Russia category: 2582 books
Russian Hajj
Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials...
Imperial Decline
Russia’s Changing Role in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This collection of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars is the first to analyze current Russian policies in China, Japan, and the two Koreas. Although Russia was a rising power in Asia a century ago, historical and political events since then have diverted attention from this...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Russia played a fundamental role in the outcome of Napoleonic Wars; the wars also had an impact on almost every area of Russian life. Russia and the Napoleonic Wars brings together significant and new research from Russian and non-Russian historians and their work demonstrates the importance of this period both for Russia and for all of Europe.
by Vera Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
What was the role of historians and historical societies in the public life of imperial Russia? Focusing on the Society of Zealots of Russian Historical Education (1895–1918), Vera Kaplan analyzes the network of voluntary associations that existed in imperial Russia, showing how they interacted...
This Crown Is Mine
History of Pretenders for the Crown, Civil War, and Foreign Invasion in Seventeenth-Century Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
In the early 17th century, Russia went through a foreign invasion and the nations first civil war a time so horrible that it acquired its own name in Russian history: The Times of Troubles. Internal and external forces came together to create a storm of such magnitude that it threatened the very existence...
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by Robert Byron
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change.
In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Lenin had just died, Stalin’s dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror had yet to begin. Having taken the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study analyzes anti-Americanism in Russia during the era of Vladimir Putin. The objective is to evaluate Vladimir Putin's anti-Americanism and the political implications of Putinist anti-Americanism...
From Russia with Code
Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine...
Russia in Transition
A Business Man's Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The result of visits to Russia from 1930-1932, this book, published in 1933, at a time when the social structure of the world was in great upheaval, covers a wide range of the activities of Soviet Russia. Much of the book covers the Five-Year Plan in relation to industry, agriculture, labour, banking...
Russia's Liberal Media
Handcuffed but Free
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This book examines the challenges and pressures liberal journalists face in Putin's Russia. It presents the findings of an in-depth qualitative study, which included ethnographic observations of editorial meetings during the conflict in Ukraine. It also provides a theoretical framework for evaluating...
A Public Empire
Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
"Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property...
Behind Putin's Curtain
Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
An outsider's perspective from deep inside Russia
Featuring many quotes and stories from time spent with "every day" Russians
Timely given the current political tension between Russia and the West
Presents a side of Russia not often seen in mainstream news coverage
by David Foley
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Research and analysis of the post-Soviet Russian experience of political, economic and social change have generally focused attention on the complications and influences of the Soviet legacy on the transition process with most early main stream studies emphasizing the difficulties of the adoption...