Panorama of Russia scholarly academic books from Russia

Code: 031010
Gordon, Dmitrii
Berezovskii i Korzhakov: Kremelvskie Tainy

[ Berezovskii i Korzhakov: Kremlin secrets : ]
Moscow: Algoritm, 2013
Language: Russian

Price: $ 17.00

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Code: 030892
Dodolev, E.Iu
BereZOVskii, Razobrannyi po Bukvam

[ BereZOVskii, disassembled letter by letter : ]
Moscow: Progress ID, 2013
Language: Russian

Price: $ 26.00

Boris Berezovskii (1946-2013) is a question mark of the post-soviet epoch. What he was trying to achieve? Was he ever happy in his life? Evg. Dodolev interviews the people who were working with him and knew him closely.

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Code: 009505
Sul`ianov, Anatolii
Beriia: Arestovat` v Kremle

[ Beriia: Arrest him in the Kremlin : ]
Minsk: Kharvest, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

A. Sul`ianov started to write this story when he collected several accounts of Beriia`s arrest from eye witnesses and participants, Generals P. Batitskii, K. Moskalenko, I. Zub, etc. This book is about Beriia`s career, his relations with Stalin, his confrontation with Marshal G.

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Code: 030203
Khollovei, D. (Holloway, David), Reifild, Donal`d, Ferr, Grover
Beriia: Imperiia GULAG

[ Beriia: Empire of the GULAG : ]
Moscow: Algoritm, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 17.00

This book by the three leading western specialists in the Stalin period and the period of the Cold War is about the GULAG empire led by Lavrentii Beriia.

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Code: 012554
Prudnikova, Elena
Beriia: Poslednii Rytsar` Stalina

[ Beriia: Stalin`s last knight : ]
Moscow: Neva, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

This book is a result of a journalist investigation of the real role of Lavrentii Beriia in the post-Stalin period. Beriia was the first to call Stalin a tyrant. It was he who introduced a motion at the Central Committee meeting to stop "the Physicians` case", to release innocent people from camps and punish the forgers of their cases.

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Code: 029944
Kobba, D.V
Beriia: Za Chto Ego ne Liubiat`

[ Beriia: Why they do not love him : ]
Moscow: Algoritm, 2013
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.00

This book is about the professional life of Lavrentii Beriia in the NKVD, intelligence service, army, GULAG and creation of nuclear bomb in the USSR. The author pays special attention to the short period of Beriia`s life after the death of Stalin, when he revealed his own program of changes and was quickly "disarmed" and repressed by the party top officials.

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Code: 031078
Malevanyi, V.V
Berkut”, Stalin i Masony
Politicheskaia Filosofiia Spetsnaza: Voenno-Politicheskii Roman
[ "Berkut", Stalin and the Masons : The political philosophy of the special forces: Military-political novel ]
Moscow: ABC "Berkut", 2014
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

This book is about the history of the special division "Berkut" founded for the protection of Stalin. Since the 1950s this division participated in many secret operations. This book tells the stories of some of them based on memoirs of the veterans.

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Code: 023795
Kornilkov, A.N
Berlin
Tainaia Voina po Obe Storony Granitsy
[ Berlin : The Secret war on both sides of the border ]
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

The author, a veteran of the military intelligence service, served in the special Berlin garrison in the Russian controlled area of Germany during the "Cold War". East Berlin was the front line of the war between the East and the West, and the soviet battle group in Germany was the largest soviet group in the Soviet army.

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Code: 020372
Azol`skii, Anatolii
Berlin — Moskva — Berlin

[ Berlin — Moskva — Berlin : ]
Moscow: Tsentrpoligraf, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

Anatolii Azol`skii (b. 1930), 1997 Booker award winner, is the author of many stories and novels. This book includes four stories: Berlin—Moskva—Berlin (about murderous assaults on Stalin during WWII); Kletka; Patrikeev; Legenda o Travkine.

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Code: 028617
Skorobogatov, V.E
Berzarin

[ Berzarin : ]
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

This is the first biography of Russian general Nikolai Erastovich Berzarin (1904-June 16th, 1945) who offered the original plan for capturing Hitler which was successfully implemented. Berzarin became the first Russian town mayor of the city of Berlin after WWII.

