Russia Former Soviet Republics category: 572 books

The goal of this book is to help people understand Russia better and to have a better experience while they are here. We wanted to write something that would help people fall in love with Russia, as much as we have, by sharing our experiences and funny stories about our life as an expat in St. Petersburg...

Despite the appalling record of the Soviet Union on human rights questions, many western intellectuals with otherwise impeccable liberal credentials were strong supporters the Soviet Union in the interwar period. This book explores how this seemingly impossible situation came about. Focusing...

Welcome to the Making Money in Russia series: The key to a successful business is knowing the markets. MAKING MONEY IN RUSSIA: KEY BUSINESS CONTACTS & ADDRESSES offers executives, investors, and entrepreneurs the need-to-know information about doing business in Russia. Written...

The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991, fuelled by the admixture of oil politics, great power rivalry, ethnic separatism and terrorism that characterizes the region. However, until...

In the summer of 1996, award-winning journalist Fen Montaigne embarked on a hundred-day, seven-thousand-mile journey across Russia. Traveling with his fly rod, he began his trek in northwestern Russia on the Solovetsky Islands, a remote archipelago that was the birthplace of Stalin's gulag. He ended...

L’Europa è fatta di nazioni che nascono, rinascono, si rinnovano, si fondono, si separano. Forte della sua profonda conoscenza della Russia, Vittorio Strada propone il suo contributo a una discussione sempre aperta su temi cruciali e attuali. Gli interrogativi a cui il libro cerca di dare risposta...

"You can't make this stuff up."  So says American writer, Imperial Russia enthusiast, Romanov junkie, and veteran expatriate, Jennifer Eremeeva, who has lived for the last twenty years in Russia after she fell in love with, and married HRH, her Handsome Russian Husband (occasionally a.k.a....

Discover every aspect of Ukraine and Crimea in this massive, authoritative compilation of up-to-date official documents with details about everything from history and geography to the crisis with Russia in 2014. Thirty-six parts total over one thousand pages of informative coverage, with extensive...

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...

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 last sixty years of Imperial Russia are not only of great historical interest, but are significant for other countries and other periods. The social, economic, and political conditions which gave Lenin his opportunity were similar to those now giving birth to various types of revolutionary movements...

In Russia A Tale of Two Cities: Saint Petersburg and Moscow, we discover Russia in the eyes of the author, a “not-so-average” American. Follow his journey as he details his travel in Russia with his family in the Putin-era. Discover Moscow and St. Petersburg. Discover Russia’s past, present and what may lie ahead for this nation’s future.

La strada da percorrere con destinazione Russia è lunga: occorrono molte ore di treno. Ma non c’è tempo per annoiarsi: il tragitto è una continua scoperta e rivela la vera essenza di questo straordinario paese attraverso gli incontri con le persone ordinarie che si incrociano in ambienti solo...

Written in British English, In "Russia", you will learn that Russia is the largest country in the world and its natural resources make it one of the richest. It has experienced enormous political, social, and economic upheaval during the last century, and as a result, Russia faces many challenges.