Russia category: 2582 books
Bagnowka
A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
In the last decade of the nineteenth century, a traditional Jewish cemetery was established in the small town of Bagnowka, located near the urban center of Bialystok in current northeastern Poland. Though governed then by Tsarist Russia, Bialystok was still inspired by the teachings of the Torah,...
Red Flag Unfurled
History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century later
Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after the October Uprising, Ronald Grigor Suny—one of the world’s leading historians of the period—explores how scholars and political scientists have tried to understand...
Roosevelt and Stalin
Portrait of a Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A hugely important book that solely and fully explores for the first time the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin, by the editor of My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin (“History owes a debt to Susan Butler for the...
In Marx's Shadow
Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking...
A Life Under Russian Serfdom
The Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800-1868
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This is a translation of one of very few Russian serfs' memoirs. Savva Purlevskii recollects his life in Russian serfdom and life of his grandparents, parents, and fellow villagers. He describes family and communal life and the serfs' daily interaction with landlords and authorities. Purlevskii came...
Factory of Strategy
Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri's theoretical trajectory.
Lenin is the only...
by Vladimir Jabotinsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Vladimir Jabotinsky is well remembered as a militant leader and father of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement, but he was also a Russian-Jewish intellectual, talented fiction writer, journalist, playwright, and translator of poetry into Russian and Hebrew. His autobiography, Sippur yamai, Story...
Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds
Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds examines the phenomenon of Jewish bureaucracy in the Russian empire—its institutions, personnel, and policies—from 1850 to 1917. In particular, it focuses on the institution of expert Jews, mid-level Jewish bureaucrats who served the Russian state both in the Pale...
Essential Works of Lenin
"What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. In this volume, comprising the four works generally considered his most...
by Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayed explores the fate of the Russian Revolution after Lenin's death. Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet Union...
A Failed Empire
The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok...
Wall Street and the Russian Revolution
1905-1925
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Wall Street and the Russian Revolution will give readers critical insight into what might be called the "Secret History of the 20th century." The Russian Revolution, like the war in which it was born, represents the real beginning of the modern world. The book will look not just at the sweep...
by Richard Pipes
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and at times superbly....No single volume known to me even begins to cater so adequately to those who want to discover what really happened to Russia....Nor do I know any other book better designed to help Soviet citizens to struggle out of the darkness."
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The Russian Revolution
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
1917: the year a series of rebellions toppled three centuries of autocratic rule and placed a group of political radicals in charge of a world power. Here, suddenly, was the first modern socialist state, a kingdom more bright that any heaven had to offer”. But the dream was short-lived, bringing...