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  Ann Veronica , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 679min

  At 21 the passionate and headstrong Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to rule her own life. When her autocratic father forbids her, via formal letter, from attending a fashionable art-school ball and even further refuses to allow her advanced study of science, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start alone. She escapes the stodgy suburbs to London, enrolling as a student of biology and immersing herself in a world of intellectuals, socialists, and suffragettes. Soon, however, she finds that freedom comes at a price, when she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and falls hopelessly in love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liz Pearce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/008353/bk_reco_008353_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1117min

  Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself - a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance. Beyond vivid anecdotes, Schrad scours original documents and archival evidence to answer provocative historical questions. How have Russia's rulers used alcohol to solidify their autocratic rule? What role did alcohol play in tsarist coups? Was Nicholas II's ill-fated prohibition a catalyst for the Bolshevik Revolution? Could the Soviet Union have become a world power without liquor? How did vodka politics contribute to the collapse of both communism and public health in the 1990s? How can the Kremlin overcome vodka's hurdles to produce greater social well-being, prosperity, and democracy into the future? Viewing Russian history through the bottom of the vodka bottle helps us to understand why the "liquor question" remains important to Russian high politics even today - almost a century after the issue had been put to bed in most every other modern state. Indeed, recognizing and confronting vodka's devastating political legacies may be the greatest political challenge for this generation of Russia's leadership, as well as the nex ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noah Michael Levine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017970/bk_adbl_017970_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Russian History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 43min

  The history of Russia is anticipated to be a commonly comprehensible and plainly structured outline of Russia's history since 1283, after the rise of Moscow. Russia was at its best in the 13th century when Moscow became a center for cultural activities. The Russian Tsardom was now a huge empire which spread from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the west to the Pacific Ocean. Succeeding governments of the 19th century retorted to such stresses with an amalgamation of unenthusiastic reform and subjugation. Serfdom in Russia was obliterated in 1861 but its abolition was attained on terms which were not favorable to the rustics and aided in increasing radical pressures. The phase between the serfdom and the beginning of World War I in 1914, State Duma, the Stolypin reforms and the constitution of 1906 endeavored to open and slacken the Russian politics and economy but the tsars were reluctant to renounce autocratic rule or part with their supremacy. A mix of fiscal breakdown, dissatisfaction with the autocratic government and wearies of the war elicited the 1917 Russian Revolution and first brought an association of moderate socialists and liberals to power, however their unsuccessful policies led to the confiscation of their control by the Communist Bolsheviks in October 25. The crucial history of the Soviet Union is between the 1922 and 1991, effectually Russia was a state based on ideology that indelicately had the same history as it did before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Socialism was however build differently over various eras in the Russian history, from the varied society and variegated economy and ethos of 1920s to tyranny and authoritative economy of Stalin to the 1980s era of stagnation. From its initial years in March 1918, the government in the Soviet Union was grounded on the one-party rule of the Communists (this is what Bolsheviks called themselves). By the mid-1980s, with the faintness of its fiscal and administrative edifices getting se ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cyrus Nilo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062461/bk_acx0_062461_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Topping the Dome , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 543min

  Crowned with the Statue of Freedom the Capitol Dome is one of America's most iconic images. This carefully researched historical novel tells the story of Statue of Freedom's creation and its creator Thomas Crawford. As Crawford travels between the ancient Capitol of Rome and the new Capitol of America, art and politics collide. Congress is bitterly divided over the issue of slavery, but Crawford would eventually create more sculpture for the Capitol than any other sculptor. Three other men, Charles Sumner, a staunch abolitionist, Senator, and ideologue, Clark Mills, a self-taught sculptor and opportunist, and the supervisor of construction of the Capitol, Captain Montgomery C. Meigs, an autocratic achiever, play major roles in this compelling story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Dorse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/024310/bk_acx0_024310_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Authoritarian Stability in the South Caucasus

  Authoritarian Stability in the South Caucasus ab 37.99 € als pdf eBook: Voting preferences autocratic responses and regime stability in Armenia and Georgia. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,

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  Authoritarian Stability in the South Caucasus

  Authoritarian Stability in the South Caucasus ab 37.99 € als epub eBook: Voting preferences autocratic responses and regime stability in Armenia and Georgia. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,

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  Making Russia and Turkey Great Again?

  Making Russia and Turkey Great Again? ab 42.49 € als epub eBook: Putin and Erdogan in Search of Lost Empires and Autocratic Power. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,

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  Tendering in the Storm , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 716min

  In Book Two of the Change and Cherish series, Emma Giesy is married and the mother of two. She's strong-willed and smart. Despite the odds, she and her husband branch off from a religious community of the 1850s to work and live independently in the remote coastal forest of the Washington Territory, surrounded by her husband's family rather than the influence of the autocratic German leader who has taken the main colony into Oregon. When Emma finds herself alone, pregnant with her third child, and without the support of her family, she wonders if God has abandoned her. The choices she makes to survive have grave consequences for her family until, while she's falling, she reaches out to accept the hands of help. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirsten Potter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/000159/bk_hove_000159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Hive of Glass , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 360min

  Johnnie Slade harbours an obsessive love for fine glass objects, so his interest is piqued when he sees photographs of the fabulous Verzelini tazza in a magazine. He follows its trail and finds that someone may already have committed murder to get their hands on it. If, indeed, it ever existed. And what is the relevance of the entry in the dead man's diary that reads 'Dunstreet'? Johnnie finds out what it means - and he also finds Claudia. But his pursuit of both the tazza and the girl are complicated not only by Claudia's blind and autocratic Aunt Elizabeth, but also by the dawning realisation that he is not alone in his quest. And death, of course, is just around the corner. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Morgan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011373/bk_adbl_011373_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  King Maker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 67min

  James is tossed into the flames, so to speak. He has a pair of masked assassins on his tail.After finding himself having been teleported to a different realm, James finds refuge in Grace’s willingness to rebel against the Shadow Clan - an oppressive regime. Thus, Grace will side with anyone that the Clan deems as a threat or an enemy. She teleports James all over the realm, as the pair seek to take down the dark autocratic ruler of the land.In truth, James discovers that Grace’s motivations are tied to the prophecy of the rise of the King Maker. Who was this King Maker? Does James ever get to go back home? Do the people of Tartra ever get their freedom? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Pizzey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229848/bk_acx0_229848_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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