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An intimate and personal account of contemporary life in Russia. Author examines the life-styles and aspirations of every level of Russian society.

Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian emigre of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him.

Based on recently released documents Buhite focuses on those parts of Asia that became objects of Soviet-American competition. He portrays the Soviet Union as an aggressive and expansionist power whose aspirations included not only control of the Kuril and Sakhalin islands but also domination or hegemony in Mongolia, Sinkiang, Manchuria, Korea and Japan and eventual expulsion of the West from Southeast Asia. Buhite believes that the United States...

Despite hundreds of studies and analyses of the Vietnam War, we still have scant knowledge of deliberations and actions on the other side of the lines - in North Vietnam, China, and the Soviet Union. In this pioneering book, a Russian historian with exclusive access to newly opened Soviet archives on the war offers a compelling account of the Kremlin's role in Vietnam. His eye-opening study will force a rethinking of many Western assumptions. Privy...

Traces the life of the Soviet leader, uses the secret Soviet archives to reveal new information, and argues that Lenin set in motion many of the worst excesses of the state later expanded by Stalin.

"This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middleclass wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle's condescension in his aunt's bed."--Page...