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Russia at War, 1941–1945

A History

By: Alexander Werth

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In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first printed in 1964. At once a history of facts, a collection of interviews, and a document of the human condition, Russia at War is a stunning, modern classic that chronicles the savagery and struggles on Russian soil during the most incredible military conflict in modern history. As a behind-the-scenes eyewitness to the pivotal, shattering events as they occurred, Werth chronicles with vivid detail the hardships of everyday citizens, massive military operations, and the political movements toward diplomacy as the world tried to reckon with what they had created. Despite its sheer historical scope, Werth tells the story of a country at war in startlingly human terms, drawing from his daily interviews and conversations with generals, soldiers, peasants, and other working class civilians. The result is a unique and expansive work with immeasurable breadth and depth, built on lucid and engaging prose, that captures every aspect of a terrible moment in human history. Now newly updated with a foreword by Soviet historian Nicolas Werth, the son of Alexander Werth, this new edition of Russia at War continues to be indispensable World War II journalism and the definitive historical authority on the Soviet-German war.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510716270

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The Haunted Wood

Soviet Espionage in America--The Stalin Era

By: Allen Weinstein,Alexander Vassiliev

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The Haunted Wood

Soviet Espionage in America--The Stalin Era

By: Allen Weinstein,Alexander Vassiliev

Drawing upon previously secret KGB records released exclusively to Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood reveals for the first time the riveting story of Soviet espionage's "golden age" in the United States, from the 1930s through the early cold war.

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Modern Library

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0375755365

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A Herzen Reader

By: Alexander Herzen

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A Herzen Reader

By: Alexander Herzen

A Herzen Reader presents in English for the first time one hundred essays and editorials by the radical Russian thinker Alexander Herzen (1812–1870). Herzen wrote most of these pieces for The Bell, a revolutionary newspaper he launched with the poet Nikolai Ogaryov in London in 1857. Smugglers secretly carried copies of The Bell into Russia, where it influenced debates over the emancipation of the serfs and other reforms. With his characteristic irony, Herzen addressed such issues as freedom of speech, a nonviolent path to socialism, and corruption and paranoia at the highest levels of government. He discussed what he saw as the inability of even a liberator like Czar Alexander II to commit to change. A Herzen Reader stands on its own for its fascinating glimpse into Russian intellectual life of the 1850s and 1860s. It also provides invaluable context for understanding Herzen’s contemporaries, including Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Turgenev.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810128470

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Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems

An Anisotropy-Based Approach

By: Alexey A. Belov,Olga G. Andrianova,Alexander P. Kurdyukov

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Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems

An Anisotropy-Based Approach

By: Alexey A. Belov,Olga G. Andrianova,Alexander P. Kurdyukov

Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems takes an anisotropy-based approach to the explanation of random input disturbance with an information-theoretic representation. It describes the random input signal more precisely, and the anisotropic norm minimization included in the book enables readers to tune their controllers better through the mathematical methods provided. The book contains numerous examples of practical applications of descriptor systems in various fields, from robotics to economics, and presents an information-theoretic approach to the mathematical description of coloured noise. Anisotropy-based analysis and design for descriptor systems is supplied along with proofs of basic statements, which help readers to understand the algorithms proposed, and to undertake their own numerical simulations. This book serves as a source of ideas for academic researchers and postgraduate students working in the control of discrete-time systems. The control design procedures outlined are numerically effective and easily implementable in MATLAB®

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Springer

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331978479X

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A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book II

The Former Earth

By: Alexander Wolfheze

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A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book II

The Former Earth

By: Alexander Wolfheze

This book analyzes the world of 1914 by combining the approaches of traditionalist hermeneutics and 20th century geopolitics. The juxtaposition of these two frameworks, incorporated in the principles of Sacred Geography and Sea Power, allows for a Traditionalist perspective on the choices facing the Ten Great Powers on the eve of the Great War. The book’s multifaceted approach follows the iconoclastic “culture critique” method of the Traditional School that was developed by René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon and Julius Evola; it shows the pre-war world as essentially different from the post-war world. Thus, the Ten Great Power protagonists of the Great War may be understood on their own terms, rather than through a backward projection of politically-correct values on the existentially different human life-world of 1914. Dislodging the historical-materialist “progress” premise that underpins contemporary academic historiography, this book reasserts the highest claim of the Art of History: meta-narrative meaning.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527565149

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Differential Models

An Introduction with Mathcad

By: Alexander Solodov,Valery Ochkov

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Differential Models

An Introduction with Mathcad

By: Alexander Solodov,Valery Ochkov

Differential equations are often used in mathematical models for technological processes or devices. However, the design of a differential mathematical model iscrucial anddifficult in engineering. As a hands-on approach to learn how to pose a differential mathematical modelthe authors have selected 9 examples with important practical application and treat them as following:- Problem-setting and physical model formulation- Designing the differential mathematical model- Integration of the differential equations- Visualization of results Each step of the development ofa differential model isenriched by respective Mathcad 11commands, todays necessary linkage of engineering significance and high computing complexity. TOC:Differential Mathematical Models.- Integrable Differential Equations.- Dynamic Model of the System with Heat Engineering.- Stiff Differential Equations.- Heat Transfer near the Critical Point.- The Faulkner- Skan Equation of Boundary Layer.- The Rayleigh Equation: Hydronamic Instability.- Kinematic Waves of Concentration in Ion- Exchange Filters.- Kinematic Shock Waves.- Numerical Modelling of the CPU-board Temperature Field.- Temperature Waves.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540208526

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9783540208525

The Shaping of Popular Consent

A Comparative Study of the Soviet Union and the United States, 1929-1941

By: Alexander McGregor (Ph. D.)

