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Free Download A People’s Tragedy : The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, 100th Anniversary Edition
by Orlando Figes
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1847924514 | 960 Pages | True ePUB | 42 MB

Free Download Professor Anne O’Donnell, "Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution "
English | ISBN: 069120554X | 2024 | 392 pages | EPUB, PDF | 11 MB + 11 MB

Free Download Love and Russian Literature: From Benjamin to Woolf by Ira B. Nadel
English | November 30, 2023 | ISBN: 1350115010 | True EPUB/PDF | 258 pages | 0.6/2.8 MB
Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells.

Free Download Yaroslav Trofimov, David Furr (Narrator), "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence"
English | ASIN: B0CFYPX267 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:11:00 | 346 MB
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy
A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance by Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
"Our Enemies Will Vanish achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. One is reminded of Michael Herr’s Dispatches… Frankly, it’s what we have all aspired to. I did not really understand Ukraine until I read Trofimov’s account." -Sebastian Junger

Free Download The Russian Revolution: An Enthralling Guide to a Major Event in the History of Russia (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868695490 | 2023 | 3 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Billy Wellman, Enthralling History
Narrator: Jay Herbert
The Russian Revolution is a perfect example of how history can contract and become exceedingly dense and complex. Untangling the Russian Revolution (in fact, Russian revolutions) must start by considering events that happened centuries before February 1917. Only in this way can we understand the multitude of events compressed into the short months of the decisive year 1917. The Russian Revolution, apart from the Chinese Revolution, is perhaps the biggest social experiment the world has ever known. Suddenly, millions of people found themselves living in a country led by fervent Marxists who had grand plans not only for their country but also for all humanity. Finally, the Russian Revolution continues to shape global politics, with modern-day Russia built directly on the ruins of the great Communist revolution.

Free Download Russian Art and the West: A Century of Dialogue in Painting, Architecture, and the Decorative Arts By Rosalind Polly Blakesley
2007 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 0875803601 | PDF | 46 MB
This book addresses the lively artistic dialogue that took place between Russia and the West-in particular with the United States, Britain, and France-from the 1860s to the Khrushchev Thaw. Offering stimulating new readings of cross-cultural exchange, it illuminates Russia’s compelling, and sometimes combative, relation with western art in this period of profound cultural transformation.Russian Art and the West breaks new ground in the range of its material and its chronological span. Attending both to vanguard tendencies and to the official artistic institutions and practices of the tsarist and Soviet eras, it casts light on seminal developments little studied in western scholarship, while also providing new contexts for, and fresh insights into, the avant-garde of the early 20th century.The book’s eleven essays by leading experts on Russian art and design explore painting, architecture, and the decorative arts, considering not only the objects but also the patrons, audiences, exhibitions, and critical readings that together shaped national culture in an international context. Written in an accessible style and encompassing a variety of approaches, they collectively rethink conventional polarities and influences, and unpack the myths of separateness and isolation so often associated with artistic endeavor in late imperial or Soviet Russia.This illustrated volume will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers seeking to understand the fuller context of Russian artistic culture during a remarkable century of social and political change.

Free Download Julia Sweet, "Russian Hackers and the War in Ukraine: Digital Threats and Real-World Consequences"
English | ISBN: 1666935905 | 2023 | 248 pages | EPUB, PDF | 394 KB + 1276 KB
Since the beginning of the Russian aggression in Ukraine (February 2022), hackers have become more active on a global scale. The clashes between Russian and Ukrainian "cyber armies" are at its central front line. Russian Hackers and the War in Ukraine: Digital Threats and Real-World Consequences scrutinizes the unique situation where cyber criminals, who usually operate clandestinely, have surfaced and looked for public attention and approval. This book does not cover technical aspects of hacking. Instead, it scrutinizes the public activity of Russian hacker groups including building their brand, communicating with supporters, their financial situation, and other crucial aspects. This research draws mainly on open sources such as social media entries comprised of texts, videos, images, and chat comments which were collected through daily monitoring of the hacking groups’ activities.

Free Download Putinism – Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032153881 | 301 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
A key question for the contemporary world: What is Putin’s ideology? This book analyses this ideology, which it terms "Putinism". It examines a range of factors that feed into the ideology – conservative thought in Russia from the nineteenth century onwards, Russian and Soviet history and their memorialisation, Russian Orthodox religion and its political connections, a focus on traditional values, and Russia’s sense of itself as a unique civilisation, different from the West and due a special, respected place in the world. The book highlights that although the resulting ideology lacks coherence and universalism comparable to that of Soviet-era Marxism-Leninism, it is nevertheless effective in aligning the population to the regime and is flexible and applicable in different circumstances. And that therefore it is not attached to Putin as a person, is likely to outlive him, and is potentially appealing elsewhere in the world outside Russia, especially to countries that feel belittled by the West and let down by the West’s failure to resolve problems of global injustice and inequality.

Free Download The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Steve Fortune, Upfront Books
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08TZJC8F4 | 7 hours and 23 minutes / Format: M4B / Bitrate: 128 Kbps | 410 Mb
The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the 20th century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture.
Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917, through Stalin’s "revolution from above", to the great purges of the 1930s. She tells a gripping story of a Marxist revolution that was intended to transform the world, visited enormous suffering on the Russian people, and, like the French Revolution before it, ended up by devouring its own children.
This updated edition contains a fully revised introduction to address the centenary, and what it all means in retrospect.

Free Download David Featherstone, "The Red and the Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic "
English | ISBN: 1526144301 | 2021 | 304 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was not just a world-historical event in its own right, but also struck powerful blows against racism and imperialism, and so inspired many black radicals internationally. This edited collection explores the implications of the creation of the Soviet Union and the Communist International for black and colonial liberation struggles across the African diaspora. It examines the critical intellectual influence of Marxism and Bolshevism on the current of revolutionary ‘black internationalism’ and analyses how ‘Red October’ was viewed within the contested articulations of different struggles against racism and colonialism.