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Revolutionary Acts

Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938

by Lynn Mally
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov. In Revolutionary Acts,...
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Lenin

The Practice and Theory of Revolution

by James D White
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

A political and intellectual biographical study of Lenin which focuses on those aspects of his thought and political activities that had a bearing on the accession of the Bolsheviks to power in Russia in 1917 and the creation of the Soviet state. The book places Lenin in the context of his times and...
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by David Longley
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014

This is the first book of its kind to draw together information on the major events in Russian history from 1695 to 1917 - covering the eventful period from the accession of Peter the Great to the fall of Nicholas II. Not only is a vast amount of material on key events and topics brought together,...
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by Sergei Antonov
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016

As readers of Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. Russians of all classes were enmeshed in networks of credit and debt, and borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth. Sergei Antonov recreates this imperial world of borrowers, bankrupts, lenders, and loan sharks.
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by Natalia Skripalshchikova
Language: Russian
Release Date: March 14, 2014

Я родилась в Сибири в поселке Черемшаные ключи Нижнеингашского района Красноярского края. Затем я приехала покорять Москву,где работала на рынке, а потом устроилась...
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by Oleksandr Zadorozhnii
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017

The monograph is a comprehensive study of approaches adopted by the Russian doctrine

of international law regarding the 2013-2015 events which are directly or indirectly connected

with international legal relations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation – the Revolution

of Dignity...
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Operation Typhoon

The German Assault on Moscow, 1941

by Yves Buffetaut
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2018

After the initial successes of Operation Barbarossa, at the end of September 1941 Hitler turned his focus to Moscow, with the unshakable belief that capturing the capital would knock the Soviets out of the war. On the face of it, it was an unequal struggle; Field Marshall Fedor von Bock had at his...
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Il dovere di uccidere

Le radici storiche del terrorismo

by Vittorio Strada
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 18, 2018

Chi è un terrorista? Qual è il suo mondo interiore? Cos'ha di diverso dal soldato e dal criminale? Secondo Vittorio Strada è nella Russia della seconda metà del XIX e dell'inizio del XX secolo che il terrorismo ha avuto la sua più grande affermazione: è quel terrorismo che ha suscitato in intellettuali...
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Komrads

Russian Street Photography

by John Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017

As one of the most audacious street photographers John D Williams in “Komrads” offers to you unique and compelling images of city people in the urban environment, as well as the rural folk of modern Russia in the 21st century. Committed to creating original visions of documentary photography his...
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1990

Russians Remember a Turning Point

by Arch Tait, Irina Prokhorova
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013

Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party's monopoly on political power. This fascinating collection of documentary evidence crystalises the aspirations of the Russian...
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Thirteen Years at the Russian Court

A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his Family

by Pierre Gilliard
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2018

Nicholas II (1868-1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1, 1894 until his forced abdication on March 15, 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. He was given the nickname Nicholas...
Cover of The Decline of Imperial Russia
by Hugh Seton-Watson
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017

This book, originally published in 1952, describes and explains the stage of the decline of the Russian Empire between the Crimean and First World Wars. The book is divided up by period: the reign of Alexander II (1855-81), the period of reaction (1881-1905) and the ‘Revolution’ of 1905 and its...
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by Roberto Cattani
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 16, 2018

Una guida per scoprire i numerosi tesori d'arte e le tradizioni millenarie di regioni che gli eventi storici recenti avevano, per così dire, opacizzato - Una sintesi per cogliere la cultura russa con tanti richiami alla storia, all'arte e alle tradizioni - Mosca e San Pietroburgo, le città più...
Cover of Il calo della popolazione in URSS dal 1937 al 1945: entità, forme, storiografia
by Sergej Kropačev, Evgenij Кrinkо, Traduzione di Francesca Volpi
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2016

Lo stalinismo rappresenta tutt’oggi uno dei periodi più complessi e controversi della storia della Russia e dell’Unione Sovietica. L’accertamento del numero delle vittime di Stalin suscita ancora animate discussioni tra i ricercatori e in Russia e nella storiografia postsovietica si assiste...
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