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The Shaping of Popular Consent

A Comparative Study of the Soviet Union and the United States, 1929-1941

By: Alexander McGregor (Ph. D.)

This book questions the view of the current orthodoxy which argues that the Soviet Union and the United States were binary opposites in the 1930s. The Shaping of Popular Consent presents a comparative analysis of one specific facet of the USSR and the US, namely the manner in which their ruling elites sought to win popular consent. A key dimension in the analysis of any political order, this issue recommends itself precisely because the assumption that, in this the two were quite dissimilar, is the virtual point of departure for the current thinking. To sharpen the focus of the comparison, the book concentrates on the role of the visual arts and the manner and extent to which those in power employed them to attempt to win popular consent. Therefore, this book poses two questions. Firstly, to what extent did the ruling elites in both the USSR and the US believe they needed the people's faith/trust in the system? Secondly, different as the two societies were, to what extent might they have employed similar use of visual cultural media in their attempts to win "hearts and minds"? The study explores the interwar years, specifically 1929-1941. This was an era of great upheaval in both the USSR and the US and marks the beginning of the age of mass communication. The book examines if, how, and to what extent Soviet and American cultural producers, during the years 1929-1941, employed the visual arts, cinema in particular but also painting, the plastic arts, theatre and architecture, to promote, essentially, the establishments' rights and wrongs, heroes and villains. It does so exploring both the domestic and the international scene. It illustrates that, despite giant differences between the two countries, in the way the two establishments sought to win popular consent the binary view is simply inaccurate. Perhaps more importantly, it demonstrates the need for a plethora of wide-ranging comparative studies of the Soviet Union and the United States. Indeed, through recognizing the importance of comparing and contrasting the USSR and the US, and by attempting to do just that, we might learn to better understand how, in what ways and for what purposes these two countries, so central to our understanding of the modern world, were organized. Thus, this work is genuinely comparative, inter-disciplinary and cultural. Indeed, the study is part of a vanguard movement. It is of significant value to scholars of both the USSR, Stalinism and Soviet art and the US, the New Deal and Hollywood. Finally, building on work by Noam Chomsky, Anotonio Gramsci and others such as Benedict Anderson's book Imagined Communities, the book will be of tremendous interests to many (both students and interested parties alike) who have an interest in how identities are constructed, how propaganda is manufactured and just how the (ostensibly) divergent philosophies of modern governments are represented in popular culture.

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Cambria Press

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1934043591

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The Kitchen Boy

A Novel of the Last Tsar

By: Robert Alexander

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The Kitchen Boy

A Novel of the Last Tsar

By: Robert Alexander

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov as seen through the eyes of their young kitchen boy, Leonka. Now an ancient Russian immigrant, Leonka claims to be the last living witness to the Romanovs’ brutal murders and sets down the dark secrets of his past with the imperial family. Does he hold the key to the many questions surrounding the family’s murder? Historically vivid and compelling, The Kitchen Boy is also a touching portrait of a loving family that was in many ways similar, yet so different, from any other. "Ingenious...Keeps readers guessing through the final pages." —USA Today

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Penguin

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1101200367

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Leningrad 1943

Inside a City Under Siege

By: Alexander Werth

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Leningrad 1943

Inside a City Under Siege

By: Alexander Werth

The Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II. From 1941-1945, the Eastern Front was the site of some of the bloodiest atrocities of the war and the city of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, proved to be a decisive point in the conflict. German policy was resolutely determined to redraw the map of Europe, annihilate the Soviet Union and give large areas of territory to Finland. Through Hitler's ambition to completely eradicate the city and its entire population, it was decided that the most efficient method of invasion was to encircle and bombard the city into submission. After 872 days of aggression, one and a half million people lost their lives, mostly from starvation. As the sole British correspondent to have been in Leningrad during the blockade, Alexander Werth's eyewitness account presents a harrowing perspective on the savagery and destruction wrought by the Nazis against the civilian population of the city. His writing evokes compelling images of terror - the oil bombing of children's hospitals, mass starvation and cannibalism - with rich and sophisticated commentary on the internal politics of Soviet party chiefs, soldiers and civilian resistance fighters. Both an authoritative historical document and a journalistic re-telling of the overwhelming sadness, grief and futility of 20th century warfare, this is an invaluable look at one of the greatest losses of human life in recorded history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857735020

