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Cover of The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1860-1917
by Alex Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006

This new book examines the role of the Tsarist General Staff in studying and administering Russia’s Asian borderlands. It considers the nature of the Imperial Russian state, the institutional characteristics of the General Staff, and Russia’s relationship with Asia. During the nineteenth...
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Vory

Russia's Super Mafia

by Mark Galeotti
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore...
Cover of Essential Guide to Transnistria and the Transniestrian Contest in Moldova: Russia, NATO, European Union, Ukraine, OSCE, "Frozen" Conflict
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014

Nine reports, studies, and documents provide special insight into the Transniestrian conflict which features prominently in the ongoing drama between Ukraine and Russia. Reports in this compendium: * Republic of Moldova and the Transnistrian Conflict: The Impact of NATO and the European Union...
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Russia

And the Struggle for Peace

by Michael S. Farbman
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017

Written in 1918, this volume attempts to give an un-biased account of the Russian Revolution and what it stood for, by asking to what extent the Revolution was the result of the War and how far the struggle for peace which followed the Revolution was inherent in it. It discusses whether or not the...
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Desperate Magic

The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia

by Valerie A. Kivelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

In the courtrooms of seventeenth-century Russia, the great majority of those accused of witchcraft were male, in sharp contrast to the profile of accused witches across Catholic and Protestant Europe in the same period. While European courts targeted and executed overwhelmingly female suspects, often...
Cover of St. Petersburg, Russia Travel Guide - Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights (Illustrated)
by Jason Russell
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015

Located on the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea, the Russian city of St Petersburg is one of the most famous destinations in Russia, attracting millions of tourists every year. Founded in 1703 by Tsar Peter the Great, St Petersburg is the 2nd largest city in Russia and is known for its stunning...
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by Donna L. Walter
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

This is a true story of two siblings, Sophie and David, who are separated by the Bolshevik Revolution and World War I. Sophie and her family immigrated to America in 1913, but David stayed in Russia, and was drafted into the tsars army. Their families stayed in touch until the mid 30s, when one could...
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Between Two Fires

Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism

by Alaina Lemon
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2000

Since tsarist times, Roma in Russia have been portrayed as both rebellious outlaws and free-spirited songbirds—in each case, as if isolated from society. In Soviet times, Russians continued to harbor these two, only seemingly opposed, views of “Gypsies,” exalting their songs on stage but scorning...
Cover of Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi
by Professor Dan Healey
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017

Examining nine 'case histories' that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the particular experience of revolution, political terror and war its people endured after 1917. The...
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Allied Intervention in Russia 1918-1919

And the Part Played by Canada

by John Swettenham
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017

When originally published in 1967 and using archive material from official records in Ottawa, this book threw new light on the motives and actions of the intervening powers. Allied intervention took place in three main areas: Northern and Southern Russia as well as Siberia. Canada was the major Commonwealth...
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Moderniser of Russia

Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716

by K. Boterbloem
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013

This book investigates Russia's transformation into a European Power by way of the activities of the tsarist translator and official Andrei Vinius, who became an important advisor to Peter the Great. Vinius emerges as an influential conduit of Western culture and technology, who played a key role in transforming Muscovy into Russia.
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History of Imperial Russia

A Layman's Perspective

by Anatoly Bezkorovainy
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014

This book has been composed with non-professional historians in mind, i. e., for laypersons. It contains basic information on Russia's history, gathered from standard Russian history texts, from the times of Slavic migrations into Eastern Europe, through the period of Kievan Rus and its component princedoms,...
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Leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union

From the Romanov Dynasty to Vladimir Putin

by John Paxton
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

This reference work surveys the leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union- from Michael, the first Romanov tsar in 1613, through the creation and dissolution of the Soviet Union, to the present day President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. Chronologically arranged, these biographies paint...
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The Russian Army in the Great War

The Eastern Front, 1914-1917

by David R. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015

A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front, as David R. Stone does in this masterly work, fundamentally alters—and clarifies—that picture. A thorough, and thoroughly...
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