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Author: Mark Traficanto Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1449005012 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 328
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Nine Days in Moscow is a true story of a middle age man who travels to Russia to visit a friend. He wanted to see in person what he viewed in the history books as a child, and to enjoy the nightlife in Moscow that he had heard was very enjoyable. What he encountered was much more than history and a few Russian women. It was the most significant emotional event of his life. The people he met, the things he learned regarding the Russian culture, and the way that he was accepted, dramatically and permanently changed who he was as a person. As he deals with the hates and prejudices of his past, the people of Moscow lead him down a path of self-realization. He has flashbacks to the sixties and seventies, and as he faces his feelings one certain young lady Svetlana, will make an impact on him that he thought was never possible. God working through her will open his eyes to a people and culture that he never thought he would embrace. His experience will erase the one last hatred that he will let go. This is a journey from prejudice to understanding. It is a story of ignorance to discovery. It is a book about cultural differences and finding that common ground. It is a path of hate to one of love. But more than anything it is about change. It is about change of mindset, change of heart, change in your relationship with people and with God. It is that significant emotional event that rocks your soul and takes you to a place you have never been before. Nine Days In Moscow will tug on every emotion that you have.
Author: Mark Traficanto Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1449005012 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
Nine Days in Moscow is a true story of a middle age man who travels to Russia to visit a friend. He wanted to see in person what he viewed in the history books as a child, and to enjoy the nightlife in Moscow that he had heard was very enjoyable. What he encountered was much more than history and a few Russian women. It was the most significant emotional event of his life. The people he met, the things he learned regarding the Russian culture, and the way that he was accepted, dramatically and permanently changed who he was as a person. As he deals with the hates and prejudices of his past, the people of Moscow lead him down a path of self-realization. He has flashbacks to the sixties and seventies, and as he faces his feelings one certain young lady Svetlana, will make an impact on him that he thought was never possible. God working through her will open his eyes to a people and culture that he never thought he would embrace. His experience will erase the one last hatred that he will let go. This is a journey from prejudice to understanding. It is a story of ignorance to discovery. It is a book about cultural differences and finding that common ground. It is a path of hate to one of love. But more than anything it is about change. It is about change of mindset, change of heart, change in your relationship with people and with God. It is that significant emotional event that rocks your soul and takes you to a place you have never been before. Nine Days In Moscow will tug on every emotion that you have.
Author: Bret Baier Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062748491 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 446
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"An instant classic, if not the finest book to date on Ronald Reagan.” — Jay Winik President Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier. Moscow, 1988: 1,000 miles behind the Iron Curtain, Ronald Reagan stood for freedom and confronted the Soviet empire. In his acclaimed bestseller Three Days in January, Bret Baier illuminated the extraordinary leadership of President Dwight Eisenhower at the dawn of the Cold War. Now in his highly anticipated new history, Three Days in Moscow, Baier explores the dramatic endgame of America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union and President Ronald Reagan’s central role in shaping the world we live in today. On May 31, 1988, Reagan stood on Russian soil and addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, delivering a remarkable—yet now largely forgotten—speech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a series of summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to reduce the nuclear threat. More than that, Reagan viewed it as “a grand historical moment”: an opportunity to light a path for the Soviet people—toward freedom, human rights, and a future he told them they could embrace if they chose. It was the first time an American president had given an address about human rights on Russian soil. Reagan had once called the Soviet Union an “evil empire.” Now, saying that depiction was from “another time,” he beckoned the Soviets to join him in a new vision of the future. The importance of Reagan’s Moscow speech was largely overlooked at the time, but the new world he spoke of was fast approaching; the following year, in November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union began to disintegrate, leaving the United States the sole superpower on the world stage. Today, the end of the Cold War is perhaps the defining historical moment of the past half century, and must be understood if we are to make sense of America’s current place in the world, amid the re-emergence of US-Russian tensions during Vladimir Putin’s tenure. Using Reagan’s three days in Moscow to tell the larger story of the president’s critical and often misunderstood role in orchestrating a successful, peaceful ending to the Cold War, Baier illuminates the character of one of our nation’s most venerated leaders—and reveals the unique qualities that allowed him to succeed in forming an alliance for peace with the Soviet Union, when his predecessors had fallen short.
