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Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals)

The USSR confronts Global Interdependence

by Walter Clemens
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

First published in 1990, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West relations from a zero-sum struggle to a state of peaceful competition and mutual security. In order...
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Ultimate Handbook Guide to Khabarovsk : (Russia) Travel Guide

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Khabarovsk : (Russia) Travel Guide

by Bradley Brock
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Khabarovsk : (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.
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Minority Report

Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789–1945

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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018

The history of the Black Sea littoral, an area of longstanding interest to Russia, provides important insight into Ukraine as a contemporary state. In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume’s contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukraine. This...
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by Philip Boobbyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008

This book embraces the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia. Providing a useful perspective of Putin’s Russia, and with a strong historical and religious background, the book: looks at the changing features of the Soviet ideology from Lenin to Stalin, and the...
Cover of Georgia After the Rose Revolution: Geopolitical Predicament and Implications for U.S. Policy - South Ossetia, Central Asia, Transcaucasus, Abkhazia, Transnistria
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014

Overflight rights through the Caucasus to Central Asia and Afghanistan are vital components of the ongoing military effort there by both U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces. Therefore the security dynamics in each of these areas are of heightened importance to U.S. policy. But...
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by Theodor Seibert
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

Originally published in English in 1932, this book written by a German National Socialist journalist, and fierce critic of Soviet Russia, was the result of extensive travelling throughout the Soviet Union from 1926-1929. Ranging from Turkestan to Eastern Siberia, this was one of the most comprehensive...
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by M. Wesley Shoemaker
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012

Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States 2011 is a volume in "The World Today Series". Published and updated annually, this series provides both a short historical treatment and an up-to-date look at the various countries of the entire globe. Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent...
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Inhuman Land

Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942

by Jozef Czapski
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018

A classic work of reportage about the Katyń Massacre during World War II by a soldier who narrowly escaped the atrocity himself. In 1941, when Germany turned against the USSR, tens of thousands of Poles—men, women, and children who were starving, sickly, and impoverished—were released...
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The Economic Development of Russia 1905-1914

With Special Reference to Trade, Industry, and Finance

by Margaret Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017

This book, originally published in 1926 but updated in 1967 analyses Russia’s economy in the decade preceding the outbreak of the First World War. It covers trade, finance, transport and industry and each chapter is supported by statistics drawn from Russian and international sources. The introduction...
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Gangs of Russia

From the Streets to the Corridors of Power

by Svetlana Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

Since their spectacular rise in the 1990s, Russian gangs have remained entrenched in many parts of the country. Some gang members have perished in gang wars or ended up behind prison bars, while others have made spectacular careers off the streets and joined the Russian elite. But the rank and file...
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Mirrors of the Economy

National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond

by Yoshiko M. Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017

As international institutions multiply and more governments sign on to standardized ways of organizing economies and societies, resistance to globalization persists. In Mirrors of the Economy, Yoshiko M. Herrera explores the variance in implementation of international institutions through an examination...
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A Generation of Revolutionaries

Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika

by Ben Eklof, Tatiana Saburova
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

Nikolai Charushin’s memoirs of his experience as a member of the revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to historians, but A Generation of Revolutionaries provides a broader and more engaging look at the lives and relationships beyond these memoirs.It shows how, after years of incarceration,...
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Sociology in Russia

A Brief History

by Larissa Titarenko, Elena Zdravomyslova
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017

This book represents the first comprehensive historical treatment of sociology in Russia from the mid-nineteenth century through the pre-revolutionary and Soviet eras to the present day. It sheds new light on the dramatic history of sociology in the Russian context; dramatic both in its relationship...
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Women without Men

Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia

by Jennifer Utrata
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015

Women without Men illuminates Russia's "quiet revolution" in family life through the lens of single motherhood. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data, Jennifer Utrata focuses on the puzzle of how single motherhood—frequently seen as a social problem in other contexts—became taken...
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