    Empire and Ukraine 2022 returns to the themes first set out in Andrew Murray’s 2015 book The Empire and Ukraine.When first published by Manifesto Press this book immediately drew the attention of critics, from both the right and elements of a self professed left, who found its focus on the stark realities of imperialism’s barely disguised operations within Europe too much to ac...
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    20,61 €

  • Identidad y Procesos de Democratización en Etiopía y Tanzania
    Adela Beatriz Escobar Cristiani
    Esta obra aborda la complejidad de los procesos políticos africanos durante las transiciones entre 1991 y 2005 en dichos países. Desafiando la simplificación de ver la política africana como un fenómeno exclusivamente local o como una mera imitación de modelos occidentales, la obra resalta la coexistencia de las culturas tradicionales y la influencia occidental en la política a...
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    15,08 €

  • Anastasia
    Eugenia Smith
    Discover the Enigmatic World of Royalty:Step into the captivating life of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia with ''Anastasia: The Autobiography.'' Penned by Eugenia Smith, this enthralling narrative unveils the mysteries and allure of one of history’s most intriguing figures. Journey through the opulent halls of the Russian court, witness the tumultuous events of th...
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    18,31 €

  • The Cantonists
    Mendelevich Josef / Emanuel Rachelle
    Aiming to create a homogeneous population, between 1827 and 1856 the Russian government implemented their malicious plan of forcefully converting Jewish children by conscripting them into harsh military frameworks. About 75,000 children were abducted from their parents. However, the Russians failed in their struggle against the children. Despite cruel punishments, 75% refused t...
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    170,89 €

  • Hannes Meyer
    Tatiana Efrussi
    Swiss architect and urban planner, the second director of the Bauhaus Dessau, Hannes Meyer, spent about six years in the USSR-from 1930 to 1936. This book presents the first in-depth study of Hannes Meyer’s activities during the years of early Stalinism. There is a global interest in this architect’s legacy today, but his work can hardly be understood without a closer examinati...
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    100,42 €

  • Red closet
    Rustam Alexander
    Based on newly discovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LGBTQ people in the USSR. ...
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    22,02 €

  • Night Witches
    Sara L. Weston
    Night Witches were fearless women who took on Hitler’s war machine. Some of them were only teenagers.They flew under the cover of darkness, silent as ghosts, striking terror into the hearts of Nazi soldiers. Their enemies called them 'Night Witches,' convinced they possessed supernatural powers. But they were not witches-they were young Soviet women, pilots and navigators who d...
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    15,46 €

  • Russian Cold, The
    Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian cul...
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    47,13 €

  • Russia e Ucraina. Niente è come sembra
    Cinzia Palmacci
    Ho voluto intitolare questo libro 'Russia e Ucraina. Niente è come sembra' perché di questa crisi che coinvolge due territori dell’est Europa tanto tormentati e minacciati, non avrete mai un quadro chiaro e veritiero, soprattutto dai media mainstream. In verità, oltre alla 'narrativa ufficiale' e conforme al pensiero unico al quale il mainstream ci ha da sempre abituato, c’è qu...
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    35,44 €

  • A Different Russia
    Marvin Kalb
    In the early 1960’s, the darkest, most dangerous years of the Cold War, Kalb brought the curiosity and excitement of a young American journalist to Moscow, where he kept a record of his daily CBS broadcasts on the building confrontation between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and American President John F. Kennedy.Kalb had taught Russian history at Harvard University, spoke the...
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    17,11 €

  • Yashka My life as peasant, exile and soldier
    Isaac Don Levine / Mariia Bochkareva
    Yashka My life as peasant, exile and soldier'', constitue un phare dans le monde du livre, comblant le fossé entre le passé et le présent. Autrefois considéré parmi les livres anciens, cet ouvrage classique, comme tant de livres anciens et oubliés, a façonné notre compréhension de la culture et de l’histoire. exemple remarquable de livres d’histoire qui ont influencé des généra...
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    18,67 €

  • A year in Russia
    Maurice Baring
    A year in Russia'', constitue un phare dans le monde du livre, comblant le fossé entre le passé et le présent. Autrefois considéré parmi les livres anciens, cet ouvrage classique, comme tant de livres anciens et oubliés, a façonné notre compréhension de la culture et de l’histoire. exemple remarquable de livres d’histoire qui ont influencé des générations, et maintenant, grâce ...
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    17,02 €

  • Of HEROIC PROPORTION An American Story
    Mary Bruno Friedman
    This inspiring narrative nonfiction is a tribute to a great unsung American hero! Of HEROIC PROPORTION An American Story of Patriotism and Survival in the Soviet Union During the Cold War reveals a fascinating, little-known chapter of American and Soviet history, and the extraordinary resilience of one boy who defied the system, the odds and even Stalin. Described by historians...
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    23,30 €

  • The Peopling of the Caucasus
    Aram Yardumian / Theodore G. Schurr
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    159,84 €

  • The Crisis In Russia
    Arthur Ransome
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSThe Crisis In RussiaThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete ...
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    11,56 €

  • Confessions Of The Czarina
    C... Paul-Vassili (Catherine Radziwill)
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSConfessions Of The CzarinaThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The com...
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    13,27 €

  • The Russian campaign
    Ruben Ygua
    Traditional methods of studying the past have always given greater importance to nationalistic, religious and moral interests, which subordinated the historical fact to the point of view of the system.The time has come to simplify and show respect for our ancestors, striving to know what really happened in the past, and not just what they pretend to inform us.After so many year...
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    51,01 €

  • (Counter-)Archive
    This book is the first major study exploring archival and memorial practices of the Soviet unofficial culture. The creation of counter-archives was one of the most important forms of cultural resistance in the Soviet Union. Unofficial artists and poets had to reinvent the possibilities of maintaining art and literature that 'did not exist'. Against the background of archival th...
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    222,26 €

  • Tatyana’s War
    Helen Charov / Tatyana Artemyeff
    When Nazi troops invaded her home of Donetsk, Ukraine, in 1941, Tatyana Artemyeff, a 25-year-old teacher, was left on her own to save her two children and mother when her conscripted husband’s unit retreated from the city. Luckily, Tatyana spoke German and was determined to find a way to survive the brutal occupation and keep her family from dying of starvation or execution....
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    57,42 €

  • Being a Woman and Being Tatar
    Alena Lange
    Being a Woman and Being Tatar uses ethnographic research to explore the complex identities of Tatar women. It invites readers to better understand the Tatar women’s ethnic, religious, and geographical diversity across Eastern Europe and Russia, and is vauable for students and researchers gender studies and cultural anthropology. ...
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    227,84 €

  • Rebel Militias in Eastern Ukraine
    Martin Laryš
    This book extends principal-agent theory to the case of pro-Russian rebel militias in Eastern Ukraine. It offers systematic insights into the structures and relations within the leaderless rebellion in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. ...
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    241,20 €

  • Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation
    Emil Aslan Souleimanov / Roberto Colombo
    This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare. ...
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    35,97 €

  • Defrosting the Cold War and Beyond
    Richard Davy
    This volume will help students and others understand the long arc of the Helsinki process, its place in European history and its continuing relevance today. Drawing on the first-hand experience of the author and other sources, the book corrects common errors and identifies some of the key people involved. ...
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    72,99 €

  • Russian Cosmism
    Boris Groys
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    33,96 €

  • Travels in Kamtschatka, During the years 1787 and 1788, Volume 2
    baron de Jean-Baptiste-Barthéle
    Travels in Kamtschatka, During the years 1787 and 1788, Volume 2, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and desig...
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    17,84 €