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Royal British Columbia Museum By Snowshoe Buckboard and Steamer Women of the
Book SynopsisThe vivid, personal accounts of four women who lived and travelled as settlers in early British Columbia '...a cloud passing away from the face of the moon revealed a band of wild horses bearing down upon us at a full gallop. As they came near and saw us they divided into two groups, passing by on either side. Had the moon not come out they would probably have become entangled in our tent ropes, and we should not have lived to tell the tale.'--Violet Sillitoe, between Osoyoos and Penticton The women in this book were trailblazers. The frontiers they lived on were not only geographical but personal. As they left the drawing rooms of England and eastern Canada for new lives in the far West, social patterns were disrupted, and the status quo dissolved. On the wagon roads and river boats of nineteenth-century British Columbia, they found risks, opportunities and freedoms far beyond those familiar to their more settled contemporaries. By Snowshoe, Buckboard and Steamer tells four extraordin
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Johns Hopkins University Press Diagnosing Literary Genius
Book SynopsisBy examining the psychiatric engagement with the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and the decadents and revolutionaries, Sirotkina provides a rich account of Russia's medical and literary history during this turbulent revolutionary period.Trade ReviewIrina Sirotkina gives a fascinating account of the growth of psychiatry in Russia through the prism of literature. -- Anne Garside Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease [Sirotkina] has a deep interest in her subject, and she offers a mine of information and commentary about the linked histories of psychiatry and literature in Russia (and in the post-1917 Russian emigre community). The results of her archival research are most rewarding for anyone interested in the history of Russian psychiatry. -- Daniel Rancour-Laferriere Times Literary Supplement In this absorbing work of exemplary scholarship, Irina Sirotkina... convincingly correlates trends in the theory and practice of Russian psychotherapy, during the fifty-year period studied, with changing developments in sociopolitical thought. -- Martin Bidney Slavic Review A worthy and cleverly constructed attempt to redress the excesses of casting psychiatry as a self-interested body. -- Ben Mayhew Medical History 2004 A valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of Russian psychiatry. -- Laura Goering Journal of the History of Medicine 2004 An interesting and respectable history of a critical time in Russia's history. -- Cary Federman European LegacyTable of ContentsContents: Preface On Transliteration and Spelling Introduction 1 Gogol, Moralists, and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry 2 Dostoevsky: From Epilepsy to Progeneration 3 Tolstoy and the Beginning of Psychotherapy in Russia 4 Decadents, Revolutionaries, and the Nation's Mental Health 5 The Institute of Genius: Psychiatry in the Early Soviet Years Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Arizona Press When Worlds Collide
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Random House USA Inc A Brotherhood of Spies
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Random House USA Inc A Very Expensive Poison The Assassination of
Book SynopsisA true story of murder and conspiracy that points directly to Vladimir Putin, by The Guardian’s former Moscow bureau chief and author of The Snowden Files and CollusionOn November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death? Polonium—a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. Here Luke Harding unspools a real-life political assassination story—complete with KGB, CIA, MI6, and Russian mobsters. He shows how Litvinenko’s murder foreshadowed the killings of other Kremlin critics, from Washington, DC, to Moscow, and how these are tied to Russia’s current misadventures in Ukraine and Syria. In doing so, he becomes a target himself and unearths a chain of corruption and death leading straight to Vladimir Putin. From his investigations of the downing of flight MH17 to the Panama Papers, Harding sheds a terrifying
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Random House USA Inc Lenin
Book SynopsisVictor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man.Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was radicalized after the execution of his brother in 1887. Sebestyen traces the story from Lenin's early years to his long exile in Europe and return to Petrograd in 1917 to lead the first Communist revolution in history. Uniquely, Sebestyen has discovered that throughout Lenin's life his closest relationships were with his mother, his sisters, his wife, and his mistress. The long-suppressed story told here of the love triangle that Lenin had with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his beautiful, married mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a more complicated character than that of the coldly one-dimensional leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.With Lenin's personal papers and those of other leading political figures now available, Sebestyen gives is new details that bring to life the dramatic and gripping story of how Lenin seized power in a coup and ran his revolutionary state. The product of a violent, tyrannical, and corrupt Russia, he chillingly authorized the deaths of thousands of people and created a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for a greater ideal. An old comrade what had once admired him said that Lenin desired the good . . . but created evil. This included his invention of Stalin, who would take Lenin's system of the gulag and the secret police to horrifying new heights.In Lenin, Victor Sebestyen has written a brilliant portrait of this dictator as a complex and ruthless figure, and he also brings to light important new revelations about the Russian Revolution, a pivotal point in modern history.(With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs)
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St. Martin's Griffin The Spy in Moscow Station
Book SynopsisThe thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscowbefore more American assets are rounded up and killed. Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former Director of NSA & CIAIn the late 1970s, the National Security Agency still did not officially existthose in the know referred to it dryly as the No Such Agency. So why, when NSA engineer Charles Gandy filed for a visa to visit Moscow, did the Russian Foreign Ministry assert with confidence that he was a spy? Outsmarting honey traps and encroaching deep enough into enemy territory to perform complicated technical investigations, Gandy accomplished his mission in Russia, but discovered more than State and CIA wanted him to know. Eric Haseltine''s The Spy in Moscow Station tells of a time whenmuch like todayRussian spycraft had proven itself far beyond the best technology the U.S. had to offer. The perils of American arrogance mixed with b
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Random House USA Inc Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “Unforgettable . . . a book about Putin’s Russia that is unlike any other.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of PainFrom a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin’s rule ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—NPR, Kirkus ReviewsIn this rich and novelistic tour of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa introduces readers to some of the country’s most remarkable figures—from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians—who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state, each walks an individual path of compromise. Some muster cunning and cynicism to extract all manner of benefits and privileges from those in power. Others, finding themselves to be less adept, are left broken and demoralized. What binds them together is the tangled web of dilemmas and contradictions they face. Between Two Fires chronicles the lives of a number of strivers who understand that their dreams are best—or only—realized through varying degrees of cooperation with the Russian government. With sensitivity and depth, Yaffa profiles the director of the country’s main television channel, an Orthodox priest at war with the church hierarchy, a Chechen humanitarian who turns a blind eye to persecutions, and many others. The result is an intimate and probing portrait of a nation that is much discussed yet little understood. By showing how citizens shape their lives around the demands of a capricious and frequently repressive state—as often by choice as under threat of force—Yaffa offers urgent lessons about the true nature of modern authoritarianism.Praise for Between Two Fires“A deep and revealing portrait of life inside Vladimir Putin’s Russia. . . . Yaffa mines a rich vein, describing his subjects’ moral compromises and often ingenious ways of engaging a crooked bureaucracy to show how the Kremlin sustains its authoritarianism.”—The New York Times Book Review“Few journalists have penetrated so deep and with so much nuance into the moral ambiguities of Russia. If you want insight into the deeper distortions the Kremlin causes in people’s psyches this book is invaluable.”—Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible “A stunning chronicle of Putin’s new Russia . . . It celebrates the vitality of the Russian people even as it explores the compromises and accommodations that they must make. . . . This embrace of contradictions is what makes Between Two Fires such a poignant and poetic book.”—Alex Gibney, Air Mail
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Rowman & Littlefield Russia: Great Power, Weakened State
Book SynopsisRussia inspires fear. For decades, American presidents viewed the Soviet Union as an “evil empire,” and now, the Ukrainian crisis has added a new chapter to this narrative inherited from the Cold War. Russia’s behavior is regarded with distrust and its “nuisance power” arouses frustration. The country’s image has not been so negative since the collapse of the Soviet Union.But at the same time—and this is a key point of this book—Russia is fearful, too. Thirty years after the end of the Soviet Union, multiple ghosts haunt the country, its elites, and its society, from concern over demographic and economic decline to worry about the country’s vulnerability to external intervention, reviving the old notion of Russia as a “besieged fortress.” Opened up practically overnight under President Boris Yeltsin, the country had to deal with a rapid and violent globalization. Faced with both a West that emerged victorious from the Cold War and a shockingly dynamic China, Russia constantly questions its identity and the notion that its fate is to bridge East and West. Vacillating between reformist aspirations and a fear of liberal society, which is often portrayed as amoral and perverse, the country, and certainly its leader Vladamir Putin, sometimes seems tempted to take refuge in a new isolation.This book is more than timely: no other book offers a comprehensive overview of Russia’s fears and challenges that could help the American public to understand how the country deals with its own issues and how this influences Russia’s foreign policy, including the ongoing war in Ukraine. This in-out aspect is critical to understand the country’s international stance and therefore directly US policy and security.
