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Russia Upside Down
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Author : Joseph Weisberg
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-09-28
Russia Upside Down written by Joseph Weisberg and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with History categories.
A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards Russia is failing--and we'll never fix it until we rethink our relationship. Coming of age in America in the 1970s and 80s, Joe Weisberg was a Cold Warrior. After briefly studying Russian in Leningrad, he joined the CIA in 1990--just in time to watch the Soviet Union collapse. But less than a decade after the first Cold War ended, a new one broke out. Russia changed in many of the ways that America hoped it might--more capitalist, more religious, more open to Western ideas. But US sanctions have crippled Russia's economy; and Russia's interventions have exacerbated political problems in America. The old paradigm--America, the free capitalist good guys, fighting Russia, the repressive communist bad guys--simply doesn't apply anymore. But we've continued to act as if it does. In this bold and controversial book, Joe Weisberg interrogates these assumptions, asking hard questions about American policy and attempting to understand what Russia truly wants. Russia Upside Down makes the case against the new Cold War. It suggests that we are fighting an enemy with whom we have few if any serious conflicts of interest. It argues that we are fighting with ineffective and dangerous tools. And most of all, it aims to demonstrate that our approach is not working. With our own political system in peril and continually buffeted by Russian attacks, we need a new framework, urgently. Russia Upside Down shows the stakes and begins to lay out that new plan, at a time when it is badly needed.
Russia Upside Down
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Author : Frank H. Columbus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Russia Upside Down written by Frank H. Columbus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Soviet Union categories.
Russia Upside Down
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Author : Frank Columbus
language : en
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Incorporated
Release Date : 2011-05-01
Russia Upside Down written by Frank Columbus and has been published by Nova Science Pub Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
If the people killed or starved to death by the Soviets were laid out end to end they would stretch half way to the moon. This compelling novel of life in the Soviet Union tells an up-front and personal story of a family who lived through the birth, life and death of perhaps the worst monster state ever to exist on Earth. We shudder through the social upheavals of the 1920's, the terror of the 30s and the horror of WWII. We catch the mood of enthusiasm at first for Khrushchev and the bitter disappointment that came soon after as his economic policies failed. We discover that the smiling Khrushchev turned out to be one of the worst persecutors of the Church in history. Then we take an emotional roller coaster ride through the years of Brezhnev, Andropov and the other old men. At last we meet Mikhail Gorbachev whose new thinking rapidly becomes old thinking? At last the Soviet Union dies -- or does it? The Kuladze family story is also a remarkable and tender love story in a world where life and death could hinge on intonation, nuance or thinking unapproved thoughts. It is a world in which Christening a baby must be done in total secrecy, yet millions do it anyway. The reader will never be the same after reading this absorbing and thoughtful book.
Russia A Country Upside Down
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Author : C. A. Rowley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03
Russia A Country Upside Down written by C. A. Rowley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03 with categories.
A Diary Of Travel And Study In The United Socialist Soviet Republic.
Across The Moscow River
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Author : Rodric Braithwaite
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Across The Moscow River written by Rodric Braithwaite and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with History categories.
Rodric Braithwaite was British ambassador to Moscow during the critical years of Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the failed coup of August 1991, and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. From the vantage point of the British Embassy (once the mansion of the great nineteenth-century merchant Pavel Kharitonenko) with its commanding views cross the Moscow River to Red Square and the Kremlin, Braithwaite had a ringside seat. With his long experience of Russia and the Russians, who saw him as 'Mrs. Thatcher's Ambassador', on good personal terms with Mikhail Gorbachev, he was in a privileged position close to the centre of Russia's changing relationship with the West. But this is not primarily a memoir. It is an intimate analysis of momentous change and the people who drove it, against the background of Russia's long history and its unique but essentially European culture. Braithwaite watched as Gorbachev and his allies struggled to modernise and democratise a system which had already reached the point of terminal decay. Against the opposition of the generals, they forced the abandonment of the nuclear confrontation as the Soviet Union fell apart. The climax of the drama came in August 1991 when a miscellaneous collection of conservative patriots - generals, politicians and secret policemen - attempted to reverse the course of history and succeeded only in accelerating the collapse of the Soviet Union.
An Ordinary Spy
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Author : Joseph Weisberg
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-01-01
An Ordinary Spy written by Joseph Weisberg and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Written in the style of a CIA-censored intelligence report, a tale of two embattled spies follows their extraordinary efforts to protect their informants and traces new agent Mart Ruttenberg's investigation into a former operative's suspicious termination
Active Measures
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Author : Thomas Rid
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2020-04-23
Active Measures written by Thomas Rid and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-23 with History categories.
We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. Even before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was 'carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign' to disrupt the democratic process. But as crafty as such so-called active measures have become, they are not new. In this astonishing journey through a century of secret psychological war, Rid reveals for the first time some of history's most significant operations - many of them nearly beyond belief. A White Russian ploy backfires and brings down a New York police commissioner; a KGB-engineered, anti-Semitic hate campaign creeps back across the Berlin Wall; the CIA backs a fake publishing empire, run by a former Wehrmacht U-boat commander that produces Germany's best jazz magazine.
Icon And Devotion
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Author : Oleg Tarasov
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2004-01-03
Icon And Devotion written by Oleg Tarasov and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-03 with Art categories.
Icon and Devotion offers the first extensive presentation in English of the making and meaning of Russian icons. The craft of icon-making is set into the context of forms of worship that emerged in the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-seventeenth century. Oleg Tarasov shows how icons have held a special place in Russian consciousness because they represented idealized images of Holy Russia. He also looks closely at how and why icons were made. Wonder-working saints and the leaders of such religious schisms as the Old Believers appear in these pages, which are illustrated with miniature paintings, lithographs and engravings never before published in the English-speaking world. By tracing the artistic vocabulary, techniques and working methods of icon painters, Tarasov shows how icons have been integral to the history of Russian art, influenced by folk and mainstream currents alike. As well as articulating the specifically Russian piety they invoke, he analyzes the significance of icons in the cultural life of modern Russia in the context of popular prints and poster design.
The World Turned Upside Down
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Author : Pierre Souyri
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2001
The World Turned Upside Down written by Pierre Souyri and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
This unique synthetic history of Japan's "middle ages" is a remarkable portrait of a complex period in the evolution of Japan. Using a wide variety of sources--ranging from legal and historical texts to artistic and literary examples--to form a detailed overview of medieval Japanese society, Souyri demonstrates the interconnected nature of medieval Japanese culture while providing an animated account of the era's religious, intellectual, and literary practices.
The World Turned Upside Down
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Author : Yang Jisheng
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-01-19
The World Turned Upside Down written by Yang Jisheng and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with History categories.
Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union’s "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation’s economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.