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Author: John Tichotsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1134413866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study looks at the reform process in Sakha and at a one hundred year history of economic development. The research revealed that Sakha's progress has always been determined by the export of key resources.
Author: John Tichotsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1134413939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study looks at the reform process in Sakha and at a one hundred year history of economic development. The research revealed that Sakha's progress has always been determined by the export of key resources.
Author: Tijl Vanneste
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2021-09-16
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1789144361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping history of our enduring passion for diamonds—and the exploitative industry that fuels it. Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical exposé of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the environment, the monopolization of uncut diamonds, and how little this has changed over time. It describes the use of forced labor and political oppression by Indian sultans, Portuguese colonizers in Brazil, and Western industrialists in many parts of Africa—as well as the hoarding of diamonds to maintain high prices, from the English East India Company to De Beers. While recent discoveries of diamond deposits in Siberia, Canada, and Australia have brought an end to monopolization, the book shows that advances in the production of synthetic diamonds have not yet been able to eradicate the exploitation caused by the world’s unquenchable thirst for sparkle.
Author: Samra Sarfraz Khan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-03-10
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1666910589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comparative study of Chinese and Russian policies in their respective inner peripheries. As the inner peripheries of the two states are rather vast, a selected number of regions have been chosen from the two geographical expanses. These regions are not only rich in hydrocarbons and minerals but also serve as conduits of the same. Moreover, the geographical position of the Caucasus provides Russia with an ingress into the Transcaucasia; a region that has often presented Moscow with serious challenges in international politics. Similarly, Xinjiang and Tibet serve as supply bases of hydrocarbon and mineral, and as conduits of the same to the Chinese regime. In addition to this, while Tibet serves as China’s anchorage in Himalayas and a buffer zone against the Indian threat, Xinjiang is China’s gateway to the resource rich Central Asian market. With both Russia and China on the path of changing the post-Soviet unipolar order; insights on Sino-Russian ties and the various challenges and opportunities available to the two states are inevitable for any reader trying to understand the complexity of international politics in general and of Chinese and Russian politics in particular of the twenty-first century.
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Published: 2022-01-17
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat Is Synthetic Diamond Lab-grown diamond is diamond that is produced by a manufacturing process, as contrasted with natural diamond created by geological processes and extracted by mining. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Synthetic diamond Chapter 2: Detonation nanodiamond Chapter 3: Crystallographic defects in diamond Chapter 4: Diamond (gemstone) Chapter 5: Diamond Chapter 6: Gemstone Chapter 7: Materials science (II) Answering the public top questions about synthetic diamond. (III) Real world examples for the usage of synthetic diamond in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of synthetic diamond' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of synthetic diamond.
Author: Robert A. Saunders
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-09-20
Total Pages: 894
ISBN-13: 1538120488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStraddling Europe and Asia, the Russian Federation is the largest country in the world and home to a panoply of religious and ethnic groups from the Muslim Tatars to the Buddhist Buryats. Over the past 40 years, Russia has experienced the most dramatic transformation of any modern state. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation provides insight into this rapidly developing country. This volume includes coverage of pivotal movements, events, and persons in the late Soviet Union (1985-1991) and contemporary Russia (1991-present), This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russia.
Author: Susan F. Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-29
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1134479255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary Russian Far East (RFE) and offers an argument about federal relations and power in the state. It is the only easily available, single volume book to examine the RFE in such depth.
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Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781857431421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a distinctive collection of political, geographical and economic information on the 89 constituent units of the Russian Federation. This survey offers an insight into the often neglected regional dimension of the politics and economy of the Federation. It includes: * Individual territory surveys * Geographical, historical, economic and directory data * Some 100 current maps. Background to the Federation * An essay covering the region as a whole analyzes the relationship between the territories and the Federation * A chronology of Russia from the 9th century to the end of 2001 * Statistics of major demographic and economic indicators * Details of the Government of the Russian Federation Territorial Surveys Each territorial chapter includes: * A map, plus geographical and demographic information * Historical details, followed by a description of the current political situation * An economic survey presenting the latest available statistics * A directory of names and addresses of the leading political and administrative officials.
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781857431919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a distinctive collection of political, geographical and economic information on the 89 constituent units of the Russian Federation.
Author: Vladislav Zubok
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-01-30
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1786720531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDmitry Likhachev (1906-1999) was one of the most prominent Russian intellectuals of the twentieth century. His life spanned virtually the entire century - a tumultuous period which saw Russia move from Tsarist rule under Nicholas II via the Russian Revolution and Civil War into seven decades of communism followed by Gorbachev's Perestroika and the rise of Putin. In 1928, shortly after completing his university education, Likhachev was arrested, charged with counter-revolutionary ideas and imprisoned in the Gulag, where he spent the next five years. Returning to a career in academia, specialising in Old Russian literature, Likhachev played a crucial role in the cultural life of twentieth-century Russia, campaigning for the protection of important cultural sites and historic monuments. He also founded museums dedicated to great Russian writers including Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Pasternak. In this, the first biography of Likhachev to appear in English, Vladislav Zubok provides a thoroughly-researched account of one of Russia's most extraordinary and influential public figures.
