War by Numbers assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A.... Zobraziť viac
Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin-such is the environment in which Andrei A. Kovalev lived and worked. In this memoir of his time as a successful diplomat serving in... Zobraziť viac
The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain ... Zobraziť viac