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This annotated edition of Demons includes: • The suppressed chapter "At Tikhon's" — Stavrogin's confession, restored • A 14,000-word critical study, "The Arithmetic of the Absolute" • The real crime behind the novel: the Nechaev murder of 1869 • On the Gadarene swine — how the epigraph is the argument • A full life of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) A provincial Russian town, a cell of revolutionaries, and a murder meant to bind them in blood. In 1869 a student named Ivanov was killed by his own revolutionary circle, on the orders of a charismatic young agitator, to weld the ...

Learn Russian with a Military Mindset takes the reader through the journey of the military member learning Russian as their new profession! It is customized, tailored and intensified with university level sophistication. It teaches the language based on contexts and functions and leverages dialogues among other foreign language acquisition tools! Written by US Air Force Academy graduate and published academic Jordan Eason, PhD, this book takes you through a unique no nonsense approach to learning to communicate in Russian. ILR 0-1 in just 18 chapters!

What if the greatest obstacle standing between you and a meaningful life were simply the difficulty of getting out of bed? Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is intelligent, gentle, well-educated—and almost incapable of action. From the comfort of his Petersburg apartment, he dreams of improving his estate, imagines a better future, remembers the peaceful world of his childhood, and makes plans he may never begin. While friends pursue careers, ambitions, society, and love, Oblomov remains caught between the life he imagines and the quiet existence he cannot bring himself to leave. Then new possibilities...

Bloomsbury presents Generalship on the Eastern Front, 1941–45: A Study in Command by Robert Forczyk, read by Elliot Chapman A comprehensive evaluation of generalship on the most important front in World War II. The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the largest sustained air-ground...

Secrets of the Middle East's Most Critical Conflict You'll get instant access to the most comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the Israel-Iran-Russia conflict in Netanyahu's War: The Unholy Trinity of Conflict - Israel, Iran, and Russia's Deadly Dance is an insightful book that will transform your understanding of the Middle East's complex geopolitics. What You'll Discover: The hidden dynamics driving the conflict and its implications for global stability The strategic calculations and miscalculations of Israel, Iran, and Russia The role of external actors and proxy wars in shaping ...

Russian literature has produced more than its share of great novels, but it has rarely produced a reading list. This book offers one: twenty-five novels, spanning a century and a half, from Pushkin's restless aristocrats to Solzhenitsyn's imprisoned scientists, arranged so that two weeks with each book carries the reader through an entire year. Along the way you will meet a bored young nobleman who fails to recognise love until it is too late, a mother transformed from fearful bystander to revolutionary, a devil who arrives in Stalinist Moscow to expose the city's hypocrisies, and a ...

This annotated edition of White Nights includes: • A critical study, "A Whole Moment of Happiness" • On the Dreamer — a life lived more in imagination than in fact • A full life of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) • The complete novella in the classic Garnett translation • On the last lines everyone quotes, and what they cost "My God, a whole minute of bliss! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?" For four white nights in St. Petersburg — those luminous northern nights when the sun barely sets and the city cannot quite sleep — a lonely young man who has never so ...

What happens when a Soviet fighter outlives the empire that created it? The Sukhoi Su-27 "Flanker" emerged from the Soviet Union as one of the most fearsome fighters of its generation—a long-range air superiority platform built to meet the American F-15 Eagle on equal terms. But the collapse of the USSR ensured that the Flanker's story would unfold far beyond the Cold War battlefields for which it had been designed. In Killbox Flanker, military historian Mike Guardia (author of Tomcat Fury and Viper Alley) traces the combat history of the Su-27 family from its Cold War origins to the ...

The Brothers Karamazov (Volume 2, Books 8-12) bring Dostoevsky's philosophical and dramatic tensions to their explosive climax, transforming the novel from psychological exploration into a gripping murder trial that serves as a court of moral judgment for Russian society itself. The second volume opens with the long-anticipated murder of the despicable patriarch Fyodor Pavlovich, an event that shatters the family and sets in motion a legal and spiritual reckoning that will test each brother's fundamental beliefs about justice, guilt, and redemption. Dmitri finds himself arrested and tried ...

