Russian Government

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.

The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution, and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked by not one but two revolutions?

Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the real geopolitical competition of the digital age. Tracing the conflict of wills and interests among modern nations, Ben Buchanan reveals little-known details of how China, Russia, North Korea, Britain, and the United States hack one another in a relentless struggle for dominance. 

НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ИВАНОМ ИВАНОВИЧЕМ КУРИЛЛОЙ, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ИВАНА ИВАНОВИЧА КУРИЛЛЫ. Как бы ни сложились дела в мире, Соединенные Штаты Америки остаются одним из ключевых игроков на мировой арене. Их действия, нравится это кому-то или нет, вызывают живой отклик у других стран мира. Кто-то хочет перенять модель США, кто-то—сделать все наоборот, кто-то—просто учесть их опыт. Что же такое «американская модель», раз она вызывает такой интерес уже не первое столетие?

What is the role of government in the modern world? The environment that governments operate in today is hugely complex. Governments face difficult challenges on all sides. Global upheavals and geopolitical shifts, climate change, rapidly evolving technologies and socio-economic demographics, resource constraints, an increasingly diverse constituency and citizens' more demanding expectations - these are just some of the forces driving societal changes and evolving the context in which governments operate.

Терроризм—не просто ужасное зло, это одна из самых сложных проб­лем современности, решение которой человечеству еще предстоит найти. Джон Хорган, признанный эксперт в области психологии терроризма, в своей книге описывает механизмы, приводящие обычных людей на путь насильственного экстремизма. Их действия зачастую продиктованы разрушительной идеологией, которая оправдывает применение насилия во имя больших целей, однако мотивация террористов может казаться рациональными только им самим.

В 2020 –2023 годах в мире произошло столько же успешных военных переворотов, сколько за все предыдущее десятилетие. Надежды на глобальную демократизацию не оправдались. Ослабление международных институтов, внутриполитические кризисы, экономические трудности и недовольство населения создают почву для прихода к власти военных режимов.

Ona dumala s dosadoj: ee rovesnicy, - a ej shel dvadcat' shestoj god, teper' hlopochut po hozjajstvu, utomilis' i krepko usnut, a zavtra utrom prosnutsja v prazdnichnom nastroenii; mnogie iz nih davno uzhe povyhodili zamuzh i imejut detej.

Жизнь секретного агента в кино—это шикарные автомобили, смокинги и блестящие остроты, которые он отпускает, расправляясь с очередным врагом при помощи крутых наручных часов. Забудьте обо всем, что видели на экране! Рэд Райли, бывший сотрудник британской секретной службы МИ-6, расскажет как это на самом деле. Приведенные методы проверены на практике, а все жизненно важные шпионские приемы испытаны в полевых условиях.

Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading American newspaper as the greatest spy story of World War II. This dramatic yet little-known saga, replete with telephone taps, kidnappings, and police surveillance, centres on the furtive escapades of Tyler Kent, a handsome, womanising 28-year-old Ivy League graduate who doubles as a US Embassy code clerk and Soviet agent.

The first part of contemporary Russian Banking History, covering last 25 years. The collapse of the Soviet Union: from crisis at the end of the 80s to the dashing 90s in the mirror of the history of commercial banks in Russia.

The Russians were playing Donald Trump and his allies long before the 2016 election - and continue to do so to this day. That much, and more, is made clear in this masterfully narrated audiobook.

История русской революции—двухтомная книга Льва Троцкого о русской революции 1917 года, впервые опубликованная в 1930 году. Является фундаментальным трудом автора по исторической проблематике, в которой формулируется непосредственная связь между событиями Февральской и Октябрьской революций.

Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself.

In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite and prolific historians of modern Russia'...

From the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense. Hoping that US decline is real, nations such as Russia, Iran, and China are testing Washington's resolve by targeting vulnerable allies at the frontiers of American power. The Unquiet Frontier explains why the United States needs a new grand strategy that uses strong frontier alliance networks to raise the costs of military aggression in the new century.

With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present Spies have long been a source of great fascination in the world of fiction, but...

The Plot to Destroy Trump exposes the deep state conspiracy to discredit and even depose the legitimately elected President Donald J. Trump with the fabricated Russian dossier, including: how the unsubstantiated accusations of collusion began with former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, and the Democratic National Convention on behalf of Hillary Clinton; the opportunistic role played by Russia’s FSB and former KGB agents, according to Putin’s strategy to create chaos in the West; and much more.

Происхождение семьи, частной собственности и государства - произведение, посвящённое основным проблемам первоначальной истории, эволюции семейно-брачных отношений, анализа процессов разложения родового общества, становления частной собственности, общественных классов и государства.

*Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award* From America’s leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order—and the very value of liberty Larry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure...