Russia category: 2582 books
Know Your Enemy
The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill in this dangerous gap in American knowledge....
Uncertain Empire
American History and the Idea of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Historians have long understood that the notion of "the cold war" is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was a war that fell ambiguously short of war, an armed truce that produced considerable bloodshed. Yet scholars in the...
Becoming Soviet Jews
The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
An “endlessly rewarding” contribution to the study of Jewish life in the Soviet Union: “Fascinating . . . nuanced and respectful of human limitations” (Slavic Review).
Minsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. Recasting our...
by Nadezhda K. Krupskaya
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Written by Lenin’s wife and life companion, Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, and translated by Eric Verney from the second Russian edition published at Moscow, 1930, this is Part I of an intimate account of the life of Lenin and his wife, covering the years 1893-1907.
Although ostensibly written as...
Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror
Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Holocaust and the experience...
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by Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley KCB KCMG
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The finest eye-witness history of the Crimean War. Lauded at the time as the best history of the bloody and badly-led campaign, this edition has been richly illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War]
General...
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv
A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and fundamental transformation ethnically, linguistically,...
When Sonia Met Boris
An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Soviet Jews lived through a record number of traumatic events: the Great Terror, World War II, the Holocaust, the Famine of 1947, the Doctors' Plot, the antisemitic policies of the postwar period, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. But like millions of other Soviet citizens, they married, raised...
The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics
Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Until 1989 most Soviet Jews wanting to immigrate to the United States left on visas for Israel via Vienna. In Vienna, with the assistance of American aid organizations, thousands of Soviet Jews transferred to Rome and applied for refugee entry into the United States. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry...
"We Are Jews Again"
Jewish Activism in the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Kosharovsky’s authoritative four-volume history of the Jewish movement in the Soviet Union is now available in a condensed and edited volume that makes this compelling insider’s account of Soviet Jewish activism after Stalin available to a wider audience. Originally published in Russian from 2008...
by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick...
by V.S. Pritchett
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
'I am,' writes Mr. Pritchett, 'an offensive traveller'-meaning not that he is rude to porters, but that his praise of a country has sometimes been taken by its inhabitants as abuse or ridicule.
Be that as it may, his book, which is based upon sojourns in Spain, Turkey, Persia, and the Iron...
Communism
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea.
With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death...
by Stephen Lovell
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history...