Russia category: 2582 books
Suzanne en Edouard Manet
de liefde van een Hollandse pianiste en een Parijse schilder
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Suzanne en Edouard Manet vertelt over de liefde tussen de Nederlandse pianiste Suzanne Leenhoff en de schilder Edouard Manet.
Als jong meisje reist Suzanne op aanraden van Franz Liszt in 1847 naar Parijs om daar haar pianostudie voort te zetten. Ze geeft er pianoles aan de broers Manet. Wat...
Natasja's dans
Een culturele geschiedenis van Rusland
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Natasja's dans is een groots verhaal over de Russische cultuur, met aandacht voor literatuur, muziek, beeldende kunst, architectuur en filosofie. Van de pracht en praal van SintPetersburg in de achttiende eeuw en de grote Russische romans tot de schilderijen van Repin, de muziek van Stravinsky en...
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: French
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Une histoire d'amour et d'aventures, voici La Boule de Neige. Dans le Daghestan du XIXe siècle, ce livre nous fait suivre l'épopée d'Iskander tandis que celui-ci échoit d'une mission délicate afin de préserver d'un terrible sort la ville de Derbent. Se débattant contre brigands et dilemmes,...
Leningrad
The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.
Anna...
by Kazimierz Waliszewski
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite.
Kazimierz Waliszewski was a Polish historian who wrote primarily on Russian history. One of Waliszewski's most popular works was on Ivan the Terrible.
by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
The Russians themselves will say at times they have no history. Some, like Tchaadáyef of old, deplore the fact in melancholy strain, passionate and eloquent, nor can anything console them for having missed the most brilliant epochs of European life, or allay their fears that, for lack of the same...
Class Theory and History
Capitalism and Communism in the USSR
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Kazakhstan - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Kazakhstan, one of the largest countries on earth, was long hidden from the rest of the world behind the Iron Curtain, and continued to remain unnoticed among the "stans" of Central Asia that gained independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Now, twenty years later, it has emerged...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Azerbaijan Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
Empire of Extinction
Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians crossed and re-crossed the Bering Strait and the...
Histoire de la Révolution russe tome 1 : Février ; tome 2 : Octobre
édition intégrale
Language: French
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Extrait :
« 8 mars 1917 : Ainsi s'achevait un règne qui, d'un bout à l'autre, avait été un enchaînement de mécomptes, de malheurs, de calamités et d'actes criminels, depuis la catastrophe sur le terrain de la Khodynka, le jour du couronnement, en passant par les fusillades dirigées...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992–3....
Peopling the Russian Periphery
Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Though usually forgotten in general surveys of European colonization, the Russians were among the greatest colonizers of the Old World, eventually settling across most of the immense expanse of Northern Europe and Asia, from the Baltic and the Pacific, and from the Arctic Ocean to Central Asia. This...
Privilege in the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals)
A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1978, this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in sociological terms,...