Russia category: 2582 books
by Kathryn Hendley
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Everyday Law in Russia challenges the prevailing common wisdom that Russians cannot rely on their law and that Russian courts are hopelessly politicized and corrupt. While acknowledging the persistence of verdicts dictated by the Kremlin in politically charged cases, Kathryn Hendley explores how ordinary...
Russia's Crony Capitalism
The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia’s future
This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates...
by Alessandro Lattanzio
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 12, 2014
La Federazione Russa di Putin e Medvedev si è posta, in questi ultimi quindici anni, come un cruciale attore strategico, dopo che, per tutti gli Anni '90, presunti studiosi o esperti, nemici o falsi amici della Russia, ne avevano decretato la sua fine storico-strategica. Grazie all'enorme...
La nuova Russia di Putin
Nostalgia dell’impero
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 4, 2017
La figura di Vladimir Putin è un grande enigma, che l’autore cerca di interpretare. In primo luogo colpisce il fatto che, mentre in Russia la sua popolarità è altissima, all'estero egli è guardato con perplessità e timore. Putin non agisce in nome di una precisa ideologia: dal passato zarista...
by Ron Ridenour
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
The best description of this book comes from renowned US journalist Dave Lindorff:
Ron Ridenour, a veteran journalist and author, former member of the US Communist Party, dedicated anti-war activist and a self-described revolutionary socialist, like Trotsky (though no Troskyite himself) writes...
Putin e il mondo che verrà
Storia e politica della Russia nel nuovo contesto internazionale
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Per quanti negli anni della Guerra fredda si erano assuefatti a considerare la Russia nelle vesti di superpotenza non è stato facile adattarsi all’idea che il suo ruolo nel mondo post Guerra fredda sia stato spesso quello di comprimario solo in alcuni casi capace di svolgere un ruolo attivo nel...
The New Tsar
The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
“A riveting, immensely detailed biography of Putin that explains in full-bodied, almost Shakespearian fashion why he acts the way he does.” –Robert D. Kaplan
The New Tsar is the book to read if you want to understand how Vladimir Putin sees the world and why he has become one of the gravest...
Secondhand Time
The Last of the Soviets
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
**NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND *PUBLISHERS WEEKLY...
The Future Is History
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON...
The Forsaken
An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends
In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers,...
by Grand Duke Alexander of Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Alexander lived in Paris when he wrote his memoirs, Once a Grand Duke, which were first published in 1932. It is a rich source of dynastical and court life in Imperial Russia’s last half century, and Alexander also describes time spent as guest of the future Abyssinian Emperor Ras Tafari.
“The...
Russia's Steppe Frontier
The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
... a tremendously important contribution to the field of Russian history and the comparative study of empires and frontiers. There is no comparable work in any language.... The book presents an intricate and gripping narrative of a vast sweep of histories, weaving them together into a comprehensive...
Mud and Stars
Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, Mud and Stars reveals the heart of a country that never fails to surprise us.
"We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the...
Russia
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Abraham Ascher offers a skillful blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this concise introduction to Russian history. Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, it covers the growing political tensions between Russia and its neighbours,...