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Since the coming of perestroika in 1985, scholars have had unprecedented access to Russian archives. In Russia: A History, editor Gregory Freeze and twelve other American and European historians have mined these newly opened archives and browsed through the best contemporary scholarship to provide a major reinterpretation of the history of one of the world's great powers. Here is the first major history of Russia to appear since the fall of the Soviet Union, beginning in the 8th century and ranging across a thousand years to the recently established Commonwealth of Independent States. What emerges is a nation of extremes--of imperial opulence and abject poverty, tyrannical power and subversive resistance, artistic achievement and economic crisis, glittering cities and frozen steppes. The contributors capture a powerful sense of Russia's national destiny of repeated themes and unchanging conditions. We see, for instance, that time and again, all-powerful autocrats like Ivan the Terrible and Stalin employed brutality to eliminate any challenge to their authority. Yet their hold on power was always under attack, threatened by bureaucratic incompetence, pervasive corruption, and resistance from below. Russian rulers have also had to contend with the same immense physical challenges: a huge and widely dispersed population, a perennial dearth of means and men to govern, a primitive infrastructure which, as the authors show, periodically dissolved into times of trouble, as in 1598, 1917, and 1991. Handsomely illustrated with nearly 170 illustrations, including 12 color plates, this landmark history cuts through the myths that have surrounded Russia to tell the absorbing story of one of the world's most powerful nations.

Presents a collection of recipes for various chocolate confections while telling the story of a boy who was sent to cooking class by his mother.

A young girl looks everywhere but cannot find her roller skates until she discovers that they are on her sister's feet.

A boy loses his mother at the supermarket.

Everyone in the family teases Grandpa about his loud, earthshaking sneezes until the day it helps their lost grandmother find her way back to the group.

A counting book featuring the legs of animals, from ten crab legs down to no snail legs, provides information on various animals and how many legs they have

Despite her neighbors' objections, an elderly woman finds a new world of memory and fantasy as her house grows over with vines.

An ant carries a bread crumb down through the tunnels of her community and returns to the surface for more, while all around her the other ants continue their work.