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Early Ukraine

A Military and Social History to the Mid-19th Century

By: Alexander Basilevsky

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Early Ukraine

A Military and Social History to the Mid-19th Century

By: Alexander Basilevsky

As the Dark Ages enveloped Europe, a civilization was born on the banks of the Dnieper River. Rus--whose capital at Kiev surpassed in grandeur most cities of Europe--was home to the Ukrainian people, whose princes made war on Constantinople and established the city states of what would become Russia. The cities of Rus were destroyed by the Mongols, their remains falling to the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom. With the steppe restored to wilderness, the "kraina" borderlands of the hardy frontiersmen known as Cossacks--who in the 17th century destroyed powerful Polish, Lithuanian and Muscovite armies--gained Ukrainian independence and established a unique social order. Drawing on English, Ukrainian and French sources, this book chronicles the military and social origins of Ukraine and describes the differences between Ukraine and its neighbors. The author refutes the claim that Ukraine and Russia were once united in a common political system.

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McFarland

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1476620229

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9781476620220

The Accused

By: Alexander Weissberg

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The Accused

By: Alexander Weissberg

First published in 1951, this is both a personal narrative and forensic analysis of the methods employed by Stalin and the G.P.U. during the Great Purge from the middle of 1936 to the end of 1938. It is the exploration of the systematic imprisonment, interrogation and extraction of false confessions from millions of people that is extraordinary. Weissberg explains how victims of the state police were forced to make confessions incriminating not only themselves but also co-conspirators. This practice was aimed at destroying the relations of trust between those who were responsible for the Russian revolution. Those who were not killed in camps in the Soviet Arctic were divided and conquered. Hence, the central thesis in the book is that the Russian revolution and communism in the Soviet Union were irrevocably destroyed and ended in the 1930s during the terror of the Stalinist purges. A remarkable and little known contribution to our understanding of the events in the Soviet Union.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1786259656

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9781786259653

The Captain's Daughter

By: Alexander Pushkin

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The Captain's Daughter

By: Alexander Pushkin

This classic of Russian literature plunges readers into a fascinating moment in military history as it follows an unforgettable cast of characters during the Pugachev Rebellion. “Time has done nothing to dull the excitement of the story.” —The New York Times Alexander Pushkin’s short novel is set during the reign of Catherine the Great, when the Cossacks rose up in rebellion against the Russian empress. Presented as the memoir of Pyotr Grinyov, a nobleman, The Captain’s Daughter tells how, as a feckless youth and fledgling officer, Grinyov was sent from St. Petersburg to serve in faraway southern Russia. Traveling to take up this new post, Grinyov loses his shirt gambling and then loses his way in a terrible snowstorm, only to be guided to safety by a mysterious peasant. With impulsive gratitude Grinyov hands over his fur coat to his savior, never mind the cold. Soon after he arrives at Fort Belogorsk, Grinyov falls in love with Masha, the beautiful young daughter of his captain. Then Pugachev, leader of the Cossack rebellion, surrounds the fort. Resistance, he has made it clear, will be met with death. At once a fairy tale and a thrilling historical novel, this singularly Russian work of the imagination is also a timeless, universal, and very winning story of how love and duty can summon pluck and luck to confront calamity.

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New York Review of Books

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1590177444

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Future Trends in Microelectronics

Frontiers and Innovations

By: Serge Luryi,Jimmy Xu,Alexander Zaslavsky

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Future Trends in Microelectronics

Frontiers and Innovations

By: Serge Luryi,Jimmy Xu,Alexander Zaslavsky

Leaders in the field predict the future of the microelectronics industry This seventh volume of Future Trends in Microelectronics summarizes and synthesizes the latest high-level scientific discussions to emerge from the Future Trends in Microelectronics international workshop, which has occurred every three years since 1995. It covers the full scope of cutting-edge topics in microelectronics, from new physical principles (quantum computing, correlated electrons), to new materials (piezoelectric nanostructures, terahertz plasmas), to emerging device technologies (embedded magnetic memories, spin lasers, and biocompatible microelectronics). An ideal book for microelectronics professionals and students alike, this volume of Future Trends in Microelectronics: Identifies the direction in which microelectronics is headed, enabling readers to move forward with research in an informed, efficient, and profitable manner Includes twenty-nine contributor chapters by international authorities from leading universities, major semiconductor companies, and government laboratories Provides a unified, cohesive exploration of various trends in microelectronics, looking to future opportunities, rather than past successes

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1118678184

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Russia at War, 1941–1945

Russia at War, 1941–1945

The Haunted Wood

The Haunted Wood

A Herzen Reader

A Herzen Reader

Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems

Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems

A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book II

A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book II

Differential Models

Differential Models

The Shaping of Popular Consent

The Shaping of Popular Consent

The Kitchen Boy

The Kitchen Boy

Leningrad 1943

Leningrad 1943

Early Ukraine

Early Ukraine

The Accused

The Accused

The Captain's Daughter

The Captain's Daughter

Future Trends in Microelectronics

Future Trends in Microelectronics

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