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Basic Books Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
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Basic Books A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into
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PublicAffairs Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the
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PublicAffairs Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary
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Vehicule Press History Through Our Eyes: Events that Shaped 20th
Book SynopsisThe 365 entries reflect such momentous events as the 1970 FLQ crisis and fads like Cabbage Patch Kids and the lambada craze. The striking photographs are drawn from the archives of the Montreal Gazette, one of North America’s longest-publishing daily newspapers. They include iconic images from the Gazette as well as some photographs from the Montreal Herald, the Montreal Star, and the Standard. While the photographs are the focus of this volume, the texts that accompany them tell the story of one of North America’s most fascinating and news-intensive cities. History Through Our Eyes was launched as a daily feature in the Gazette at the beginning of 2019. It quickly became a reader favorite, and remains one of the popular initiatives introduced at that newspaper in the last 40 years.
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University of Alaska Press Harnessed to the Pole: Sledge Dogs in Service to
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PublicAffairs Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second
Book Synopsis 'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history.'―Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and Hitler: Nemesis Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike. Millions of miles of Eastern Europe were ruined in their fight to the death, millions of lives sacrificed. Laurence Rees has met more people who had direct experience of working for Hitler and Stalin than any other historian. Using their evidence he has pieced together a compelling comparative portrait of evil, in which idealism is polluted by bloody pragmatism, and human suffering is used casually as a political tool. It's a jaw-dropping description of two regimes stripped of moral anchors and doomed to destroy each other, and those caught up in the vicious magnetism of their leadership.
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Casemate Publishers The Drive on Moscow, 1941: Operation Taifun and
Book SynopsisAt the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive. Facing them was an equally large Soviet force, but whose soldiers were neither as well trained nor as confident. When the Germans struck, disaster soon befell the Soviet defenders. German panzer spearheads cut through enemy defences and thrust deeply to encircle most of the Soviet soldiers on the approaches to Moscow. Within a few weeks, most of them marched into captivity, where a grim fate awaited them.Despite the overwhelming initial German success, however, the Soviet capital did not fall. German combat units as well as supply transport were bogged down in mud caused by autumn rains. General Zhukov was called back to Moscow and given the desperate task to recreate defence lines west of Moscow. The mud allowed him time to accomplish this, and when the Germans again began to attack in November, they met stiffer resistance. Even so, they came perilously close to the capital, and if the vicissitudes of weather had cooperated, would have seized it. Though German units were also fighting desperately by now, the Soviet build-up soon exceeded their own.The Drive on Moscow, 1941 is based on numerous archival records, personal diaries, letters and other sources. It recreates the battle from the perspective of the soldiers as well as the generals. The battle, not fought in isolation, had a crucial role in the overall German strategy in the East, and its outcome reveals why the failure of the German assault on Moscow may well have been the true turning point of World War II.Trade ReviewThis is a fine study of how to write operational history within a good strategic background - for example, the appendices on Russian reinforcement levels and militia divisions give a strong fell for quality as well as numbers. * Miniature Wargames - Chris Jarvis *
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Experiment The Hidden Life of Ice: Dispatches from a
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Experiment Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey
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Casemate Greenland at War The United States Germany and
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Journey Into the Mind's Eye: Fragments of an
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Portraits without Frames
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Story of a Life
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Te Herenga Waka University Press A Wise Adventure 2
Book SynopsisDesigned to ensure the Antarctic is maintained exclusively for peaceful purposes, the Antarctic Treaty system has evolved to encourage high standards of environmental protection and the sustainable management of living resources. This book sheds light on the challenges the Antarctic Treaty system has faced and overcome.
