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Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital by Katherine Zubovich 9780691202723
RRP: £28.00£22.14An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old... -
Red Advance, White Defeat: Civil War in South Russia 1919-1920 by Peter Kenez 9780974493459
RRP: £22.00£19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974493459Author Peter KenezFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 544g -
Reading Russian Sources: A Student's Guide to Text and Visual Sources from Russian History George Gilbert (University of Southampton, UK) 9780815394976
RRP: £35.99£31.94Reading Russian Sources is an accessible and comprehensive guide that introduces students to the wide range of sources that can be used to engage with Russian history from the early medieval to the late Soviet periods.Divided into two parts, the book... -
The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food by Darra Goldstein 9780520383890
RRP: £21.00£15.27Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. The Kingdom of Rye unearths the foods and flavors of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers a... -
The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years by Vojtech Mastny 9780195126594
RRP: £74.00£55.18Arguing that ideology is the cornerstone of the Cold War, Mastny demonstrates that Stalin's single-minded adherence to Marxism-Leninism created an atmosphere, both domestically and internationally, of constant insecurity. Behind the internal purges,... -
The White Generals: An Account of the White Movement and the Russian Civil War Richard Luckett 9781138631274
RRP: £37.99£33.64This account of the Russian Civil War, originally published in 1971, combines a vivid narrative of the military events with a biographical discussion of the White Generals, figures of the former Imperial Russian Army offices who led the separate... -
Beethoven in Russia: Music and Politics by Frederick W. Skinner
RRP: £29.99£26.50How did Ludwig van Beethoven help overthrow a tsarist regime? With the establishment of the Russian Musical Society and its affiliated branches throughout the empire, Beethoven's music reached substantially larger audiences at a time of increasing... -
History of Russia: A Captivating Guide to Russian History, Ivan the Terrible, The Russian Revolution and Cambridge Five by Captivating History 9781647484293
RRP: £29.99£20.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647484293Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm)... -
Cinepaternity: Fathers and Sons in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film by Helena Goscilo
RRP: £21.99£20.18This wide-ranging collection investigates the father/son dynamic in post-Stalinist Soviet cinema and its Russian successor. Contributors analyze complex patterns of identification, disavowal, and displacement in films by such diverse directors as... -
Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside by Christina Kiaer
RRP: £23.99£20.84What did it mean to live as a subject of early Soviet modernity? In the 1920s and 1930s, in an environment where every element of daily life was supposed to be transformed by Soviet ideology, routine activities became ideologically significant, subject... -
The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents by Ronald Grigor Suny 9780195340549
£86.33Edited by eminent historian Ronald Grigor Suny, this unique collection of primary documents and important scholarly articles frames both the revolutionary changes and broad continuities in Soviet history. Organized chronologically and covering political,... -
Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference: The Case of Vladimir Jabotinsky against the Russian Empire by Marina B. Mogilner 9780253066138
RRP: £23.99£20.84Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference explores how Russian Jewish writers and political activists such as Vladimir Jabotinsky turned to "race" as an operational concept in the late imperial politics of the Russian Empire.Building on the latest... -
Solzhenitsyn: The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West by Lee W. Congdon
RRP: £35.00£30.98In this examination of Solzhenitsyn and his work, Lee Congdon explores the consequences of the atheistic socialism that drove the Russian revolutionary movement. Beginning with a description of the post-revolutionary Russia into which Solzhenitsyn was... -
Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag by Golfo Alexopoulos
RRP: £53.00£51.05A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor... -
Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881 by Ben Eklof
RRP: £15.99£14.24"[The book] succeeds remarkably in providing a multifaceted, yet interconnected, analysis of this signal era of modern Russian history and it is heartily recommended." -The HistorianThis volume, the work of an international group of scholars that... -
The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe by Keith Martin
RRP: £34.00£30.87This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War by Rodric Braithwaite 9781400095452
RRP: £22.00£16.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095452Author Rodric BraithwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm)... -
Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism by Mark Bassin 9780822963660
£45.60Between Europe and Asia analyzes the origins and development of Eurasianism, an intellectual movement that proclaimed the existence of Eurasia, a separate civilization coinciding with the former Russian Empire. The essays in the volume explore the... -
Stuck on Communism: Memoir of a Russian Historian by Lewis H. Siegelbaum 9781501747373
RRP: £26.99£23.32This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century-from the 1950s when Lewis Siegelbaum's father was a victim of McCarthyism up through the implosion of the Soviet Union and beyond... -
Moscow has Ears Everywhere: New Investigations on Pasternak and Ivinskaya by Paolo Mancosu
RRP: £34.95£31.23The conflict between Soviet Communists and Boris Pasternak over the publication of Doctor Zhivago did not end when he won the Nobel Prize, or even when the author died. Paolo Mancosu tells how Pasternak's expulsion from the Soviet Writers' Union left him... -