Author: Masha Gessen Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 159463453X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 530
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own--as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.
Author: Amor Towles Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448135508 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 547
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The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers Soon to be a Showtime/Paramount+ series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov From the number one New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel 'A wonderful book' - Tana French 'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' - Chris Cleave 'No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year '[A] supremely uplifting novel ... It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' - Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year 'Charming ... shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism' - The Times, Books of the Year On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all? A BOOK OF THE DECADE, 2010-2020 (INDEPENDENT) THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF BILL GATES'S SUMMER READS OF 2019 NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD
Author: Mark Traficanto Publisher: ISBN: 9781449005023 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 324
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Nine Days in Moscow is a true story of a middle age man who travels to Russia to visit a friend. He wanted to see in person what he viewed in the history books as a child, and to enjoy the nightlife in Moscow that he had heard was very enjoyable. What he encountered was much more than history and a few Russian women. It was the most significant emotional event of his life. The people he met, the things he learned regarding the Russian culture, and the way that he was accepted, dramatically and permanently changed who he was as a person. As he deals with the hates and prejudices of his past, the people of Moscow lead him down a path of self-realization. He has flashbacks to the sixties and seventies, and as he faces his feelings one certain young lady Svetlana, will make an impact on him that he thought was never possible. God working through her will open his eyes to a people and culture that he never thought he would embrace. His experience will erase the one last hatred that he will let go. This is a journey from prejudice to understanding. It is a story of ignorance to discovery. It is a book about cultural differences and finding that common ground. It is a path of hate to one of love. But more than anything it is about change. It is about change of mindset, change of heart, change in your relationship with people and with God. It is that significant emotional event that rocks your soul and takes you to a place you have never been before. Nine Days In Moscow will tug on every emotion that you have.
Author: Andrey Platonov Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1590175859 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 281
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An NYRB Classics Original Moscow Chestnova is a bold and glamorous girl, a beautiful parachutist who grew up with the Revolution. As an orphan, she knew tough times—but things are changing now. Comrade Stalin has proclaimed that “Life has become better! Life has become merrier!” and Moscow herself is poised to join the Soviet elite. But her ambitions are thwarted when a freak accident propels her flaming from the sky. A new, stranger life begins. Moscow drifts from man to man, through dance halls, all-night diners, and laboratories in which the secret of immortality is actively being investigated, exploring the endless avenues and vacant spaces of the great city whose name she bears, looking for happiness, somewhere, still. Unpublishable during Platonov’s lifetime, Happy Moscow first appeared in Russian only in 1991. This new edition contains not only a revised translation of Happy Moscow but several related works: a screenplay, a prescient essay about ecological catastrophe, and two short stories in which same characters reappear and the reader sees the mind of an extraordinary writer at work.
Author: Timothy J. Colton Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674587496 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 968
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Linchpin of the Soviet system and exemplar of its ideology, Moscow was nonetheless instrumental in the Soviet Union's demise. It was in this metropolis of nine million people that Boris Yeltsin, during two frustrating years as the city's party boss, began his move away from Communist orthodoxy. Colton charts the general course of events that led to this move, tracing the political and social developments that have given the city its modern character. He shows how the monolith of Soviet power broke down in the process of metropolitan governance, where the constraints of censorship and party oversight could not keep up with proliferating points of view, haphazard integration, and recurrent deviation from approved rules and goals. Everything that goes into making a city - from town planning, housing, and retail services to environmental and architectural concernsfigures in Colton's account of what makes Moscow unique. He shows us how these aspects of the city's organization, and the actions of leaders and elite groups within them, coordinated or conflicted with the overall power structure and policy imperatives of the Soviet Union. Against this background, Colton explores the growth of the anti-Communist revolution in Moscow politics, as well as fledgling attempts to establish democratic institutions and a market economy.
Author: Edward V. Williams Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400854636 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 297
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This generously illustrated book records the story of Russia's bells--the thousands of awe inspiring instruments that gave voice to the visual splendors of Russian Orthodoxy and to the political aspirations of the tsars. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Robert Edelman Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801447426 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 376
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In this informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch of Spartak Moscow keys to understanding everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 168
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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Author: Mark Traficanto
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