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Schreiber Publishing Stepchildren of Mother Russia
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University of Alaska Press Good Company: A Mining Family in Fairbanks,
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University of Alaska Press Innocents in the Arctic: The 1951 Spitsbergen
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Awa Press Dispatches From Continent Seven: An Anthology Of
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Peter E. Randall Publisher A Force for Good
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Peter E. Randall Publisher A Refuseniks Odyssey
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Barlow Book Publishing inc. Outside the Gate: The True Story of a British
Book SynopsisBetween 1869 and 1948, Britain sent more than 100,000 "home children " to Canada to work as indentured farmers and domestics. They were promised a bright future in the land of opportunity, and some managed to make a good life, but many were abused, neglected, and reviled by those who took them in. Although most still had families back home, reunification was discouraged. One of those children was Winnie Cooper. Born in the slums of Scarborough, Yorkshire in 1908, she was sent at age twelve to Barnardo's Village Home for Girls near London. Three years later, Winnie was shipped off to a farm in rural Ontario. Nothing back in England had prepared her for working the rough land in Canada, but despite the long days, isolation, and bitterly cold winters, Winnie's natural wit and cheery disposition helped her find love and friendship. Yet she always dreamed of returning to her mother in Yorkshire. The story, told by her granddaughter, author Carol Marie Newall, is a family saga of love and loss, pain and joy as Winnie struggled to find her place in a young inhospitable country. It's also a revealing portrayal of a troubling chapter in Canadian and British history.
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Academie Des Inscriptions Et Belles Lettres Mikhaïl I. Rostovtseff, La peinture décorative
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Bohlau Verlag Osteuropa in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Das
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Bohlau Verlag Russland in Zentralasien: Autobiografische Texte
Book SynopsisThe study moves in the field of tension between autobiographical and empire research. She asks about the cohesive effect of discourses of imperial self-description. To this end, she examines memoirs, participation and travel reports on the Russian expansion into southern Central Asia after 1860. Their authors worked as military personnel, officials or scientists in the conquest and exploration of the later General Government of Turkestan. The study counters the diversity of the sources with the concept of autobiographical practices. She understands these as tools of a certain self-conception. The analysis shows how Russian actors in Turkestan developed their own forms of autobiographical narration through the varied design of existing narrative styles. For more than 60 years, they closely interwoven their personal heroic stories with the empire. In this way they contributed to the story of his success in Turkestan and contributed to its discursive stabilization.
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Bohlau Verlag Moskaus (In)Existente Mittelschicht: Eine
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Harrassowitz Katalog Der Gelegenheitsdichtung Im Russischen
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Harrassowitz Our Work with the Masses Is Not Worth a
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Brill U Schoningh Christ Came Forth from India: Georgian
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Brill Schoningh Forschungen Zur Baltischen Geschichte. 15 (2020)
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Brill Schoningh Ideengeschichte Rumäniens
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Brill Schoningh The Reluctant Exiles: Latvians in the West After
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Brill Schoningh Under the Shadow of White Tara: Buriat Buddhists
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Brill U Schoningh Borderlands Biography: Z. Anthony Kruszewski in
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Brill U Schoningh Theodor Schiemann Und Die Deutsche
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Brill U Schoningh Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia: The Memoirs
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Deutsche Kultur in Russischen Buch- Und
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Die Moskauer Strelitzen-Revolte 1682:
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