Russia`s Capitalist Revolution - Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed by Anders Aslund 9780881324099
RRP: £22.50£18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881324099Author Anders AslundFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute for... -
Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty by Mark G Pomar 9781640125148
RRP: £27.99£24.52Cold War Radio is a fascinating look at how the United States waged the Cold War through the international broadcasting of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Mark G. Pomar served in senior positions at VOA and RFE/RL... -
Solzhenitsyn and the Right by Spencer J Quinn 9781953730572
RRP: £19.99£19.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730572Author Spencer J QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)... -
From "the Ukraine" to Ukraine - A Contemporary History of 1991-2021 by Georgiy Kasianov
RRP: £41.00£33.98The contributors to this collection explore the multidimensional transformation of independent Ukraine and deal with her politics, society, private sector, identity, arts, religions, media, and democracy. Each chapter reflects the up-to-date research in... -
Fighting in Hell: The German Ordeal on the Eastern Front by Peter G. Tsouras 9780804116985
RRP: £7.99£6.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804116985Author Peter G. TsourasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 172mm... -
The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States by Ronald Suny 9780195340556
RRP: £59.00£58.59Now thoroughly revised in its second edition, The Soviet Experiment examines the complex themes of Soviet history, ranging from the last tsar of the Russian empire to the first president of the Russian republic. Author Ronald Grigor Suny, one of the most... -
The Bleeding Wound: The Soviet War in Afghanistan and the Collapse of the Soviet System by Yaacov Ro'i
RRP: £62.00£54.38By the mid-1980s, public opinion in the USSR had begun to turn against Soviet involvement in Afghanistan: the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) had become a long, painful, and unwinnable conflict, one that Mikhail Gorbachev referred to as a "bleeding wound"... -
Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach by Professor Choi Chatterjee 9781350026414
RRP: £21.99£20.92Russia in World History uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. The book challenges the idea of Russia as an outlier of European civilization by examining select themes in modern Russian history alongside cases... -
Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire by Erik R. Scott 9780190695774
RRP: £41.49£31.79A small, non-Slavic country located far from the Soviet capital, Georgia has been more closely linked with the Ottoman and Persian empires than with Russia for most of its history. One of over one hundred officially classified Soviet nationalities,... -
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 by Chairman Rodric Braithwaite 9780199832651
RRP: £33.99£22.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199832651Author Chairman Rodric BraithwaiteFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press... -
Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring by Kathleen E. Smith
RRP: £35.95£29.19Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessor's abuses. Meant to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" of... -
The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe by Brian M. Downing
RRP: £55.00£43.25To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of... -
Peasants, Power, and Place - Revolution in the Villages of Kharkiv Province, 1914-1921 by Mark R. Baker 9781932650150
RRP: £33.95£27.41Peasants, Power, and Place is the first English-language book to focus on Ukrainian-speaking peasants during the revolutionary period from 1914 to 1921. In contrast to the many studies written from the perspectives of the Ukrainian national movement's... -
The Galosh: And Other Stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko 9781590202111
RRP: £14.95£9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590202111Author Mikhail ZoshchenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War by Kristin Joy Roth-Ey
RRP: £27.99£24.52When Nikita Khrushchev visited Hollywood in 1959 only to be scandalized by a group of scantily clad actresses, his message was blunt: Soviet culture would soon consign the mass culture of the West, epitomized by Hollywood, to the "dustbin of history." In... -
Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold W AR by Pete Earley
RRP: £24.00£17.58When the Cold War ended, the spying that marked the era did not. An incredible true story from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times bestselling author of Crazy.Between 1995 and 2000, "Comrade J" was the go-to man for SVR (the successor to the KGB)... -
Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 by Alexander M. Martin 9780198722885
£42.75Imperial Russia, is was said, had two capital cities because it had two identities: St. Petersburg was Russia's "window to Europe," whereas Moscow preserved the nation's proud historical traditions. Enlightened Metropolis challenges this myth by... -
The Stalin Years: A Reader by Christopher Read
£38.75Ever since his rise to power Stalin has been a controversial figure. From the hatred of his Trotsky-supporting contemporaries to the uncritical adulation of present-day followers in Russia and his native land of Georgia he has stirred passions and... -
The Soviet Union and Russia, 1939-2015: A History in Documents by Ms Karen Petrone
£94.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195338034Author Ms Karen PetroneFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 201mm * 18mm -
The House of Hemp and Butter: A History of Old Riga by Kevin C. O'Connor, Ph.D.
RRP: £108.00£94.53Founded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia's greatest city and its indispensable port. Because the city was situated in what was initially remote and inhospitable territory, surrounded...