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Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse by Lawrence Scott Sheets 9780307395832
RRP: £22.00£15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307395832Author Lawrence Scott SheetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale by Laura Engelstein
RRP: £31.00£27.36Of the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the eighteenth century, one was universally despised. Its members were peasants from the Russian heartland skilled in the arts of animal husbandry who turned their knives on... -
Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K Massie 9780345298065
RRP: £24.00£17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345298065Author Robert K. MassieFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Tsarina's Lost Treasure: Catherine the Great, a Golden Age Masterpiece, and a Legendary Shipwreck by Gerald Easter
RRP: £12.99£8.41A riveting history and maritime adventure about priceless masterpieces originally destined for Catherine the Great.On October 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, Vrouw Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her historic cargo to the... -
October 1917 Workers in Power by Ernest Mandel
RRP: £17.95£16.36Was October 1917 a coup d'etat or a social revolution? Writing as both a historian and political activist, Ernest Mandel vigorously reasserts the deep legitimacy of the Russian Revolution. He considers mistakes made by the Bolshevik leadership in 1917-21... -
The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia by Mark Bassin
RRP: £19.99£17.81Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912-1992) has attracted extraordinary interest in Russia and beyond. The son of two of modern Russia's greatest poets, Nikolai... -
Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863-1914 by Theodore R. Weeks 9780875809861
RRP: £22.99£20.14If one were to pick a single explanation for the fall of the tsarist and Soviet empires, it might well be Russia's inability to achieve a satisfactory relationship with non-Russian nationalities. Perhaps no other region demonstrates imperial Russia's... -
Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution Friends of Aron Baron 9781849352963
RRP: £16.00£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352963Author Friends of Aron BaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev 9780300103229
£22.38The main architect of the concept of perestroika under Gorbachev, Alexander N. Yakovlev played a unique role in the transformation of the Soviet Union. Now, drawing on his own experiences and on his privileged access to state and Party archives, he... -
Orthodoxy and the Cold War: Religion and Political Power in Romania, 1947-65 by Lucian Leustean 9780230218017
RRP: £44.99£44.97Explores the dynamics between Orthodoxy and politics in Romania, providing an accessible narrative on church-state relations from the establishment of the state in 1859 to the rise of Ceau?escu in 1965. The book argues that Romanian national communism... -
Slavery, Law, and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher 9780195102826
RRP: £13.99£12.57In The Dream That Failed, an internationally renowned historian provides a new understanding of the Soviet experience, from the rise of Communism to its sudden fall. The result of years of research and reflection, he sheds fresh light on a central... -
The Tsar's Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia by Paul W. Werth
£40.74The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making... -
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR by Isaac McKean Scarborough 9781501771026
RRP: £50.00£44.15Moscow's Heavy Shadow tells the story of the collapse of the USSR from the perspective of the many millions of Soviet citizens who experienced it as a period of abjection and violence. Mikhail Gorbachev and the leaders of the USSR saw the years of reform... -
Russia's Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods by Vera Tolz 9780199594443
RRP: £122.50£98.74Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St... -
The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Wars by Vladimir N. Brovkin 9780300067064
£50.87In this book distinguished scholars from East and West draw on recently opened archives to challenge the commonly held view that the Bolsheviks enjoyed widespread support and that their early history was simply a march toward inevitable victory. They... -
The Future of the Soviet Past: The Politics of History in Putin's Russia by Anton Weiss-Wendt 9780253057624
RRP: £33.00£29.05In post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to repress, control, or even co-opt national history. By reshaping memory to suit a politically convenient narrative, Russia has fashioned a good future out of a "bad past." While Putin's regime has... -
Modernism and Totalitarianism: Rethinking the Intellectual Sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the Present by R. Shorten 9780230252073
RRP: £49.99£44.97Modernism and Totalitarianism evaluates a broad range of post-1945 scholarship. Totalitarianism, as the common ideological trajectory of Nazism and Stalinism, is dissected as a synthesis of three modernist intellectual currents which determine its... -
The Creation of the Black Russian Terrier: Moscow: Teffi Group by Donald B Anderson 9781927058541
RRP: £17.95£14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927058541Author Donald B AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Crowe CreationsPublisher Crowe CreationsWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia by Clare Griffin
RRP: £29.99£26.50Early modern Russians preferred one method of treating the sick above all others: prescribing drugs. The Moscow court sourced pharmaceuticals from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and the Americas, in addition to its own sprawling empire, to heal its ailing... -
Picturing the Page: Soviet Illustrated Children's Literature and Reading under Lenin by Megan Swift 9781442615311
