Russia Former Soviet Republics category: 572 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, NATO has enlarged its membership twice with countries formerly under Soviet influence and control and, as of this writing, is...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The former Soviet states in Central and Eastern Europe comprise a prominent portion of the Russian Federation's "Near Abroad." During and since World War II, these countries have alternately...
by Sophie Pinkham
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A distinctive writer’s fascinating journey into the heart of a troubled region.
Ukraine has rebuilt itself over and over again in the last century, plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, substance abuse, ethnic clashes, and Russian aggression. Sophie Pinkham saw all this and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This excellent 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Following its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has executed an information campaign that could fundamentally change its role on the international scene. Vladimir Putin, through his...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
These two unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in the Ukraine, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime,...
Open Mic Night in Moscow
And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
The raucous and surprisingly poignant story of a young, Russia-obsessed American writer and comedian who embarked on a solo tour of the former Soviet Republics, never imagining that it would involve kidnappers, garbage bags of money, and encounters with the weird and wonderful from Mongolia to Tajikistan.
Kazakhstan,...
Strange Telescopes
Following the Apocalypse from Moscow to Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
The acclaimed author of Lost Cosmonaut “takes us into a world of exorcism, cults and oddballs” living in Ukraine, Siberia, and the catacombs beneath Moscow (The Guardian).
In Lost Cosmonaut, travel writer and anti-tourist Daniel Kalder ventured into the most distant republics of the former...
by Thom Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Travelling across the former Soviet Union is a challenge at the best of times – but in a dilapidated VDub… that’s got to be plain daft... hasn’t it?
A chance job offer at a timber yard in Estonia gives Thom and his old pal Jo a taste for the unknown. So when Uncle Tony asks them to...
The Red Wake
A Hybrid of Travel, History and Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
A hybrid of history, travel and journalism.
Kurt has long been captivated by 'the communists' from his immigrant grandparents' past, transfixed by stories of the Soviet Union, the place where history happened. In the West, the Soviet universe has long been consigned to the dustbin of history,...
Gadfly in Russia
A Story of Travel, History, People, and Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This memoir and literary travelogue from one of the UK’s most esteemed novelists offers rare insight into Cold War–era Russia.
In 1967, seeking an escape from his writing life, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe embarks on a road trip from England to Russia via Harwich and Finland in...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study examines the rationales behind Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to intervene in Ukraine through the lenses of neoclassical realism and prospect theory. The risk-acceptant...
Club Red
Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure...
Lost and Found in Russia
Lives in the Post-Soviet Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
After the fall of communism, Russia was in a state of shock. The sudden and dramatic change left many people adrift and uncertain—but also full of a tentative but tenacious hope. Returning again and again to the provincial hinterlands of this rapidly evolving country from 1992 to 2008, Susan Richards...
King of Russia
A Year in the Russian Super League
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A revealing look inside the Russian Super League by its first Canadian coach.
Until now no Canadian had penetrated the coaching ranks of Russian hockey, but the year after the NHL lockout, Dave King became head coach of the Metallurg Magnitogorsk. From the beginning, King, Canada’s long-time...