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Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On December 21, 1999, Russian president Boris Yeltsin announced he was stepping down, and his chosen successor, Vladimir Putin, would take over. Putin promised a presidential election in three months. Soon after, Mansky set to work filming Putin. As a director working for Russian state TV, his purpose was making a film that would boost Putin's electoral success. In Putin's Witnesses, Mansky looks back at that footage. It serves as a fascinating, early...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia-and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places. Fiona Hill grew up in a world of terminal decay. The last of the local mines had closed, businesses were shuttering, and despair...
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Publisher
Hachette Book Group USA
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; cm
Description
Retired Intelligence officer and New York Times bestselling author of The Plot to Hack America, Malcolm Nance, offers a provocative, comprehensive analysis of the Russian Federation's master plan to destroy democracy, the methodologies used in the 2016 election, what will be their next steps, and how to stop them.
"The Plot to Destroy Democracy reveals the dramatic story of how blackmail, espionage, assassination, and psychological warfare were used...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxi, 316 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking "bulldozer," wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt by hardline communists...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xx, 817 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure. A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debauchery...
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Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxii, 600 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
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"Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources, Robert Service offers new insights. He discusses Trotsky's fractious relations with the leaders he was trying to unify; his attempt to disguise his political closeness to Stalin; and his role in the early 1920s as the progenitor of political and cultural Stalinism. Trotsky evinced a surprisingly glacial...
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