Russia list 27

A Short Life of Pushkin

by Robert Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

A short yet fascinating account of Russia's most celebrated writer. In Robert Chandler's exquisite biography, literary giant Alexander Pushkin, lauded as the Russian Shakespeare, is examined as writer, lover and public figure. Chandler explores his relationship to politics and provides a fascinating...

Peter the Great

by Paul Bushkovitch
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016

Centuries after he ruled Russia from 1689 to 1725, Peter the Great remains one of the most revered and enigmatic leaders in world history. Now in a new edition, this penetrating study by noted Yale historian Paul Bushkovitch casts new light on Peter and his times, and demonstrates why it is impossible...

Tiny Revolutions in Russia

Twentieth Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes and Jokes

by Bruce Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2005

This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the 20th century. Anecdotes and jokes were a hidden form of discursive communication in the Soviet era, lampooning official practices and acting as a confidential form of self-affirmation. They were not necessarily...

Napoleon's Invasion of Russia

by George Nafziger
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009

“An impressive source book on the conflict, high on information and data.”—Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research September 7, 1812, is by itself one of the most cataclysmic days in the history of war: 74,000 casualties at the Battle of Borodino. And this was well before...

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

by Peter Pomerantsev
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014

A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell's Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors,...

Russia in the Shadows

by H.G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres. Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man. This edition of Wells’ Russia in the Shadows includes a table of contents.

Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime

by Richard Pipes
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011

Pipes is a widely recognized authority on Russia and is currently Baird professor of History at Harvard University. This is the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924.

Stalin's Russia: Teach Yourself Ebook

by David Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012

Understand Stalin's Russia is a compelling introduction to a man and a nation long enveloped in mystery. It covers all aspects of this fascinating history, from the shadows of Tsarism and the legacy of Lenin, to the implications of Stalin's rule - including the horrific effects of the five-year plans, and the heroic but costly triumph in the Great Patriotic War.

Access to History: Russia 1894-1941 for OCR Second Edition

by Michael Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 This is an OCR endorsed resource. Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative...

Former People

The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy

by Douglas Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. Filled with chilling tales of looted palaces and burning estates,...

Black Wind, White Snow

The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism

by Charles Clover
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe,...

Russia in Revolution

An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

by S. A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017

The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith presents...

Operation Kronstadt

The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest Spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces

by Harry Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010

An MI6 officer’s account of a heart-pounding mission to rescue a spy trapped in Russia, “as exciting as anything found in fiction” (Daily Mail). Paul Dukes, a thirty-year-old concert pianist, was a master of disguise—dubbed ‘The Man with a Hundred Faces’—and an English spy in Russia....

Mass Culture in Soviet Russia

Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917–1953

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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1995

This anthology offers a rich array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore to offer a close look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. Both state-sponsored cultural forms and the unofficial culture...