Russia & the Former Soviet Union

On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his "unheard-of act" changed the course of Russian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039155350Author William Craig LachowskyFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 209g

Kenneth Straus weaves together many threads in Russian social history to develop a new theory of working-class formation in the years of Stalin/u2019s First Five Year Plan. In so doing, he addresses a long-standing debate among historians by suggesting...

The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts...

Putting on gas masks and learning how to shoot Kalashnikov rifles in grade school made Soviet children fear possible attack by Cold War enemies. But a more prosaic invasion of Colorado beetles in the 1980s turned out to be a far more real threat to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458784Author David MandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951576441Author Paul G. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint SempringhamPublisher Sempringham

A pivotal year in the history of the Russian Empire, 1913 marks the tercentennial celebration of the Romanov Dynasty, the infamous anti-Semitic Beilis Trial, RussiaAEs first celebration of International WomenAEs Day, the ministerial boycott of the Duma,...

With a long history spanning hundreds of years, Russia still claims the largest area in the world, and is among the largest countries in terms of population. It has been ruled by an astounding number of tsars and emperors, and has been called by several...

What led to the breakdown of the Soviet Union? Steven Solnick argues, contrary to most current literature, that the Soviet system did not fall victim to stalemate at the top or to a revolution from below, but rather to opportunism from within. In three...

"A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560722106Author N. MaslovaFormat HardbackPage Count 169Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 405g

This book constructs the model of economic development implicit in the historical experience of the Soviet Union, and the agricultural, industrial, and social strategies followed are shown to fit into a logical and coherent pattern. Those strategies are...

This study is the first to examine systematically the economic foundations of Soviet shipping policy. It describes the increase in the merchant fleet of the USSR since the early 1950s and assesses the extent to which the heavy commitment of resources to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013563027Author Anna Louise 1885-1970 StrongFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 404g

The Political History of Eastern Europe in the 20th Century presents a fresh, up-to-date introduction to the struggle between democracy and dictatorship in Eastern Europe since 1900. The book is broken down into three different parts focusing on those...

The second edition of this widely acclaimed book considers the extent to which the Baltic states have succeeded politically and economically in their aspirations to emulate Western institutions since independence. The book has been completely revised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039155343Author William Craig LachowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 86g

This is a fascinating and absorbing account of the Chechen war, told less from perspective of the media and their political analysis than from the personal viewpoint of one whose work took him into the thick of it. The author worked as a Red Cross...

This book presents the text of the US House report entitled 'Russia's Road to Corruption'. The text is interspersed with clearly identified commentary which challenges and clarifies the report's conclusions.Book InformationISBN 9781560728863Author Frank...

The Post-Soviet period is of crucial importance to the remainder of the world. The military, political, economic and social changes unfolding in Russia and it's former republics carry significant meaning and opportunities, in many cases , for countries...

Russia In Transition Left, Right Or Center?Book InformationISBN 9781560724889Author N.G. BugeuliFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 430g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458968Author Alexander BuzgalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

In 1903 Bogdan Kistiakovsky railed against Lenin's concept of a vanguard party to lead the revolution, remarking that he did not want to see the Romanov autocracy replaced with the despotism of Lenin in the name of the dictatorship of the proletariat...

Born in Poltava in 1722, Paisij Velyckovs'kyj attended the Kievan Mohyla Academy. After four years, he renounced secular studies to become a monk. He lived in various monasteries in the Ukraine (including the Kievan Caves Monastery), on Mt. Athos, and in...

This monograph examines the Soviet state's attempt to rebuild and repopulate following World War II by offering to support families while encouraging women to enter the full-time work force. However, combined with the realities of postwar life and broken...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528126Author KARNYFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 581g

A panoramic view of Russian imperial society from the era of Peter the Great to the Revolution in 1917. Combining scholarship reading with archival research, it focuses on the interplay of Russia's key social groups with one another and with the state...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875801193Author V.S. YanovskyFormat HardbackPage Count 329Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 28g

Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed History of Modern Russia, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass...

Revolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia. We see into the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Writing a diary,...

Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union "Russia." Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595167289Author George FeiferFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 671gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 26mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578695563Author Michael ZhilaevFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Michael ZhilaevPublisher Michael ZhilaevWeight(grams) 132g

The first official condemnation of political abuse of psychiatry in the USSR to be made by an international psychiatric organization came on August 30, 1977. On that date, the General Assembly, governing body of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"An outstanding volume.... Worobec's splendid book brings us closer to understanding the fiber of peasant society and the dynamics of the family."-American Historical...

On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his "unheard-of act" changed the course of Russian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692272077Author Andre PartykevichFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Little Litany PressPublisher Little Litany PressWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393003529Author Conrad BrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 270gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...