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Syngas Production: Status and Potential for Implementation in Russian Industry

By: Vladimir Litvinenko,Bernd Meyer

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Syngas Production: Status and Potential for Implementation in Russian Industry

By: Vladimir Litvinenko,Bernd Meyer

This book focuses on the assessment of different coal gasification technologies for the utilization of Russian coals with analyses of economically feasible process chains for preparation of marketable products from high-ash coals. The work presented is important in view of the general competitiveness that marks the future of coal in the world. As the cheapest form of fuel (in comparable terms) coal will undoubtedly be in demand resources in the world. The book consists of parts which include an overview about the major coal characteristics, detailed discussion of fundamental aspects of gasification technologies and gasifiers, an introduction into annex concepts, an overview about different technologies of syngas utilization, technical and economic assessment of several coal-to-liquid and coal-to-chemicals routes, and feasibility demonstration for selected process chains. This book is addressed to the management and engineers of Russian coal companies and scientific staff of Russian research institutions working in the field of coal utilization.

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3319709631

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Essential Results in Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry

By: Alexander N. Goloshchapov,Gennadiĭ Efremovich Zaikov,Vladimir Viktorovich Ivanov

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Essential Results in Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry

By: Alexander N. Goloshchapov,Gennadiĭ Efremovich Zaikov,Vladimir Viktorovich Ivanov

The contents included in this book are: Preface; Spin Probes for the Study of Intact and Cancer Cell Membranes; Sulphur as a Stabiliser of Polyvinylchloride; Universality of Free Energies Linearity Principle in Solution Chemistry; The KBr Action on the rate of H2O2 Decomposition in Alkaline Medium; Fireproof Materials containing Nanostructures: Principles of Formation; Fireproof Intumescent Coating Foamcoke Structure Regulation by Carbon Metal-containing Nanostructures; Upholstery Fire Barriers based on Natural Fibres; Structural Criterion on Change of a Kinetic Curves Type in the Process of a Thermooxidative Degradation; and Alternative View at the Universe. It also includes: Effect of the Cationic Polyelectrolyte Molecular Mass on the Flocculation Kinetics and the Efficiency of Polymer Precipitation from Latexes; Co-polymers with Cyclic Fragments in Dimethylsiloxane Backbone(O; Fractal Physics of the Polycondensation Processes; The Problem of Structural-Physical Organisation of Polymeric Non-Crystalline Phase; and Physical and Semi-Empirical Methods of Solvent Influence on Solute Behaviour.

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1594541981

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Putin’s Totalitarian Democracy

Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century

By: Kate C. Langdon,Vladimir Tismaneanu

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Putin’s Totalitarian Democracy

Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century

By: Kate C. Langdon,Vladimir Tismaneanu

This book studies the cultural, societal, and ideological factors absent from popular discourse on Vladimir Putin’s Russia, contesting the misleading mainstream assumption that Putin is the all-powerful sovereign of Russia. In carefully examining the ideological underpinnings of Putinism—its tsarist and Soviet elements, its intellectual origins, its culturally reproductive nature, and its imperialist foreign policy—the authors reveal that an indoctrinating ideology and a willing population are simultaneously the most crucial yet overlooked keys to analyzing Putin’s totalitarian democracy. Because Putinism is part of a global wave of extreme political movements, the book also reaffirms the need to understand—but not accept—how and why nation-states and masses turn to nationalism, authoritarianism, or totalitarianism in modern times.

