I occasionally teach Soviet KGB History. I tell my students that I am pretty much a poor substitute for this book, and I make them read it.

There is no better book on KGB history.

New Myth, New World: From Nietzsche To Stalinism by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal is a thoughtful and scholarly reinterpretation of Nietzsche's lasting influence upon Soviet culture. Drawing on diverse primary sources in religion, philosophy, political ideology, architecture, street theater, and more, New Myth, New World is a learned and informative series of discourses combining to illustrate and demonstrate the lasting power of ideas in helping to shape the character, culture, and politics of the Russian nation and its governments. New Myth, New World is a welcome, significant, scholarly, and very strongly recommended contribution to Soviet Studies, Russian Cultural History, and Philosophy Studies academic reference collections as well as International Studies student supplemental reading lists.

This modest little trade paperback is a collection of Oberg's articles on space flight subjects from the early 1980s, and half of it is a supplement to his better-known book 'Red Star in Orbit'.

The contents in more detail are: Foreword by Ben Bova; Invisible Space Race; Spaceflight Fire; Astronauts versus Robots; Spaceflight Geography Lesson; Space Fleets; Space Maladies; Salyut-7 Breakthroughs; Soyuz T-8 Rendezvous; Modules in Orbit; Drama of Soyuz T-10A; Russia's Space Shuttle Programs; A Shuttle-Salyut Joint Mission; Soviet Propaganda Blitz; 24-Hour Astronaut Service; Flights to Other Worlds; Exploring the Asteroid Belt; Spaceships of the Future; Tethered Space Operations; Space Pilgrim's Progress; index. (...)

The book covers issues concerning mutual relations between two world economic powers - USA and UE. Autors explain strengths and weaknesses of both organisms.They analyze present situation like trade wars about bananas or geneticaly modified food.They also,what is done very well, try to predict the future situation of contacts between USA ad UE.This is a great book not only for students, but also for people who want to keep up with today's politics and economics.

Robert Denny, the author of "Aces" and "Night Run", was a B-17 pilot with the Eighth Air Force's 306th Bomber Group, and a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross. He knows flying and he knows airplanes -- this shows in his writing. And he knows his history on the Eastern Front. In "Night Run", he has expertly woven an exciting fictional story into real historical events, interlacing his own characters with historical personalities. Mr. Denny subtitles his book "a novel in honor of the famed Night Witches of World War ll". Although his main protagonist is an American B-17 pilot, his book really showcases the women aviators of the War. Not only the Soviet female combat regiments, but the American WASPs and even the fanatical Nazi test-pilot Hanna Reitsch. The plot-device of an American fighting in the Soviet military is not as far-fetched as it may at first seem. This actually happened on a number of occasions. (I have a memoir of American POW Joseph Beyrle who, upon his liberation by the Red Army, joined a Soviet tank unit. Coincidentally enough, his tank commander was a woman.) "Night Run" takes its protagonists from the battle of Stalingrad to the fall of Berlin. Included is a "love story", which is something I normally detest in a war novel. But this one is tastefully written and never distracting from the action as the Red Air Force storms westward. Throughout, events are chronicled with the realism of one who actually participated. In many ways, this book reminds me of Cornelius Ryan's awesome "The Last Battle". I wonder if Denny referenced it for his historical sequences?

If you ski downhill, be willing to walk back uphill. That's one of my two favorite Russian sayings. Can one meaning be not forgetting the gophers and grunts when you have a specialized skill? That in a way is what NIHILIST GIRL is all about.

Higher education, like downhill skiing, was for people with money, during Sofya Vasilevna Kovalevskaya's lifetime, 1850-1891. Women had such chances because of wealth and family connections. Some, such as the author and her older sister Anyuta Korvin-Krukovskaya Jaclard, wanted schooling for peasants and workers.

