Former Soviet Republics category: 758 books
Remembering the Darkness
Women in Soviet Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2001
This engrossing collection of prison memoirs by Russian women is the first to portray the direct experiences of the wide range of women who were incarcerated in Soviet prisons and camps. Comprising the stories of women from all classes and backgrounds, this book covers the entire span of the Gulag's...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Independent Russia is approaching the start of its third decade of post-Soviet existence. After the economic chaos of the Boris Yeltsin decade and the recovery and stabilization of the Vladimir...
by Jamil Hasanli
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
This book presents the ups and downs of the Soviet-Turkish relations during World War II and immediately after it. Hasanli draws on declassified archive documents from the United States, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan to recreate a true picture of the time when the 'Turkish crisis'...
The Détente Deception
Soviet and Western bloc Competition and the Subversion of Cold War Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Détente Deception examines the competition between the U.S.-led Western bloc and the Soviet bloc in the less developed world during the final years of Détente. Rivero assesses whether or not the Soviet bloc pushed for strategic gains in the Third World and whether this contributed to the U.S....
by Andy Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Every year thousands compete to win the RGS/BBC Journey of a Lifetime award and fulfill their travel dreams. However, Andy Home's dream would be most people's nightmare. Andy went to Siberia, to the Russian industrial mining city of Norilsk where temperatures drop to minus 50, half the year is spent...
Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society
Propaganda, Acculturation, and Transformation in the 1920s and 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda was directed at the Soviet population, and even more particularly at young people, women and...
Hunger and War
Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Drawing on recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food; feeding the Red army; the medicalization...
by Geoffrey Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalins faithful servant, a dogmatic communist, and a conservative hard-liner of little or no imagination.Molotov was, indeed, Stalins right-hand man; from the 1920s to the early 1950s the two men presided over a brutal, authoritarian...
by Karen Gilden, Ray Gilden
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
During the 1970s about 20,000 Americans visited the Soviet Union each year on highly structured guided tours. Very few chose to travel independently, and almost no U.S. tourists camped for six weeks, or drove 3,800 miles through the country commonly declared "our enemy." But the Gildens did.If...
Travel Tales Collections: The USSR 1
No. 2 September 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, The USSR 1, features three wild travel tales of unbelievable things that could have happened to you during the old Cold War Soviet Union communist era.
Of course, there are always the usual, typical, expected sorts of Eastern Europe (a...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
These unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Turkmenistan, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime,...
War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power
The Center, Periphery, and Kirov's Pedagogical Institute 1941–1952
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power examines the history of the Pedagogical Institute, located in the USSR's Kirov region from 1941 to 1952. Holmes reveals a tangled and complex relationship of local, regional, and national agencies. While it recognizes the immense strength of the center, it...
THE GREAT GAME
A Russian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
This unique Russian account of Kipling’s ‘Great Game‘ — from a strictly Russian perspective — takes the form of a chapter by chapter review, by Professor Grigory L. Bondarevsky — a Russian academician (Oriental Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Social...
Suppressed Terror
History and Perception of Soviet Special Camps in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
At the end of World War II, the Soviet secret police installed ten special camps in the Soviet occupation zone, later to become the German Democratic Republik. Between 1945 and 1950, roughly 154,000 Germans were held incommunicado in these camps. Whether those accused of being Nazis, spies, or terrorists...