Former Soviet Republics category: 758 books

English-Latvian phrasebook and 1500-word concise dictionary The collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Books is designed for people traveling abroad for tourism and business. The phrasebooks contain what matters most - the essentials for basic...

English-Uzbek phrasebook and 250-word mini dictionary The collection of "Everything Will Be Okay" travel phrasebooks published by T&P Books is designed for people traveling abroad for tourism and business. The phrasebooks contain what matters most - the essentials for basic communication....

Au cours d’une navigation sur le lac Ladoga, tandis que nous allions de l’île de Konévetz à celle de Valaam, nous dûmes, pour les besoins du steamer, relâcher dans le port de Koréla. Plusieurs des nôtres descendirent à terre, curieux de visiter cette dernière localité, où les transporta...

Hundreds of books, long and short, have been written about the Chernobyl tragedy. Few people are left indifferent once they understand a little about the biggest technological catastrophe in history. Wladimir Tchertkoff’s book “The Crime of Chernobyl - the Nuclear Gulag” occupies a central place...

What happens when your "normal" life falls apart and you have to start over? After the dark days of his divorce, poor health and then quitting his job, and despite moving to another country and finding his soul mate, something was still missing. Exhausted from life and from...

Most people know of Arthur Ransome, the author of the classic children’s sailing tale, Swallows & Amazons, and many other books in the same series. But besides his exciting tales of children on the water there is much more to the man. Before he wrote Swallows & Amazons, Ransome was a journalist...

In this book written in exile, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky, recounts his fascinating eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution and the victory of the extreme Bolshevik faction in 1917. Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky (4 May 1881 - 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and politician who served...

'(Cotterill) has done a truly magnificent job. Everything is accurate, informative, enriching and both scholarly and political... The five essays are all of high quality. I call this a model of the genre.' Professor Richard Greeman, President of the Victor Serge Association

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique study analyzes Georgia's geostrategic importance and investigates links between Georgian and U.S. foreign policies as they relate to NATO enlargement. As regards Georgia, the key questions concern the extent...

In the summer of 1980, the eyes of the world turned to the Gdansk shipyard in Poland which suddenly became the nexus of a strike wave that paralyzed the entire country. The Gdansk strike was orchestrated by the members of an underground free trade union that came to be known as Solidarnosc [Solidarity]....

È solo da pochi anni che per la prima volta i viaggiatori stranieri possono muoversi all’interno della Siberia senza troppi problemi. Risalendo il grande fiume Enisej fino all’Artico, attraverso le montagne che increspano la Mongolia, e poi a est verso il fiume Amur, il Pacifico e il gulag abbandonato...

Located on the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea, the Russian city of St Petersburg is one of the most famous destinations in Russia, attracting millions of tourists every year. Founded in 1703 by Tsar Peter the Great, St Petersburg is the 2nd largest city in Russia and is known for its stunning...

Moscow is a fascinating mix of old and new, East meets West, elegance and kitsch and spirituality and dowdiness. Be inspired to visit by the new edition of City Guide Moscow, a comprehensive full-colour guide to the fascinating capital of Russia. City Guide Moscow: A fully-overhauled edition by our...

This compendium of previously published articles, blogs, speeches, reviews, and essays of Serhiy Kvit is intended to inform a foreign audience about events and issues in Ukraine and related to Ukraine since 2008. Some of the blogs were published in University World News over 2012-2014. Other materials...