Russia category: 2582 books
Lenin's Tomb
The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
**One of the Best Books of the Year: *The New York Times ***
From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical...
by Timothy Garton Ash
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A selection from The Magic Lantern, Timothy Garton Ash’s classic first-person history of the Revolution of ’89 and the end of the Cold War—an on-the-ground glimpse of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
“In the beginning was the Wall itself.” So writes matchless chronicler and observer Timothy...
The Russian Cosmists
The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian religious and scientific thinkers emerged, united in the conviction that humanity was entering a new stage of evolution and must assume a new, active, managerial role in the cosmos. The ideas of the Cosmists have in recent...
Ukraine - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Ukraine reveals a country in the throes of change. The euphoria of the famous Orange Revolution has vanished. The momentum for reform has been checked and the forces of authoritarianism have returned. Even so, modernization continues apace and people...
Once in Kazakhstan
The Snow Leopard Emerges
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
Soon after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Keith Rosten leaves the United States to be a Fulbright Lecturer in newly-independent Kazakhstan. In Once in Kazakhstan, Rosten draws a sometimes humorous portrait of a critical period in the emergence of this Central Asian country, interweaving the...
The Ukrainian Night
An Intimate History of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential
What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the...
Lost Cosmonaut
Observations of an Anti-Tourist
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Daniel Kalder belongs to a unique group: the anti-tourists. Sworn to uphold the mysterious tenets of The Shymkent Declarations, the anti-tourist seeks out the dark, lost zones of our planet, eschewing comfort, embracing hunger and hallucinations, and always traveling at the wrong time of year. In...
by Stephen Henighan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels...
by John V. Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
The books altered the course of history; the lives behind them have the dark fascination of fiction.
The subject of The Anti-Communist Manifestos is four influential books that informed the great political struggle known as the Cold War: Darkness at Noon (1940), by Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian...
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe
A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz...
A Narrative Of Personal Experiences & Impressions During A Residence On The Bosphorus Throughout The Crimean War
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War]
Lady Alicia Blackwood née Lambart, (1818 - 30 July 1913) was an English painter and nurse, married to the Rev. James Stevenson Blackwood.
As she recounts in...
Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001
Screening the Word
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2004
Providing many interesting case studies and bringing together many leading authorities on the subject, this book examines the importance of film adaptations of literature in Russian cinema, especially during the Soviet period when the cinema was accorded a vital role in imposing the authority of the communist regime on the consciousness of the Soviet people.
The Jews of Silence
A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach Jews who had never been placed in the Soviet show window by Soviet authorities,” wrote Wiesel. “They...
Trouble in Paradise
From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj iek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.
There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a way out of the crisis we're...