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Reinterpreting Russia by Geoffrey Hosking 9780340731352
£29.35Russia has undergone immense changes in the 20th century. From tsarism to communism, from communism to the market economy. But to what extent does this market economy reproduce the capitalism that characterised Russia in the centuries before 1917? What... -
Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras by Alexander Chubarov 9780826413505
£72.57In this history of Russia from 1917 to the present, Chubarov teases out themes developed in his previous book on tsarist Russia, "The Fragile Empire" (Continuum, 2000). One of the key factors in Russia's distinctiveness is its halfway location in the... -
Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union: Medical, Political and Social Contexts Dr Susan Grant 9781350273832
£29.35This open access book brings together an eclectic cast of scholars in related disciplines to examine ageing in the Soviet Union, covering the practice of geriatrics, the science of gerontology, and the experience of growing old. Chapters in the book... -
Modern Russian History: The Search for National Identity and Global Power by Roxanne Easley 9781516502721
£78.47Modern Russian History: The Search for National Identity and Global Power exposes readers to the rich history of Russia, emphasizing the major forces and factors that shaped its development as a nation and an empire. Students are encouraged to draw... -
Russia in the Early Modern World: The Continuity of Change by Donald Ostrowski 9781793634221
RRP: £38.00£33.65A fundamental problem in studying early modern Russian history is determining Russia’s historical development in relationship to the rest of the world. The focus throughout this book is on the continuity of Russian policies during the early modern period... -
Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott 9798888306130
RRP: £20.95£20.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306130Author Jacob AbbottFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 381g -
Flawed Succession: Russia's Power Transfer Crises by Uri Ra'anan 9780739114032
RRP: £42.00£36.64This authoritative study examines Russia's four key succession crises: after Stalin's death, throughout Khrushchev's primacy, during the implosion of the USSR, and with Putin's ascent to power. The distinguished authors argue that the common denominator... -
Russia and Eurasia 2019-2020 by Brent Hierman 9781475852479
RRP: £25.00£22.19Published and updated annually, Russia and Eurasia deals with the twelve independent republics that became members of the Commonwealth of Independent States following the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1992. The text focuses strongly on recent... -
The Human Tradition in Imperial Russia by Christine D. Worobec 9780742537361
RRP: £89.00£77.33This compelling set of essays presents richly human stories of individual and group experiences, as well as of key events in the history of Imperial Russia. Beginning with Peter I's dress reforms in the early eighteenth century and concluding with poets... -
The KGB, Russian Academic Imperialism, Ukraine, and Western Academia, 1946–2024 by Sergei I. Zhuk 9781666943672
RRP: £88.00£77.09The KGB, Russian Academic Imperialism, Ukraine, and Western Academia, 1946-2024 is a study of Soviet and Russian intelligence operations against the centers for Soviet studies in North American academia. Using recently opened archival KGB and US... -
The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide: The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s by Victoria A. Malko 9781498596800
RRP: £35.00£31.11This study focuses on the first group targeted in the genocide known as the Holodomor: Ukrainian intelligentsia, the “brain of the nation,” using the words of Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term genocide and enshrined it in international law. The study’s... -
The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961 by Alexey Tikhomirov 9781666911916
RRP: £35.00£31.11This book examines the construction, dissemination, and reception of the Stalin cult in East Germany from the end of World War II to the building of the Berlin Wall. By exporting Stalin’s cult to the Eastern bloc, Moscow aspired to symbolically unite the... -
Nation-Building and Common Values in Russia by Professor Pal Kolsto 9780742526655
RRP: £110.00£95.66Vladimir Putin has explicitly based his nation-building initiatives on the assumption that there exists a vast pool of common values in Russia that cut across ethnic and regional divides. Nation-Building and Common Values in Russia explores whether Putin... -
The Lost Opportunity: Attempts at Unification of the Anti-Bolsheviks:1917-1919 by Christopher Lazarski 9780761841203
