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The Secret History of the World
История

The Secret History of the World

Автор: Booth Mark
Язык: английский
Год: 2008
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They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history—or what we come to know as history—has all along been written by the wrong people? What if everything we’ve been told is only part of the story? What if...
The Shipwreck Cannibals: Captain John Dean and the Boon Island Flesh Eating Scandal
Биографии и мемуары, История

The Shipwreck Cannibals: Captain John Dean and the Boon Island Flesh Eating Scandal

Автор: Nightingale Adam
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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In the fierce winter of 1710, in a North American port, a boat ferried ten shipwreck survivors to the safety of shore. Fourteen Englishmen had taken refuge on Boon Island, a sparse 100-yard long stretch of rock, without food or adequate shelter,...
The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
История, Культурология

The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering

Язык: английский
Год: 1995
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Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th...
The Soviet Century
История, Политика

The Soviet Century

Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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A leading historian draws guides us through the inner workings of Soviet power. The USSR may no longer exist, but its history remains highly relevant—perhaps today more so than ever. Yet it is a history which for a long time proved impossible...
The Story of Russia
История

The Story of Russia

Автор: Bergen Robert Van
Язык: английский
Год: 1905
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This book gives the history of the Russian Slavic people from the Russian kingdom, founded by Rurik the Viking, to the years immediately before the Russian Revolution. The History of the Slavic people begins in towns and trading villages along Volga...