Russia category: 2582 books
Strategic Frames
Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Strategic Frames analyzes minority policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs the powerful influence of both Europe and Russia on their policy choices, and how this intersected with the costs and benefits of policy changes for the politicians in each...
Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia
A Corpus Assisted Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political texts between 1998 and 2007. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in the fields of media studies, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and scholars in Russian Studies.
Why Control Immigration?
Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Migration management in Russia is a window into how public policy, the federal system, and patronage are used to manage conflicting demands. This multi-level balancing act demonstrates the importance of high-level politics, institutional interests and constraints, and the conditions under which government...
Unwanted Visionaries
The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Mikhail Gorbachev's relations with the West have captured the imagination of contemporaries and historians alike, but his vision of Soviet leadership in Asia has received far less attention. The failure of Gorbachev's Asian initiatives has had dramatic consequences, by the late 1980s, the Soviet Union...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Analyzing unique survey data gathered in the summer of 2015 from Russia, the authors are able to trace the links between personal corrupt behavior and political attitudes. They show that participation...
by Anton Karlgren
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book, originally published in English in 1927 deals with the social state of Russia after eight years of Bolshevist rule and influence up to the end of 1925. Laced with predictions of failure, the book is nonetheless prophetic in many ways. It discusses the limitations in practice of Bolshevist...
The Rise and Fall of the Crimean System 1855-71
The Story of a Peace Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The Crimean war and the settlement by which it was concluded formed the climax of then-British Prime Minister Palmerston’s later diplomacy. In Palmerston’s view, much like the war itself, the peace settlement that followed was intended to “to curb the aggressive ambition of Russia. We went to...
Agricultural Russia
On the Eve of the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This volume, originally published in 1930, discusses the economics of Russian agriculture during the early 20th century. It analyzes those economic influences which were at work and were bringing about its transformation. Starting from a sketch of the agricultural geography of European Russia, as...
The New Russia
A Handbook of Economic and Political Developments
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The rapid changes in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union are often bewildering, with many frequent, highly significant changes in the different sectors of the economy and the political system. There have been frequent changes of personnel in government and economic management and many changes...
A Trip to Pilawin
"The Deer-Park of Count Joseph Potocki in Volhynia Russia"
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
When founding the Pilawin preserve in 1901 my intention was limited to the breeding of elk, which still have their native haunts not very far away to the north, but have for many years ceased to inhabit these forests. No one, to my knowledge, has hitherto attempted to naturalise these splendid deer...
Defenders of the Motherland
The Tsarist Elite in Revolutionary Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Defenders of the Motherland studies how the most powerful social groups in tsarist Russia reacted to the challenges posed by the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Arguing that elite groups-especially nobles, landowners, and officers-played an important role in these events, Matthew Rendle shows how the...
by Valerie Pacer
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Although the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev is often seen as a continuation of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, with the same policies applied in the same way, this book disagrees, arguing that Medvedev’s foreign policy was significantly different from Putin’s. The book considers especially the relationship...
by R. W. Davies, Mark Harrison, Oleg Khlevniuk
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union’s industrial transformation between 1929 and 1939. The volume before this one covered the ‘good years’ (in economic terms) of 1934 to 1936. The present volume has a darker tone: beginning...
My Life for the Book
The Memoirs of a Russian Publisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Available at long last, this volume is the posthumous memoir of a peasant from the depths of old Russia who rose to great wealth and influence as his country's most successful publisher. Though never fully literate, Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (1851-1934) was a shrewd businessman who made millions by publishing...