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Code: 026066
Shvetsova, Elena
Bes Arapskii Bessarabskii: Pushkin v Kishineve
V Vospominaniiakh, v Dnevnikakh, v Dokumentakh, v Pis`makh i Fantaziiakh Avtora
[ Black demon of Bessarabia: Pushkin in Kishinev : In memoirs, in diaries, in documents, in letters and fantasies of the author ]
Perm`: Permskii gos. un-t, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

This book is about little known moments in Aleksandr Pushkin`s life in exile in Bessarabia. The author`s text is organically intertwines with memoirs about Pushkin in this period and his letters to N.I.

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Code: 028538
Kariakin, Iurii
Bes Smertnyi: Prikhod i Izgnanie
O Lenine, Staline, Pol Pote, a Takzhe o Solzhenitsyne i Sakharove
[ Mortal demon: Arrival and expulsion : On Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, as well as Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov ]
Moscow: Novaia gazeta, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

This book includes articles by Iurii Kariakin (1930-2012), a well-known Russian philosopher, art historian and literary critic. It portrays modern demons and their role in history which were foreseen by Dostoevskii in his famous novel, and later by Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn: Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot,etc.

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Code: 005783
Besedy na Lubianke: Sledstvennoe Delo Derdia Lukacha
Materialy k Biografii
[ Conversations on Lubianka: Investigation file of Derd Lukacs : Materials to biography ]
Moscow: Institut Slavianovedeniia RAN, 1999
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

Derd Lukacs (1885-1971), a Hungarian philosopher and writer, spent fifteen years in Russia (1929-1945). He was arrested by the NKVD in 1941 and released after two months. The documents of his interrogation collected in this book show that this case was only one of many repressions against foreign communists.

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Code: 024466
Shmeman, A.D., protopresviter
Besedy na Radio "Svoboda": V 2 tt

[ Talks on Radio Liberty. In 2 vols. : ]
Moscow: PSTGU, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 69.00

Archpriest Aleksander Shmeman (1921-1983), dean of St. Vladimir`s Orthodox Seminary (New York, NY), has been host on Russian language Sunday talk shows on Radio Liberty in 1953-83. This is the most complete collection of these conversations.

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Code: 007482
Shchedrovitskii, D.V
Besedy o Knige Iova

[ Conversations about the Book of Job : ]
Moscow: Oklik, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.00

Book of Job is one of the most ancient and mysterious books of the Bible. A well known theologian, a specialist in the Bible, translator and poet offers his help in understanding of this book. Includes bibliographical references.

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Code: 023083
Rozin, V.M
Besedy o Real`nosti i Snovideniia Marka Vadimova
Metodologicheskii Roman
[ Discussiona about the reality and dreams of Mark Vadimov : Methodological novel ]
Moscow: LKI, 2008
Language: Russian

Price: $ 23.00

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Code: 009241C
Lotman, Iu.M
Besedy o Russkoi Kul`ture
Byt i Traditsii Russkogo Dvorianstva (XVIII-nachalo XIX veka)
[ Conversations about Russian culture : The way of life and traditions of the Russian nobility (18th to the early 19th centuries) ]
St. Petersburg: Azbuka, 2014
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

Iu.M. Lotman (1922-1993) was a well known researcher of the Russian culture. This book is based on a series of TV lectures on the same topic. It is profusely illustrated. Provided with comments and bibliographical references it describes many sides of the life of the nobility: women’s life and education, promotion, matchmaking, marriage, divorce, card games, duels, etc.

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Code: 008612
Glinka, N.I
Besedy o Russkom Iskusstve: XVIII vek

[ Conversations about Rusian art of the 18th century : ]
Moscow: Knizhnyi Mir, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This is the book on the history of Russian arts and architecture of the 18th century, mostly in the Russian capitals St. Petersburg and Moscow. The first half of the book reviews its main artists, directions, and achievements.

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Code: 009706
Besedy o Sviashchennom Pisanii i o Vere i Tserkvi

[ Conversations about Holy Writ and about belief and the Church : ]
: Russian Orthodox Youth Committee, 1991-95
Language: Russian

Price: $ 90.00

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Code: 011341
Ober, Rafael; Gfeller, Urs
Besedy s Dmitriem Viacheslavovichem Ivanovym

[ Conversations with Dimitrii Viacheslavovich Ivanov : ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Ivana Limbakha, 1999
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

Dimitrii V. Ivanov (pseud. Jean Neufcel) is a son of Viach. I. Ivanov (1866-1949), an acclaimed symbolist poet. From 1924 Viach. Ivanov and his family lived in Rome. D.V. Ivanov (b. 1916) became a journalist connected with several Francophone news houses.