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3030205797

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9783030205799

The KGB Plays Chess

The Soviet Secret Police and the Fight for the World Chess Crown

By: Yuri Felshtinsky,Boris Gulko,Vladimir Popov

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The KGB Plays Chess

The Soviet Secret Police and the Fight for the World Chess Crown

By: Yuri Felshtinsky,Boris Gulko,Vladimir Popov

The KGB Plays Chess is a unique book. For the first time it opens to us some of the most secret pages of the history of chess. The battles about which you will read in this book are not between chess masters sitting at the chess board, but between the powerful Soviet secret police, known as the KGB, on the one hand, and several brave individuals, on the other. Their names are famous in the chess world: Viktor Kortschnoi, Boris Spasski, Boris Gulko and Garry Kasparov became subjects of constant pressure, blackmail and persecution in the USSR. Their victories at the chess board were achieved despite this victimization. Unlike in other books, this story has two perspectives. The victim and the persecutor, the hunted and the hunter, all describe in their own words the very same events. One side is represented by the famous Russian chess players Viktor Kortschnoi and Boris Gulko. For many years they fought against a powerful system, and at the end they were triumphant. The Soviet Union collapsed and they got what they were fighting for: their freedom. Former KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov, who left Russia in 1996 and now lives in Canada, was one of those who had worked all his life for the KGB and was responsible for the sport sector of the USSR. It is only now for the first time that he has decided to tell the reader his story of the KGB�s involvement in Soviet Sports. This is his first book, and it is not only full of sensations, but it also dares to name names of secret KGB agents previously known only as famous chess masters, sportsmen or sport officials. Just a few short years ago a book like this would have been unimaginable. Read this book. It is not only about chess. It is about glorious victory of the great chess masters over the forces of darkness.

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1936490013

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Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia

By: Vladimir Shlapentokh,Anna Arutunyan

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Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia

By: Vladimir Shlapentokh,Anna Arutunyan

This study demonstrates how the emergence of private property and a market economy after the Soviet Union's collapse enabled a degree of freedom while simultaneously supporting authoritarianism. Based on case studies, Vladimir Shlapentokh and Anna Arutunyan analyze how private property and free markets spawn feudal elements in society. These elements are so strong in post-Communist Russia that they prevent the formation of a true democratic society, while making it impossible to return to totalitarianism. The authors describe the resulting Russian society as having three types of social organization: authoritarian, feudal and liberal. The authors examine the adaptation of Soviet-era institutions like security forces, the police and the army to free market conditions and how they generated corruption; the belief that the KGB was relatively free from corruption; how large property holdings merge with power and necessitate repression; and how property relations affect government management and suppression.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107471397

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Quantum Chemistry of Organic Compounds

Mechanisms of Reactions

By: Vladimir I. Minkin,Boris Ya. Simkin,Ruslan M. Minyaev

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Quantum Chemistry of Organic Compounds

Mechanisms of Reactions

By: Vladimir I. Minkin,Boris Ya. Simkin,Ruslan M. Minyaev

Chemistry is the science of substances (today we would say molecules) and their transformations. Central to this science is the complexity of shape and function of its typical representatives. There lies, no longer dependent on its vitalistic antecedents, the rich realm of molecular possibility called organic chemistry. In this century we have learned how to determine the three-dimensional structure of molecules. Now chemistry as whole, and organic chemistry in particular, is poised to move to the exploration of its dynamic dimension, the busy business of transformations or reactions. Oh, it has been done all along, for what else is synthesis? What I mean is that the theoretical framework accom panying organic chemistry, long and fruitfully laboring on a quantum chemical understanding of structure, is now making the first tentative motions toward building an organic theory of reactivity. The Minkin, Simkin, Minyaev book takes us in that direction. It incorporates the lessons of frontier orbital theory and of Hartree-Fock SCF calculations; what chemical physicists have learned about trajectory calculations of selected reactions, and a simplified treatment of all-important solvent effects. It is written by professional, accomplished organic chemists for other organic chemists; it is consistently even-toned in its presentation of contending approaches. And very much up to date. That this contemporary work should emerge from a regional university in a country in which science has been highly centralized and organic chemistry not very modern, invites reflection.

