Russia category: 2582 books
The Crimean Nexus
Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea’s ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first occupation...
by Konstantin Averin Tatiana Pavlova
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The authors are neither professional writers nor social commentators. They have carried out this joint research in the national consciousness of Russians on the basis of their personal convictions, citizenship and love to their Motherland. Konstantin Averin is an economist. His main areas of activity...
Lost Kingdom
The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe, a new history of Russian imperialism
In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long...
The Court of the Last Tsar
Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Praise for The Court of the Last Tsar
"Any book by Greg King is a book to be kept and savored. He has not only given us a fresh, clear-eyed, and often startling new look at the life of the last Romanovs, but also lived up to the promise of his title. He has shown us how the whole enterprise...
by David Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
By 1920 the Red Army of Russia fielded an overwhelming array of armored cars, armored trains and tank detachments. These armored units played an important part in consolidating the newly won Bolshevik empire in the early 1920s; as a consequence of the fact that railways were the strategic arteries...
Lenin's Private War
The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 ‘undesirable' intellectuals – mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists – to be deported from the new Soviet State. ‘We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation....
The Moldovans
Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The first English-language book to present a complete picture of this intriguing East European borderland, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, illuminates the perennial problems of identity politics and cultural change that the country has endured.
White Spots—Black Spots
Difficult Matters in Polish-Russian Relations, 1918–2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Poland and Russia have a long relationship that encompasses centuries of mutual antagonism, war, and conquest. The twentieth century has been particularly intense, including world wars, revolution, massacres, national independence, and decades of communist rule—for both countries. Since the collapse...
by James Dargan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Against the all-conquering Grand Duchy of Muscovy, can the city-state of Novgorod save itself from total annihilation and bring the land of the Rus towards the West?
Medieval Russia, 1470: With Muscovy gaining hegemony in the Russian lands, Novgorod is fearful. Having miraculously defeated...
Introduction to Russian Mennonites
A Story Of Flights And Resettlements-- To Homelands In The Ukraine, The Chaco, T
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Mennonites in Russia? Invited by Catherine the Great to farm the Russian steppes -- in exchange for exemption from military service -- Mennonite emigrants from Polish Prussia and The Netherlands made their home in Russia. Some remain today; many more eventually left for North and South Americas and...
Spartak Moscow
A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated Spartak Moscow, a book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys to understanding everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors. Millions attended matches and obsessed...
The Russian Peasantry 1600-1930
The World the Peasants Made
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This impressive work, set to become the standard history on the subject, offers a definitive survey of peasant society in Russia, from the consolidation of serfdom and tsarist autocracy in the 17th century through to the destruction of the peasant's traditional world under Stalin. Over three-quarters...
Red at Heart
How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's most crucial alliance. This is the multigenerational history of people who experienced Sino-Soviet...
Wheel of Fortune
The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The world’s largest exporter of oil is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through every major economy. Gustafson provides an authoritative account of the Russian oil industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. The stakes extend beyond global energy security to include the threat of a destabilized Russia.