Russia category: 2582 books
Russian Business Power
The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups.
Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact these new actors are having on the evolution of the Russian state and its foreign behaviour....
In Her Hands
The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Though over one hundred private schools for Jewish girls thrived in the areas of Jewish settlement in the Russian empire between 1831 and 1881, their story has been largely overlooked in the scholarship of Jewish educational history. In Her Hands: The Education of Girls in Tsarist Russia restores these...
Russia in Resurrection
A Summary of the Views and of the Aims of a New Party in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Originally published in 1928, this volume examines the idea of being Europasian - that is Russia's uniqueness as a country belonging to and influenced by both Europe and Asia. The book is divided into 3 parts: the first outlines unwesternized Russia and argues that the land, her races, history and...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
The history of Russia is anticipated to be a commonly comprehensible and plainly structured outline of Russia’s history since 1283, after the rise of Moscow. Russia was at its best in the 13th century when Moscow became a center for cultural activities. The Russian Tsardom was now huge Empire which...
Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere
Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This collection of essays discusses modernization, democratization, and economic and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can be accomplished through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. The contributors—which include three Nobel Laureates—strive...
Russia's People of Empire
Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
“A fresh and lively approach to understanding how the various Russian empires have worked.” —Slavic Review
A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies. For six centuries this...
by Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The Real Situation in Russia, first published in 1928, contains three of Trotsky’s harshest rebuttals of Stalin’s takeover of the Russian Revolution following the death of Lenin. The first part contains a defence of the ‘Opposition Platform’ against the Stalinist denunciation; the second details...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Relations between China and Russia have evolved dramatically since their first diplomatic contact, particularly during the twentieth century. During the past decade China and Russia have made efforts to strengthen bilateral ties and improve cooperation on a number of diplomatic fronts. The People's...
Defending Human Rights in Russia
Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969-2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004
Sergei Kovalyov is a central figure in the struggle for human rights in Russia. He was a leading Soviet biology academic and, in the 1970s after becoming active in dissident circles, was arrested by the KGB, tried, imprisoned and subjected to internal exile. After his release, he continued to work...
Before the Modern Russian Revolution
A Memoir About Traveling in the U.S.S.R. in a Time of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
Today, when Russia has regained its power on the world stage and Putin is restoring many of the old traditions and systems, it is helpful to understand what Russia was like at the time of transformation set in motion by Gorbachev and continued by Yeltsin. For a time Russia went through a period called...
How Russia Really Works
The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In...
Political Elites and the New Russia
The Power Basis of Yeltsin's and Putin's Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial strategic actors in reshaping Russia's economy, democratising its political system and decentralising...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Since achieving independence in 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union, Georgia has become the most westward-oriented state in the Transcaucasus. The government in Tbilisi has departed from...
Information and Empire
Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1854
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change?
Information and Mechanisms of Communication in...