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3642756794

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Geomechanics of Oil and Gas Wells

By: Vladimir Karev,Yuri Kovalenko,Konstantin Ustinov

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Geomechanics of Oil and Gas Wells

By: Vladimir Karev,Yuri Kovalenko,Konstantin Ustinov

The book presents an integrated approach to studying the geomechanical processes occurring in oil and gas-bearing formations during their development. It discusses the choice of a model that takes into account the basic properties of rocks; experiments to find model parameters; numerical modeling; and direct physical modeling of deformation and filtration processes in reservoir and host rocks. Taking into account features of rock behavior, such as anisotropy of the mechanical properties of rocks during elastoplastic deformation; dependence of permeability on the total stress tensor; the contribution of the filtration flow to the formation stress state; and the influence of tangential as well as normal stresses on the transition to inelastic deformation, it demonstrates how the presented approach allows the practical problems of increasing the productivity of wells, oil recovery, and ensuring the stability of wellbores to be solved. The book is intended for specialists, including geoengineers working in the oil and gas sector, teachers, graduate students and students, as well as all those interested in scientific and technological developments to meet the enormous demand for raw materials and energy.

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3030266087

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Gettering Defects in Semiconductors

By: Victor A. Perevostchikov,Vladimir D. Skoupov

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Gettering Defects in Semiconductors

By: Victor A. Perevostchikov,Vladimir D. Skoupov

Gettering Defects in Semiconductors fulfills three basic purposes: – to systematize the experience and research in exploiting various gettering techniques in microelectronics and nanoelectronics; – to identify new directions in research, particularly to enhance the perspective of professionals and young researchers and specialists; – to fill a gap in the contemporary literature on the underlying semiconductor-material theory. The authors address not only well-established gettering techniques but also describe contemporary trends in gettering technologies from an international perspective. The types and properties of structural defects in semiconductors, their generating and their transforming mechanisms during fabrication are described. The primary emphasis is placed on classifying and describing specific gettering techniques, their specificity arising from both their position in a general technological process and the regimes of their application. This book addresses both engineers and material scientists interested in semiconducting materials theory and also undergraduate and graduate students in solid–state microelectronics and nanoelectronics. A comprehensive list of references provides readers with direction for further reading.

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3540294996

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The Treacherous Path

An Insider's Account of Modern Russia

By: Vladimir Yakunin

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The Treacherous Path

An Insider's Account of Modern Russia

By: Vladimir Yakunin

In 1991, Vladimir Yakunin, a Soviet diplomat and KGB officer, returned from his posting in New York to a country that no longer existed. The state that he had served for all his adult life had been dissolved, the values he knew abandoned. Millions of his compatriots suffered as their savings disappeared and their previously secure existences were threatened by an unholy combination of criminality, corruption and chaos. Others thrived amid the opportunities offered in the new polity, and a battle began over the direction the fledgling state should take. While something resembling stability was won in the early 2000s, today Russia's future remains unresolved; its governing class divided. The Treacherous Path is Yakunin's account of his own experiences on the front line of Russia's implosion and eventual resurgence, and of a career – as an intelligence officer, a government minister and for ten years the CEO of Russia's largest company – that has taken him from the furthest corners of this incomprehensibly vast and complex nation to the Kremlin's corridors. Tackling topics as diverse as terrorism, government intrigue and the reality of doing business in Russia, and offering unparalleled insights into the post-Soviet mindset, this is the first time that a figure with Yakunin's background has talked so openly and frankly about his country.

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1785903772

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Fractional Kinetics In Space: Anomalous Transport Models

By: Vladimir V Uchaikin,Renat T Sibatov

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Fractional Kinetics In Space: Anomalous Transport Models

By: Vladimir V Uchaikin,Renat T Sibatov

This book is first of its kind describing a new direction in modeling processes taking place in interplanetary and interstellar space (magnetic fields, plasma, cosmic rays, etc.). This method is based on a special mathematical analysis — fractional calculus. The reader will find in this book clear physical explanation of the fractional approach and will become familiar with basic rules in this calculus and main results obtained in frame of this approach. In spite of its profound subject, the book is not overloaded by mathematical details. It contains many illustrations, rich citation and remains accessible to a wide circle of physicists.This book is addressed to graduate and postgraduate students, young and mature researchers specializing in applications of fractional calculus, astrophysics, solar-terrestrial science and physics of cosmic rays.

