This work traces Russia's complex historical development in the last century, as well as its recent political troubles and economic misfortunes, and its place in the contemporary international system.
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 111 the Chechens were forced to join collective farms and suffered religious persecution. A territorial reorganization led to the formation of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic in 1936.
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History and travel mix in this detailed description of a trip to Moscow and St Petersburg. Get ready to learn the true modern Russia, and relive its glorious and mysterious past
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A novel by Robert Penn Warren was scheduled for publication in Foreign Literature magazine when a letter Warren wrote supporting Solzhenitsyn appeared in the New York Times . Foreign Literature quickly dropped his book from its ...
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Tom Streissguth explores the culture, landscapes and people of Russia.