Russia category: 2582 books

Cover of The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the geographic coverage of the book...
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by John F. Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

This new interpretation of the final years of Imperial Russia provides a clear and concise introduction to a critical period in the history of modern Russia. Professor Hutchinson outlines the key problems facing the Tsarist regime, and the attitudes of its Liberal critics and revolutionary enemies....
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Russia's Securitization of Chechnya

How War Became Acceptable

by Julie Wilhelmsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

This book provides an in-depth analysis of how mobilization and legitimation for war are made possible, with a focus on Russia's conflict with Chechnya. Through which processes do leaders and their publics come to define and accept certain conflicts as difficult to engage in, and others as...
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Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia

A Source Book on Lived Religion

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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014

From sermons and clerical reports to personal stories of faith, this book of translated primary documents reveals the lived experience of Orthodox Christianity in 19th- and early 20th-century Russia. These documents allow us to hear the voices of educated and uneducated writers, of clergy and laity,...
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Incidents at Sea

American Confrontation and Cooperation with Russia and China, 1945-2016

by Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017

Free to patrol the skies and surface of the high seas under international law, U.S. and Soviet naval and air forces made daily direct contact during the Cold War. Often confrontational and occasionally violent, air-to-air contacts alone killed more than one hundred Soviet and American aviators during...
Cover of The NATO: Russia Partnership: A Marriage of Convenience or a Troubled Relationship? Ukraine, EU, Arms Control, Lavrov, Caucasus, Missile Defense, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014

Soon after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged Russian support to the U.S. campaign against terrorism. Putin's actions triggered a process that also led to a Russo-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) rapprochement and Russian membership in a newly formed...
Cover of Russia, the United States, and the Caucasus; The Security Concerns of the Baltic States as NATO Allies: Estonia, Latvia, Dagestan, Armenia, Chechen, Nagorno Karabakh, U.S. - Russian Reset
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

While the Soviet Union is gone, the people who led the Communist Party and controlled fearsome institutions such as the Soviet Secret Police (KGB) are still very much with us. The ugly history of the Soviet Union and its treatment of conquered nations is still a very recent memory, and the statements...
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Russia

The Story of War

by Gregory Carleton
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017

Outsiders view Russia as an aggressor, but Russians see themselves as surrounded by enemies, defensively fighting off invader after invader, or called upon by history to be the savior of Europe, or Christianity, or civilization itself, often at immense cost. As Gregory Carleton shows, war is the unifying thread of Russia’s national epic.
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Ruling Russia

Law, Crime, and Justice in a Changing Society

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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005

Law, crime, and justice are among the most salient issues in any country. This is especially true for a transitional nation like Russia that is facing tremendous social, political, and economic changes, many of which create conditions conducive to crime. These ongoing changes have had profound effects...
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Russia Under Soviet Role

Twenty Years of Bolshevik Experiment

by N. de Basily
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

The author of this book was in a position which allowed him to become thoroughly conversant with the working of the Government machinery in Russia, and in this volume, originally published in 1938, he presents the situation in Soviet Russia as it developed since the Revolution of 1917 and discusses...
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Russia's Long Twentieth Century

Voices, Memories, Contested Perspectives

by Choi Chatterjee, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Deborah A. Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016

Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia's Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history and encourages students to analyse the ways in which citizens learnt to live...
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by Marquis de Custine
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014

The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under...
Cover of Anguish, Anger, and Folkways in Soviet Russia
by Gábor Rittersporn
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014

Anguish, Anger, and Folkways in Soviet Russia offers original perspectives on the politics of everyday life in the Soviet Union by closely examining the coping mechanisms individuals and leaders alike developed as they grappled with the political, social, and intellectual challenges the system presented...
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Destination in Doubt

Russia since 1989

by Stephen Lovell
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

The enormously complex changes triggered by the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were nowhere more ambiguous than in the heartland of the Soviet bloc, Russia itself. Here the population was divided on all the most fundamental questions of post-communist transition: economic reforms, the Communist...
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