Russia category: 2582 books
by Arthur Feiler
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book, originally published in English in 1930 is a vivid account of the life and problems of Russia in the first decades of the twentieth century. The typical features of existence in the proletarian state are discussed in connection with an exhaustive analysis of the whole experiment of Bolshevism and the developments of economic policy are clearly explained and discussed.
by John Morse
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
In the Russian Ranks, a Soldier’s Account of the Fighting in Poland are the experiences of an Englishman fighting with Russia during World War I. The original illustrations and a table of contents are included.
The KGB Plays Chess
The Soviet Secret Police and the Fight for the World Chess Crown
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The KGB Plays Chess is a unique book. For the first time it opens to us some of the most secret pages of the history of chess. The battles about which you will read in this book are not between chess masters sitting at the chess board, but between the powerful Soviet secret police, known as the KGB,...
by David Isby
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Text by David Isby. Colour plates by Ron Volstad. This book examines Soviet forces in Afghanistan. The origins and conduct of the war and the operational organisation of Soviet forces are discussed. Afghan resistance and weaponry is also examined. A comprehensive study of both sides in the Afghan...
I Was a Potato Oligarch
Travels and Travails in the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In a charming saga of sun, sea, sand - and cement - John Mole tells of the back-breaking but joyous labours of fixing up his own Arcadia and introduces a warm, generous and garrulous cast of characters who helped (and occasionally hindered) his progress.
Arctic Mirrors
Russia and the Small Peoples of the North
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people," complained...
by Tomasz Kamusella
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
This book discusses historical continuities and discontinuities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People’s Republic, and contemporary Poland. The year 1989 is seen as a clear point-break that allowed the Poles and their country to regain a ‘natural historical...
The Rzhev Slaughterhouse
The Red Army's Forgotten 15-month Campaign against Army Group Center, 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Historians consider the Battle of Rzhev "one of the bloodiest in the history of the Great Patriotic War" and "Zhukov's greatest defeat". Veterans called this colossal battle, which continued for a total of 15 months, "the Rzhev slaughterhouse" or "the Massacre",...
by Laurence Senelick
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
A latecomer continually hampered by government control and interference, the Russian theatre seems an unlikely source of innovation and creativity. Yet, by the middle of the nineteenth century, it had given rise to a number of outstanding playwrights and actors, and by the start of the twentieth century,...
Chechen Jihad
Al Qaeda's Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this authoritative look at the roots of modern terrorism, Yossef Bodansky, one of the most respected—and best-informed—experts on radical Islamism in the world today, pinpoints the troubled region of Chechnya as a dangerous and little-understood crucible of terror in the struggle between East...
The Trial of the U2
Exclusive Authorized Account of the Court Proceedings of the Case of Francis Gary Powers
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1960, this is the only authorized account of the trial of Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. The court proceedings were held before the Military Division of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow, Russia and commenced on August...
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The Invasion of the Crimea: Vol. II [Sixth Edition]
Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This is the sixth edition of the second volume in a series of nine, originally published in 1877, which together provide a thoroughly comprehensive operational history of the Crimean War to June 1855, including all the early battles and the first attack on the Redan.
Alexander William Kinglake...
Come fu temprato l'acciaio
Edizione integrale
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Considerato il capolavoro della letteratura sovietica d’ispirazione realista, Come fu temprato l’acciaio è, per eccellenza, il romanzo della Russia e della sua Rivoluzione. Al centro della narrazione, la vita di Pavel, lavoratore, membro del Komsomol e soprattutto, in un avvincente crescendo...
by Arthur Ransome
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Most people know of Arthur Ransome, the author of the classic children’s sailing tale, Swallows & Amazons, and many other books in the same series. But besides his exciting tales of children on the water there is much more to the man. Before he wrote Swallows & Amazons, Ransome was a journalist...