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Code: 026308
Verevkin, S.I
Besedy s Pol`skim Poslom o Polskoi Istorii i ne Tolko

[ Conversations wilh the Polish ambassador about Polish history and more : ]
Moscow: Posev, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.00

This is a book of conversations with the Polish ambassador to Russia Ezi Bar and the Director of Polish Cultural Center, historian Heronim Graal on Polish history and the history of Polish-Russian relations.

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Code: 008756
Azarkh-Granovskaia, A.V
Besedy s V.D. Duvakinym

[ A.V. Azarkh-Granovskaia`s Memoirs Recorded by V.D. Duvakin : ]
Moscow, Jerusalem: Mosty Kul`tury, Gesharim, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

This is a book by the historian of literature Viktor Duvakin (1909-1982) in the genre of interview-memoir. This time he interviews the actress, director, and pedagogue Aleksandra Azarkh-Granovskaia (1892-1980), the wife of the famous theater director A.

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Code: 023440
Ruzvel`t, Franklin Delano (Roosevelt, Franklin D.)
Besedy u Kamina

[ Fireside chats : ]
Moscow: ITRK, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

This is the first translation into Russian of the radio addresses by American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the economic crisis called "Great Depression" and WW2, 1933-1945. These addresses also explain the spirit of his internal policy that was called the "New Deal".

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Code: 021708
Tret`iakov, V.T
Beskhrebetnaia Rossiia
Stat`i iz "Rossiiskoi Gazety": 2002-2006
[ Spineless Russia : Articles from "Rossiiskaia Gazeta": 2002-2006 ]
Moscow: Rossiiskaia Gazeta, Moskovskie Novosti, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

Vitalii Tret`iakov (b. 1953) was the editor of magazine "Politicheskii Klass" (2005-2006), and now of the newspaper "Moskovskie Novosti " (since 2006). He is one of the ideologues of the modern Putin course, and an opponent of a liberal course in Russia.

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Code: 023453
Dzutsev, Kh.V. (Khasan Vladimirovich)
Beslan posle 1-3 Sentiabria 2004 Goda
Sotsiologicheskii Analiz
[ Beslan after 1-3 September 2004 : Sociological analysis ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2008
Language: Russian

Price: $ 37.00

Beslan, a small town in Northern Osetia (Russia), is known worldwide because of the terrorist atrocity in the Beslan school from September 1st, 2004, one of the most brutal because it was against children.

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Code: 019012
Iuzik, Iuliia
Beslanskii Slovar`

[ Dictionary of Beslan : ]
Moscow: Zakharov, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 14.00

Beslan, a small town in Northern Osetia (Russia), is known worldwide because of the terrorist attrocity in the Beslan school from September 1st, 2004, one of the most brutal because it was against children.

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Code: 020664
Bespokoiniki Goroda Pitera: Sbornik Proizvedenii

[ The Uneasy people of St. Petersburg: Collection of works : ]
St. Petersburg: Amfora, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This book is a martyrology, a collection of 14 biographical stories of artistic intelligentsia born in the 1950s, whose lives were connected to St. Petersburg: writers, photographers, Russian rock stars, performers, painters.

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Code: 001574
Bespokoinoe Serdtse

[ Uneasy heart : ]
: Vagrius, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.50

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Code: 020983-4
Levit, Il`ia
Bespokoinye Geroi
Kniga Vtoraia: Vingeit
[ Restless heroes : Book two: Wingate ]
St. Petersburg: Retro, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This is the next book in the series Tale of Doctor Levit. It also continues the first book of the series published in 2004 (Gesharim). Doctor Ilia levit (b. 1948), a specialist in Jewish history, has lived in Israel since 1979.

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Code: 023122
Gitel`man, Ts. (Gitelman, Z)
Bespokoinyi Vek
Evrei Rossii i Sovetskogo Soiuza s 1881 g. do Nashikh Dnei
[ Uneasy century : The Jews of Russia and the soviet union from 1881 to our day ]
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2008
Language: Russian

Price: $ 35.00

The book by Tsvi Gitel’man, a professor at Michigan University, is dedicated to the life of Jews in the Russian Empire during the last century. The book tells us about the Jewish insight, their triumph and defeat, about the Holocaust on the territory of the Soviet Union, and about the attempts to find new ways of the development of the Hebrew nation and its culture in the post soviet period.

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