Tag: Russias

Free Download Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias by W. Bruce Lincoln
English | 1978 | ISBN: 025320254X | 424 Pages | PDF | 13.3 MB
This present study, among other things, redresses the balance to some extent in Nicholas’s favor. Certainly it is not intended as an apology for Russia’s firm, sometimes cruel, Emperor. It is, however, an effort to view Nicholas as his contemporaries saw him and, given the distance of some 150 years since his accession, to place him and his policies in a more balanced historical perspective.

Free Download Paul Josephson, "Red Atom: Russias Nuclear Power Program From Stalin To Today"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0822958813 | PDF | pages: 365 | 32.8 mb
In the 1950s, Soviet nuclear scientists and leaders imagined a stunning future when giant reactors would generate energy quickly and cheaply, nuclear engines would power cars, ships, and airplanes, and peaceful nuclear explosions would transform the landscape. Driven by the energy of the atom, the dream of communism would become a powerful reality. Thirty years later, that dream died in Chernobyl. What went wrong? Based on exhaustive archival research and interviews, Red Atom takes a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the Soviet Union’s peaceful use of nuclear power. It explores both the projects and the technocratic and political elite who were dedicated to increasing state power through technology. And it describes the political, economic, and environmental fallout of Chernobyl.