DescriptionThe year is 1995, and an energetic senator wants to disarm, perhaps even eliminate, the CIA. To accumulate the evidence necessary to persuade the Senate, he needs the cooperation of Blackford Oakes, now retired. He wants from Oakes an account of his covert activity 10 years earlier, when Oakes served as chief of covert activities for the CIA. But, what will the frustrated senator do to compel cooperation from Blackford Oakes? A Very Private Plot takes the listener inside the Kremlin and the Reagan White House, exhibiting a detailed knowledge and savoir-faire characteristic of the author. The forces unleashed in 1985 threaten any resolution between the United States and the Soviet Union and threaten the lives of a very small unit of young Russians who remain in the memory as the tale reaches a climax.
DescriptionUna ventana a ideas revolucionarias. Aunque La Madre de Gorky tiene quiza un exceso de retorica, es sin embargo una ventana a las ideas revolucionarias, en especial en el conmovedor retrato de la madre que decide tomar los rumbos de su hijo, cuando este es encarcelado por sus ideas. Pero mas importante que el argumento, es la excelente serie de retratos psicologicos, hechos con tal acierto que han colocado a Gorky como uno de los mas penetrantes novelistas de la Rusia revolucionaria. Independientemente. This book gives a broad and generalized picture of life in Russia on the eve of the Revolution of 1905. The narrative is based on events which took place in the town of Sormovo.
DescriptionThere have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great's lover, prime minister, and general, Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge.
DescriptionFor more than eight years, Boris Yeltsin was charged with one of the greatest political challenges in history: transforming Russia's vast one-party totalitarian state into a free-market democracy. Midnight Diaries is President Yeltsin's astoundingly candid personal account of those crucial, tumultuous years. Growing out of a series of late-night conversations between Yeltsin and his chief of staff, Midnight Diaries addresses the real impact of the coup of 1991; the bloody 1993 showdown with Parliament; Yeltsin's relationships with Bill Clinton and other world leaders; the crisis in Chechnya; the labyrinthine Russian economy; Yeltsin's health problems; and much more. Freewheeling and direct, in the style of the man himself, Midnight Diaries is a fascinating, unprecedented look at history in the making.
DescriptionCrime in post-communist Russia has only gotten worse: rubles are scarce; blood, plentiful. In the eyes of Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his metropolitan police team, newfound democracy has emboldened those already on the path to hell. And a trio of nasty cases confirms their worst fears. Deputy Inspector Sasha Tkach must find the murderous thieves who have terrorized an impoverished neighborhood. Policewoman Elena Timofeyeva raids a house filled with Czarist treasures, all of which disappear the next day. Relentless Inspector Emil Karpo will not rest until he finds the Mafia beasts who killed the only woman he has ever loved. Playing against time and the odds, Rostnikov and company have their hands full upholding the law, and holding on to something they can believe in, in a country wracked by political change and its consequences.
DescriptionGranted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky has broken down the iron curtain of myth, secrecy, and lies that has surrounded Stalin's life and career, painting a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and…
