soviet
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Miss Brown of X.Y.O. – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
This novel was written in 1926, almost ten years after the Russian revolution. The nature and tragedy of the Soviet revolution and the new regime are clearly described in this novel. The ruthless and deadly power of Soviet communism tries to extend its reach to the Trade Unions of the postwar United Kingdom. The activities of various secret agents, civilian, commercial, military and cultural are described...Data dostępności:
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The Man Who Couldn't Die. The Tale of an Authentic Human Being – audiobook
Olga Slavnikova
In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him - and his pension - alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life - and the means and meaning of their own lives - by creating a world that...Data dostępności:
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Exit a Dictator – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
In this novel tells about Alexander, the head of a huge movement aimed at returning to Russia a more conservative government. And also about his beautiful spy love, Anna, who works against the gang of butchers for the Soviet chief.Data dostępności:
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Captain of the Steppe. Tales from the Last Days. Book 1 – audiobook
Oleg Pavlov
Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year’s papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life than a meagre pension and a state-owned flat. Until, one Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men... This blackly comic novel shows the unsettling...Data dostępności:
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Requiem for a Soldier. Tales from the Last Days. Book 3 – audiobook
Oleg Pavlov
In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the dead. Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers and...Data dostępności:
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They See in Darkness – ebook
Ethel Lina White
The Elephant Never Forgets is a more psychological story. The main character, Anna, a young Englishwoman, wants to visit Russia because of her interest in a ’proletarian experiment’ and a faithless newspaper editor. The trip is delayed. Anna fell into a trap, stunned by the terrifying atmosphere of suspicion and the crazy tactic of postponing the Soviet Union...Data dostępności:
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Before and During – audiobook
Vladimir Sharov
Late Soviet stagnation, Moscow. Alyosha - a writer who suffers from fits accompanied by memory loss - admits himself to a psychiatric institute for experimental treatment. Inspired by Ivan the Terrible’s “Memorial Book of the Disgraced” and his own spiritual crisis, Alyosha has been trying to record the memories of people in his life who "died before their time, leaving nothing behind except in my...Data dostępności:
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The Matiushin Case. Tales from the Last Days. Book 2 – audiobook
Oleg Pavlov
The Matiushin Case is among the most powerful recent works of Russian fiction. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's experience of the declining Soviet Union, it follows Matiushin, a young man damaged by brutality at home and then in the army. Drawing on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "labor-camp writing," Oleg Pavlov builds a unique tension between the horrors...Data dostępności:
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Szef wymagający i wyrozumiały – ebook
Kim Scott
Jak wykorzystać szczerość w bezpośredniej konfrontacji, by pomóc zespołowi w osiągnięciu wspaniałych rezultatów. Odkąd nauczyliśmy się mówić, powtarza się nam, że jeśli nie mamy nic miłego do powiedzenia, to lepiej wcale nie otwierać ust. Gdy jednak zostajesz menedżerem, mówienie staje się twoją pracą - i obowiązkiem. Autorka niniejszej książki, Kim Scott, zajmowała stanowiska kierownicze w Google...Data dostępności:
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