Russia category: 2582 books
by Simon Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Neither a comprehensive 'life and times' nor a conventional biography, this is an engaging and accessible exploration of rulership and monarchial authority in eighteenth century Russia. Its purpose is to see how Catherine II of Russia conceived of her power and how it was represented to her subjects....
The Great War With Russia — The Invasion Of The Crimea - A Personal Retrospect
Of The Battles Of The Alma, Balaclava, And Inkerman And Of The Winter Of 1854-55, &c. [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
[Illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War]
“The journalist William Howard Russell (1820–1907) is sometimes regarded as being the first war correspondent, and his reports from the conflict in...
by Mark Galeotti
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's army has undergone a turbulent transformation, from the scattered left-overs of the old Soviet military, through a period of shocking decay and demoralization, to the disciplined force and sophisticated 'hybrid war' doctrine that enabled Vladimir Putin...
T-90 Standard Tank
The First Tank of the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In the wake of the T-72 tank's poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin instructed the Russian tank industry to drop the discredited T-72 designation in favour of the T-90 Vladimir. The T-90 was in fact a further evolution of the T-72 family, but the name change represented an important...
by C. Douglas Kroll
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Great friendship existed between the United States and Imperial Russia during the nineteenth century. The Old World Russian autocracy supported the young New World democracy because of the emerging U.S. role as a bulwark against Great Britains ambitions, in Asia and in the North Pacific Ocean region...
Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia
Mutual Representations in Academic Projects
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests...
by Richard Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Moscow is the capital of the Russian Federation and its most famous attraction, the Kremlin, is full of historic significance. Moscow was once the capital of the Soviet Union (USSR) prior to the end of the Cold War and architecture from the Russian Empire is everywhere to be seen while signs of wealth...
by Dhugal Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This is an exploration of Russia through permanent curiosity and an effusive sense of humour. Finding laughs, loves and learning is only the beginning as we work to uncover what it is to be Russian.
Including over 100 pictures taken at the time, this story truly takes you along for the journey...
For The Motherland! For Stalin!
A Red Army Officer's Memoir of the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 makes for a fascinating read. The son of a Soviet military commissar, Bogachev volunteered to fight as soon as reached the age of seventeen. Life in the Red Army was harsh, with...
Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc
Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the impact of Western popular culture on young people in Russia and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Drawing from recent theories on youth subcultures, this collection of essays considers official attempts to accommodate and contain jazz, rock-and-roll,...
Motherland
Russia in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Motherland tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. From Lenin's virtual coup in November 1917 to Boris Yeltsin's ruthless takeover of power in 1991, the book culminates with a new view of the Yeltsin years.
David Marples focuses on the evolution of Russia during the...
A Century of Ambivalence, Second Expanded Edition
The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2001
Now back in print in a new edition!
A Century of Ambivalence
The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present
Second, Expanded Edition
Zvi Gitelman
A richly illustrated survey of the Jewish historical experience in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet era.
Anyone...
The USA in the Making of the USSR
The Washington Conference 1921-22 and 'Uninvited Russia'
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
The USA's contribution to the making of the USSR was accidental. In the belief that the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic could not survive, American statesmen strove to keep the former Tsarist empire intact for a non-communist successor regime in the face of attempts by other powers to...
by Karl Kautsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Bolshevism at a Deadlock was written Karl Kautsky, one of the leading Marxist intellectuals of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, in response to the catastrophic failures of Stalin’s first Five Year Plan, which was intended to raise Russian industry and productivity to equal that...