Russia category: 2582 books
Russia
The Once and Future Empire From Pre-History to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible, and from the height of Communism to the truncated...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
This monograph is devoted to a consideration of Russia's military doctrine. Russia had long before the conference announced the impending release of a new defense or military doctrine, but its release date was always being delayed, signifying a sharp political struggle over its contents. Although...
After Empire
Nationalist Imagination and Symbolic Politics in Russia and Eurasia in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of the decline and fall of Russia’s imperial polity over the last hundred years. While Russia’s historical process is by no means unique, two features of its historical development...
Reeling In Russia
An American Angler In Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
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...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. With the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, hybrid war became a buzzword within political and academic circles. This study examines hybrid warfare applications using contemporary and historical...
Tales of Imperial Russia
The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
History and biography meet in Tales of Imperial Russia, a study of the late-Romanov Russian Empire, told through the figure of Sergei Witte. Like Bismarck or Gorbachev, Witte was a European statesman serving an empire. He was the most important statesman of pre-revolutionary Russia. In the Georgia,...
Russia and the Cult of State Security
The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it.
Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian...
Russia in War and Revolution
General William V. Judson's Accounts from Petrograd, 1917-1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
General William V. Judson was Military Attache and Chief of the American Military Mission in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. His letters, memoranda, and reports constitute one of the most informed eye-witness accounts of war and revolutionary conditions under the Provisional and Bolshevik...
Europe
La Russia come frontiera
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 21, 2014
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...
A Russian Diary
A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most fearless journalists, was gunned down in a contract killing in Moscow in the fall of 2006. Just before her death, Politkovskaya completed this searing, intimate record of life in Russia from the parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the grim summer...
by David Greene
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Travels with NPR host David Greene along the Trans-Siberian Railroad capture an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.
Far away from the trendy cafés, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.
Midnight in Siberia chronicles...
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 Jennifer Eremeeva
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
"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....
by Anne Davison
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
October 2017 marked one hundred years since the Russian Revolution and the overthrow of the Romanov Dynasty. But as the anniversary approached, there appeared to be some ambivalence in the Kremlin as to how the event should be celebrated, if indeed, celebrated at all.
The mood in Russia was captured...