Tweaking The Nose Of The Russians

Author : Joseph F. Harrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tweaking the Nose of the Russians written by Joseph F. Harrington and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius. In "The Two Sign Painters," TV reporters ambush two young workers from the country taking a break atop a twenty-four-story building. "His Son's Big Doll" introduces the tortured soul inside a walking advertisement, and in "Xiaoqi's Cap" a dissatisfied pressure-cooker salesman is fascinated by a young schoolgirl. Huang's characters—generally the uneducated and disadvantaged who must cope with assaults on their traditionalism, hostility from their urban brethren and, of course, the debilitating effects of poverty—come to life in all their human uniqueness, free from idealization.

Author : Radu Ioanid
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538140756
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ransom of the Jews written by Radu Ioanid and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania's decision to allow its Jews to leave was baldly practical: Israel paid for them, and Romania wanted influence in the Middle East. For its part, Israel was rescuing a community threatened by economic and cultural extinction and at the same time strengthening itself with a massive infusion of new immigrants. Radu Ioanid traces the secret history of the longest and most expensive ransom arrangement in recent times, a hidden exchange that lasted until the fall of the Communist regime. Including a wealth of recently declassified documents from the archives of the Romanian secret police, this updated edition follows Israel’s long and expensive ransom arrangement with Communist Romania. Ioanid uncovers the elaborate mechanisms that made it successful for decades, the shadowy figures responsible, and the secret channels of communication and payment. As suspenseful as a Cold-War thriller, his book tells the full, startling story of an unprecedented slave trade.

Author : Thomas G. Paterson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393030600
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Every Front written by Thomas G. Paterson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why did the Cold War begin? How and why did it end? What will its end mean for international relations? Opening his new book with the drama of people struggling to survive in rubble-strewn countries after the Second World War, Thomas G. Paterson follows the long Cold War crisis though to the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. He examines features of the international system that guaranteed conflict: the great-power quest for order by building spheres of influence; the power, ideology, and strategic-economic needs of the United States and the Soviet Union that compelled activist, global foreign policies; and the personalities of key figures, from Truman to Bush, Stalin to Gorbachev and Yeltsin. In his exploration of the end of the Cold War, the author concludes that the two superpowers sought detente because they had been weakened by the economic costs of the Cold War, challenges from allies, and the diffusion of power in the international system after the rise of the Third World. As historical story and analysis, On Every Front provides a telling account of an era - of the making and unmaking of the Cold War.

Author : László Borhi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253019478
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dealing with Dictators written by László Borhi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this period, US policies were a mix of economic and psychological warfare, subversion, cultural and economic penetration, and coercive diplomacy. Through careful examination of American and Hungarian sources, László Borhi assesses why some policies toward Hungary achieved their goals while others were not successful. When George H. W. Bush exclaimed to Mikhail Gorbachev on the day the Soviet Union collapsed, "Together we liberated Eastern Europe and unified Germany," he was hardly doing justice to the complicated history of the era. The story of the process by which the transition from Soviet satellite to independent state occurred in Hungary sheds light on the dynamics of systemic change in international politics at the end of the Cold War.

Author : Sven G. Holtsmark
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349232343
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945–89 written by Sven G. Holtsmark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a series of recent analyses spanning the whole period of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. The essays - by Western, Russian, and East European experts - present a wide and varied picture of the period. The authors use newly available materials to investigate different aspects of Soviet-East European relations - party affairs, military and political coordination, cultural and mass media policies, as well as the crises and conflicts emerging from the relationship itself.

Author : Bernhard Blumenau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351744909
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War written by Bernhard Blumenau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the historiography of the end of the Cold War. Research on the causes and consequences of the end of the Cold War is constantly growing. Initially, it was dominated by fairly simplistic, and often politically motivated, debates revolving around the role played by major "winners" and "losers". This volume addresses a number of diverse issues and seeks to challenge several "common wisdoms" about the end of the Cold War. Together, the contributions provide insights on the role of personalities as well as the impact of transnational movements and forces on the unexpected political transformations of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Geographically, the chapters largely focus on the United States, Europe, with special emphasis on Germany, and the Soviet Union. The individual chapters are drawn together by the overarching theme relating to a particular "common wisdom": were the transformations that occurred truly "unexpected"? This collection of essays will make an important contribution to the growing literature on the developments that produced the collapse of the Iron Curtain, the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. This volume will be of much interest to students of Cold War Studies, International History, European Politics and International Relations in general.

Author : Azam Gill
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595200168
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winds of Change written by Azam Gill and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thematic collection of seventy-four articles published as regular columns over seven years in The National Educator from 1993 to 2000. Now, with an exhaustive bibliography, detailed index and updates to the Bush administration. Bureau Chief Azam Gill analysed the world order with the U.S. as the center piece managed by the Clinton Administration, covering The United States, NATO, The European Union, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, Russia, Asia and Terrorism. The articles on South Asia, France and the French Foreign Legion, based on the author’s personal experience, have received much praise. Appreciated for their unusual facts from diverse sources, objective criticism, and sharp-witted analyses, the columns also include exclusive interviews of personalities such as Alessandro Benneton and Jean Marie Le Pen. Recommended reading for academics and general readers interested in how the management of the world order during the Clinton years affects the world today.

Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351894226
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Balkans and the West written by Andrew Hammond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays locates, investigates and challenges the manner in which the Balkans and the West have constructed each other since 1945. Scholars from the two sections of the continent explore a wide range of fiction, film, journalism, travel writing and diplomatic records both to analyse Western European balkanism and to study Balkan representations of the West over the last fifty years. The first section looks back to the Cold War, examining the divergent, often favourable images of the Balkans that existed in Western culture, as well as the variety of responses that appeared in South-East European writings on the West. The second section analyses the transitions that took place in representation during the 1990s. Here, contributors explore both the harsh denigration of the Balkans which came to dominate western discourse after the initial euphoria of 1989, and the emerging tradition of contesting Western balkanism in South-East European cultural production. Through this dual emphasis, the volume exposes the representational practices that help to maintain a deeply divided Europe, and challenges the economic and political injustices that result. Despite the rise to prominence of postcolonial theory, with its awareness of global inequality, the current crises in many parts of South-East Europe have received scant attention in literary and cultural studies. The Balkans and the West addresses this deficiency. Ranging in focus from Serbian cinema to Romanian travel literature, from Western economic writings to Yugoslav fiction, and from public discourse in Albania to NATO's vast propaganda machine, the essays offer wide insight into representation and power in the contemporary European context.

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : New York : [s.n.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Russian Proprietor ; The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, and Other Stories written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by New York : [s.n.. This book was released on 1899 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novels and a dozen short stories.

Author : Joseph Laurence Black
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742529663
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vladimir Putin and the New World Order written by Joseph Laurence Black and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. L. Black's latest work is a rich and carefully crafted attempt to expose the textures of Russia's perceptions of itself and its place in the world. Based almost entirely on Russian sources, Vladimir Putin and the New World Order argues that to understand Russian foreign policymaking, international situations must be viewed through the prism of Russian analysts and officials.