Russia category: 2582 books
Empire of Nations
Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks...
Across the Sleeping Land
A Journey Through Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Being mugged at knife-point by a friendly taxi driver; suffering from frostbite on various appendages; being mauled by some of the many ravenous stray packs of dogs which roam the nation; attending weddings, hunting expeditions and beauty pageants - discover these and more mis-adventures which befell...
Tobacco in Russian History and Culture
The Seventeenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
According to the World Health Organization, approximately seventy percent of men and thirty percent of women in Russia smoke, and the WHO estimated that at the close of the twentieth century 280,000 Russians died every year from smoking-related illnesses – a rate over three times higher than...
Doomed to Cooperate
How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Greatest Post-Cold War Nuclear Dangers
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Doomed to Cooperate tells the remarkable story of nuclear scientists from two former enemy nations, Russia and the United States, who reached across political, geographic, and cultural divides to confront, together, the new nuclear threats that resulted from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Using...
The Politics of Eurasianism
Identity, Popular Culture and Russia's Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
In the course of Vladimir Putin’s third presidential term, many of the doctrines and ideas associated with Eurasianism have moved to the center of public political discourses in Russia. Eurasianism, both Russian and non-Russian, is politically active —influential and contested— in debates about...
Lenin and his Rivals
The Struggle for Russia's Future, 1898-1906
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Originally published in 1955, this is an illuminating study of the political thought and action of the Russian intelligentsia, in the decade up to and including the Revolution of 1905-6. It is based on the writings, including those in the revolutionary press, by which the chief figures of the main...
Kulikovo 1380
The battle that made Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
The 14th-century Mongol conquest of the Rus' – the principalities of Russia – was devastating and decisive. Cities were lain waste, new dynasties rose and for a hundred years the Russians were under unquestioned foreign rule. However, the Mongols were conquerors rather than administrators and...
by Galina Ulianova
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This pioneering work comprehensively examines the history of female entrepreneurship in the Russian Empire during nineteenth-century industrial development.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Carl Von Clausewitz defined war as: "an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will". To that end, the Russian government has waged two major military campaigns since 1991: the invasion...
Lenin
The Practice and Theory of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2001
A political and intellectual biographical study of Lenin which focuses on those aspects of his thought and political activities that had a bearing on the accession of the Bolsheviks to power in Russia in 1917 and the creation of the Soviet state. The book places Lenin in the context of his times and...
by Marcel De Haas
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
This new book analyzes the security policy of the Russian Federation, internally as well as externally, on all levels of strategy.
It describes military and political decision-making from Moscow's grand strategy to the use of a single fighter aircraft in Chechnya. In this analysis, Russia's...
Beyond the Amur
Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850–1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that developed in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and Imperial Russia as the two empires competed for natural resources. Although official imperial histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground between rival...
Ukraine
Birth of a Modern Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's second-largest country but still an immature state only recently independent,...
Iran Under Allied Occupation In World War II
The Bridge to Victory & A Land of Famine
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Occupied Iran in World War II became the most important supply route to Russia and source of fuel to the Allies. Having pledged to meet Iran’s “minimum needs”, the Allies commandeered the means of transport, seized food and fuel, severely restricted imports, forced Iran to print money, brought...