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Free Download Andy McNab, "Battlefield 3: The Russian"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1409136884 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 0.4 mb
Spetsnaz used to be a name to strike fear into the hearts of Russia’s enemies. But now that the country has gone to the dogs, Dima Mayakovsky – once a revered figure inside the elite Special Forces unit – wants no part of it any more. But when a dangerous fugitive surfaces in Tehran, Dima is the man Kremlin wants to bring him in. There is no option: the ex-Spetsnaz legend must lead his team of battle-hardened operatives into combat, not something you can hide from the US recce satellites circling above. This means that Dima and his men become Marine Sergeant Henry ‘Black’ Blackburn’s problem. As Iran descends into chaos, Dima and Black are forced to question everything they believed in, and to fight to survive, for their comrades, their honour and the lives of millions. They’re on their own. And the clock is ticking?

Free Download The Mapping of a Russian War: The Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk by Stanisław Pachołowiecki (1580)
by Jakub Niedźwiedź, Karol Lopatecki
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9004705589 | 247 Pages | PDF | 80 MB

Free Download Peter B. Golden, "Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe: Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs "
English | ISBN: 0860788857 | 2003 | 384 pages | PDF | 29 MB
The western steppelands of Central Eurasia, stretching from the Danube, through the modern Ukraine and southern Russia, to the Caspian, have historically been the meeting ground of Inner Asian pastoral nomads and the agrarian societies of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. This volume deals, firstly, with the interaction of the nomads with their sedentary neighbours – the Kievan Rus’ state and the medieval polities of Transcaucasia, Georgia in particular – in the period from the 6th century to the advent of the Mongols. Second, it looks at questions of nomadic ethnogenesis (Oghuz, Hungarian, Qipchaq), at the evolution of nomadic political traditions and the heritage of the Turk empire, and at aspects of indigenous nomadic religious traditions together with the impact of foreign religions on the nomads – notably the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. A number of articles focus on the Qipchaqs, a powerful confederation of complex Inner Asian origins that played a crucial role in the history of Christian Eastern Europe and Transcaucasia and the Muslim world between the 11th and 13th centuries.

Free Download World Bank, Michael J. Fuchs, "Building Trust: Developing the Russian Financial Sector"
English | 2002 | pages: 382 | ISBN: 0821351613 | PDF | 2,7 mb
The financial sector in Russia has come a long way since the first years of transition. Key to developing a sound financial sector in a market economy is the process of building trust among the market participants. ‘Building Trust’ evaluates recent developments within the financial system in Russia and provides a roadmap for implementation of priority improvements. The goal of this book is to support a broader understanding and consensus on priority reform measures.

Free Download Armies of Ivan the Terrible: Russian Troops 1505-1700 (Men-at-Arms) by David Nicolle, Viacheslav Shpakovsky
English | December 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 1841769258 | 48 pages | True EPUB | 27.94 MB
It is generally assumed that the military reforms which propelled Russia into the modern world were due solely to the genius of Peter the Great. In fact, his reforms were built upon changes that had taken place during the previous 200 years, since the creation in 1550 of Russia’s first full-time military force – the streltsi – by Ivan IV the Terrible. This account traces Russia’s armies from that beginning, through the creation of paid regular regiments from 1630, up to the reign of Peter the Great. It is illustrated with rare early drawings, photos of surviving artifacts, and dazzling colour reconstructions of exotic military costumes.

Free Download The "Asian Turn" in Russian Foreign Policy
by Anatoly Torkunov, Dmitry Streltsov
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819753910 | 578 Pages | True PDF | 8.9 MB

Free Download Russian Orientalism in a global context: Hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740-1940 (Rethinking Art’s Histories) edited by Allison Leigh, Maria Taroutina
English | June 27, 2023 | ISBN: 1526166232, 1526182645 | True EPUB | 312 pages | 7.2 MB
Russian Orientalism in a global context examines the various ways in which Russia’s artistic praxis was affected by encounters – both real and imagined – with the cultures and representational and material traditions of the so-called East or Vostok.

Free Download Frances Nethercott, "Russia’s Plato: Plato and the Platonic Tradition in Russian Education, Science and Ideology (1840-1930) "
English | ISBN: 1138741493 | 2022 | 246 pages | EPUB | 825 KB
This title was first published in 2000. This work identifies the differences between the Russian intellectual approach to reading Plato and that of other European countries. This study offers a complex perspective on Russian philosophical learnings up to 1930. The book contains five chapters with the first aiming to provide the general institutional context in which Russian 19th century Plato scholarship developed, caught as it were, between the rise of the historical sciences and the heavy hand of state interference in standardizing the educational system in the name of nation building and modernization. The second chapter attempts to illustrate how Plato served as a reference in Russian philosophical culture and the third deals with aspects of Russian philosophy of law. In the fourth chapter, the author shifts his approach to compare and contrast a number of reactions to a single dialogue, the "Republic" and in the final concluding chapter, addresses the question of whether it is legitimate to speak of a Russian Platonism.

Free Download Russian Urban Legends: Uncover the Forgotten Tales Where Myth Meets Mystery by Chronicle Press
English | December 28, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CR6GZHJY | 52 pages | EPUB | 0.53 Mb
"Russian Urban Legends" is an interesting collection of scary and mysterious stories that are woven into the fabric of Russia’s cities. It takes you into the strange world of Slavic folklore.

Free Download Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Brian D. Taylor
English | October 31st, 2024 | ISBN: 0197516025 | 168 pages | True EPUB | 2.40 MB
Russia is rarely out of the news. This has been particularly true since it launched the largest war in Europe since World War II when it invaded Ukraine in 2022. Yet Russian politics can be difficult to understand. It is powerfully shaped by large, impersonal forces such as geography, and Russia’s place in the international political and economic system. At the same time, Russia’s formal political institutions, such as the Constitution and electoral procedures, are relatively weak and manipulable compared to those of stable, established democracies. Under these circumstances, powerful leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin represent a source of potential dynamism and change.