'It turns out that houses from the gases of the blast wave change color: this is how a person's face changes from shock.' The diary of the Russian poet and translator Vera Mikhailovna Inber tells about the hard days of the war in the period from 1941 to 1944 and fully conveys the tragedy of besieged Leningrad. Sagging legs are from fear when a bomb explodes nearby. Laughter and tears are from...

When Dean Nicholson left his life in Scotland to cycle around the world, he wanted to learn as much as he could about our troubled planet. Then, on a remote road in the Bosnian mountains, Dean came across an abandoned kitten. He couldn't leave the bedraggled creature, so he put her on his bike, smuggled her over the border to Montenegro, and nursed her back to health with the help of local...

The Ninth Circle is a story about punitive psychiatry that arose in the USSR at the initiative of F. Dzerzhinsky in the early 1920s. Decades passed, and thousands of completely innocent people sat in Soviet special hospitals and nothing changed.

Tests on Russian Language skills. I level. Includes separate tests for Lexicon, Grammar, Audio Comprehension, Reading, Writing, Speaking. (+Answer Keys and Methodical Recommendations for Teachers).

Culture as a factor of the state security. The author is a professor and the Moscow State University, vice-president of Academy of the Russian Literature.

From Amazon: Only serious cineastes will seek out this collection of conversations with Luis Bunuel (1900-1983), but their efforts will be amply repaid with a wealth of information about the Spanish filmmaker's techniques. Mexican film scholars de la Colina and Perez Turrent spent some 50 hours interviewing Bunuel; here they supply transcripts in which his quicksilver wit fairly gleams....

The 'Kamasutra of the scribe' is the intellectual autobiography of Alexander Genis. And also - love correspondence with your library. Considering reading to be 'everyday life of happiness', the author shares it with passion with everyone who is ready to listen to the intense dialogue of the seasoned scribe with his favorite books. enjoyment. '' Alexander Genis

The second half of the 20th Century was marked by local conflicts: Korea, Vietnam, Falkland Islands, the Persian Gulf, etc. In each of these conflicts, naval forces played a critical role.

Archive of modern Russian history. Volume III. The Sorrowful Path of the Romanovs 1917-1918.

Richard Tomlinson was recruited initially by MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, during his senior year at Cambridge University. In these memoirs, he claims to have quickly gained the trust and confidence of one of the world's most effective intelligence organizations, and that he was relied on to smuggle nuclear secrets out of Moscow. Tomlinson also writes that he ran an undercover...

The short guidebook to the State Military-Historical Archives includes information on all materials (as of 1 Jan 2001) held by the archives. There is also information on the organization of the materials and how to search for documents. The guidebooks is essential for those wishing to work in the archives. Includes information on armies, corps and smaller units and formations (including...