Russia category: 2582 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Commemorating the October 2017 centenary of the Russian Revolution, an anthology of wide-ranging voices and scholarship throwing fresh light on this momentous historical event.
This October the world commemorates the centenary of the Russian Revolution, one of the crucial moments of the twentieth...
Stalin's Children
Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
On a mid-summer day in 1937, a car pulled up to the house of the Bibikov family in Chernigov in the heart of the Ukraine. Boris, the father, kissed his two daughters and wife goodbye and disappeared inside the car. His family never saw him again. His wife would later vanish, leaving the young Lyudmila...
by Ian Frazier
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains
In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation...
From Nyet to Da
Understanding the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Updated fourth edition
In the wake of the Cold War and perestroika, the New Russia is finding its place in the global world. No longer a superpower, but still a nation with great influence, Russia remains an enigmatic and mysterious land. Like earlier editions, the new fourth edition of From...
by Teresa Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
(Approx 65 Pages)
Our illustrated travel guide features the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
Finding Internet access...
by Teresa Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Our illustrated travel guide features the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
Finding Internet access when traveling can be a...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Kazan (Russia) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
Romanov Riches
Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relationship between art and the royal family.
Throughout the Romanov dynasty, Russia’s greatest artists...
All the Kremlin's Men
Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
An extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs that surround it, and the many moods of modern Russia that reads like a "real House of Cards"(Lev Lurie).
All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of...
The New Nobility
The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service.
While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political...
by Nikolai Berdyaev, Christopher Bamford
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
In this powerful, moving book first published in 1946, Berdyaev is not so interested in the empirical details of Russian history as he is in "the thought of the Creator about Russia." The "Russian idea" is thus a mystical one. Religion and philosophy, not economics or politics, determine history and...
The Red Web
The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
**With important new revelations into the Russian hacking of the 2016 Presidential campaigns
"[Andrei Soldatov is] the single most prominent critic of Russia's surveillance apparatus." -Edward Snowden**
After the Moscow protests in 2011-2012, Vladimir Putin became terrified...
Inferno in Chechnya
The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. When the culprits turned out to be U.S. residents of Chechen descent, Americans were shocked and confused. Why would members of an obscure Russian minority group consider America...
Mothers and Soldiers
Gender, Citizenship, and Civil Society in Contemporary Russia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2002
As the Soviet communist regime gave way to democracy, the emergence of an entirely new political and social landscape had the potential to turn Russian society upside down. In Mothers and Soldiers: Organizing Men and Women in 1990s Russia, Amy Caiazza looks at the effects of this seismic change on...