Russian Politics

Considering that he has gone down in history as Ivan the Terrible, the first tsar of Russia could hardly have been a boy scout. As his name suggests, Ivan had an utterly terrifying presence during his 37-year-long reign. Ivan's story is not only one of brutality, it is also a tale of great suffering.

"Этика, доказанная в геометрическом порядке" - сочинение Бенедикта Спинозы (1632 - 1677), философа-рационалиста и натуралиста, одного из главных представителей философии Нового времени.

On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured and ultimately charged on 30 federal counts. Yet long after the bombings and the terror they sowed, after all the testimony and debate, what we still haven't learned is why. Why did the American dream go so wrong for two immigrants?

When a justice of the Supreme Court is killed by the police officer assigned to protect him, the country is shocked. Hayley Chill’s superiors suspect the assassination is part of a major conspiracy. In Maui, where one member of the Supreme Court owns a vacation home, a busload of children is taken hostage with the justice’s death as ransom. Together with a deputy US marshal, Hayley embarks on the monumental task of rescuing the children while also protecting the justice.

This Very Short Introduction introduces listeners to the dimensions of the Russian economy that are often ignored by the media, or exaggerated and misunderstood. In doing so, it shows how Russia's economy is one of global significance, and helps explain why many of Russia's enduring features, such as the heavy hand of the state and the emphasis on military-industrial production, have persisted despite the immense changes that took place after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991.

In The Kremlin's Noose Amy Knight tells the riveting story of Vladimir Putin and the oligarch Boris Berezovsky. When Putin began dismantling Boris Yeltsin's democratic reforms, Berezovsky came into conflict with the new Russian leader by reproaching him publicly. Their relationship quickly disintegrated into a bitter feud played out against the backdrop of billion-dollar financial deals, Kremlin in-fighting, and international politics.

A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become a vital part of Russian national security, politics, and identity. This extraordinary intertwining of church and military is nowhere more visible than in the nuclear weapons community, where the priesthood has penetrated all levels of command and the Church has positioned itself as a guardian of the state's nuclear potential.

It is no secret that the 2016 United States presidential election was one of the closest, nastiest, and most contentious in the history of the country. The narrow victory of Donald J. Trump was an unprecedented upset, to say the least. The Republic Party winnowed a field of 17 candidates down to a real estate developer and reality television star who appealed to large segment of the public that felt ignored by the established powers.

In 1949 Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, 12 years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB-approved project almost certain to be an international best seller, and has asked his brother, Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for.

Мир как воля и представление—центральная работа немецкого философа Артура Шопенгауэра. Шопенгауэр утверждал, что назначение этой работы во всестороннем рассмотрении «единственной идеи». Он разработал свою философскую систему, состоящую из четырёх разделов: эпистемология, онтология, эстетика и этика.

01.Ob'ekt poznanija sociologiiju 02.Osnovnye sociologicheskie terminy. 03.Priznaki i funkcii institutov. 04.Kul'tura. 05.Sem'ja, kak social'nyj institut. 06.Malaja social'naja gruppa. 07.Statistika - instrument sociologii. 08.Socializacija. 09.Deviantnoe povedenie. 10.Religija. 11.Gender i vzroslyj chelovek. 12.Osnovnye metody sociologicheskogo issledovanija. 13.Grazhdanskoe obshhestvo. 14.Vojna. 15.Rasovoe i jetnicheskoe neravenstvo. 16.Jelementy politicheskoj sociologii.

"Zhizn' zamechatel'nyh ljudej" - serija biograficheskih i hudozhestvenno-biograficheskih knig, vypuskavshihsja v 1890 - 1924 godah izdatel'stvom F.F.Pavlenkova. "Zhizn' zamechatel'nyh ljudej" - pervoe v Rossii universal'noe sobranie biografij vydajushhihsja: artistov, muzykantov, hudozhnikov, pisatelej, polkovodcev i politicheskih dejatelej, uchenyh i filosofov raznyh jepoh i stran, napisannyh po istoricheskim i literaturnym istochnikam.

Книга основана на многолетних исследованиях и интервью с израильскими лидерами и оперативниками Моссада. Авторы, имеющие доступ к секретной информации, рассказывают о важнейших операциях Моссада и о его сотрудниках, чья работа вошла в анналы истории спецслужб. «Со времен своего создания более 60 лет назад Моссад ведет бесстрашную тайную борьбу с опасностями, угрожающими Израилю.

Russia's relationship with its neighbors and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in Eastern Ukraine, used chemical weapons on the streets of the UK, and created an army of Internet trolls to meddle in the US presidential elections. How can we understand this apparent relapse into aggressive imperialism and militarism?

In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate American intelligence and steal the nation's military and atomic secrets. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lamphere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet agents and protect the Holy Grail of Cold War espionage - the atomic bomb.

На борт роскошного круизного лайнера проникают террористы. Они быстро захватывают заложников, но среди офицеров команды находится человек, который практически в одиночку противостоит преступникам. «Сан-Андреас», британское госпитальное судно, пересекающее норвежские воды под защитой Женевской конвенции, подвергается внезапной атаке врага.

Алистер Маклин (1922–1987) — британский писатель, автор 28 остросюжетных романов и приключенческих рассказов, сценарист. Его имя широко известно читателям всего мира. Книги Маклина разошлись тиражом более 150 миллионов экземпляров, по его романам, сценариям и сюжетам было снято 18 фильмов. В 1983 году Университет Глазго присвоил писателю степень доктора литературоведения. Герои Маклина живут и побеждают по всему земному шару, «от коммунистической Венгрии и Мексиканского залива до Сингапура, юга Франции, Сан-Франциско, Нидерландов и Северного Ледовитого океана».

Milan Kundera’s early nonfiction work feels especially resonant in our own time. In these pieces, Kundera pleads the case of the “small nations” of Europe who, by culture, are Western with deep roots in Europe, despite Russia imposing its own Communist political regimes in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine, and elsewhere. Kundera warns that the real tragedy here is not Russia but Europe, whose own identity and culture are directly challenged and threatened in a way that could lead to their destruction.

Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself.

Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine’s story through the words of its president. It is the story of a nation valiantly defending itself from Russian aggression. And it is the story of a people leading the world in the struggle for democracy. Above all, it is a battle cry for us all to stand up and fight for liberty. If not now, when?