Russia Social Science

Le vicende della Russia di oggi non possono essere affrontate senza volgere almeno per un momento lo sguardo al loro trascorso storico. La Russia del passato recente coincideva con il fulcro del grande stato socialista, la Russia che conosciamo oggi coincide senza ombra di dubbio con il dominio incontrastato dell'attuale presidente federale, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

In the early morning hours of February 24, 2022, Russia—or the Russian Federation—under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin, launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To date, though Russia has realized only limited territorial gains, the toll on human life has been extensive, with nearly 500,000 casualties and massive destruction of resources, infrastructures, and food supplies.

The Soviet invasion of its neighbour Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a nine-year conflict until Soviet forces withdrew in 1988–89, dooming the communist Afghanistan government to defeat at the hands of the Mujahideen, the Afghan popular resistance backed by the USA and other powers. Gregory Fremont-Barnes reveals how the Soviet invasion had enormous implications on the global stage; it prompted the US Senate to refuse to ratify the hard-won SALT II arms-limitation treaty, and the USA and 64 other countries boycotted the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics.

This rather incoherent work by Russian anarchist philosopher Michael Bakunin is described in a way that he described his own life: a fragment. Rife with criticisms on Christianity and the technocracy, Bakunin presses communist values without fear of bordering extremism. Listening to this work is like walking through Bakunin’s disjointed mind; often cutting off and starting mid-sentence, including footnotes several paragraphs long as if his thoughts suddenly start to wander, as well as ending rather abruptly mid-sentence.

A narrative of personal experiences and observations, A Tale of Two Systems is the honest diary of someone who has experienced two opposite governmental systems side by side. Comparing the two cultures in a compelling and personal way, it is a powerful insight into what life’s really like under two opposing systems. In A Tale of Two Systems, you’ll find a rich and engaging narrative detailing exactly what it’s like to transition between Communism and democracy.

Yeva Skalietska lebt ein normales Schülerinnen-Leben im ukrainischen Charkiw, als der Angriff der russischen Armee am 24. Februar 2022 ihrer Kindheit ein brutales Ende setzt. Denn fortan bestimmen Kriegsgeschehnisse ihren Alltag. Die Heimatstadt wird zerstört, Treffen mit Freundinnen sind nicht möglich, ein normaler Alltag existiert nicht mehr. Yeva ist zutiefst verstört und hält ihre Eindrücke seit Beginn des Krieges in ihrem Tagebuch fest.

L'Europa va in frantumi e la Germania è destinata a essere confinata all'angolo dopo la rottura con il Regno Unito, proprio nel tempo in cui gli Stati Uniti di Trump si riavvicinano alla Russia, e tramite essa, al Medio Oriente, alla Turchia, agli Stati Arabi del Golfo e, lo si voglia o no, all'Iran, con cui far pace potrebbe essere solo una questione di tempo.

After going through three elderly leaders in three years, Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen as the new General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the relatively youg age of 54 in March 1985. Gorbachev hoped to build the Soviet economy to relieve the persistent shortages of consumer goods it faced, which were caused by enormous military spending of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev tried to introduce some economic reforms, but they were blocked by communist hardliners. Gorbachev then came to the belief that the Soviet economy could not improved without political reform as well.

Per un quarto di secolo (1929-1953) Iosif Stalin è stato il padrone assoluto dell'Unione Sovietica. Dall'ufficio al Cremlino, o dalle dacie fuori Mosca dove spesso risiedeva, il dittatore gestiva con pugno di ferro ogni aspetto della vita sociale, sulla base di un'interpretazione estremistica e ultrasemplificata del marxismo. Ossessionato dall'idea di "nemici interni" pronti a tradirlo, Stalin instaurò un regime di terrore che non permise mai a nessuno dei suoi sudditi di sentirsi al sicuro.

In 1944, there was still no united Yugoslavia, the Axis controlled most of Europe, and D-Day was only in the planning stages. In the Balkans, Tito was a beacon of hope against the advancing Nazis. He led a force of resistance fighters that bedeviled the occupying German army throughout Slavic regions and empowered people's committees to act as local government in all liberated areas. For observers on the political left, Tito seemed uniquely poised to unite the East and West against fascism - once and for all.

Henry Kissinger is among the most controversial figures in American life. He has been lauded as a diplomatic Superman and cursed as a war criminal, credited with turning the tide of the Cold War and accused of causing genocide. At various times, he has inspired both admiration and deep suspicion among the American public.

A month after the release of the Mueller Report, only 3% of those polled had actually read it all. Most people are completely unaware that Bob Mueller personally wrote introductory paragraphs and executive summaries throughout both volumes of his report. This book gives every citizen the opportunity to review the report’s findings in an accessible manner. You will find the introductions and comprehensive executive summaries presented in an easy-to-listen-to, understandable format with minimal redactions and legalistic language.

The "meat" of The Mueller Report is contained in his summaries of the report. Did the Russians interfere in our 2016 election? Did the Trump campaign collude with the Russians? Did Trump attempt to obstruct the investigation? Mueller presents the evidence but does not make judgments.

This is a summary and analysis of the book by Rachel Maddow and not the original book. In Blowout, Rachel Maddow explains how the oil and gas industry is experiencing a Renaissance thanks to fracking and horizontal drilling. The book tells the history of oil and gas over the last decade, and shows how all these pieces are interconnected and are affecting our lives, right now. In fact, it is argued by the author that the geopolitical impact of the oil and gas industry activities is the key explanatory variable of the current global chaos and democratic downturn.

Volume 1 from the five-volume Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. This document focuses on Russian efforts to attack US election infrastructure and explains security concerns with various US voting machines, the ability for DHS to provide support to the states, and scenarios for potential disruption to future elections. To help with the listening experience, it provides a description of the amount of redacted material within the document.

If we rely on logic of history of political and legal teachings, then this implies that this history began in Rus' at the time when pagans were huddled into a river. This fact in itself is of little interest. What is of interest is the following: what is the essence of this fact?

Biograficheskiy i politicheskiy podtexty povesti I.S. Turgeneva "Pervaya lyubov". Drama Gertsena. Dacha naprotiv Neskuchnogo sada. Varen'ka Bogdanovich. Na zare detektivnogo zhanra. Politichesky podtekst povesti.