Vladivostok

Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 990min

Mikhail Gorbachev's relations with the West have captured the imagination of contemporaries and historians alike, but his vision of Soviet leadership in Asia has received far less attention. The failure of Gorbachev's Asian initiatives has had dramatic consequences, by the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was in full retreat from Asia, and since the Soviet collapse, Russia has been left on the sidelines of the "Pacific century." In this exceptionally wide-ranging and deeply researched audiobook, Sergey Radchenko offers an illuminating account of the end of the Cold War in the East, tracing the death of Soviet ambitions in Asia. Radchenko shows that Gorbachev began with big gestures, of which the most important was his initiative in Vladivostok in July 1986, the opening salvo of the Soviet charm offensive in Asia Pacific. The problem, Radchenko points out, was that no one in Asia bought into Gorbachev's vision. If the Soviets had realized earlier that they needed Asia more than Asia needed them, they might have played a much more important role there. Instead, China was largely misunderstood, early gains in India were squandered, Japan was ignored or condescended to, and the Korean scenario played out in ways most unfavorable to Russia. Radchenko captures all of this in his compelling narrative, shedding important new light on many key players, including Gorbachev, Deng Xiaoping, Margaret Thatcher, Boris Yeltsin, and George H. W. Bush, among others. Based on archival research in Russia, China, Mongolia, India, the United States, Britain, and numerous European countries and on interviews with former policy makers in a dozen countries, Unwanted Visionaries presents a deftly narrated and penetrating portrait of the Soviet failure in the East, with a wealth of valuable insight into Asia today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Kliban. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017958/bk_adbl_017958_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 779min

Having awakened from its communist slumber, Russia in the roaring '90s is a place where everything and everyone is for sale and fortunes can be made and lost overnight. Into this maelstrom steps rookie "Wall Street Journal" reporter Matthew Brzezinski. Assigned to make sense of the financial markets, he is instantly plunged into the crazed world of Russian capitalism, where corrupt Moscow bankers and American carpetbaggers preside over the greatest boom and bust in international financial history. Brzezinski knows he's in over his head; what he comes to realize is that "so is the entire country". The government of Boris Yeltsin is under the thumb of seven powerful men known as "the oligarchs", and a crime boss from Chechnya - even as his homeland is under siege by Russian troops - has set himself up as one of Moscow's most powerful warlords. Meanwhile, the gap between haves and have-nots is widening into an abyss. Among Moscow's elite, solid-gold bathroom fixtures are de rigueur, while in Vladivostok, the last stop on the Trans-Siberian railway, local citizens must buy water by the pail from Russian mafia chieftains. Brzezinski's irreverent, swashbuckling account captures the greed and desperation of the time. He bribes his way aboard a Russian submarine. He survives a freak radiation spike at Chernobyl and travels 400 miles on a private plane for lunch with a gorgeous robber baroness. He's set upon by Ukrainian thugs, who leave him tied with electrical cord in a bathtub. Fortified with vodka, he crashes ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky's birthday party. And he visits a camp of "Young Pioneers", in which children play an elaborate game to learn the principles of a free market - with disastrous results that foretell the chaos in store for the Russian economy. Just as Liar's Poker shone a torch on investment banking in the '80s, Casino Moscow paints a lurid, hilarious picture of a capitalist market gone haywire and a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Stillwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010125/bk_adbl_010125_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Gordian Protocol: The Gordian Protocol, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1133min

New stand-alone novel from New York Times best-selling author of the Honor Harrington series, David Weber A Man of Two Worlds Doctor Benjamin Schröder was far from a man of action. In fact, he was a history teacher - chairman of the Castle Rock University history department - and if his life wasn't perfect, it was close. Until, that is, the discussion of his star student Elzbietá Abramowski's dissertation on Operation Oz, the Pacific Allies' invasion of Vladivostok, staged through occupied Japan to meet their Imperial German allies, was brutally interrupted. The psychotic episode that turned his entire world upside down struck with absolutely no warning, and it was more terrifying than anything he should have been able to imagine, leaving him with a complete, incredibly detailed set of false nightmare memories. Not just of his own life but of an entire ghastly world in which Operation Oz had never happened. In which millions of helpless civilians had been systematically slaughtered in extermination camps that were horrific beyond belief. In which there was still a Soviet Union. In which the Chinese Communists had succeeded, the Korean Peninsula had been permanently divided, thousands of nuclear warheads had spread their deadly threat across the entire Earth, and the Middle East was a festering sore of bloodshed, fanaticism, and terrorism. The knowledge that those false memories had come from somewhere inside his own psyche was terrible, but with the help of Commander Abramowski, a highly decorated navy fighter pilot who’d been forced to deal with her own PTSD after crippling combat wounds invalided her out of service, he’s put his life back together. With Elzbietá's support, he's learned to deal with the nightmares, to recognize that they are only nightmares that can't - and won't - be permitted to rule his life. Until, that is, a lunatic named Raibert Kaminski knocks on his door one afternoon with an impossibl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052073/bk_adbl_052073_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Bridges in Russia

Bridges in Russia ab 19.99 € als Taschenbuch: Bridge disasters in Russia Bridges built in the Soviet Union Bridges in Irkutsk Oblast Bridges in Moscow Bridges in Saint Petersburg Bridges in Vladivostok Bridges over the Lena River Bridges over the Loren River. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,

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Transport in the Russian Far East

Transport in the Russian Far East ab 15.49 € als Taschenbuch: Aviation in the Russian Far East Ports and harbours of the Russian Pacific Coast Rail transport in the Russian Far East Roads in the Russian Far East Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Magadan Okhotsk Eurasian Land Bridge Vladivostok. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,

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Reise Know-How Landkarte Russland - vom Baikalsee bis Wladiwostok / Russia - from Lake Baikal to Vladivostok (1:2.000.00

Hochreißfeste und 100% wasserfeste Landkarte "Russland, vom Baikalsee bis Wladiwostok" aus der Serie world mapping project, erschienen im Reise Know-How Verlag.Reise Know-How Landkarten zeichnen sich durch besonders stabiles Kunststoffpapier aus, das beschreibbar ist wie Papier, sogar mit Bleistift. Der Pappumschlag ist abnehmbar, so dass sich die Karte bequem in jede Tasche stecken lässt. Eine Schutzhülle ist nicht erforderlich. Die kartografische Darstellung konzentriert sich auf die wichtigsten Informationen für Reisende und ist besonders gut lesbar. Statt einer Schummerung werden farbige Höhenschichten verwendet.Ausstattung: - Höhenlinien mit Höhenangaben; - Farbige Höhenschichten; - Klassifiziertes Straßennetz mit Entfernungsangaben; - Sehenswürdigkeiten; - Ausführlicher Ortsindex; - GPS-genau; - Längen- und Breitengrade; - Fünfsprachige Legende (deutsch, englisch, französisch, spanisch, russisch); - Größere Orte auch in kyrillischer Schrift; - Übersichtskarte auf dem Umschlag. Handliches Format: 70x100 cm, 2-seitig bedruckt. Die Karte zeigt auch den Streckenabschnitt der Transsib etwa zwischen Irkutsk und Wladiwostok und schließt an die Karten 'Russland, West', 'Russland, vom Ural zum Baikalsee' und 'Baikalsee' an.

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