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Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary

By: Aleksandr Fursenko,Timothy Naftali

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Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary

By: Aleksandr Fursenko,Timothy Naftali

“Contains unsettling insights into some of the most dangerous geopolitical crises of the time.”—The Economist This acclaimed study from the authors of “One Hell of a Gamble” brings to life head-to-head confrontations between the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. Drawing on their unrivaled access to Politburo and KGB materials, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali combine new insights into the Cuban missile crisis as well as startling narratives of the contests for Suez, Iraq, Berlin, and Southeast Asia, with vivid portraits of leaders who challenged Moscow and Washington. Khrushchev’s Cold War provides a gripping history of the crisis years of the Cold War.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393078337

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9780393078336

'Lively' and Other Stories

By: Boris Mozhaev,Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn

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'Lively' and Other Stories

By: Boris Mozhaev,Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn

The writing of Boris Mozhaev, available in English for the first time ever in this volume, stands out in terms of narrative style and bold sincerity amongst contemporary Russian writers. The translator provides a wealth of background information and copious notes.

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Hodgson Press

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1906164010

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9781906164010

Between Two Millstones, Book 2

Exile in America, 1978-1994

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Between Two Millstones, Book 2

Exile in America, 1978-1994

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delineates his idyllic time in rural Vermont, where he had the freedom to work, spend time with his family, and wage a war of ideas against the Soviet Union and other detractors from afar. At his quiet retreat . . . the Nobel laureate found . . . ‘a happiness in free and uninterrupted work.’” —Kirkus Reviews This compelling account concludes Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s literary memoirs of his years in the West after his forced exile from the USSR following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. The book reflects both the pain of separation from his Russian homeland and the chasm of miscomprehension between him and Western opinion makers. In Between Two Millstones, Solzhenitsyn likens his position to that of a grain that becomes lodged between two massive stones, each grinding away—the Soviet Communist power with its propaganda machine on the one hand and the Western establishment with its mainstream media on the other. Book 2 picks up the story of Solzhenitsyn’s remarkable life after the raucous publicity over his 1978 Harvard Address has died down. The author parries attacks from the Soviet state (and its many fellow-travelers in the Western press) as well as from recent émigrés who, according to Solzhenitsyn, defame Russian culture, history, and religion. He shares his unvarnished view of several infamous episodes, such as a sabotaged meeting with Ronald Reagan, aborted Senate hearings regarding Radio Liberty, and Gorbachev’s protracted refusal to allow The Gulag Archipelago to be published back home. There is also a captivating chapter detailing his trips to Japan, Taiwan, and Great Britain, including meetings with Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Meanwhile, the central themes of Book 1 course through this volume, too—the immense artistic quandary of fashioning The Red Wheel, staunch Western hostility to the historical and future Russia (and how much can, or should, the author do about it), and the challenges of raising his three sons in the language and spirit of Russia while cut off from the homeland in a remote corner of rural New England. The book concludes in 1994, as Solzhenitsyn bids farewell to the West in a valedictory series of speeches and meetings with world leaders, including John Paul II, and prepares at last to return home with his beloved wife Natalia, full of misgivings about what use he can be in the first chaotic years of post-Communist Russia, but never wavering in his conviction that, in the long run, his books would speak, influence, and convince. This vibrant, faithful, and long-awaited first English translation of Between Two Millstones, Book 2, will fascinate Solzhenitsyn's many admirers, as well as those interested in twentieth-century history, Russian history, and literature in general.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268109028

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9780268109028

March 1917

The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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March 1917

The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In March 1917, Book 3 the forces of revolutionary disintegration spread out from Petrograd all the way to the front lines of World War I, presaging Russia’s collapse. One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. March 1917—the third node—tells the story, day by day, of the Russian Revolution itself. Until recently, the final two nodes have been unavailable in English. The publication of Book 1 of March 1917 (in 2017) and Book 2 (in 2019) has begun to rectify this situation. The action of Book 3 (out of four) is set during March 16–22, 1917. In Book 3, the Romanov dynasty ends and the revolution starts to roll out from Petrograd toward Moscow and the Russian provinces. The dethroned Emperor Nikolai II makes his farewell to the Army and is kept under guard with his family. In Petrograd, the Provisional Government and the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies continue to exercise power in parallel. The war hero Lavr Kornilov is appointed military chief of Petrograd. But the Soviet’s “Order No. 1” reaches every soldier, undermining the officer corps and shaking the Army to its foundations. Many officers, including the head of the Baltic Fleet, the progressive Admiral Nepenin, are murdered. Black Sea Fleet Admiral Kolchak holds the revolution at bay; meanwhile, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, the emperor’s uncle, makes his way to military headquarters, naïvely thinking he will be allowed to take the Supreme Command.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268201692

