Russia category: 2582 books

The result of 10 years' worth of painstaking research, this volume, originally published in 1926 is a sympathetic critique of certain phases of revolutionary dictatorship in Russia. Among other things it focusses on the philosophy and psychology of Marxism, Marxian economics, Bolshevism, the philosophy...

"[An] exemplary account of Europe's least-known large country... leavened by aphorism and anecdote." --Wall Street Journal Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents the authoritative history of Ukraine and its people from the time of Herodotus to the present crisis with Russia....

"A clear poetic sensibility built to stand against the forces of erasure."-The Wall Street Journal"Lebedev takes his place beside Solzhenitsyn and other great writers who have refused to abide by silence."-Kirkus ReviewsFrom the critically acclaimed author of Oblivion comes Year of the...

Hi there!  My friend Robert texted me one day in London: “Angelos, I’m flying to Moscow tomorrow. Can we catch up tonight at the pub to teach me a little bit of Russian?” Initially, I thought…”WTF? Is he serious? What has he been doing all these days?“ I know that...

This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II. Following the tracks of his grandmother Cilly, or 'Babushka', into her vanished homeland of East Prussia and to the labour camps of the Soviet Union, Marcel Krueger has interwoven contemporary landscape...

In this comprehensive portrait of the women of Chechnya in modern war, Paul Murphy argues that they are the principal victims of the 1994 and 1999 wars with Russia and the present conflict with Islamic jihadists. War forced Chechen women to venture far beyond their traditional roles and advance their...

From revolutionary Russia to exile and love in war-torn Shanghai, then eventually refuge in America, is the true story of a remarkable woman’s survival against the odds during some of the twentieth century’s greatest upheavals. Sonechka Balk was born into the Crimean gentry in 1904, the...

Originally published in 1932, the author, a Polish journalist, in this book directs his hostility against the fundamentals of Bolshevism, but nonetheless achieves impartiality. With regard to Russian culture, Soviet Russia appears to the author as the home of an almost Victorian puritanism. Daily...

Almost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel, What Is to Be Done?, had a profound impact on the course of Russian literature and politics. The idealized image it offered of dedicated and self-sacrificing intellectuals transforming society by means of scientific...

Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is the first English translation of an important 19th-century Russian text describing everyday life in Uzbek communities. Vladimir and Maria Nalivkin were Russians who settled in a "Sart" village in 1878, in a territory newly conquered by the Russian Empire. During...

Russian folk culture is filled with magical stories for children; tales of witches and wizardry, perilous journeys, wise animals, frightful giants, and beautiful princesses. This choice collection presents six of the most popular tales. Some bear a resemblance to the folktales of western Europe, while...

Le origini del popolo etrusco sono ancora oggi controverse, misteriose, avvolte in una nebbia impenetrabile che non sembra volersi dissolvere. Nei decenni sono state proposte innumerevoli ipotesi sulla loro origine ma nessuna, ad oggi, è riuscita a porre la parola fine all’annoso quesito sul luogo...

In response to a growing human trafficking problem and domestic and international pressure, human trafficking and the use of slave labor were first criminalized in Russia in 2003. In Trafficking Justice, Lauren A. McCarthy explains why Russian police, prosecutors, and judges have largely ignored this...

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A riveting, brilliantly researched account of the deadliest submarine disaster in history and its devastating human cost.** On a quiet Saturday morning in August 2000, two explosions--one so massive it was detected by seismologists around the world--shot...