Former Soviet Republics category: 758 books
Siberia
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their ‘colony’ in North Asia, they heard rumours about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded from cold. This region of frozen tundra, endless...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This excellent 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Following its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has executed an information campaign that could fundamentally change its role on the international scene. Vladimir Putin, through his...
Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia
Dimensions, Dynamics, and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
More than two decades after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Central Asian republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—continue to reexamine and debate whom and what they represent.
Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia explores the complex...
Post-Soviet Civil Society
Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
The development of civil society has varied greatly across the former Soviet Union. The Baltic states have achieved a high level of integration with the West and European Union membership, while some regions in Russia lag far behind.
Now for the first time there is a comparative study of civil...
Memory, Conflict and New Media
Web Wars in Post-Socialist States
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states – where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism.
To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
This innovative volume challenges the ways we look at both cinema and cultural history by shifting the focus from the centrality of the visual and the literary toward the recognition of acoustic culture as formative of the Soviet and post-Soviet experience. Leading experts and emerging scholars from...
by Thom Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Travelling across the former Soviet Union is a challenge at the best of times – but in a dilapidated VDub… that’s got to be plain daft... hasn’t it?
A chance job offer at a timber yard in Estonia gives Thom and his old pal Jo a taste for the unknown. So when Uncle Tony asks them to...
Rethinking Post-Communist Rhetoric
Perspectives on Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication in Post-Soviet Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This collection examines the forces and factors affecting rhetoric, writing, and communication expectations in the nations of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. The entries in this collection focus on four interconnected topics or contexts influencing rhetorical expectations and writing...
Triangles, Symbols, and Constraints
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China, 1963-1969
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
In his five-plus years as president of the United States, Lyndon Johnson witnessed dramatic power struggles within and between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the United States of America. New Soviet leaders were determined to build Soviet power and extend Soviet influence. Mao's...
The Soviet Union Today
An Interpretive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This newly revised and expanded second edition of The Soviet Union Today provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Soviet reality. Written by thirty experts, the book is divided into eight general sections: history, politics, the armed forces, the physical context, the economy, science...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book summarizes and analyzes the series of articles entitled "Navies in War and Peace" by Soviet Navy Commander-in-Chief, Admiral of the Fleet Sergey Gorshkov, USSR, during the Cold War. The analysis by three...
by Liubov Denisova
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive...
Club Red
Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure...
by Irina Mukhina
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The Germans were a very substantial minority in Russia, and many leading figures, including the Empress Catherine the Great, were German. Using rarely seen archival information, this book provides an account of the experiences of the Germans living in the Soviet Union from the early post-revolution...