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9780268201692

Spectral Analysis Of Differential Operators: Interplay Between Spectral And Oscillatory Properties

By: Fedor S Rofe-beketov,Aleksandr M Kholkin

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Spectral Analysis Of Differential Operators: Interplay Between Spectral And Oscillatory Properties

By: Fedor S Rofe-beketov,Aleksandr M Kholkin

This is the first monograph devoted to the Sturm oscillatory theory for infinite systems of differential equations and its relations with the spectral theory. It aims to study a theory of self-adjoint problems for such systems, based on an elegant method of binary relations. Another topic investigated in the book is the behavior of discrete eigenvalues which appear in spectral gaps of the Hill operator and almost periodic Schrödinger operators due to local perturbations of the potential (e.g., modeling impurities in crystals).The book is based on results that have not been presented in other monographs. The only prerequisites needed to read it are basics of ordinary differential equations and operator theory. It should be accessible to graduate students, though its main topics are of interest to research mathematicians working in functional analysis, differential equations and mathematical physics, as well as to physicists interested in spectral theory of differential operators.

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World Scientific

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9814480673

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9789814480673

Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Autocracy, Reform, and Social Change, 1814-1914

By: Aleksandr I︠U︡rʹevich Polunov

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Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Autocracy, Reform, and Social Change, 1814-1914

By: Aleksandr I︠U︡rʹevich Polunov

This covers the history of Russia from the defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I. It is the first such work by a post-Soviet Russian scholar to appear in English. It examines the decay of the two central institutions of tsarist Russia: serfdom and autocracy; the major social groups and how they reacted to the Great Reforms.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765606712

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9780765606716

Horsemen from Nowhere

By: Aleksandr Abramov,Sergei Abramov

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Horsemen from Nowhere

By: Aleksandr Abramov,Sergei Abramov

Horsemen From Nowhere is a science-fiction story about the arrival on earth of mysterious rose-colored clouds from deep space. Members of the Soviet Antarctic expedition are the first to meet them in a series of inexplicable events. The "clouds" are seen to be removing the Antarctic ice-cap and carrying it off into space. They are capable of reproducing any kind of atomic structure, and this goes for human beings as well. The heroes of the story meet their "counterparts," come upon a duplicated airliner, journey through a modeled city, and fight Gestapo policemen that have been reconstructed from the past by these same mysterious "clouds."Scientists are unable to explain why terrestrial life is being modeled. All attempts to contact the space beings fail. In the end, however, Soviet scientists penetrate the enigma of the rose clouds and establish contact with a highly developed extragalactic civilization. The Abramovs are a father and son writing team. No generational animosity here, as you see! Quite the contrary. One is seventy odd years old, the other only thirty, one is a professional writer, with numerous novels, stories and essays to his credit, the other is an engineer of the breed inspired by Sputnik, and for whom all of Soviet SF that came before serves as but the launching pad for blasting off into the incredible unknown. And, indeed, everything that comes from under their pen - pens? - is steeped in the latest and most unbelievable of hypotheses, in the wildest of fantasies and conjectures

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1589638697

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9781589638693

Oxidation of Sulfide Minerals in Benefication Processes

By: A Abramov,V. M. Avdohin

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Oxidation of Sulfide Minerals in Benefication Processes

By: A Abramov,V. M. Avdohin

Results of recent experimental studies and modern theoretical concepts are combined in this volume to provide a comprehensive analysis of sulfide mineral oxidation processes. Introductory chapters discuss the properties of sulfide minerals and various investigative techniques, followed by chapters on oxidation mechanisms and the behavior of minerals under these various oxidizing conditions. This book also demonstrates modern methods of physical-chemical modelling and the regulation and optimization of flotation processes.

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CRC Press

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9056995707

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9789056995706

Book's by Aleksandr Abramov

Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary

Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary

'Lively' and Other Stories

'Lively' and Other Stories

Between Two Millstones, Book 2

Between Two Millstones, Book 2

March 1917

March 1917

Spectral Analysis Of Differential Operators: Interplay Between Spectral And Oscillatory Properties

Spectral Analysis Of Differential Operators: Interplay Between Spectral And Oscillatory Properties

Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Horsemen from Nowhere

Horsemen from Nowhere

Oxidation of Sulfide Minerals in Benefication Processes

Oxidation of Sulfide Minerals in Benefication Processes

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