Russia category: 2582 books
Terre d’Oriente
Viaggio nell’Europa di passaggio tra crisi e nuovi equilibri
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Con la crisi ucraina ha fatto irruzione sul palcoscenico della geopolitica un nuovo tipo di conflitto: la guerra ibrida. Crimea e Donbass sono un esempio di guerra non dichiarata condotta da un Paese, la Russia, contro un altro utilizzando mezzi non convenzionali. La Crimea è stata annessa alla Federazione...
Anatomy of Post-Communist European Defense Institutions
The Mirage of Military Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Although the West won the Cold War, the continuation of the status quo is not a foregone conclusion. The former Soviet-aligned regions outside of Russia -- Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, and others -- sit atop decaying armed forces while Russian behavior has grown more and more aggressive, as evidenced...
The History of the Russian Empire
From the Foundation of Kievian Russia to the Rise of the Romanov Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook edition of "The History of the Russian Empire" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Rise of the Russian Empire is a historical study on Russian history, written by Hector H. Munro. The Book covers the period from...
Devastation and Laughter
Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s)
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
In Devastation and Laughter,Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin. Gérin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor un-theorized....
The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973
The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight the topicality of this groundbreaking study, which confirms the USSR's role in shaping Middle Eastern and global history. This book covers the peak...
Among the Red Autocrats
My Experience in the Service of the Soviets
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1935, this is the full and frank account of author George Solomon’s service to the Soviet Government during the Russian Civil War.
Solomon, who was named First Secretary to the Commissar for Commerce and Industry, Leonid Borisovich Krasin, in July 1918, provides a detailed...
Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus
Alternative Visions of the Conflict between Imam Shamil and the Russians, 1830-1859
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the mountain war between the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus and the imperial Russian army from 1830 to 1859. The authors...
The Soviet Biological Weapons Program
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This is the first attempt to understand the full scope of the USSR’s offensive biological weapons research, from inception in the 1920s. Gorbachev tried to end the program, but the U.S. and U.K. never obtained clear evidence that he succeeded, raising the question whether the means for waging biological warfare could be present in Russia today.
by Elena I. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested issue among educated Russians both inside and outside the government. As formulated in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Muslim Question...
From Conquest to Deportation
The North Caucasus under Russian Rule
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book is about a region on the fringes of empire, which neither Tsarist Russia, nor the Soviet Union, nor in fact the Russian Federation, ever really managed to control. Starting with the nineteenth century, it analyses the state's various strategies to establish its rule over populations highly...
by Galina Eangelista
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
What price Freedom is a poignant, bittersweet novel/documentary, based on a true story of searing passion and haunting practicality as one woman is forced to abandon her beloved Leningrad to protect her half-Jewish son. She must come to grips with the pain and suffering that their departure to freedom...
"The Touch of Civilization"
Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The Touch of Civilization is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the Sioux of the Great Plains and the Kazakhs of the Eurasian Steppe. In the revealing juxtaposition...
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.
By focusing on the case of Chechnya, this study analyzes how transnational jihadists gain influence in nationalist movements. Chechens united to support the separatist cause during...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The Routledge Handbook of Russian Security offersa comprehensive collection of essays on all aspects of Russian security and foreign policy by international scholars from across the world.
The volume identifies key contemporary topics of research and debate and takes into account the changes...