Russia & the Former Soviet Union

The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg described and...

Russia and the former Soviet Union, and the lands of the former Hapsburg Empire have an extraordinarily complex and varied pattern of ethnic settlement which has extended a great influence of their historical development. This multi-authored volume seeks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674498884Author Jerry F HoughFormat HardbackPage Count 429Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 780g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674592551Author Loren R GrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 812g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674494015Author Allen KassofFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674498907Author Jerry F HoughFormat HardbackPage Count 289Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674188280Author Woodruff Professor of Law Harold J BermanFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University...

In this fascinating book Alter Litvin tells us what life was really like for professional Soviet historians from Lenin to Gorbachev, and assesses the efforts made since 1991 to create a more truthful picture of the turbulent Russian past. Passionate yet...

This book illuminates a little-known but tremendously significant twentieth-century crisis in the Soviet Union. Drawing on archival materials declassified since the fall of communism, Nicholas Ganson situates the famine of 1946-47 at the crossroads of...

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 9780972029629Author Michael AvanziniFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint General Data LLCPublisher General Data LLCWeight(grams) 299g

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era. As the sons and daughters of Soviet citizens considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order, these children lost parents,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955877117Author Vijai MaheshwariFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CopticPublisher CopticWeight(grams) 212g

This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities of women's lived experience in the 1930s and 1940s, and the various forms in which womanhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674434059Author Elena ZarudnayaFormat HardbackPage Count 235Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674333185Author Terence EmmonsFormat HardbackPage Count 539Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 934g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674188266Author Joseph S BerlinerFormat HardbackPage Count 401Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 744g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674865655Author Adam B UlamFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 662g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674187252Author Vera Micheles DeanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 567g

This collection presents views on key aspects of Russian/Soviet history such as the non-Slavic sources of Russian statehood; tsarist penal systems; the pre-evolutionary technological level; the famine of 1931-3; patronage practices in Stalin's Russia;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990820994Author Richard Alexis GeorgianFormat PaperbackImprint Barringer Publishing/Schlesinger AdvertisingPublisher Barringer Publishing/Schlesinger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674282773Author George FischerFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 517g

The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill with its own practices and culture. James Heinzen's innovative...

This revised and expanded edition traces the lives of key American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause, including A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Ella...

This original analysis of the workings of Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin addresses a series of questions that have long resisted satisfactory answers. Why did political repression affect so many people, most of them ordinary...

The collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the late 1920s and 1930s forever altered the country's social and economic landscape. It became the first of a series of bloody landmarks that would come to define Stalinism. This revelatory book...

The Reconstruction of Poland, 1914-23 is a significant reappraisal of the political, social and economic problems associated with the rebirth of an independent Polish state. The book spans a chronological period beginning in the First World War and...

This book examines changes in official Soviet policy towards the labour protection of women workers, 1917-41. Important legislative enactments are analysed. In the 1920s emphasis was placed on the 'protection' of female labour by the agencies responsible...

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was an event of the greatest importance, but the social groups which were crucial to its development and outcome have been little written about. This book brings together a number of prominent British researchers whose work...

In this first monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian political culture. Looking at such historical actors as Sergei Witte, Piotr Stolypin, and Alexander Chaianov, and by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674421295Author Robert F MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 794g

Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos and its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic and political, rather than judicial or penological, factors primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth and development...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991635856Author Mark ShanerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint 220 DesafioPublisher 220 DesafioWeight(grams) 129g

In the early 1930s Soviet authorities launched a campaign to create "socialist" retailing and also endorsed Soviet consumerism. How did the Stalinist regime reconcile retailing and consumption with socialism? This book examines the discourses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674188655Author Emily Clark BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 403Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 531g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993934285Author Ron UnruhFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Unruh (Unruh Publishing)Publisher Unruh (Unruh Publishing)Weight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977790821Author Timo VihavainenFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 546g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985569822Author Steven A. GrantFormat HardbackPage Count 508Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 897g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985569815Author Steven A. GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 739g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980081404Author Naomi F. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 449g