Russia category: 2582 books
After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942-1943
The Red Army's Winter Offensive, 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
In the wake of the Red Army's signal victory at Stalingrad, which began when its surprise counteroffensive encircled German Sixth Army in Stalingrad region in mid-November 1942 and ended when its forces liquidated beleaguered Sixth Army in early February 1943, the Soviet High Command (Stavka) expanded...
The Mannerheim Line 1920–39
Finnish Fortifications of the Winter War
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
In the wake of the bloody civil war that followed Finland's independence from Russia in 1917, the border between the two countries was established across the Karelian Isthmus, an area long fought over by Russia, Finland and Sweden in their attempts to dominate the northern tip of Europe. Neither the...
History of World War I: The Eastern Front 1914–1920
From Tannenberg to the Russo-Polish War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns of the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns...
First Person
An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2000
Who is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly--overnight and without warning--was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? How can we trust him if we don't know him?
First Person is an intimate, candid portrait of the...
Death of a Dissident
The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim...
Terror in Chechnya
Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Terror in Chechnya is the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides a comprehensive history of the second Chechen conflict of 1999 to 2005, revealing one of the most appalling human rights catastrophes of the modern era--one that has yet to be fully acknowledged...
Putin's Wars
The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This fully updated book offers the first systematic analysis of Putin’s three wars, placing the Second Chechen War, the war with Georgia of 2008, and the war with Ukraine of 2014–2015 in their broader historical context. Drawing on extensive original Russian sources, Marcel H. Van Herpen analyzes...
The Soviet Mind
Russian Culture under Communism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Berlin’s great powers of observation combine with his great knowledge and literary gifts to provide us with a fascinating series of insights.”
-Geoffrey Riklin
George Kennan, the architect of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union, called Isaiah Berlin the patron saint among the commentators...
Russia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
Forgotten Land
Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the...
Warped Mourning
Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their...
The Odd Man Karakozov
Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his "unheard-of act" changed the course of Russian history-and gave birth to the revolutionary...
by Anna Viroubova
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
These are the memoirs of Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova, a close friend of the last Imperial family of Russia, and aim to set right the many false and invented stories written about Nicholas II and Alexandra and Anna’s relationship with them.
The book provides rare descriptions of the home life...
by Lesley Blanch
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorne and in the grips of a passionate obsession. The search to recapture the love of her...