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World Scientific

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9813225440

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This World is Built on Lies

By: Vladimir Rojankovski

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This World is Built on Lies

By: Vladimir Rojankovski

This book is neither a fiction story nor your typical manual for how to get $30 working from home or treat an incurable disease.Although it may look like something remotely addressing any types of our pragmatic needs, I hope this book will be more than leisure time spending. People around the world have been suffering from chaotic geopolitics and cooling economies for a dozen years, and will face a dozen more years of the same lukewarm ways of living unless we start changing them byourselves.

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Litres

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5042468536

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Micro- and Nanoflows

Modeling and Experiments

By: Valery Ya. Rudyak,Vladimir M. Aniskin,Anatoly A. Maslov,Andrey V. Minakov,Sergey G. Mironov

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Micro- and Nanoflows

Modeling and Experiments

By: Valery Ya. Rudyak,Vladimir M. Aniskin,Anatoly A. Maslov,Andrey V. Minakov,Sergey G. Mironov

This book describes physical, mathematical and experimental methods to model flows in micro- and nanofluidic devices. It takes in consideration flows in channels with a characteristic size between several hundreds of micrometers to several nanometers. Methods based on solving kinetic equations, coupled kinetic-hydrodynamic description, and molecular dynamics method are used. Based on detailed measurements of pressure distributions along the straight and bent microchannels, the hydraulic resistance coefficients are refined. Flows of disperse fluids (including disperse nanofluids) are considered in detail. Results of hydrodynamic modeling of the simplest micromixers are reported. Mixing of fluids in a Y-type and T-type micromixers is considered. The authors present a systematic study of jet flows, jets structure and laminar-turbulent transition. The influence of sound on the microjet structure is considered. New phenomena associated with turbulization and relaminarization of the mixing layer of microjets are discussed. Based on the conducted experimental investigations, the authors propose a chart of microjet flow regimes. When addressing the modeling of microflows of nanofluids, the authors show where conventional hydrodynamic approaches can be applied and where more complicated models are needed, and they analyze the hydrodynamic stability of the nanofluid flows. The last part of the book is devoted the statistical theory of the transport processes in fluids under confined conditions. The authors present the constitutive relations and the formulas for transport coefficients. In conclusion the authors present a rigorous analysis of the viscosity and diffusion in nanochannels and in porous media.

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3319755234

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Literature 1982, Part 2

By: Siegfried Böhme,Professor Dr. Walter Fricke,Herbert Hefele,Inge Heinrich,Wilfried Hofmann,Dietlinde Krahn,Vladimir R. Matas,Dr. Lutz D. Schmadel,Gert Zech

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Literature 1982, Part 2

By: Siegfried Böhme,Professor Dr. Walter Fricke,Herbert Hefele,Inge Heinrich,Wilfried Hofmann,Dietlinde Krahn,Vladimir R. Matas,Dr. Lutz D. Schmadel,Gert Zech

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts, which has appeared in semi-annual volumes since 1969, is devoted to the recording, summarizing and indexing of astronomical publications throughout the world. It is prepared under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (according to a resolution adopted at the 14th General Assembly in 1970). Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts aims to present a comprehensive documenta tion of literature in all fields of astronomy and astrophysics. Every effort will be made to ensure that the average time interval between the date of receipt of the original literature and publication of the abstracts will not exceed eight months. This time interval is near to that achieved by monthly abstracting journals, compared to which our system of accumu lating abstracts for about six months offers the advantage of greater convenience for the user. Volume 32 contains literature published in 1982 and received before February 11, 1983; some older literature which was received late and which is not recorded in earlier volumes is also included. We acknowledge with thanks contributions to this volume by Dr. J. Bou~a, Prague, who surveyed journals and publications in Czech and supplied us with abstracts in English.

