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Voices of America: St. Petersburg An Oral History
Compiled by Scott Taylor HartzellPublishers: Arcadia Publishing and imprint of Tempus Publishing IncISBN: 0-7385-1425-X The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Prior to 1888, St Petersburg, Florida was a tiny fishing village where deer, bear, raccoons, panthers, wildcats, gators and rattlesnakes roamed the area. Not exactly what we would imagine if we traveled to the sunshine city today.In 1880 a Rus
(No rating) 6-6-2006 Views: 3353

Russia’s Empires: Their Rise and Fall: From Prehistory to Putin
Author: Philip LongworthISBN: 071956204XPhilip Longworth’s history of Russia and the Russians stretches from deep prehistory to the very present. One of the benefits of this approach is that it makes clear just to what extent the ability to recover land and convert it to productive use, particularly in agricultural terms, has been responsible for the patterns of human settlement and state development. Longworth takes as part of his thesis the rise (and possible fall) of the four great...
(No rating) 12-19-2006 Views: 2797

Russian Experiences: Life in the Former USSR and Post-Soviet Russia by The Raven and Marie Claire
Struggle for freedom Review by Denise M.Clark GUEST REVIEWER What is the difference between Communism and National Socialism? Can anyone outside the Soviet Union truly understand what it was like to live in Post World War II Russia? Can an outsider relate to the daily hardships of the Cold War period, or the early 1960's, with its aftermath of the erection of the Berlin Wall? What event or events precipitated the escalation of difficulties between 'Motherland Russia' and its...
(No rating) 1-1-1970 Views: 1529

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