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Free Download Yuliya Baldwin, "English-Russian Russian-English Medical Dictionary and Phrasebook"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367581558, 0415691443 | PDF | pages: 737 | 3.9 mb
The Routledge English-Russian Russian-English Medical Dictionary and Phrasebook is the first full-size English-Russian bilingual Medical Dictionary that covers a broad range of up-to-date medical terminology.

Free Download Jacques Baud, "The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat"
English | ISBN: 2315013062 | 2024 | 344 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Why is Ukraine losing the war against Russia? How do both sides think and operate? What were the mistakes on both sides? How did the West contribute to the Ukrainian defeat? To answer these questions and many others, Jacques Baud draws on official information as well as American, Western and Russian documents. He explains how Russia understands and conducts the war. He shows how the West’s inability to grasp this reality and its determination to weaken Russia has backfired in Ukraine. Following on from the bestsellers Putin: Game Master?, Operation Z and Ukraine Between War and Peace, whose analytical work has been acclaimed worldwide and translated into several languages, the author returns to the war in Ukraine. He explains how Russia waged the war, and reveals how the image portrayed by the West led to Ukraine’s defeat.

Free Download The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture by James H. Billington
English | December 12, 1970 | ISBN: 0844667544, 0394708466 | True EPUB | 880 pages | 5.3 MB
"A sweeping, intricate description of Russian cultural history, spanning the pre-Romanov era through six centuries to the reign of Joseph Stalin. Flowing with ease through time and topic – from art to music, literature, philosophy, mythology and more – the book provides readers with an alluring portrayal of Russia’s proud heritage. Its impressive scope and lasting insights have made it a foundational text in Russian studies. In fact, it was this book, more than any other, that captured my imagination and propelled me toward the study of Russia and the Soviet Union." -Condoleezza Rice, The New York Times

Free Download Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War by Betsy Perabo
English | August 10, 2017 | ISBN: 147425375X, 1350101753 | True EPUB | 232 pages | 1.7 MB
How should Christians think about the relationship between the exercise of military power and the spread of Christianity? In Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War, Betsy Perabo looks at the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 through the unique concept of an ‘interreligious war’ between Christian and Buddhist nations, focusing on the figure of Nikolai of Japan, the Russian leader of the Orthodox Church in Japan.

Free Download Russian Fairy Tales and Folklore: Collection of Timeless Tales from Russian Mythology by Chronicle Press
English | June 26, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D873G478 | 70 pages | EPUB | 0.38 Mb
Go on a trip through Russia’s snow-covered lands and dark, deep forests. Folklore there is just as complicated and full of life as the country itself. The book "Russian Fairy Tales and Folklore" is more than just a bunch of stories. It’s a trip into the heart of a culture that is full of magic, beauty, and the spooky sounds of the past.

Free Download A Concise History of the Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes
English | November 26, 1996 | ISBN: 0679745440, 0679422773 | True EPUB | 464 pages | 8.7 MB
An authoritative history of the Russian Revolution and the "violent and disruptive acts" that created the first modern totalitarian regime, portraying the crisis at the heart of the tsarist empire

Free Download Judith McKinney, "Russian Women and the End of Soviet Socialism: Everyday Experiences of Economic Change"
English | 2020 | pages: 294 | ISBN: 3030162281, 3030162257 | PDF | 2,7 mb
Initially expected to bring efficiency to the Russian economy and prosperity to Russian society, the shock therapy of price liberalization, privatization and macroeconomic stabilization introduced under Boris Yeltsin was quickly condemned as having worsened the lives of most Russians. Based on conversations with more than two dozen women in a provincial Russian capital, this book takes a retrospective look at these economic policies and explores how they transformed the trajectory of the lives of these women- both positively and negatively- in the family and in the workplace. McKinney considers the everyday experiences of the women as they provided for their families, established businesses, travelled abroad, and adjusted to the new economic, political and social environment of the Late Soviet and Post-Soviet era. Through their divergent experiences, Russian Women and the End of Soviet Socialism casts light on how these women viewissues of gender, ethnicity, domestic and international politics, and the end of the Soviet experiment.

Free Download Sarah Oates, Gordon Neil Ramsay, Emily Durante (Narrator), "Seeing Red: Russian Propaganda and American News"
English | ASIN: B0D94QSFKP | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:08:00 | 251 MB
The US media has been tainted with Russian disinformation, but the more significant threat is how the Right has embraced the Russian model of the news media as a vehicle for propaganda. This could not have happened without Donald Trump, who has been aided and abetted by politicians and news outlets that favor persuasion over information. From his inauguration onwards, Trump has shown allegiance to the Kremlin propaganda playbook-he consistently denies reality, amplifies lies, vilifies the free media, and broadcasts disinformation.
Seeing Red breaks new ground in investigating the scope of Russian disinformation, arguing that key politicians and media outlets in the United States have facilitated the dissemination of Russian propaganda. From the 2020 elections to the Capitol Insurrection to the war in Ukraine, Sarah Oates and Gordon Neil Ramsay examine the penetration of key Kremlin strategic narratives that attempt to project Russian power, blame NATO for Russian aggression, and attack democracy via the US news. Despite knowledge of the risk and resourceful work on tracking down Russian propaganda in the United States, the problem of foreign disinformation continues to this day. As Oates and Ramsay argue, this is in part due to exploitation of the American tradition of free speech and the open nature of the US media system.
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Free Download Stravaging "Strange" (Russian Library) by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull
English | February 28, 2023 | ISBN: 0231199465, 0231199473 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 2.6 MB
"I’m not on good terms with the present day," Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky once mused, "but posterity loves me." Virtually unknown during his lifetime and unpublishable under Stalin, he now draws comparisons to Beckett, Borges, Gogol, and Swift. This book presents three tales that encapsulate Krzhizhanovsky’s gift for creating philosophical, satirical, and lyrical phantasmagorias.

Free Download Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian: A Study of Genitive of Negation and Intensional Genitive Case By Olga Kagan (auth.)
2013 | 186 Pages | ISBN: 9400752245 | PDF | 2 MB
The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative complements-the genitive of negation and the intensional genitive. The author contends that these variants are manifestations of the same phenomenon, and thus require an integrated analysis. Further, that the choice of case is sensitive to factors that fuse semantics and pragmatics, and that the genitive case is assigned to objects denoting properties at the same time as they lack commitment to existence. Kagan’s subtle analysis accounts for the complex relations between case-marking and other properties, such as definiteness, specificity, number and aspect. It also reveals a correlation between the genitive case and the subjunctive mood, and relates her overarching subject matter to other instances of differential object-marking.