Russia category: 2582 books
by Andrew Holland
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Exam board: OCR
Level: A Level
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2015
First exams: AS: Summer 2016, A Level: Summer 2017
An OCR endorsed resource
Successfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the leading History publisher follows...
by Lonely Planet, Simon Richmond, Regis St Louis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet St Petersburgis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience imperial Russia and the world of the tsars, immerse yourself in art and...
Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism
Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2007
Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel’tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied a central place in the reformist drive to modernize criminal justice. While in tsarist Russia the gains of legal scholars and activists in...
Stalinism
Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millenium
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Stalinism surveys the efforts made in recent years by professional historians, in Russia and the West, to better understand what really went on in the USSR between 1929 and 1953, when the country's affairs were shrouded in secrecy.
The opening of the Soviet archives in 1991 has led to a profusion...
The Compatriots
The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country--be it antagonistic or far too chummy.
The history of Russian espionage is soaked in blood, from a spontaneous pistol shot...
Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine
The Challenge of Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
What are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013? This volume highlights: the role of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in the formation of Ukrainian civil society; the forms of warfare waged by Moscow against Kyiv, including...
Entangled Far Rights
A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Since the rise of Putin, many have puzzled by the strange affinity of the far right in the West for today's authoritarian Russia. Entangled Far Rights explores the deep roots of this phenomena and reveals it to be a running thread through the entire history of the long 20th century and present regardless of the changing political character of Russia's regimes.
An Ordinary Marriage
The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
An Ordinary Marriage is the story of the Chikhachevs, middling-income gentry landowners in nineteenth-century provincial Russia. In a seemingly strange contradiction, the mother of this family, Natalia, oversaw serf labor and managed finances while the father, Andrei, raised the children, at a time...
Summerfolk
A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The dacha is a sometimes beloved, sometimes scorned Russian dwelling. Alexander Pushkin summered in one; Joseph Stalin lived in one for the last twenty years of his life; and contemporary Russian families still escape the city to spend time in them. Stephen Lovell's generously illustrated book is...
Familiar Strangers
The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A small, non-Slavic nation located far from the Soviet capital, Georgia was more closely linked with the Ottoman and Persian empires than with Russia for most of its history. One of over one hundred officially classified Soviet nationalities, Georgians represented less than 2% of the Soviet population,...
by Dale R. Herspring
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1996
... a volume that provides both solid historical background for the novice reader and provocative and thoughtful material for the more advanced scholar. It should find wide classroom use at all levels and will be an important addition to the bookshelf of any analyst of post-Soviet security affairs."...
by Thomas Nemeth
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book presents a comprehensive study of the influence of Immanuel Kant’s Critical Philosophy in the Russian Empire, spanning the period from the late 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution. It systematically details the reception bestowed on Kant’s ideas during his lifetime and up to and...
Eco-Nationalism
Anti-Nuclear Activism and National Identity in Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1996
Eco-nationalism examines the spectacular rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its substantial decline after 1991. Jane I. Dawson argues that anti-nuclear activism, one of the most dynamic...
by Irina Prokhorova
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party's monopoly on political power. This fascinating collection of documentary evidence crystalizes the aspirations of the Russian...