Russia category: 2582 books
War and Peace in the Caucasus
Russia's Troubled Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2011
After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Caucasus was wracked by ethnic and separatist violence as the peoples of the region struggled for self-determination. Vicken Cheterian, who spent many years as a reporter and analyst covering the region's conflicts, asks why nationalism emerged as a dominant...
Blockbuster History in the New Russia
Movies, Memory, and Patriotism
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Seeking to rebuild the Russian film industry after its post-Soviet collapse, directors and producers sparked a revival of nationalist and patriotic sentiment by applying Hollywood techniques to themes drawn from Russian history. Unsettled by the government’s move toward market capitalism, Russians...
by Norman E. Saul
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
For more than 200 years the United States and Russia have shared a multi-faceted relationship. Because of the rise of power the two countries enjoyed in the late 19th and through the 20th century, Russian-American relations have dominated much of recent world history. Prior to World War II the two...
By Honor Bound
State and Society in Early Modern Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized codes that made up this culture. Nancy Shields Kollmann describes how these...
A History of the Urals
Russia's Crucible from Early Empire to the Post-Soviet Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The Urals are best known as the boundary between Europe and Asia. A History of the Urals demonstrates the region's importance in its own right, as a crucible of Russia's defence industry in particular.
In the first English-language book to explore the subject fully, Paul Dukes examines the...
Russia's Diamond Colony
The Republic of Sakha
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
As the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the visions of past and future that informed Soviet culture. With Dystopia left behind and Utopia forsaken, where do the writers, artists, and critics who once inhabited them stand? In an "advancing present," answers editor Thomas Lahusen. Just what...
Secularism Soviet Style
Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous republic of Marij El in Russia’s...
by Andy Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Every year thousands compete to win the RGS/BBC Journey of a Lifetime award and fulfill their travel dreams. However, Andy Home's dream would be most people's nightmare. Andy went to Siberia, to the Russian industrial mining city of Norilsk where temperatures drop to minus 50, half the year is spent...
The Republic of the Ushakovka
Admiral Kolchak and the Allied Intervention in Siberia 1918-1920
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This volume, originally published in 1990 and now with an updated Preface, gives an account of the Allies' last concerted attempt to destroy Russia's nascent Bolshevik regime. At the start, it looked like a threat that should be taken seriously, as the Reds' enemies both native and foreign combined...
Nel Caucaso, da Grozny a Beslan
Reportage dalla provincia dell’impero russo
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 23, 2016
La Russia di Eltsin, e ancor di più quella dello “zar” Putin, ha mostrato la sua vera faccia nel Caucaso. Nei due conflitti ceceni, tra il 1994 e il 2003, il Cremlino ha mostrato il peggio di sé. Le ritorsioni russe si sono scaraventate addosso alla povera gente, facendo passare chiunque non...
Pietroburgo. Storia culturale.
traduzioni di Bruno Osimo
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Basata su testimonianze, memorie, interviste, questa bellissima storia della cultura a Pietroburgo coinvolge tanti nomi molto noti a livello mondiale, da Brodskij a Puškin, da Balancčin a Nabokov, da Dostoevskij a Achmatova. Solomon Volkov ha il pregio e il prestigio che gli permettono di condurre...
The Soviet Mind
Russian Culture under Communism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St. Petersburg in 1917, emigrating to the West in 1921. He first returned to Russia in...
Republicanism in Russia
Community Before and After Communism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Marxism was the loser in the Cold War, but Oleg Kharkhordin is not surprised that liberal democracy failed to take root after the Soviet Union’s dissolution. He suggests that Russians find a path to freedom by looking to the classical tradition of republican self-government and civic engagement already familiar from their history and literature.