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On the afternoon of May 11, 1997, in a television studio on the 34th floor of a building in midtown Manhattan, one of the strongest chess players in history sat down to play the sixth and final game of a match he had expected to win. Garry Kasparov was 34 and had held the world championship for 12 years, making his name a synonym for the human mind operating at the absolute edge of its power. Across the board from him sat an opponent with no mind at all. The opponent was a black tower of processors built by IBM and named Deep Blue.

On the night of April 1, 1951, in six republics along the western edge of the Soviet Union, soldiers moved into villages and towns while the people inside their houses slept. They came with dogs and machine guns, and they carried lists on which names and addresses had already been written. The lists had been compiled over the preceding months by the Ministry of State Security, the agency the Soviets called the MGB. The men knocked, and when the doors opened, they read out an order.

From the streets of Moscow to a new life in America, From Red Square to Main Street tells the powerful story of Alisa Mizelle's journey through love, survival, and transformation. In this gripping memoir, Alisa Mizelle opens her heart to reveal a life marked by hardship, heartache, and hope. Born into a harsh Soviet childhood, she endured emotional neglect, abandonment, and physical abuse. Yet, through it all, she dreamed of a better life—one filled with love, security, and family. Her escape from Soviet Russia was just the beginning of a life marked by sacrifice and resilience.

»Wirklichkeit schlägt Fiktion. Absolute Pflichtlektüre.« —Georg Mascolo ( »Das Versagen« ) »Bojan Pancevski verbindet investigativen Spürsinn mit geopolitischem Weitblick und beleuchtet nicht nur, wie die Nord-Stream-Pipelines zerstört wurden, sondern auch, warum sie für Europas...

An intimate yet epic portrait of modern Russia, from the award-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul. “A daring on-the-ground work of reportage with a distinctly human feel.” —Financial Times Today’s Russia is one of the most closed countries in the world...

When did Russia lose its chance of freedom? This is the story of how a nation's dreams of democracy died. Drawing on buried archives and off-the-record interviews, exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman gives a gripping insider account of the tragedy of modern Russia, told through the many lives of Boris Nemtsov - activist, playboy, leader-in-waiting, dissident and, finally, victim.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You know the outline of the story. The explosion. The cover-up. The zone of silence. But what you have never heard is how a single young woman, armed with a notepad and a forged press pass, walked past KGB checkpoints into a radioactive hell and...

The assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Franz Ferdinand didn't just ignite the fuse to the tinderbox that was Europe in the early years of the twentieth century. When war was declared and the soldiers set off to fight the "war to end all wars," World War I realigned nations, sent their economies reeling, and toppled thrones and classes. Hungary was a particularly vivid example of how quickly a nation's fate could plummet from empire to supplicant.

This book explores Russia's relations with Eurasian countries in response to its growing isolation from the Western world. Vladimir Putin's world view, shaped by history and personal experience, has led to an ideological focus on an inevitable civilizational clash with the West, closely tied to...

The surprising and little-known story of how the United States and Russia forged an extraordinary friendship during the Civil War. In 1863, as the Civil War raged, Russian warships suddenly appeared in New York and San Francisco, sparking celebrations across the North and raising hopes that...

Unmask the shadowy world of Russian espionage with this riveting exploration of the Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) and their global clandestine operations. With decades of experience as a CIA operations officer, author Sean M. Wiswesser takes listeners deep into the heart of...

The bitter Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front was the turning point of World War II. The relentless and unstoppable German advances that had seen the panzers sweep hundreds of miles into Russia was finally brought to a halt. The elite German Sixth Army was first fought to a standstill, then surrounded and forced to surrender.

Klim Rogov, a celebrated radio anchorman, never imagined he’d be treated like royalty in the Soviet Union when he arrived in 1927. But his assignment as a United Press correspondent in Moscow gives him access to the country’s most dangerous and powerful circles. Klim isn’t here for the champagne and privilege that ordinary Russians can only dream of. He’s here for Nina, his wife, who was kidnapped by Bolshevik agents. Every day in Moscow is a tightrope walk: one wrong word, one wrong look, and he could be branded a spy, condemned in a show trial, and lose Nina forever.

Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée de "la" biographie politique de Lénine, par le maître d’œuvre du Livre noir du communisme, best-seller mondial. Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov, plus connu sous le nom de Lénine, a été l’un des personnages clés du XXe siècle. Celui qui, avant 1917, n’était connu que des habitués du mouvement révolutionnaire russe est soudain apparu en pleine lumière. Il s’empara avec une formidable audace du pouvoir en Russie, y créa le premier régime communiste qui allait essaimer dans une vingtaine de pays jusqu’en 1989-1991, ainsi qu’une Internationale dirigeant plus de 90 partis dans le monde.

In the winter of 1959, a group of nine young and experienced hikers embarked on a journey into the Ural Mountains of Russia. Although they had previously undertaken cold-weather trips, this particular expedition would tragically be their last. During their trek, the hikers encountered something unexpected in the supposedly desolate region, resulting in the demise of the entire group. The exact events of that fateful night remain unknown, but the incident has since become one of the world's most perplexing mysteries.

2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro: Historia de Rusia: Un apasionante recorrido por los principales acontecimientos de la historia de Rusia. Los Romanov: Un apasionante repaso a la Casa Romanov

The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union’s secret police and internal security agencies. In fact, it is often used to refer to the Soviet state security agencies throughout its history, from the inception of the inception of the Cheka (Extraordinary Commission) in 1917 to the official elimination of the KGB in 1992.

David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged.

"My Life in the Red Army" by Fred Virski offers a rare, firsthand account of a soldier's experiences within the Soviet military machine during a critical period of the 20th century. Through the lens of Virski's personal journey, the book sheds light on the inner workings, struggles, and day-to-day life of the Red Army from the perspective of an ordinary soldier.

Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century traces all the continuities and ruptures that led from the founding revolution of October 1917, to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship, the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years, and the glasnost and perestroika policies of Gorbachev.