Good Children by Miao Yin-tang

Posted on June 9, 2025 by The Mitr

A picture story book for children from China.

Credits to the original scanner

Cleaned and optimised from the original scan

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Why Do Rabbits Have Short Tails? by Xu Guangyu

Posted on June 8, 2025 by The Mitr

A picture story book for children from China.
Illustrations by Liu Jiyou

Credits to the original scanner

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The Ginseng Maiden

Posted on June 7, 2025 by The Mitr

A picture story book for children from China.

Credits to the original scanner

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ಕೆಂಪು ಜುಟ್ಟಿನ ಹುಂಜ (The Cock With The Crimson Comb In Kannada )

Posted on June 6, 2025 by The Mitr

A picture story book for children, translated from the Russian.

ಹೇಳಿದವರು: ವಿಕ್ತರ್ ವಾಷಯವ್‌

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Soviet Short Stories

Posted on June 5, 2025 by The Mitr

The present collection is composed of stories
written by Soviet authors during the past decade,
with the exception of the three pre-revolutionary
stories by Maxim Gorky with which the volume opens.

Original scan by DLI.

Note: Scan quality is poor and just readable at times.

You can get the book here and here

CONTENTS

Maxim Gorky
A MAN IS BORN 11
MALVA 25
HOW A SONG WAS COMPOSED 91

Alexei Tolstoi
THE RUSSIAN CHARACTER .97
A STRANGE STORY 107

Mikhail Sholokhov
HATE 123

Alexander Fadeyev
EARTHQUAKE 146

Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky
THE OLD DOCTOR 162

Boris Gorbatov
FRIENDSHIP 183
THE RETURN OF SATANAU 212

Konstantin Simonov
MATURITY 225
THE CANDLE 246

Ilya Ehrenburg
THE ACTRESS 252

Vasili Grossman
LIFE 260

Valentin Katayev
OUR FATHER 296

Vadim Kozheinikov
MARCH APRIL 309

Pavel Bazhov
THE MISTRESS OF THE COPPER HILL
THE IRON GRANNIE 351

Leonid Sobolev
HIS SWEETHEART 366

Yuri Dombrovsky
FETIS ZYABLIKOA 375

Sergei Dikovsky
THE COMMANDANT OF BIRD ISLAND 385

Konstantin Paustovsky
NASTYA THE LACEMAKER 412

Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov
COLUMBUS REACHES PORT 419
THE WONDER GUESTS 428

Arkadi Gaidar
THE TELEGRAM 436

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തേരെഷ്ക (Tereshka in Malayalam) by അലക്സി ടോൾസ്റ്റോയ് (Aleksey Tolstoy)

Posted on June 4, 2025 by The Mitr

A picture story book for children.

Note: Scan quality is extremely poor.

You can get the book here and here

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കളിക്കോപ്പുകൾ (Games in Malayalam) by എ.ബർത്താ (A. Barto)

Posted on June 3, 2025 by The Mitr

A picture story book for children.

Note: Scan quality is extremely poor.

You can get the book here and here

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കലാവു പൊയ സൂര്യൻ (The Lost Sun in Malayalam) by കൊർനേയ് ചുക്കോവ്സ്ലി (Kornei Chukovsky)

Posted on June 2, 2025 by The Mitr

A picture story book for children.

Note: Scan quality is extremely poor.

You can get the book here and here

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Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev His Life And Work (Men of Russian Science) by O. N. Pisarzhevsky

Posted on June 1, 2025 by The Mitr

This book deals with the life and works of the great Russian scientist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev. Mendeleyev’s work had many features that were typical of advanced Russian natural science as a whole. He possessed a breadth of vision that led him into many fields of scientific work.

Original scan by DLI, this is a cleaned, optimised scan.

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From Missionary Days To Reagan US China Policy by V. Vorontsov

Posted on May 31, 2025 by The Mitr

In this book V. B. Vorontsov, D. Sc. (Hist.), offers a history-oriented analysis of the policies pursued by the USA and China in the Pacific, the contradictions between them, and their tactics relative to third nations in the period from the 1960s to the early 1980s. The reader is led up to the conclusions to be drawn from the historical lessons learned by the governments of the USA and China in the process of their attempts to form a military-political alliance.

Translated from the Russian by David Skvirsky
Designed by Vladimir Bisengaliev

This is a cleaned, optimised version of

https://archive.org/details/frommissionarydaystoreagan
A 1987 Soviet work. Scanned by Alex Boykowich.
From Thomas Mrett’s IA collection.

You can get the book here and here

Introduction 9
Chapter One. Missionaries “Discover” China: Hopes and Disappointments 19
Chapter Two. The US Fiasco in China (1940s) 35
Chapter Three. “Asia First” 58
Chapter Four. On the Road of Confrontation 78
Chapter Five. The Dulles Policy and Its Reassessment 98
Chapter Six. Turn Towards Partnership 130
Chapter Seven. US Far Eastern Commitments: Test of Credibility 172
Chapter Eight. Balancing in a Tense Situation 196
Chapter Nine. Leftist Liberalism and Right-Wing Anti-Communism 222
Conclusion 258

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