Download e-book for kindle: Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region: The by Adam Swain

This ebook examines the political economic system of makes an attempt to restructure the Donbass, one of many Soviet Union's most vital 'old economic system' 'rustbelt' commercial areas. It indicates how neighborhood curiosity teams have effectively pissed off the imperative government's and the area Bank's proposed market-oriented restructuring, and the way a manufacturing-based neighborhood economic system is surviving, partly, with restructuring postponed.

New PDF release: Moskau ist viel schöner als Paris: Leben zwischen zwei

Aus den Kindertagen einer "geborenen" Kommunistin hin zu glücklichen Zeiten in Moskau und der Rückkehr in ein fremdes Nachkriegs-Österreich. Elisabeth Markstein, die Tochter von Hilde und Johann Koplenig gehört in den Jahren des Moskauer Exils zu den berühmten Lux-Kindern. Als style politisch aktiver Eltern muss sie in verschiedensten Ecken Europas ein Zuhause finden.

Download e-book for iPad: Russia’s Sisters of Mercy and the Great War: More Than by Laurie S. Stoff

They're conflict tales, packed with probability and deprivation, pleasure and chance, sorrow and trauma, scandal and controversy—and simply because they're the struggle tales of nurses, they continue to be principally untold. Laurie Stoff's pioneering paintings brings the wartime studies of Russia's "Sisters of Mercy" out of the shadows to teach how those nurses of the good warfare, faraway from in basic terms binding wounds, supplied important prone that positioned them squarely in often "masculine" territory, either actually and figuratively.

Download e-book for iPad: Material Culture in Russia and the USSR: Things, Values, by Graham H. Roberts

Fabric tradition in Russia and the USSR includes the most state-of-the-art scholarship throughout anthropology, background and fabric and cultural experiences when it comes to Russia and the Soviet Union, from Peter the good to Putin. fabric tradition in Russia and the USSR holds a very vital position, because the contrast among inner most and public spheres has from time to time built in substantially alternative ways than in lots of areas within the most likely studied West.