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Russian. Short Stories in Russian for Intermediate Learners has been written specifically for students from a low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and, most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you, and give you a feeling of progress when listening. 

The Third Rome: Power, Faith, and the Evolution of the Russian State provides a comprehensive and politically neutral journey through the centuries of ideological and political development that shaped a global superpower. This Russian history non-fiction work begins in the early Kievan era, tracing the foundational conversion of Vladimir the Great and the subsequent spiritual and political fracturing caused by the Mongol conquest. By examining the rise of Moscow, the text explores the origin of the "Third Rome" concept—the belief that Moscow inherited the mantle of spiritual leadership ...

The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's final and perhaps greatest novel, stands as a profound exploration of faith, doubt, morality, and human nature. Published between 1879-1880, this philosophical novel uses the framework of a murder mystery to examine some of the deepest questions about existence, God, and free will. The story revolves around the dysfunctional Karamazov family, dominated by the dissolute patriarch Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, and his three legitimate sons whose conflicting worldviews drive the narrative's central tensions. Dmitri, the eldest, is passionate and impulsive, ...

Bloomsbury presents The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes, read by David Sibley. A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History ‘The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM ‘A...

Do you need this book? NO! You can also practice the 2500 most common words in a true-to-life way. But will you really do that at the end? Learn any foreign language with 4 hours per week. This way you need 3-6 months. Train many important soft skills on the way. The overriding principles are the same whether you want to Learn Spanish, English, German, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian etc. World's 1st book combining language learning, success & personal development A Czech proverb says: “Every new language is like a new life.” Millions of people want to learn a foreign language. They ...

One morning, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin looks in the mirror and sees himself—anxious, insignificant, a minor clerk in the vast bureaucracy of St. Petersburg. That night, he meets himself again. But this double is everything Golyadkin is not. Golyadkin Junior is confident where the original is timid, charming where he is awkward, successful where he fails. The duplicate insinuates himself into Golyadkin's office, wins the favor of superiors, claims credit for his work. Worse, everyone accepts this doppelgänger without question, as if two identical Golyadkins had always existed. Is the ...

Кэролайн Криадо Перес вскрывает серьёзную проблему, напрямую влияющую на здоровье и благополучие женщин: разработчики различных продуктов и технологий опираются на данные, собранные о человеке, где «человек» по умолчанию «мужчина». Женщины же с их особенностями и потребностями остаются незамеченными.

A child's voice. A stepfather's delusions. A family destroying itself. Netochka Nezvanova grows up in poverty and chaos, shaped by her stepfather Efimov's obsession. He was once a violinist of promise—now he's a bitter, delusional man convinced of his own genius, nursing imagined grievances while his family starves. Netochka's mother sews to keep them alive. Efimov offers nothing but fantasies of the greatness that jealous rivals have stolen from him. Netochka cannot understand the dynamics rationally, but she absorbs everything emotionally. She idealizes Efimov despite his failures, ...

Bibliej nazyvaetsja v hristianskoj cerkvi sobranie knig, napisannyh po vdohnoveniju i otkroveniju Sv. Duha chrez osvjashhennyh ot Boga ljudej, nazyvaemyh prorokami i apostolami. Jeto nazvanie v samih svjashhennyh knigah ne vstrechaetsja i vpervye prilozheno k sobraniju svjashhennyh knig na Vostoke v IV v. sv. Ioannom Zlatoustom i sv. Epifaniem Kiprskim. Evrei svoi svjashhennye knigi oboznachali nazvanijami.

Сборник «Знакомство с профессиями»—открой мир взрослых через истории! Серия не просто рассказывает о представителях разных профессий. Эти аудиокниги расширяют кругозор и словарный запас детей и помогают понять, чем же именно занимаются люди, с которыми мы сталкиваемся в жизни.

В этой аудиокниге мальчик Пауль вместе со своим другом Францем знакомится с профессией машиниста поезда. Вы узнаете, что находится внутри кабины машиниста, какие бывают поезда, как выглядит вагон первого класса и многое другое!