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Nicholas II: A Captivating Guide to the Last Emperor of Russia and How the Romanov Dynasty Collapsed as a Result of the Russian Revolution by Captivating History 9781647488628
RRP: £14.97£9.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488628Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)... -
The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Collapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe by Professor of History Gale Stokes 9780199732630
RRP: £102.99£102.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199732630Author Professor of History Gale StokesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR by Catherine Baker
£35.80A concise and accessible introduction to the gender histories of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the 20th century. These essays juxtapose established topics in gender history such as motherhood, masculinities, work and activism with newer areas,... -
Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present by Christopher J. Ward
RRP: £49.99£43.90This lucid account of Russian and Soviet history presents major trends and events from Kievan Rus' to Vladimir Putin's presidency in the twenty-first century.Directly addressing controversial topics, this book looks at issues such as the impact of the... -
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West by David P. Deavel
RRP: £103.00£63.31These essays will interest readers familiar with the work of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and are a great starting point for those eager for an introduction to the great Russian's work. When people think of Russia today, they tend to... -
Guns for the Tsar: American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Joseph Bradley
RRP: £34.00£30.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875801544Author Joseph BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 285Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams)... -
Square Wheels: How Russian Democracy Got Derailed by Boris Kagarlitsky 9780853458920
RRP: £14.95£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458920Author Boris KagarlitskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 295g -
Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation by Donald J. Raleigh 9780199311231
RRP: £36.99£23.72Donald Raleigh's Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the fascinating life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation... -
The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad by Alexis Peri 9780674248335
RRP: £20.95£16.78Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeWinner of the University of Southern California Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Prize"Fascinating and perceptive."-Antony Beevor, New York Review of Books"Stand aside, Homer. I doubt whether... -
Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar by Barbara Alpern Engel 9780875806907
RRP: £19.99£16.35Violent movements opposing existing political orders erupted throughout nineteenth-century Europe, but nowhere was this revolutionary impulse made more dramatically visible than in Russia. "Five Sisters" - first published in 1975 - presents English... -
Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917 by Michael F. Hamm 9780691025858
RRP: £55.00£43.25In a fascinating "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major... -
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9780307280510
RRP: £23.00£17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307280510Author Simon Sebag MontefioreFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 890gDimensions(mm)... -
Deportation and Exile: Poles in the Soviet Union, 1939-48 by Keith Sword 9780333668603
RRP: £119.99£109.55Deportation and Exile describes the fate of hundreds of thousands of Poles - men, women and children - deported to Soviet territory by Stalin's security agencies between 1939 and 1948. Amnestied in 1941, recruited to Polish units formed on Soviet soil,... -
The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923 by Edward Hallett Carr 9780393301953
RRP: £24.00£20.07In Volume I, E. H. Carr begins with an analysis of the events in Russian history from 1898 to 1917 that shaped the course of the Revolution. He examines the constitutional structure erected by the new government and then turns to the multifarious... -
State Ideology, Science, and Pseudoscience in Russia: Between the Cosmos and the Earth by Baasanjav Terbish 9781666905687
RRP: £89.00£78.35This book recounts the entangled stories of three distinctly Russian movements-state ideology, Russian cosmism, and Eurasianism-from their inception at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century until now. Despite harboring... -
Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context by David Rainbow 9780773558984
RRP: £32.00£28.38Is the concept of "race" applicable to Russia and the Soviet Union? Citing the idea of Russian exceptionalism, many would argue that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while nationalities mattered, race did not. Others insist that race... -
The Romanovs: A Captivating Guide to the Last Imperial Dynasty to Rule Russia and the Impact the Romanov Family Had on Russian History by Captivating History 9781647488888
RRP: £19.97£12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488888Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)... -
East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943-1991 Sabrina P. Ramet (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 9781032318202
RRP: £35.99£31.69The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote... -
The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov: A Russian National Myth by Steven A. Usitalo 9781618111739
RRP: £84.99£82.20This study explores the evolution of Lomonosov's imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years of the Soviet period. It reveals much about the intersection in Russian culture of attitudes towards the... -
Writing Travel in Central Asian History by Nile Green
RRP: £66.00£56.93For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed... -
Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path by Laura Engelstein
