Russia & the Former Soviet Union

Bushkovitch's book traces the evolution of religious attitudes in this important transitional period in Russian history. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Russia saw the gradual decline of monastic spirituality, the rise of miracle cults, and...

Who are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the meaning of life and death? Can we abolish death and live forever? These "big" questions of human nature and human destiny have boggled humanity's best minds for centuries...

This study explores the role of refugees in international relations by looking at the largest involuntary migration of Ukrainians in history. Using both Western and newly available Soviet sources it sheds light on Grand Alliance policies towards World...

A history of Soviet repression of cultural and artistic life, based on remarkable archival documents never published in English before Leaders of the Soviet Union, Stalin chief among them, well understood the power of art, and their response was to...

This book is a comprehensive reconstruction of the successful attempt by rural professionals in late imperial Russia to engage peasants in a common public sphere. Covers a range of aspects, from personal income and the dynamics of the job market to...

This first time in paperback is the best comprehensive examination of the development of constitutionalism in Poland. In particular, this book examines Poland's long-term constitutional history, the adoption of a new constitutional framework after 1989,...

The Russian Nuclear Shield from Stalin to Yeltsan makes extensive use of Soviet and Russian sources to provide the first full analysis of Moscow's ballistic missile defense policy from its origins to the most recent post-Soviet developments. It considers...

Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political texts between 1998 and 2007. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in the fields of media studies, discourse analysis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674431409Author Professor of History Emeritus Martin MaliaFormat HardbackPage Count 495Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674186934Author David HechtFormat HardbackPage Count 251Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 540g

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...

This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous "Gulag Archipelago" by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg's...

Born in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and one of America's last great men of letters. Biographer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674491649Author H Kent GeigerFormat HardbackPage Count 393Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 735g

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...

The Red Rockets' Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674189119Author Alexander ErlichFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674599475Author Robert Joseph KernerFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674498358Author Donald R HodgmanFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 544g

Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union for almost two decades when it was at the height of its powers. This book is a long overdue reappraisal of Brezhnev the man and the system over which he ruled. By incorporating much of the new material...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837190457Author Donald W. TreadgoldFormat HardbackPage Count 291Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837182858Author Anatole G. MazourFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds examines the phenomenon of Jewish bureaucracy in the Russian empire-its institutions, personnel, and policies-from 1850 to 1917. In particular, it focuses on the institution of expert Jews, mid-level Jewish bureaucrats...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408159Author Roger CrownoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674283718Author Professor of Government Timothy J ColtonFormat HardbackPage Count 955Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674431195Author Robert E MacMasterFormat HardbackPage Count 377Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 717g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674181717Author Edward L KeenanFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 540g

Third book in my series on German-Russians of the Volga Colonies. The goal of this book is to identify the hardships that my German-Russian ancestors endured and overcame in the Volga Colonies. The First Chapter covers their emigration to the Volga...

No other European country has had a government as harsh and dictatorial as that of Russia. Its rulers, whether Tzarist or communist, have everything, and the ruled nothing. Why did Russians put up with such treatment, and why did only a brave and...

This volume explores the crisis of identity that faced Russia during and after the Revolution. The essays discuss how a re-evaluation of national identity challenged traditional institutions and ideas, having a direct bearing upon personal identity...

Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confrontation of a New Elite, 1945-53 looks at the postwar Stalin era through the eyes of industrial supervisors and offers a picture of the technical intelligentsia's transformation into the Soviet Union's social and...

This book examines the response of the Western Alliance to the Polish Crisis (1980-83). The author analyses the different views of Europe and the United States regarding enforcement in East-West relations and the opposition in Western Europe to the...

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 book reveals local policemen as hands-on collaborators of the Nazis. They...

Stalinism in a Russian Province reexamines the agrarian policy pillars of Stalin's 'revolution from above' initiated in 1929-30, and is the first major study of its kind since the opening of Soviet archives. Through a pioneering application of the...

Russia's experiences during the Civil War determined the framework within which the Russian people were governed throughout the Soviet period. These newly released documents reveal how the events of 1918-22 reflected struggles and tensions in Russian...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333288474Author Leonard SchapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 291Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 389g

An updated edition of the acclaimed history of Russia, this new volume includes a wealth of material on events of the last decade. When first published, Charles Ziegler's The History of Russia was acclaimed as a source of information not easily found...

The Armenian terrorist movement is the subject of Michael Gunter's analysis. Beginning with an introductory overview of recent Armenian terrorist attacks against Turkish diplomats and property and perceived allies of the Turks, he then examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313209291Author Raymond A. BauerFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO