The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990, Hardcover - Peter Reddaway

The nearly forgotten story of Soviet dissidentsIt has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union--enough time for the role th...

Reducere. How have the fall of the USSR and the long dominance of Putin reshaped Russian politics and culture? Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most pr...

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Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground." --US...

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Best known for his 1979 film David, Peter Lilienthal was an unusual figure within postwar filmmaking circles. A child refugee from Nazi Germany who...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Philipp FelschTranslator: Tony CrawfordNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 36Cover ...

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Publisher: McFarland & Co IncAuthor(s): Marc E. VargoNumber of pages: 308Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 231 x 154 x 24Cover type: Paperback / so...

About the AuthorHeinrich Haape survived the war but never practiced medicine again. He worked as editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper, an art journ...

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The Resistance in Western Europe is a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Examining clandestine or...

Reducere. In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdi...

Offers a photographic history of the Tahoe Basin over a hundred-year period. With more than two hundred duotone and colour photographs, this collec...

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Reducere. A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television newsMarvin Kalb, the award-winning journali...

The No.3 Sunday Times bestselling 'masterpiece' (Andrew O'Hagan)

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This book presents the main research veins developed within the framework of the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD), a paradigm that orig...

Explore the influence of Impressionism on Russian painters at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century. In the late 19th century, numerou...

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Reducere. In the short personal essays that comprise Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Pilgrim, essays in lieu of a Memoir, author Peter Wortsman, best known for his...

The first synoptic history of the postwar Royal Society, one of the most prestigious and influential bodies in the history of science. Drawing on i...

Reducere. The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true un...