RRP: £42.00£36.64The term 'White movement' is commonly associated with the military struggle against the Soviet regime pursued by various anti-Bolshevik armies. Such a perception of the movement neglects the considerable effort undertaken by Russian political elites to... -
Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age: Memorable Futures by Natalija Majsova 9781793609335
RRP: £30.00£28.31This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. Once an enthusiastic projection, then a... -
What's Left?: Marxism, Utopianism, and the Revolt against History by Jack Lawrence Luzkow 9780761835455
RRP: £38.00£33.25The writings of Karl Marx explored the tensions between the laws of socialist science and a utopian longing for socialism; between a science of history and a prophetic hope based on moral and ethical ideals. His writings examined history and argued for... -
Raymond Robins' Own Story: The Untold Story of a Political Mystery by William Hard 9781605207414
£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605207414Author William HardFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 345g -
The Cold War through Documents: A Global History by Edward H. Judge 9781538195673
RRP: £77.00£67.62This text is a comprehensive collection of more than 100 carefully edited documents (speeches, treaties, statements, and articles), making the great events of the era come alive through the words and phrases of those who were actively involved. Coverage... -
Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time by Antony Kalashnikov 9781501774270
RRP: £21.99£19.19Monuments for Posterity challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined posterity. In this respect,... -
Enemies of the People under Stalinism by Alexey Vinogradov 9780761874072
RRP: £14.99£13.45Stalinism is the name that is used to identify the political and economic systems introduced and implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union from the time that Stalin became the supreme power in the Russian Communist Party in 1927 to his death in... -
Everyday Belonging in Post-Soviet Borderlands: Spatial Narratives of Russian Speakers in Estonia and Kazakhstan by Alina Jasina-Schafer 9781793631381
RRP: £81.00£71.63This book examines the Russophone communities in peripheral cities adjacent to the Russian borders in Estonia and Kazakhstan. The research adopts a cross-disciplinary, space-sensitive approach that focuses comparatively on individual memories,... -
Stalin's Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism by Tinatin Japaridze 9781793641885
RRP: £30.00£26.68This book examines Joseph Stalin’s increasing popularity in the post-Soviet space, and analyzes how his image, and the nostalgia it evokes, is manipulated and exploited for political gain. The author argues that, in addition to the evil dictator and the... -
Reviving Greater Russia: The Future of Russia's Borders and Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhastan, Moldova by Herman Pirchner 9780761832003
RRP: £30.00£26.47In December 2001, a new Russian law laying the basis for the peaceful territorial expansion of the Russian Federation went into effect. The entire country of Belarus-as well as parts of Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine-are the most likely candidates to... -
A Reluctant Parliament: Stolypin, Nationalism, and the Politics of the Russian Imperial State Council, 1906-1911 by Alexandra S. Korros 9780742515376
RRP: £96.00£83.31In A Reluctant Parliament, noted historian Alexandra S. Korros deftly explores the organization and operation of the Russian Empire's State Council in the wake of the 1905 revolution. Korros dismisses the traditional interpretation that the State Council... -
Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott 9798888306123
£13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306123Author Jacob AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 218g -
The Politics of Local Government in Russia by Alfred B. Evans 9780742524798
RRP: £123.00£106.76According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, adopted in 1993, local autonomy is one of the fundamental principles of the constitutional system. The Politics of Local Government in Russia aims to provide a dedicated and comprehensive... -
A Reluctant Parliament: Stolypin, Nationalism, and the Politics of the Russian Imperial State Council, 1906-1911 by Alexandra S. Korros 9780742515383
RRP: £48.00£41.72In A Reluctant Parliament, noted historian Alexandra S. Korros deftly explores the organization and operation of the Russian Empire's State Council in the wake of the 1905 revolution. Korros dismisses the traditional interpretation that the State Council... -
