Russia & the Former Soviet Union

In a timely re-examination of the origins of the system which fell apart so dramatically in 1991, this book deals with the policies of the Soviets towards the non-Russian nationalities of the former Russian Empire. Making extensive use of previously...

Economakis analyses the processes of proletarianization and urbanization undergone by St. Petersburg's industrial working class from its inception in the early nineteenth century up until 1914. Attention is given to the severing of workers' ties to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674189294Author George FischerFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674187993Author Jeremy R AzraelFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674437227Author Piotr S WandyczFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 767g

Warriors and Peasants depicts the lives of the Don Cossacks in late Imperial Russia. The dual identity of the Cossacks, that of the steppe and of the settled Slavic areas, is emphasized as the key to their unique culture. The book explores how that...

Ivan IV, the sixteenth-century Russian tsar notorious for his reign of terror, became an unlikely national hero in the Soviet Union during the 1940s. This book traces the development of Ivan's positive image, placing it in the context of Stalin's...

Stalin's Terror of the 1930s has long been a popular subject for historians. However, while for decades, historians were locked in a narrow debate about the degree of central control over the terror process, recent archival research is underpinning new,...

What was the role played by local police volunteers in the Holocaust? Using powerful eye-witness descriptions from the towns and villages of Belorussia and Ukraine, Martin Dean's new book reveals local policemen as hands-on collaborators of the Nazis...

The book is an analysis of the dilemmas confronting the communist party after Stalin's death in 1953. It focuses on how ordinary citizens received and reacted to the policy of the party and the state. It is also the history of people who, driven by...

The collapse of the imperial regime excited Russian intellectuals of all political persuasions. Although eager to draw comparisons between pre-revolutionary Russia and revolutionary France, the political elite saw the outcome in their own country as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648866688Author History TitansFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and...

Today's Euroscepticism contrasts sharply with the idealism of the thousands of Poles thrust out of their country after 1939 by war, occupation and communism. How could a future Poland find security and progress, but by membership in a union of European...

What really caused the failure of the Soviet Union's ambitious plans to modernize and industrialize its agricultural system? This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century...

Addressing the impact of the Russian Revolution and change and continuity in diplomacy during the transition from Empire to Soviet Union, this book examines how Russia's diplomacy was conducted, the diplomats behind it, the establishment of the Soviet...

A narrative of the fifty years of political struggles at the Russian court, 1671-1725. This book shows how Peter the Great was not the all-powerful tsar working alone to reform Russia, but that he colluded with powerful and contentious aristocrats in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999603208Author Charles E ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Charles ColePublisher Charles ColeWeight(grams) 254g

The world is still coping with the consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Two decades later, the West has yet to adjust to the post-Soviet reality and Russia has not settled on its relationship with the rest of the world. In Change or Decay,...

Barnett presents the first in-depth analysis in English of the pioneer of long cycle analysis, N.D. Kondratiev (1892-1938), who was a key policy adviser to the Soviet government in the early part of the 1920s. Kondratiev developed a market-led...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674498778Author Professor Alex InkelesFormat HardbackPage Count 553Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 953g

The 11th of November 1918, Polish Independence Day, is a curious anniversary whose commemoration has been only intermittently observed in the last century. In fact, the day - and the several symbols that rightly or wrongly have become associated with it...

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Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940s focuses on the economic and social problems in Ukraine, particularly during the war years, and the collectivization of agriculture in Western Ukraine in the late 1940s. It compares the imposition of the Stalinist system...

The compelling and poignant story of the arrest, captivity, and execution of the last tsar of Russia and his family during the revolution of 1917-1918 has been recounted-and romanticized-for decades. Now a new book explores the full range of events and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674423268Author Hans RoggerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 644g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674281769Author Professor Abbott GleasonFormat HardbackPage Count 385Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 721g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013276514Author Daniel SerwerFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781365097683Author Erdogan AFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781329453708Author Svitlana MFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 984g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425105242Author Susanna LapossyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 437g

This book investigates the question of Russian identity, looking at changes and continues over a huge territory, many centuries, and a variety of political, social, and economic structures. Its main emphases are on the struggle against the steppe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674183124Author Daniel T OrlovskyFormat HardbackPage Count 307Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 612g

This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of...

In this thought-provoking book internationally renowned experts mark the anniversary of Peter I's visit to England in 1698. They explore British-Russian relations - Peter in England, Russian apprentices, British ships and maritime technology in Peter's...

This selection of documents - for the most part never before translated into English - traces the process of modernization which took place in Russia between 1856 and 1881. Political, social and economic developments are dealt with in thematic sections...

The conflict in Chechnya, going through its low- and high-intensity phases, has been doggedly accompanying Russia's development. In the last decade, the Chechen war was widely covered, both in Russia and in the West. While most books look at the causes...

Recounts the personalities, events and movements which dominated the reign of Nicholas II in a penetrating and provocative analysis of the forces which led to the collapse of Russian tsarism.Book InformationISBN 9780195197877Author Richard CharquesFormat...

Translated documents from Russian archives give fresh insight into the Russian civil war, a struggle whose outcome defined much of the history of our time. Areas covered include Soviet relations with the Don Cossacks, the problems of securing supplies...

In this second volume of his Lenin trilogy, Robert Service builds on the approach established in the first. He emphasises the extraordinary circumstances in Russia and the world enabling Lenin to come to power in 1917. He also details ways whereby Lenin...