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Free Download Martin Mevius, "Agents of Moscow: The Hungarian Communist Party and the Origins of Socialist Patriotism 1941-1953"
English | 2005 | pages: 313 | ISBN: 0199274614 | PDF | 1,9 mb
After 1945, state patriotism of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe was characterized by the widespread use of national symbols. In communist Hungary the party (MKP) widely celebrated national holidays, national heroes, erected national statues, and employed national street names. This ‘socialist patriotism’ had its origin in the ‘national line’ of the Comintern, established on Soviet instructions following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. At that time Stalin called the parties of the Comintern to oppose the Germans by issuing the call for national liberation. This policy continued after 1945 when, as an aid in the struggle for power, the MKP presented itself as both the ‘heir to the traditions of the nations’ and the ‘only true representative of the interest of the Hungarian people’. Paradoxically however, the Soviet origins of the national line were also one of the main obstacles to its success as the MKP could not put forward national demands if these conflicted with Soviet interests. Martin Mevius’ pioneering study reveals that what had started as a tactical measure in 1941 had become the self-image of party and state in 1953 and that the ultimate loyalty to the Soviet Union worked to the detriment of the national party – the MKP never rid itself of the label ‘agents of Moscow’.

Free Download Moscow Conceptualism, 1975-1985: Words, Deeds, Legacies by Mary A. Nicholas
English | June 27, 2024 | ISBN: 1350227862 | True PDF | 238 pages | 52.2 MB
As the last generation of underground artists in the Soviet Union and the first on the post-Soviet scene, Moscow conceptualists provide a unique point of view on the breakup of the USSR, the changing role of unofficial art in a repressive state, and the beginning of a new world order in both art and politics. Offering a counter-narrative to the tradition of Socialist Realism that dominates Soviet art history, this book provides insight into the production and activism of the experimental artists that worked in Moscow during this watershed moment in Russian history.

Free Download Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the West (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJCQYJT4 | 2024 | 17 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 518 MB
Author: John J. Sullivan, General Jim Mattis
Narrator: John J. Sullivan, Matt Godfrey
A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir-and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation. For weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, John J. Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, was warning that it would happen. When troops finally crossed the border, he was woken in the middle of the night with a prearranged code. The signal was even more bracing than the February cold: it meant that Sullivan needed to collect his bodyguards and get to the embassy as soon as possible. The war had begun, and the world would never be the same. In Midnight in Moscow, Sullivan leads listeners into the offices of the U.S. embassy and the halls of the Kremlin during this climactic period-among the most dangerous since World War II.

Free Download John B. Dunlop, "The Moscow Bombings of September 1999: Examinations of Russian Terrorist Attacks at the Onset of Vladimir Putin’s Rule Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 3838203887 | 2014 | 296 pages | AZW3 | 508 KB
The five chapters contained in this volume focus on the complex and tumultuous events occurring in Russia during the five months from May through September 1999. They sparked the Russian invasion of Chechnya on 1 October and vaulted a previously unknown former Kgb agent into the post of Russian prime minister and, ultimately, president.

Free Download Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the West by John J. Sullivan
English | August 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 0316571091 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 29.05 MB
A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir-and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.

Free Download The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin’s Propaganda War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D325YZPL | 2024 | 12 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 701 MB
Author: Alan Philps
Narrator: Michael Langan
In 1941, Lenin’s body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill’s insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. Stalin imposed the most draconian controls-unbending censorship, no visits to the battlefront, and a ban on contact with ordinary citizens. The Red Hotel explores this gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel. On the surface, this regime served Stalin well: his plans to control Eastern Europe as a Sovietized "outer empire" were never reported and the most outrageous Soviet lies went unchallenged. But beneath the surface, the Metropol was roiling with intrigue. Using British archives and Soviet sources, the unique role of the women of the Metropol, both as consummate propagandists and secret dissenters, is told for the first time. At the end of the war when Lenin returned to Red Square, the reporters went home, but the memory of Stalin’s ruthless control of the wartime narrative lived on in the Kremlin. The story of the Metropol mirrors the struggles of our own modern era.

Free Download David Stahel, Philip Battley (Narrator), "Operation Typhoon: Hitler’s March on Moscow, October 1941"
English | ASIN: B0D2375D27 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:18:00 | 338 MB
In October 1941, Hitler launched Operation Typhoon-the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chance to escape the dire implications of a winter campaign, Hitler directed seventy-five German divisions, almost two million men and three of Germany’s four panzer groups into the offensive, resulting in huge victories at Viaz’ma and Briansk-among the biggest battles of the Second World War.
David Stahel’s groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged. Germany’s hopes of final victory depended on the success of the October offensive, but the autumn conditions and the stubborn resistance of the Red Army ensured that the capture of Moscow was anything but certain.

Free Download Boris A Kordemsky, "The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations"
English | 2014 | pages: 322 | ISBN: 168411375X, 1684113776 | EPUB | 24,7 mb
This is, quite simply, the best and most popular puzzle book ever published in the Soviet Union. Since its first appearance in 1956 there have been eight editions as well as translations from the original Russian into Ukrainian, Estonian, Lettish, and Lithuanian. Almost a million copies of the Russian version alone have been sold.

Free Download Diane P. Koenker, "Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution: Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University"
English | 2016 | pages: 439 | ISBN: 0691638861, 0691101884 | PDF | 27,9 mb
Whereas most Soviet and American scholars of the Russian Revolution have emphasized the great leaders and the great events of 1917, Diane Koenker reverses this trend in a study of the Russian working class.

Free Download The Woman Back from Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty: A Novel by Ha Jin
English | November 28, 2023 | ISBN: 1635423775 | True EPUB | 736 pages | 16.4 MB
Through the life of a remarkable woman-based on pioneering stage director Sun Weishi (1921-1968)-this epic novel immerses us in the multifaceted history of China’s Communist Party.