Russia category: 2582 books
A History of Women in Russia
From Earliest Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Synthesizing several decades of scholarship by historians East and West, Barbara Evans Clements traces the major developments in the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of the nation. Sketching lived experiences across the centuries, she demonstrates the key roles that women...
Russia To-Day
What Can We Learn From It?
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Originally published in 1934, this book was the result of an extensive knowledge of Russia, based on many visits under the Czarist regime and the Bolshevik government. Choosing his own interpreters, the author interviewed friends and foes of the government, Russians and foreigners, in all walks of...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Nizhny Novgorod : (Russia) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Nizhny Novgorod : (Russia) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Nizhny Novgorod : (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.
Twelve Who Don't Agree
The Battle for Freedom in Putin's Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
In Twelve Who Don’t Agree, journalist Valery Panyushkin profiles twelve Russians from across the country’s social spectrum, including: a politician, a journalist, an army officer, an author, a bank manager, a laborer, and a university student. Despite varied backgrounds, they all have one thing...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Kazan : (Russia) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Kazan : (Russia) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Kazan : (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.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Chelyabinsk : (Russia) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Chelyabinsk : (Russia) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Chelyabinsk : (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.
Bitter Choices
Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Russia’s attempt to consolidate its authority in the North Caucasus has exerted a terrible price on both sides since the mid-nineteenth century. Michael Khodarkovsky tells a concise and compelling history of the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas during the centuries of Russia’s...
The St. Petersburg Connection
Russian-American Friendship from Revolution to Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
A history of Russian-American relations from 1776 to 1917, when these two states, mostly antagonists since, were warm friends.
A compelling account of Russian-American relations from the American Revolution of 1776 to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917. Long before the Cold War, there...
Youth Politics in Putin's Russia
Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization...
In the Lands of the Romanovs
An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917)
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian...
A Mennonite in Russia
The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp, 1851-1880
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In the lives of ordinary people are the truths of history. Such truths abound in the diaries of Jacob Epp, a Russian Mennonite school-teacher, lay minister, farmer, and village secretary in southern Ukraine. This abridged translation of his diaries offers a remarkably vivid picture of Mennonite community...
by Nick Shepley
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In 1917 Czarist Russia collapsed during the catastrophe of the First World War, but the tensions that had accumulated inside the empire for a century due to the challenges that modernisation presented were the real seeds of her undoing. The 19th Century was a battle for the soul of Russia, and it decided...
Outcast Visionary
Yurii Pavlovich Spegal'skii and the Reconstruction of Pskov
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Outcast Visionary: Yu. P. Spegal'skii and the Reconstruction of Pskov, is the first comprehensive, critical biography in any language of this outstanding man, a native of one of Russia's oldest and most beautiful cities, Pskov. It is the story of one man's love and passion for Pskov's architectural and...
by John P. LeDonne
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
At its height, the Russian empire covered eleven time zones and stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific Ocean. Arguing against the traditional historical view that Russia, surrounded and threatened by enemies, was always on the defensive, John P. LeDonne contends that Russia developed a long-term...