wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Recorder of Deeds: Terrorism and Trauma: A Journalist's Life-Changing Choice on 9/11
ISBN: 9781949290769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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Escape from Paradise: A Russian Dissident's Journey from the Gulag to the West
ISBN: 9781680531503 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This riveting memoir tells of the fate of a Soviet dissident, Alexander Shatravka, who tried to escape from the Soviet Union in the 1974, only to be caught and returned to twelve years of imprisonment in Soviet psychiatric hospitals and labor camps. Released in 1986, just in time for the momentous changes of glasnost and perestroika, Shatravka eventually made his way to the West. Saturated with tales and memoirs from the other side of the Iron Curtain, Shatravka's memoir of his escape, which he wrote for underground circulation, languished in obscurity and archives - until now. In a stunning...
This riveting memoir tells of the fate of a Soviet dissident, Alexander Shatravka, who tried to escape from the Soviet Union in the 1974, only to be c...
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158,07 zł |
The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future
ISBN: 9780374527389 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A popular study of the KGB and its post-Soviet incarnation by the courageous and opinionated Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats, who was among the first to report on the organization in the post-Soviet Russian press. Based on extensive personal interviews with current and former agents and on material from the KGB archives, The State Within a State makes a compelling argument that the new incarnation of the KGB has grown not only in size but in influence since the fall of the Soviet Union, making it perhaps the most powerful political force in contemporary Russia. A popular study of the KGB and its post-Soviet incarnation by the courageous and opinionated Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats, who was among the ... |
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124,85 zł |
Voyage: A Memoir of Love, War, and Ever After
ISBN: 9781632134202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A WORLD AT WAR . . . A lonely sailor without a sawbuck to spare. A gorgeous socialite on the home front. Letters soaked in longing. Secrets taken to the grave. Easy births. Hard deaths. And dogs —dogs aplenty. They say love conquers all, but will bonds forged by Lt. N. Robert Underhill and Miss Merrilee Meier during World War II survive the peaks and valleys of peacetime? Across their 58-year-marriage, Bob and Merrilee confront holiday fiascoes and funeral foul-ups, windless regattas and catastrophic tornadoes, a medical crisis and a financial... A WORLD AT WAR . . . A lonely sailor without a sawbuck to spare. A gorgeous socialite on the home front. Letters soaked in l... |
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77,45 zł |
The Fate of Marxism in Russia
ISBN: 9780300105407 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this powerful book, a major architect of perestroika, leading sponsor of glasnost, and close associate of Mikhail Gorbachev acknowledges the decay of his country, reveals his own progression from Party ideologist to critic of Marxism and Communism, and urges the restructuring of Soviet society on a new basis of democracy, morality, and economic efficiency. "In The Fate of Marxism in Russia, Alexander Yakovlev, one of the architects of perestroika, meets Marxism on its own intellectual turf and beats it, repudiating Marx, Lenin, and Stalin and embracing freedom and democracy. We can all...
In this powerful book, a major architect of perestroika, leading sponsor of glasnost, and close associate of Mikhail Gorbachev acknowledges the decay ...
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235,33 zł |