The Russian Medical Humanities: Past, Present, and Future by Melissa Miller 9781498592154
RRP: £81.00£71.06For the first time in English, The Russian Medical Humanities: Past and Present argues that the medical humanities is a vibrant and emerging field in Post-Soviet Russia. In a unique collaboration that brings together diverse experts from both Russia and... -
Sino-Russian Policies in the Center and Periphery: A Comparative Analysis by Samra Sarfraz Khan 9781666910575
RRP: £81.00£71.46This book is a comparative study of Chinese and Russian policies in their respective inner peripheries. As the inner peripheries of the two states are rather vast, a selected number of regions have been chosen from the two geographical expanses. These... -
The Hidden History of New Women in Serbian Culture: Toward a New History of Literature by Svetlana Tomic 9781793631985
RRP: £89.00£78.35Settled in the nineteenth century, a period of national liberation, this book presents facts about the contribution of women to Serbian culture. The story is, however, of an equal contemporary as well as of historical relevance: work of these authors... -
Eurasianism and the European Far Right: Reshaping the Europe-Russia Relationship by Dr. Marlene Laruelle 9781498510707
RRP: £50.00£43.76The 2014 Ukrainian crisis has highlighted the pro-Russia stances of some European countries, such as Hungary and Greece, and of some European parties, mostly on the far-right of the political spectrum. They see themselves as victims of the EU... -
The Pilsen Revolt of 1953: Kindred by Currency by Jakub Slouf 9781793646453
RRP: £97.00£84.56This book analyzes the first of the vast popular uprisings in the countries of Eastern Bloc-the revolt of West Bohemian City of Pilsen against the currency reform on June 1, 1953. The text is the first complex critical monograph on this topic. In the... -
American-Soviet Cultural Diplomacy: The Bolshoi Ballet's American Premiere by Cadra Peterson McDaniel 9780739199305
RRP: £113.00£98.22American-Soviet Cultural Diplomacy: The Bolshoi Ballet's American Premiere is the first full-length examination of a Soviet cultural diplomatic effort. Following the signing of an American-Soviet cultural exchange agreement in the late 1950s, Soviet... -
The A to Z of United States-Russian/Soviet Relations by Norman E. Saul 9780810875500
RRP: £45.00£39.58For more than 200 years the United States and Russia have shared a multi-faceted relationship. Because of the rise of power the two countries enjoyed in the late 19th and through the 20th century, Russian-American relations have dominated much of recent... -
The Russian Century: A Hundred Years of Russian Lives by George Pahomov 9780761840671
RRP: £56.00£48.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A History of Russia and Its Empire: From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin by Kees Boterbloem 9781538104408
RRP: £46.00£40.35This clear and focused text provides an introduction to imperial Russian and Soviet history from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 to Vladimir Putin's new term. Through a consistent chronological narrative, Kees Boterbloem considers the political,... -
Reinventing Russia: The Formation of a Post-Soviet Identity by Peter J. Piveronus 9780761845805
RRP: £35.00£30.95As Russia enters the first decade of the new millennium, self-confident and assertive in relations with the rest of the world, the country is also in search of a new identity to take the place of the ideology of the now defunct Soviet system. Russia's... -
From Peasant to Patriarch: Account of the Birth, Upbringing, and Life of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia by Ioann Shusherin 9780739115794
RRP: £92.00£79.89Nikon (1605-1681), patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, is best known for imposing the religious reforms that ultimately led to the schism of the Russian Orthodox Church. Yet only the Account of Birth, Life, and Upbringing of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch... -
The Life and Times of Charles R. Crane, 1858-1939: American Businessman, Philanthropist, and a Founder of Russian Studies in America by Norman E. Saul 9780739177457
RRP: £115.00£99.93In The Life and Times of Charles R. Crane, Norman E. Saul analyzes the contributions of Charles R. Crane, world traveler, businessman, diplomat, and philanthropist in the setting of his times. Crane acquired his appreciation for Russian culture and life... -
The Split in Stalin's Secretariat, 1939-1948 by Jonathan Harris 9780739126066
RRP: £45.00£39.18Jonathan Harris demonstrates that the leaders of Stalin's Secretariat clashed sharply over the nature of the Communist party's 'leadership' of the Soviet state in the period between 1939 and 1948. The term 'party leadership' is generally misunderstood;...