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Free Download Russia’s War on Ukraine: The Implications for the Global Nuclear Order
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031322207 | 450 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB
This book explores how Russia’s War on Ukraine has changed the global nuclear order. The Russian aggression against Ukraine questioned the values of the liberal regimes and systems upon which the global nuclear order is built. At the heart of this nuclear order lies the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which remains until today the cornerstone of the global nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation regime.

Free Download Putin’s Russia by Stephen K. Wegren, Darrell Slider
English | July 21, 2022 | ISBN: 1538148676 | 454 pages | MOBI | 1.20 Mb
Thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated, the new edition of this classic text provides the most authoritative and current analysis of contemporary Russia. Leading scholars explore the domestic and international problems Russia confronts, including political, economic, societal, and foreign policy issues. The new edition provides an analysis from multiple perspectives on the major challenges facing Russia and Putin’s regime. Updates include new sections on corruption, Russia’s conflicts with Ukraine and Georgia, Russia’s response to Only by understanding these challenges-and previous efforts to deal with them-will it be possible to understand the trajectory for Russia. Well written and clearly organized, this text is an indispensable guide for anyone wanting to understand contemporary Russia.

Free Download From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin; Russia in Search of Its Identity: 1913-2023
by Vladimir N. Brovkin
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032346884 | 299 pages | True PDF | 10.12 MB
This book integrates Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history into a coherent whole by focusing on the culture, role models, habits and behavior patterns that provide continuity between various political regimes, systems, and rulers from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin.

Free Download Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare by Seth G. Jones, Stephen Graybill, Random House Audio
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B095J93H5C | 7 hours and 28 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 205 Mb
How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns that are eroding American power.
In Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building fighter jets, missiles, and conventional warfighting capabilities, its three principal rivals – Russia, Iran, and China – have increasingly adopted irregular warfare: cyber attacks, the use of proxy forces, propaganda, espionage, and disinformation to undermine American power.

Free Download Understanding Russia: A Cultural History by Lynne Ann Hartnett, The Great Courses
English | 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07H5PX7LM | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:56:00 + PDF | 411 Mb
From the earliest recorded history of the Russian state, its people have sought to define their place in the world. And while many of us look to make sense of Russia through its political history, in many ways a real grasp of this awe-inspiring country comes from looking closely at its cultural achievements.
The 24 lectures of Understanding Russia: A Cultural History survey hundreds of years of Russian culture, from the world of Ivan the Terrible to the dawn of the Soviet Union to the post-war tensions of Putin’s Russia. Blending history with cultural studies, they are designed to bring you closer than ever before to the Russian people – not just the authoritarian rulers like Peter the Great, the Romanovs, and Stalin but the everyday men and women who sought their own meaning in the poetry of Pushkin, the comfort of early folk tales, the faith of medieval iconography, the avant-garde films of Eisenstein, and more.

Free Download The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia’s Most Brutal Serial Killer (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFRGPHD9 | 2023 | 10 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 287 MB
Author: Peter Conradi
Narrator: Michael Page
By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women and children, often sexually abusing them and leaving their bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Although he was initially arrested in 1984, the police lacked enough evidence to pin the unsolved murders on him and he was able to torture and kill dozens more before his eventual conviction. Compiling exclusive interviews and trial transcripts, journalist and editor at London’s Sunday Times Peter Conradi reveals how the grandfather and former teacher carried out a horrific twelve-year killing spree. Based on extensive research into Chikatilo’s past and the elements of Soviet society that allowed his crimes to go unsolved for so long, Conradi delves into the life of one of history’s most prolific and disturbing serial killers. Interviews with Moscow police detectives detail the fervent hunt for the man who preyed on young children, prostitutes, and runaways. A chilling look into the deranged mind of a monster, The Red Ripper is a comprehensive and shocking true crime account of one of the twentieth century’s deadliest killers.

Free Download Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781493084388 | 2023 | 11 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Michael G. McLaughlin, William J Holstein
Narrator: Steve Menasche
The United States is being bombarded with cyber-attacks. From the surge in ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure to nation states compromising the software supply chain and corporate email servers, malicious cyber activities have reached an all-time high. Russia attracts the most attention, but China is vastly more sophisticated. They have a common interest in exploiting the openness of the Internet and social media-and our democracy-to erode confidence in our institutions and to exacerbate our societal rifts to prevent us from mounting an effective response. Halting this digital aggression will require Americans to undertake sweeping changes in how we educate, organize and protect ourselves and to ask difficult questions about how vulnerable our largest technology giants are.