Russia category: 2582 books
Putin's Russia
Life in a Failing Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
A searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of Russian
journalists" (The New York Times)
Hailed as "a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness" (New Statesman), Anna Politkovskaya made her name with her fearless reporting...
The Mind and Face of Bolshevism
An Examination of Cultural Life in Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1927, this is the English translation of German author René Fülöp-Miller’s account of non-political developments under the Bolshevist regime. It thoroughly examines cultural life in the Soviet Union and illustrates, through rich use of photographs throughout, how the mechanistic...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Moscow : (Russia) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Moscow : (Russia) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Moscow : (Russia) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this thought-provoking paper describes the irregular and hybrid tools and techniques that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his security and intelligence forces have used, first in the attack against Georgia in 2008,...
by David Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
This book is dedicated to my mother Eve who sadly left this mortal life a few years ago. She died in the right way in so much that she just closed her eyes and went to sleep, forever. But she left us far too early in her life and she had a lot to live for. She was much loved and is sorely missed.
It...
Iran and Russian Imperialism
The Ideal Anarchists, 1800-1914
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Rather than a centralized state, Iran in the nineteenth century was a delicate balance between tribal groups, urban merchant communities, religious elites, and an autocratic monarchy. While Russia gained an increasingly dominant political role in Iran over the course of this century, Russian influence...
Russia in the Twentieth Century
The quest for stability
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The history of Russia, as the natural successor to the Soviet Union, is of crucial importance to understanding why communism ultimately lost out to Western democracy and the free market system. David Marples presents a balanced overview of 20th century Russian history and shows that although contemporary...
Solovki
The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers and politicians. The site of a beautiful...
Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent
Faith and Power in the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today. John and Carol Garrard tell the story of how the Orthodox Church's moral...
From Peasant to Patriarch
Account of the Birth, Upbringing, and Life of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
Nikon (1605-1681), patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, is best known for imposing the religious reforms that ultimately led to the schism of the Russian Orthodox Church. Yet only the Account of Birth, Life, and Upbringing of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1680s), comes close...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
This study examines the U.S. Military Commission sent by the Secretary of War to observe the Crimean War 1n 1855 and 1856, to determine why the commission was sent, where it went, and the results achieved by the commissions efforts. A survey of the literature on the U.S. Involvement In the Crimean...
Smolensk Air Crash 10-4-10
Official Facts, Scientific Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Forty public, relevant, undisputed facts from the official Russian MAK Report show that the Smolensk Air Crash on the 10th April 2010 was not caused by pilot error under Presidential pressure in trying to land in thick fog. Instead the plane was on course at 100m heading on the runway axis when 2 bombs...
Catherine the Great
Life and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1988
One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her...
by Nathan Dole
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
Young Folks’ History of Russia is a concise and easy to read history of Russia.