Kovalevskaya grew up on nursery walls papered, because of a run on wallpaper, with lithographed lectures of Professor Mikhail Ostrogradsky on differential and integrated calculus! Also, in the late 1850s, women got into higher educational institutions, until a decree against this narrow window of opportunity in 1863. At 18, she found a husband ahead of his times in paleontologist Vladimir Kovalevsky. Then as the daughter of a landowning, moneyed noble family and as a married woman, she got a hard-to-get passport, for study and travel abroad.

In fact, Kovalevskaya was among the first women to study at European universities, at Heidelberg, Germany. Then she became the first European woman doctor in mathematics. She got it summa cum laude, at only 24, from the University of Gottingen, Sweden. Then she became the first 19th-century woman with a tenured teaching appointment at a European university, in mathematics at Stockholm. And the first woman member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. And the first woman editorial board member of the leading European scientific journal, Acta Mathematica. And the winner of a much sought-after prize from the French Academy, for a ground-breaking solution to a problem in mathematical physics. And the writer of highly regarded, widely known studies in theoretical mathematics.

Basically what makes her one and only finished novel interesting and lasting is the middle child who had it all, but wanted to share. This comes through loud and clear on every page. And by reading about her in Don Kennedy's LITTLE SPARROW and Joan Spicci's BEYOND THE LIMIT.

For Kovalevskaya took up fiction writing, to tell both what was wrong with Russian life under the tsarist rulers and how it could be bettered. The idea came from having read Ivan Turgenev's FATHERS AND SONS of 1862 and Nikolay Chernyshevsky's WHAT IS TO BE DONE? of 1863. Kovalevskaya's spin was getting women educated, employed and independent. If only Leo Tolstoy's ANNA KARENINA had been as lucky.

This book, more than any other, captures Nijinsky the person, especially in the context of Nijinsky and his colleagues in the Imperial Theatre of St. Petersburg in the early part of this century. The late Professor Krasovskaya has succeeded in illuminating the atmosphere of ballet in St. Petersburg in those times. Especially moving is her depiction of Maria Piltz, the first Chosen Virgin of Nijinsky's Rite of Spring, as an old lady recalling the extraordinary premiere in Paris.

This is one of three remarkable books about Nijinsky. The others being Bronislava Nijinska's Early Memoirs, and Richard Buckle's Nijinsky, though Buckle scorned [in London's Sunday Times] Krasovskaya's work when it first appeared in translation. Read Nijinska for what it was like to be Nijinsky's sister, read Buckle for the teeming social and financial gymnastics Diaghilev performed in order to present russian art in western europe, and read Krasovskaya for Nijinsky the person.

This highly readable and pithy account includes all the basic fact about the life of Nikita Khrushchev while at the same time giving us personable detail that brings him alive. It's short on political history and almost reads like a novel. You'll find yourself admiring this Soviet leader even though he was party to some of history's great crimes.

The 1st amendment deals with freedom of speech, press, assembly. The 2nd is for the right to bear arms. We all know what the 5th amendment is used for and the 13th ended slavery. Some know that the 15th amendment gave blacks the right to vote. But do you know what the 19th Amendment did?

Most people will tell you that this amendment to the Constitution was one of the most important, it gave women the right to vote, and understand this is has only been 80 years since that amendment was passed. In this day of equal right, this is simply amazing that women have only been voting since 1920.

The book covers the founders of women's rights movement, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, to Susan B. Anthony tireless efforts to get the Congress of the United States to pass legislation to give women the right to vote.

You'll read about the suffragetts to marches on Washington to how the 19th amendment effects our lives even to the present day. The book took just over 1 hour to finish and it was easy reading filled with little facts I was unaware of concerning the 19th amendment. Overall a very good book to have as a reference.

Grigori Medvedev presents an accurate, disturbing account of censorship and secrecy in the USSR. In his struggle to publish warnings of impending disaster (Chernobyl) Medvedev is met with resistance which Americans cannot fathom. Threats of imprisonment, death, and dicreditation are all too common to an author and scientist simply trying to prevent catastrophe. Medvedev's persistence is most commendable, and is his faith in God very apparent. Such courage, faith, and intelligence is far too rare in the world and Grigori's struggle makes U.S. freedom all the more gratifying.