RRP: £22.99£20.01Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page offers a vivid exploration of illustrated children's literature and reading under Lenin and Stalin - a period when mass publishing for children and universal... -
Tsars & Cossacks - A Study in Iconography by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: £15.95£13.30Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709)-the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa-be... -
Russian Cultural Studies: An Introduction by Catriona Kelly
£66.70Intended as a companion to Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution: 1881-1940 (also published by OUP) and covering a later period until the present day, this stimulating, original, and controversial book will not only be a vital resource... -
The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilsm, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930 - Expanded Edition by Richard Stites
RRP: £60.00£54.25Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events... -
By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia by Nancy Shields Kollmann
RRP: £15.99£14.46In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized codes that made up this culture... -
On the Periphery of Europe, 1762-1825: The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite by Andreas Schoenle
RRP: £35.00£30.98Throughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western countries to various degrees, while retaining a strong sense of their distinctive identity. In On the Periphery of Europe,... -
My Sister's Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin's Siberia by Donna Solecka Urbikas 9780299308544
RRP: £19.95£14.63In the 1950s, baby boomer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the American Midwest yearning for a ""normal"" American family. But during World War II, her Polish-born mother and half sister had endured hunger, disease, and desperate escape from slave labor... -
All the Tsar's Men: Russia's General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898-1914 by John W. Steinberg 9780801895456
£55.23All the Tsar's Men examines how institutional reforms designed to prepare the Imperial Russian Army for the modern battlefield failed to prevent devastating defeats in both the 1905 Russo-Japanese War and World War I. John W. Steinberg argues that the... -
Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era by Roy A. Medvedev 9780231106061
RRP: £100.00£78.33Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to... -
A History of Russia Volume 1: To 1917 by Walter G. Moss 9781843310235
RRP: £24.99£24.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843310235Author Walter G. MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 654Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
The Winter Palace and the People: Staging and Consuming Russia's Monarchy, 1754-1917 by Susan McCaffray
RRP: £35.00£30.74St. Petersburg's Winter Palace was once the supreme architectural symbol of Russia's autocratic government. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became the architectural symbol of St. Petersburg itself. The story of the... -
Uniforms of Russian Army During the Years 1825-1855 Vol. 9: Guards Sapper, Engineers, Staff and Others by Mark Conrad 9788893274265
RRP: £39.00£31.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893274265Author Mark ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore... -
Uniforms of Russian Army During the Years 1825-1855 Vol. 8: Guards Dragoons, Lancers, Hussars and Others by Mark Conrad 9788893274258
RRP: £39.00£31.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893274258Author Mark ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore... -
Red Attack, White Resistance: Civil War in South Russia 1918 by Peter Kenez 9780974493442
RRP: £22.00£19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974493442Author Peter KenezFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 493g -
Ukrainian Futurism 1914-1930 - A Historical & Clinical Study (Paper) by Oleh Ilnytzkyj
RRP: £15.95£13.70From its inception just before World War I to its demise during the Stalinist repression of Ukrainian culture in the 1930s, Ukrainian Futurism was much maligned and poorly understood. It has remained so into the late twentieth century. Professor Oleh... -
Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow by Olga Shevchenko 9780253220288
RRP: £19.99£18.46In this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites to describe how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new identities and competencies... -
Motherland: Russia in the Twentieth Century by David R. Marples 9780582438347
£36.74Motherland tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. From Lenin's virtual coup in November 1917 to Boris Yeltsin's ruthless takeover of power in 1991, the book culminates with a new view of the Yeltsin years.David Marples focuses... -
Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia by Siobhán Hearne 9780198837916
£89.34Policing Prostitution examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire. From the 1840s until 1917, prostitution was legally tolerated across the Russian Empire under a system known as regulation. Medical police were in charge of... -
Beware the Rugged Russian Bear by John Ure 9781908699589
RRP: £20.00£17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908699589Author John UreFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Before Stalinism: The Rise & Fall of Soviet Democracy by Samuel Farber 9780860915300
RRP: £20.99£19.16Before Stalinism is a historical study of democratic life and institutions and their decline in the early years of the Russian Revolution. While attempting to synthesize a wealth of available historical material, the author assesses the extent to... -
Revising the Revolution: The Unmaking of Russia's Official History of 1917 by Larry E. Holmes
RRP: £21.99£19.19The clash between scholarship and politics-between truth and propaganda-was ruthless for historians in Istpart, the Russian Communist Central Committee's official historical department.Istpart was tasked with preserving the documentary record, compiling...