Former Soviet Republics category: 758 books
The Next Generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan
Youth, Politics, Identity, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
In the past twenty years, the countries that used to make up the former Soviet Union have seen plenty of change. There have been revolutions, youth-led protest movements, and other forms of incredible political upheaval. At the center of all of this were young leaders fighting to be heard and clamoring...
Moscow & St. Petersburg Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Moscow is the capital of the Russian Federation and its most famous attraction, the Kremlin, is full of historic significance. Architecture from the Russian Empire can still be seen in the city and signs of wealth abound. Moscow was once the capital of the former Soviet Union (USSR) prior to the end...
From Russia with Lunch
A Lithuanian Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Eighty-two years after Moses Dibobis escaped from the Lithuanian hamlet of Birzai with nothing but a sack lunch, the author journeys back to this former Soviet enclave looking for a link to his grandfather-something greater than their shared receding hairline and sense of humor. What he finds on...
Landscapes of Communism
A History Through Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and creating sweeping boulevards and vast, epic housing estates in an emphatic declaration of a noncapitalist idea. The regimes that built them are now dead and long gone, but from Warsaw to Berlin,...
In Post-Communist Worlds
Living and Teaching in Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
Written for a general audience, this is a book of sometimes serious, usually lighthearted, often humorous stories about life in Eastern Europe and Central Asia shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Russian Empire. In Post-Communist Worlds is the product of four years which professor Scheffer and...
Throat Singing in Tuva
Travels in Central amd Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
A first-hand account of travels in Central and Eastern Europe and former USSR/Soviet Union
by Claude Salhani
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia that has been under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev since independence in 1991, has proven that a mostly Muslim nation can be active on the international scene. Its leaders have worked fervently to bridge the ugly schism that has developed...
From Eastern Bloc to European Union
Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
More than 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, European integration remains a work in progress, especially in those Eastern European nations most dramatically reshaped by democratization and economic liberalization. This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven states—Estonia,...
Prospects for Pastoralism in Kazakstan and Turkmenistan
From State Farms to Private Flocks
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
This collection traces how pastoralists have coped with the challenges of change in a part of the world with a long-tradition of livestock keeping. Their precarious position - balanced between a market system where only the fittest may survive, and their attempt to remain a human resource for the...
by David Greene
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Travels with NPR host David Greene along the Trans-Siberian Railroad capture an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.
Far away from the trendy cafés, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.
Midnight in Siberia chronicles...
by Josef Tarnowski
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Walking with Shadows is a book of exile and of odyssey: the incredible and moving story of a young Polish freedom fighter, Joe Tarnowski, who survived the frozen hell of the war-time Soviet Gulag to travel half-way round the globe to join the Free Polish Forces in Scotland.
A Paratrooper who...
Lost and Found in Russia
Lives in the Post-Soviet Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
After the fall of communism, Russia was in a state of shock. The sudden and dramatic change left many people adrift and uncertain—but also full of a tentative but tenacious hope. Returning again and again to the provincial hinterlands of this rapidly evolving country from 1992 to 2008, Susan Richards...
Keeping Faith with the Party
Communist Believers Return from the Gulag
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
How is it that some prisoners of the Soviet gulag—many of them falsely convicted—emerged from the camps maintaining their loyalty to the party that was responsible for their internment? In camp, they had struggled to survive. Afterward they struggled to reintegrate with society, reunite with their...
by Ian Frazier
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains
In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation...