Russia Former Soviet Republics category: 572 books
by Simon Adams
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
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.
by Simon Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
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.
by Jack Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
In this amazing eBook you can find more than one hundred facts about the country of Russia. Separated into sections such as its geography, its people, famous Russian figures from history and many more, you will find some fascinating information inside! Whether you are planning on visiting Russia, working...
by Astolphe de Custine
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The Marquis de Custine’s record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world’s most fascinating and troubled countries. It is also a wonderful piece of travel writing. Custine, who met with people in all walks of life, including the Czar...
CultureShock! Russia
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
CultureShock! Russia is the all-essential guide to help you understand and integrate into the largest country in the world. Discover how Russia’s political and cultural histories and other influences have shaped the country and its people. Learn about the values, attitudes and lifestyle of the Russians...
by Karen Gilden, Ray Gilden
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
During the 1970s about 20,000 Americans visited the Soviet Union each year on highly structured guided tours. Very few chose to travel independently, and almost no U.S. tourists camped for six weeks, or drove 3,800 miles through the country commonly declared "our enemy." But the Gildens did.If...
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...
This Crown Is Mine
History of Pretenders for the Crown, Civil War, and Foreign Invasion in Seventeenth-Century Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
In the early 17th century, Russia went through a foreign invasion and the nations first civil war a time so horrible that it acquired its own name in Russian history: The Times of Troubles. Internal and external forces came together to create a storm of such magnitude that it threatened the very existence...
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by Robert Byron
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change.
In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Lenin had just died, Stalin’s dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror had yet to begin. Having taken the...
Suppressed Terror
History and Perception of Soviet Special Camps in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
At the end of World War II, the Soviet secret police installed ten special camps in the Soviet occupation zone, later to become the German Democratic Republik. Between 1945 and 1950, roughly 154,000 Germans were held incommunicado in these camps. Whether those accused of being Nazis, spies, or terrorists...
Behind Putin's Curtain
Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
An outsider's perspective from deep inside Russia
Featuring many quotes and stories from time spent with "every day" Russians
Timely given the current political tension between Russia and the West
Presents a side of Russia not often seen in mainstream news coverage
La nuova Russia di Putin
Nostalgia dell’impero
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 4, 2017
La figura di Vladimir Putin è un grande enigma, che l’autore cerca di interpretare. In primo luogo colpisce il fatto che, mentre in Russia la sua popolarità è altissima, all'estero egli è guardato con perplessità e timore. Putin non agisce in nome di una precisa ideologia: dal passato zarista...
My First Trip to The Homeland: In Search of Abandoned Treasures Behind the Iron Curtain
Travels with Tania
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Although fluent in Russian, I have traveled to my homeland only once in my life, in the depressive years of the Soviet Union’s Communist existence. That trip, in 1977, was occasioned by my position as an executive of a supercomputer company whose products were highly desired by the Soviets. As a...
Chasing the Sea
Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na•ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet...