Author : Arthur Ransome
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Crisis in Russia" by Arthur Ransome. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Paul Milyoukov
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780666754448
Excerpt from Russia and Its Crisis: Crane Lectures for 1903 Tms book is not a political pamphlet written for the occasion, but a result of long years of study devoted to the explanation of the Russian present by the Rus sian past. The present crisis in Russia necessarily commands attention, and everything discussed in this work converges to the one aim of explaining this crisis. But the conditions which have brought on the crisis are so deeply rooted in the past, and are so closely inter woven with every aspect of Russian life, whether of religion or of politics, of doctrines or of institutions, of social forms or of the composition of society, that an explanation of the present situation, to be at all ade quate, must necessarily be a general picture of Russia and a general description of the conditions under which its civilization has developed. The crisis will pass, but the conditions of civilization remain; and my ambition has been to explain, not the momentary and transient, but the permanent and lasting, elements in the political, social, and religious life of Russia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Ernest Poole
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2018-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780483128941
Excerpt from The Dark People: Russia's Crisis There was little or no disorder. As though by some deep instinct, these throngs of people kept the peace. The militia police of the Revolution were a meagre looking force, and one might have expected all kinds of crimes with violence. It was not so. There were immense stores of vodka here, but I saw no drunkenness and you could not buy a drink. The price of fire wood was high and mounting higher every week, but I saw huge piles of paving blocks left all night on lonely streets with no watchman guarding them, and there were no pilferers about. There was disorganization in the whole system of supplies. To buy bread or tea or sugar or shoes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780265800768
Excerpt from The End of the Age: On the Approaching Revolution Preceded by the Crisis in Russia Yet some people, seeing all the evil which is at present accomplished by the particularly cruel, coarse, Stupid, and deceitful Russian Government, think that this is due to the fact that the Russian Government is not organised as they think it ought to be, on the model of other existing Govern ments (similar institutions for the committal with impunity of all kinds of crimes against their peoples), and for the purpose of correcting this these people use all the means at their disposal, imagining that the alteration of external forms may alter the essence. Such activity I regard as inexpedient, unreasonable, not right - is, that people assert rights they have not got - and pernicious. I regard such activity as inexpedient because strife with violence, and in general by external means (and not solely by spiritual power), on the part of an insignificant handful of men, against a powerful Government defending its life, and for this purpose holding control of millions of armed disciplined men and of milliards in money, is only comical from the point of view of the possibility of success, and piteous from the point of view of the unfortunate, misled individuals who perish in this unequal strife. I regard this activity as unreasonable because, even granting what is most improbable - is, that those who are now fighting against the existing Government will triumph - the position of the people cannot improve therefrom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 088132552X
Author : Bernard Pares
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780267552849
Excerpt from Russia and Reform IN this book I try to summarise the chief things which English men ought to know, if they wish to form an intelligent judgment of what is now taking place in Russia. 'we have arrived at one of the most critical turning-points in Russian history, but present events are the crisis of a long and dramatic story. Without an acquaintance with the beginning of the chapter which is now in progress, we cannot hope to understand the end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Robert Nisbet Bain
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780331810776
Excerpt from Peter III, Emperor of Russia: The Story of a Crisis and a Crime Mercy, the Austrian Ambassador at St. Petersburg, is an acute observer, and his despatches, written in cumbrously stately German, abound with the most minute particulars and the most piquant apercus. He is antipathetic to Peter, and suspicious towards Catherine, but, considering his strong anti-russian bias, wonderfully fair, and, so far as his inform ation goes, very accurate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780267521739
Excerpt from Russia, or the Crisis of Europe: A Poem; With Copious Notes and an Account of the Russian Soldiers and Cossacks President of the Deputation of the Confederation qf Poland, to the Emperor Napoleon. Dnsrmms or napoleon. You, Sire, have been raised up by Providence its strength is put into your hands 1 Say, Sire, that The kingdom of Poland exists, and that decree will to the world be equivalent to the reality Fate has reserved this termination for the Head of the Fourth Dynasty - for Napoleon the Great before whom the policy of three centuries were but a momentary object, and the space from South to North but a single point l. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Dmitri Trenin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1509527702
Over the past century alone, Russia has lived through great achievements and deepest misery; mass heroism and mass crime; over-blown ambition and near-hopeless despair – always emerging with its sovereignty and its fiercely independent spirit intact. In this book, leading Russia scholar Dmitri Trenin accompanies readers on Russia’s rollercoaster journey from revolution to post-war devastation, perestroika to Putin’s stabilization of post-Communist Russia. Explaining the causes and the meaning of the numerous twists and turns in contemporary Russian history, he offers a vivid insider’s view of a country through one of its most trying and often tragic periods. Today, he cautions, Russia stands at a turning point – politically, economically and socially – its situation strikingly reminiscent of the Russian Empire in its final years. For the Russian Federation to avoid a similar demise, it must learn the lessons of its own history.
Author : George Herbert Perris
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780365230298
Excerpt from Russia in Revolution I am indebted to my exile friends - especially the late Sergius Stepniak and the late Col. Lavrov, Mr. Volk hovsky, Mr. Tchaykovsky, and Dr. Soskice; to the files of Free Russia, La Tribune Russe, and the publi cations Of the Russian secret press; and to friends in Russia whom it would be inconvenient to name. A few passages, including a letter written in Moscow on the eve Of the recent crisis, have appeared in the Daily Chronicle and other journals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
