A World of Empires

A World of Empires

Author: Edyta M. Bojanowska

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 9780674985728

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Edyta Bojanowska uses Ivan Goncharov's gripping travelogue--a bestseller in nineteenth-century Russia--as a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an assertive empire eager to emulate European powers and determined to define Russia against them.--


A Voyage to Russia

A Voyage to Russia

Author: Elizabeth Justice

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-25

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781385792353

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T011299 London: printed for the author, by G. Smith, 1746. xvi,63, [1]p.; 8°


A Voyage Round the World

A Voyage Round the World

Author: I︠U︡riĭ Lisi︠a︡nskiĭ

Publisher: London : Printed for John Booth, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey

Published: 1814

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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Annushka's Voyage

Annushka's Voyage

Author: Edith Tarbescu

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780395643662

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The Sabbath candlesticks given to them by their grandmother when they leave Russia help two sisters make it safely to join their father in New York.


Bering

Bering

Author: Orcutt William Frost

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780300100594

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Om den danske opdagelsesrejsende Vitus Bering (1681-1741) og om hans rejser fra Sibirien til Nordamerika og Alaska


Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

Author: Peter Pomerantsev

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2014-11-11

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1610394569

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A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell's Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome to the wild and bizarre heart of twenty-first-century Russia. It is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, home to a form of dictatorship-far subtler than twentieth-century strains-that is rapidly rising to challenge the West. When British producer Peter Pomerantsev plunges into the booming Russian TV industry, he gains access to every nook and corrupt cranny of the country. He is brought to smoky rooms for meetings with propaganda gurus running the nerve-center of the Russian media machine, and visits Siberian mafia-towns and the salons of the international super-rich in London and the US. As the Putin regime becomes more aggressive, Pomerantsev finds himself drawn further into the system. Dazzling yet piercingly insightful, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible is an unforgettable voyage into a country spinning from decadence into madness.