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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 €

  • Volodymyr Zelensky
    Daniel D. Lee
    'Volodymyr Zelensky: From Comedian to Hope of Ukraine' is a compelling and detailed exploration of the life and presidency of Volodymyr Zelensky, a figure whose rise to power marked a significant turning point in Ukrainian history. This updated edition delves into Zelensky’s journey from a popular entertainer to a pivotal political leader, set against the backdrop of Ukraine’s ...
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    16,53 €

  • Vladimir Putin
    Daniel D. Lee
    'Vladimir Putin: The Czar of Russia' is a comprehensive and insightful exploration of one of the most enigmatic figures in modern global politics. This book delves deep into the life, legacy, and leadership of Vladimir Putin, a man who has indelibly shaped the course of Russia and influenced the world stage in the 21st century.Spanning from his modest beginnings to his ascent a...
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    18,81 €

  • Slavonic & East European Review (101
    Simon Dixon
    The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, is published quarterly by the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA). Issues are numbered serially, the four annual issues constituting a volume. ...
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    109,16 €

  • The new politics of Russia
    Andrew Monaghan
    This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in western relations since the early 2000s, from the disagreements over European security and the war in Syria right up to the invasion of Ukraine. ...
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    25,99 €

  • The new politics of Russia
    Andrew Monaghan
    This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in western relations since the early 2000s, from the disagreements over European security and the war in Syria right up to the invasion of Ukraine. ...
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    157,50 €

  • Blowing up Ukraine
    Michael Stanchev / Yuri Felshtinsky
    Blowing up Ukraine is a first history of democracy in Ukraine since 1991 and the lethal methods Russia has used over a quarter of a century to regain Ukraine as a vazal state - culminating in a full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting war crimes. Over twenty years, the Kremlin skilfully manipulated Ukraine’s self-serving politicians and oligarchs, only to be thwarted time...
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    23,70 €

  • What Went Wrong?
    John A. Bernbaum / Philip Yancey
    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 ...
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    17,71 €

  • In Defence of Lenin
    Alan Woods / Rob Sewell
    John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and the most hated person alive. He was loved by tens of millions who wanted to change society, but hated by the ruling class and their apologists.As the creator of the Bolshevik Party and leader of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was a man who changed the world and translated the idea...
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    21,00 €

  • South
    Ernest Shackleton
    'South' by Sir Ernest Shackleton is not merely a tale of Antarctic exploration; it is an extraordinary testament to Shackleton’s unparalleled leadership in the face of unimaginable adversity. As the captain of the ill-fated Endurance expedition, Shackleton’s remarkable leadership style emerges as the true hero of this epic narrative.In the icy grip of the Antarctic, Shackleton ...
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    48,63 €

  • A Short History of Russia
    Mary Platt Parmele
    A Short History of Russia, is a classical and a rare book, that 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 redesigned. These books a...
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    23,59 €

  • Siberia To-Day
    Frederick Ferdinand Moore
    Siberia To-Day, is a classical and a rare book, that 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 redesigned. These books are not made...
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    25,86 €

  • The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg,
    Alexander Michie
    The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg,, is a classical and a rare book, that 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 ...
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    28,91 €

  • Imperial Designs, Postimperial Extremes
    Anchored in the Russian Empire, but not limited to it, the eight studies in this volume explore the nineteenth-century imperial responses to the challenge of modernity, the dramatic disruptions of World War I, the radical scenarios of the interwar period and post-communist endgames at the different edges of Eurasia. The book continues and amplifies the historiographic momentum ...
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    108,37 €

  • Variations On The Theme Galina Ustvolskaya
    Semyon Y. Bokman
    There is neither in music history nor in the history of art such a closed and contradictory composer and creator as Galina Ustvolskaya. The music of Galina Ustvolskaya (excepting commissioned works written not for internal reasons but for necessity) is a kind of mysterious ritual. What is her music about? What ideas dominate it? Ustvolskaya’s music art is not big in volume, but...
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    26,30 €

  • The Russian Revolution
    Billy Wellman
    Are you curious to learn what set Russia on its present-day course?The Russian Revolution is a perfect example of how history can contract and become exceedingly dense and complex. Untangling the Russian Revolution (in fact, Russian revolutions) must start by considering events that happened centuries before February 1917. Only in this way can we understand the multitude of eve...
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    20,12 €