RRP: £28.99£24.96Twentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile Empire, the leading historian Laura Engelstein pays... -
Letters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930 by Eleanor Lord Pray 9780295994536
RRP: £23.99£20.84In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years - from the time of Tsar Alexander III to the early years of Stalin's rule - she wrote more than... -
The Moscow Business Elite: A Social and Cultural Portrait of Two Generations, 1840-1905 by Jo Ann Ruckman
RRP: £31.00£27.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875800967Author Jo Ann RuckmanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact: A Short History with Documents by Jonathan Daly 9781624666247
RRP: £18.99£15.91"On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov have reinvigorated the study of a turning point in world history. Instead of rehashing the internal dynamics of the Bolshevik takeover, the authors have carefully juxtaposed... -
Rude and Barbarous Kingdom: Russia in the Accounts of Sixteenth-Century English Voyagers by Lloyd E. Berry
£39.84Lloyd E. Berry and Robert O. Crummey offer edited accounts of six English voyagers and their experiences in Muscovy Russia between 1553 and 1600. With modernised spelling and presentation, these accounts are accompanied by a glossary of Russian terms,... -
Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society by Steven A. Barnes 9780691151120
RRP: £45.00£35.60Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the... -
Lamaze: An International History by Paula A. Michaels 9780199738649
RRP: £39.99£31.79The Lamaze method is virtually synonymous with natural childbirth in America. In the 1970s, taking Lamaze classes was a common rite of passage to parenthood. The conscious relaxation and patterned breathing techniques touted as a natural and empowering... -
Russia's 20th Century by Michael Khodarkovsky 9781350091429
£32.70Michael Khodarkovsky's innovative exploration of Russia's 20th century, through 100 carefully selected vignettes that span the century, offers a fascinating prism through which to view Russian history. Each chosen microhistory focuses on one particular... -
Russia's Stillborn Democracy?: From Gorbachev to Yeltsin by Graeme Gill 9780199240418 [USED COPY]
RRP: £32.49£19.51The decade and a half since Gorbachev came to power has been a tumultuous time for Russia. It has seen the expectations raised by perestroika dashed, the collapse of the Soviet superpower, and the emergence of a new Russian state claiming to base itself... -
My Revision Notes OCR A2 History: Russia and Its Rulers 1855-1964 by Andrew Holland 9781444177763 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Unlock your full potential with this revision guide which focuses on the key content and skills you need to know for OCR A2 History: Russia and its Rulers 1855-1964. Written by experienced teachers, this series closely combines the content of OCR A2... -
Russian Orthodoxy under the Old Regime by Robert L. Nichols 9780816608478
£62.03Russian Orthodoxy under the Old Regime was first published in 1978. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press... -
A History of Belarus by 9781909156609 [USED COPY]
RRP: £28.99£22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909156609Format HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams) 721g -
Romanov Autumn: The Last Century of Imperial Russia by Charlotte Zeepvat 9780750944182 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£7.93The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for little over three hundred years and its dramatic end exerts a lasting fascination. This book serves to widen the picture, looking at the lives and grand palaces of individual Romanovs during the last century of... -
Alexandra: The Last Tsarina: The Tragic Story of the Last Empress of Russia by Carolly Erickson 9781841197821 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£3.90The lives and deaths of the Romanov family are redolent with colour and drama, but the personal life of the beautiful Tsarina Alexandra has remained enigmatic. Under Erickson's masterful scrutiny the full dimensions of the Empress's singular psychology... -
The Russo-Japanese War in Cultural Perspective, 1904-05 by David Wells 9780333637425
RRP: £89.99£89.87The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 has been widely seen as a historical turning-point. For the first time in modern history an Asian and a European country competed on equal terms, overturning the prevailing balance of power. Based on a wide range of... -
Stalin's Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism by Juliane Furst 9780199575060
RRP: £145.00£110.21'Stalin's last generation' was the last generation to come of age under Stalin, yet it was also the first generation to be socialized in the post-war period. Its young members grew up in a world that still carried many of the hallmarks of the Soviet... -
Defenders of the Motherland: The Tsarist Elite in Revolutionary Russia by Matthew Rendle 9780199236251
RRP: £145.00£111.32Defenders of the Motherland studies how the most powerful social groups in tsarist Russia reacted to the challenges posed by the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Arguing that elite groups-especially nobles, landowners, and officers-played an important role... -
A Concise History of the Baltic States by Andrejs Plakans 9780521833721
RRP: £61.00£54.15The Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of Europe and its international significance can be obscured by separate treatments of the various Baltic states. With this wide-ranging survey, Andrejs Plakans presents an integrated history... -
Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country by John R. Lampe 9780521773577
RRP: £95.99£81.43Yugoslavia as History, first published in 2000, examines the bloody demise of the former Yugoslavia in the full light of its history. It provides a balanced understanding of the common hopes and fears which held its ethnic mosaic together, and the ethnic... -
Bohemia in History by Mikulas Teich 9780521431552
RRP: £116.00£98.15This original collection offers an account of key moments and themes in the history of the Czech lands from the time of the rise of the Premyslide dynasty in the ninth century to the fall of socialism in 1989. The pieces, commissioned especially for this...