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3662123371

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9783662123379

High-energy Nuclear Optics of Polarized Particles

By: Vladimir G. Baryshevsky

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High-energy Nuclear Optics of Polarized Particles

By: Vladimir G. Baryshevsky

The various phenomena caused by refraction and diffraction of polarized elementary particles in matter have opened up a new research area in the particle physics: nuclear optics of polarized particles. Effects similar to the well-known optical phenomena such as birefringence and Faraday effects, exist also in particle physics, though the particle wavelength is much less than the distance between atoms of matter. Current knowledge of the quasi-optical effects, which exist for all particles in any wavelength range (and energies from low to extremely high), will enable us to investigate different properties of interacting particles (nuclei) in a new aspect. This pioneering book will provide detailed accounts of quasi-optical phenomena in the particle polarization, and will interest physicists and professionals in experimental particle physics.

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World Scientific

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9814324833

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9789814324830

Heatmetry

The Science and Practice of Heat Flux Measurement

By: Sergey Z. Sapozhnikov,Vladimir Yu. Mityakov,Andrey V. Mityakov

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Heatmetry

The Science and Practice of Heat Flux Measurement

By: Sergey Z. Sapozhnikov,Vladimir Yu. Mityakov,Andrey V. Mityakov

This book is a translation from a Russian book. In 2007, the authors created a new generation of layered composite-based sensors, whose advantages are high technology and thermal stability. The use of gradient heat flux sensors in laboratory and industrial conditions confirmed their reliability, showed high information, and allowed a number of priority results to be obtained. All of this is summarized in this book.

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303040854X

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Adhesion of Polymers

By: Vladimir Kestelman,Roman Veslovsky

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Adhesion of Polymers

By: Vladimir Kestelman,Roman Veslovsky

Current applications for bonding and sealing are expensive and time-consuming. Adhesion of Polymers presents a state-of-the-art method for improving bonds and sealing strength between different materials underwater and in the human body. This time- and cost-efficient technology will allow engineers to create or repair stronger seals in underwater pipes, repair ships at sea, even bond and seal tissues in the body.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071370455

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Ultrawideband Short-Pulse Radio Systems

By: Vladimir I. Koshelev,Victor P. Belichenko,Yury I. Buyanov

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Ultrawideband Short-Pulse Radio Systems

By: Vladimir I. Koshelev,Victor P. Belichenko,Yury I. Buyanov

This resource provides a comprehensive treatment of the methods, analysis, and practice of impulse and ultrawideband (UWB) systems. Sources, antennas, propagation, electromagnetic theory, and actual practical systems are explored.This book provides novel perspective on impulse and short-pulse wireless engineering along with practical guidance on how to build antennas and radio hardware for high-power impulse signals. Theoretical and experimental results in the time-frequency domain are presented. The book explains and discusses the scattering of UWB electromagnetic pulses by conducting and dielectric objects. Impulse responses of objects and propagation channels are explored with details of signal models and their spectral characteristics and uses of regularization of a Kramers-Kroning type relation for estimating transfer functions. Readers gain insight into the development of high-power sources of UWB radiation with megavolt effective potential on the base of combined antenna arrays excited with bipolar voltage pulses. This in-depth volume includes chapters on receiving antennas, transmitting antennas, and antenna arrays along with details on high-power UWB radiation sources as well as problem sets.

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Artech House

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1630814431

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Syngas Production: Status and Potential for Implementation in Russian Industry

By: Vladimir Litvinenko,Bernd Meyer

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Syngas Production: Status and Potential for Implementation in Russian Industry

By: Vladimir Litvinenko,Bernd Meyer

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Judgment in Moscow

Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity

By: Vladimir K Bukovsky

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Judgment in Moscow

Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity

By: Vladimir K Bukovsky

First author-approved English translation of Soviet-era dissident's book which uses stolen Communist Party archives to tell the behind-the-scenes story of Soviet collaboration with Western leaders, and the collapse of the Communist regime.

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0998041610

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