  • Deux années en Ukraine (1917-1919); avec une carte de l’Ukraine.
    Charles Dubreuil
    Deux années en Ukraine (1917-1919); avec une carte de l’Ukraine., un livre classique et rare qui a été considéré comme essentiel tout au long de l’histoire de l’humanité, pour que cet ouvrage ne soit jamais oublié, nous chez Alpha Editions avons fait des efforts pour sa préservation en rééditant ce livre dans un format moderne pour les générations présentes et futures. Tout ce ...
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    20,70 €

  • The Big Red Dog
    William Craig Lachowsky
    The Big Red Dog: American Mistrust of Russians exposes the dual realities that exist in the United States today: the reality experienced by Russian Americans and the one experienced by everyone else. Without mincing words, author William Lachowsky exposes the deep prejudice in the United States-and around the world-towards those with Russian heritage. Drawing on his own persona...
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    13,41 €

  • The Story of the Russian Land
    Alexander Dmitrievich Nechvolodov
    Military general, intelligence agent, aristocrat, author, historian, major player in the pre-Soviet Russian reactionary right, Alexander Dmitrievich Nechvolodov (1864-1938) yet remains a relatively obscure figure in the Western world’s memory of the Russian revolution. In the early twentieth century, his masterpiece The Story of the Russian Land was regarded as one of the best ...
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    33,03 €

  • Seven Russian Archetypes
    Svetozar Poštić
    Seven Russian Archetypes is a description of seven seminal Russian figures: the Victim (zhertva), the Fool (iurodivyi), the Rebel or the Bandit (buntar’ ili razboinik), the Wanderer (strannik), the Mother (mat’), the Peasant (muzhik), and the Intellectual (intelligent). Drawing from Russian history, folklore, literature, visual arts, and religion, these seven profiles are analy...
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    26,07 €

  • The Big Red Dog
    William Craig Lachowsky
    The Big Red Dog: American Mistrust of Russians exposes the dual realities that exist in the United States today: the reality experienced by Russian Americans and the one experienced by everyone else. Without mincing words, author William Lachowsky exposes the deep prejudice in the United States-and around the world-towards those with Russian heritage. Drawing on his own persona...
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    26,79 €

  • Ucrania en su historia y sus historias
    ASOACIACION DE INICIATIVAS EUROPEAS PARA UCRANIA
    Hasta hace muy poco, en nuestro debate era una rara avis poder escuchar a ucranianos hablar en primera persona de sus experiencias y compartir sus perspectivas, sus anhelos, como el sujeto histórico que conforman. Este libro, anterior a la invasión rusa a gran escala de 2022, surgió en gran medida en respuesta a ello. Era necesario entonces y sigue siéndolo ahora: el futuro de ...
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    20,80 €

  • Nicholas and Alexandra Majesties and Massacre
    Elena Sommers
    This is a book about love, life and death set in Russia, during Czar Nicholas the II’s reign. It commences at the end of the 19th century with his father’s burial and his subsequent inheritance of the Crown - with absolute power. His reign is underpinned by the strong love between him and his wife Alexandra and overshadowed by the presence of Rasputin. But his unwise decisions ...
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    11,66 €

  • Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, Princess Isabel and the Ending of Servile Labour in Russia and Brazil
    Shane O’Rourke
    Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Princess Isabel were key players in the political struggle ending servile labor in the empires of Russia and Brazil. This book chronicles the political activity of the two royal women to end servile labor in their respective countries ...
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    50,67 €

  • The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov
    Steven Usitalo / Mihail Tarasov
    This study explores the evolution of Lomonosov’s imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years of the Soviet period. It reveals much about the intersection in Russian culture of attitudes towards the meaning and significance of science, as well as about the rise of a Russian national identity, of which Lomonosov became an out...
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    41,08 €

  • Slavonic & East European Review (101
    Simon Dixon
    The April 2023 issue of Slavonic & East European Review.The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, is published quarterly by the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA). Issues are numbered serially, the four annual issues constituting a volume. ...
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    116,52 €


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