Russia category: 2582 books
The View from the Vysotka
A Portrait of Russia Today Through One of Moscow's Most Famous Addresses
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Completed shortly before Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, the vysotkii, or "sky houses," still dominate the Moscow skyline today. Seven in all, they were the Soviet answer to the American skyscraper, transforming the Soviet capital from a feudal backwater into the city of the future. With...
War With Russia
A Menacing Account
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
A chilling political thriller that is dangerously close to becoming reality
According to General Sir Richard Shirreff, recently retired Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe we are already at war with Russia. Putin is waging war by unconventional means, including sponsoring terrorist attacks...
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Volume II
Inner Eurasia from the Mongol Empire to Today, 1260 - 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Provides an all-encompassing look at the history of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia
Beginning with the breakup of the Mongol Empire in the mid-thirteenth century, Volume II of this comprehensive work covers the remarkable history of “Inner Eurasia,” from 1260 up to modern times, completing...
The Skripal Files
The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine conflict between the West and Russia
Salisbury, England: March 4, 2018.
Slumped on a bench, paralyzed and barely able to breathe, were a former Russian intelligence...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Insight Guides: Inspiring your next adventure
Russia remains an enigma to many, and most visitors will only go to the stunning St Petersburg or the capital Moscow, but those who venture further into this vast country will be rewarded by beautiful scenery of mountainous landscape and wild steppes...
by Roberta Melchiorre, Fabio Bertino
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
The road to travel with Destination Russia is a long one: it takes many hours by train. But there is no time to be bored: the journey is a continuous discovery unveiling the true essence of this extraordinary country through encounters with ordinary people met in environments only cold in appearance...
The Life and Times of Charles R. Crane, 1858–1939
American Businessman, Philanthropist, and a Founder of Russian Studies in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
In The Life and Times of Charles R. Crane, Norman E. Saul analyzes the contributions of Charles R. Crane, world traveler, businessman, diplomat, and philanthropist in the setting of his times. Crane acquired his appreciation for Russian culture and life through travel in the country, making a total...
Authoritarian Russia
Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Russia today represents one of the major examples of the phenomenon of “electoral authoritarianism” which is characterized by adopting the trappings of democratic institutions (such as elections, political parties, and a legislature) and enlisting the service of the country’s essentially authoritarian...
Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Lives and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Russian women of the nineteenth century are often thought of in their literary incarnations as the heroines of novels such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace. But their real counterparts are now becoming better understood as active contributors to Russia’s varied cultural landscape.
This collection...
by Brian Davies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This crucial period in Russia's history has, up until now, been neglected by historians, but here Brian L. Davies' study provides an essential insight into the emergence of Russia as a great power.
For nearly three centuries, Russia vied with the Crimean Khanate, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This publication, The Russian Navy - A Historic Transition, is intended to provide the reader with a basic introduction to the Russian Navy and an appreciation of current developments that...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this military study of Russian Anti-Americanism and the recent collapse of post-Soviet relations also presents a fascinating and enlightening biography of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It analyzes twenty-first century...
Material Culture in Russia and the USSR
Things, Values, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Material Culture in Russia and the USSR comprises some of the most cutting-edge scholarship across anthropology, history and material and cultural studies relating to Russia and the Soviet Union, from Peter the Great to Putin.
Material culture in Russia and the USSR holds a particularly important...
by Mark Galeotti
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
In February 2014, street protests in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities led to the ousting of the Russian-backed President Yanukovych. The so-called Euromaidan Revolution saw many changes to Ukraine's constitution, but the violent reaction in the east and south of the country led to armed counter-revolution,...