Russia category: 2582 books
by The President В. Yeltsin Centre Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
A Man of Change is a gift from the Foundation of the First President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin otherwise known as The Yeltsin Fund, produced in cooperation with Glagoslav Publications and distributed with the aim to preserve the knowledge and memory of Russia’s first President.
Boris...
Tomorrow You Go Home
One Man's Harrowing Imprisonment in a Modern-Day Russian Gulag
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
The haunting true story of a hardworking British businessman who became mired in the deadly, corruption-laden nightmare of Russia’s current prison system—and lived to tell about it, thanks to a love affair that kept his hope alive and the efforts of family and friends in Moscow and in London.
A...
by Amor Towles
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Mosca, 21 giugno 1922. Il conte Aleksandr Il’ič Rostov, decorato con l’Ordine di Sant’Andrea, membro del Jockey Club, Maestro di caccia, viene scortato attraverso i cancelli del Cremlino che danno sulla Piazza Rossa fino alla suite 317 del Grand Hotel Metropol. Chiamato al Cremlino per un tête...
by Robin Bunce
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style...
Communist Daze
The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This darkly comic memoir “reveal[s] much about the poverty, drunkenness, political corruption, anti-Semitism, and fundamental absurdity of rural life in the Soviet 1960s” (Deborah A. Field author of Private Life and Communist Morality in Khrushchev’s Russia).
Welcome to Gradieshti, a Soviet...
Moscow & St. Petersburg Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Moscow is the capital of the Russian Federation and its most famous attraction, the Kremlin, is full of historic significance. Architecture from the Russian Empire can still be seen in the city and signs of wealth abound. Moscow was once the capital of the former Soviet Union (USSR) prior to the end...
From Russia with Lunch
A Lithuanian Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Eighty-two years after Moses Dibobis escaped from the Lithuanian hamlet of Birzai with nothing but a sack lunch, the author journeys back to this former Soviet enclave looking for a link to his grandfather-something greater than their shared receding hairline and sense of humor. What he finds on...
by Robin Bunce
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style...
Metro Stop Dostoevsky
Travels in Russian Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
A Russian American writer catapults herself into the maelstrom of Russian life at a time of seismic change for both
The daughter of Russian émigrés, Ingrid Bengis grew up wondering whether she was American or, deep down, "really Russian." In 1991, naïvely in love with Russia and...
Spetsnaz
Russia’s Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
When the shadowy, notorious Spetsnaz were first formed, they drew on a long Soviet tradition of elite, behind-the-lines commando forces from World War II and even earlier. Throughout the 1960s–70s they were instrumental both in projecting Soviet power in the Third World and in suppressing resistance...
Crimean Blunder
The Story of War with Russia a Hundred Years Ago
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
First published in 1960, this book details the events in Turkey, the Crimea and the shores of the Black Sea during the military conflict fought from October 1853 to March 1856, in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia.
In writing his...
by D.W. Roth
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This Novel is based on a true story about, Lambert Roth, and his two brothers, Xavier and Michael. They immigrated from Germany to Russia in the 19th century in an effort to avoid a revolution. Their father obtained a homestead in Russia which was free to immigrant German farmers in an effort to help...
The Icon and Axe
An Interpretative History of Russian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"A sweeping, intricate description of Russian cultural history, spanning the pre-Romanov era through six centuries to the reign of Joseph Stalin. Flowing with ease through time and topic — from art to music, literature, philosophy, mythology and more — the book provides readers with an alluring...
Frontline Ukraine
Crisis in the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian...