Russia & the Former Soviet Union

Antisemitism has had a long and complex history in Russian intellectual life and has revived in the post-Communist era. In their concept of the identity of the Jewish people, many academics and other thinkers in Russia continue to cast Jews in a negative...

The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened the history of the Red Army to the West, providing a more complex picture of World War II than was previously available. Details of the struggle between the Soviet forces and the Axis powers can now be seen...

From Privileged to Dispossessed is a social and economic history of the foreign settlers who emigrated to the Volga region in Russia in the eighteenth century. Concentrating on the years 1860 to 1917, a period of rapid change in Russia, it is at once a...

This work provides an analysis of the evolution of Stalin's Red Army during the 1930s and its near decimation at the beginning of World War II. It argues that the Stalinist state largely failed in its attempt to use military service as a means to...

In analyzing the social and professional struggles of Prussian elementary schoolteachers from the time of Frederick the Great to the end of 1848, La Vopa focuses on the first generation of trained teachers and their emancipation movement in the...

During 1928-37 Soviet economic planners decided to deemphasize the industrial growth of the Ukraine and other western regions in favor of the all-out industrialization of a few underdeveloped areas in the east beyond the Ural Mountains. The repercussions...

This book describes and analyzes the steps taken by the Soviet government during the last five years in modifying the organization and management of the Soviet economy. Zaleski, by virtue of his profound knowledge of how the Soviet planning system has...

This book, a substantial contribution to the history of the relations between the Soviet Union and the West, explores a period that is in need of attention and utilizes materials that have only recently become available. It will be of value to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870030833Author Dmitri V. TreninFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Carnegie Endowment for International PeacePublisher Brookings...

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Russia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393335781Author Roy A MedvedevFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962871580Author Carl von ClausewitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Blue Crane Books,U.S.Publisher Blue Crane Books,U.S.

The transformation of the Russian nobility between 1861 and 1914 has often been attributed to the anachronistic attitudes of its members and their failure to adapt to social change. Becker challenges this idea of "the decline of the nobility."...

How did enlightened Russians of the eighteenth century understand society? And how did they reconcile their professed ideals of equality and justice with the authoritarian political structures in which they lived? Historian Elise Wirtschafter turns to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595088850Author Professor Edward AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Backinprint.comPublisher Backinprint.comWeight(grams) 345g

In his treatment of internal and foreign policies, the Soviet period and the Russian historical past, the political elite and the ordinary man, Robert C. Tucker focuses upon the thought patterns and ideological factors that, together, constituted the...

In late 1943 and early 1944, after the Nazi invasion of Russia had been turned back, Soviet troops descended upon the Caucasus, the Caspian steppes, and the Crimea without warning and brutally deported some one million of their people-Chechens, Ingush,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312208097Author Fen MontagueFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 386g

Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine.  The Kingdom of Rye unearths the foods and flavors of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers a...

This book focuses on the generation of the sixties and seventies in Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine, a milieu of writers who lived through the Thaw and the processes of de-Stalinization and re-Stalinization. Special attention is paid to KGB operations against...

From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested issue among educated Russians both inside and outside the government. As formulated in the...

Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Konrad's ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s. An ethno-religious minority, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793605351Author Alexander RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Barbara Alpern Engel's Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia is the first book to explore the intricacies of domestic life in Russia across the modern period. Surveying the period from 1700 right up to the present day, the book explores the...

This study is an intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Soviet historian who was a pioneering scholar of US history and US-Russian relations. Alongside the personal history of Bolkhovitinov, this study also examines...

Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this period, US policies were a mix of economic and psychological...

In examining the re-emergence of Russia's White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's Russia today. The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite...

Between 1900 and 1990, there were several periods of grain and other food shortages in Russia and the former Soviet Union, some of which reached disaster proportions resulting in mass famine and death on an unprecedented scale. New stocks of information...

Jewish life in Belarus after World War II was an inaccessible subject - officially regarded as being completely non-existent - and in the ideological atmosphere of the time research into the subject was impossible. Jewish community life had been...

The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia presents the dramatic late twentieth century transformation in the everyday lives of the Buryats, a Mongolian people who live in Siberian Russia. The book challenges the common perception that the process of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779344341Author Lars JohannsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788187374176Author Zafar ImamFormat HardbackPage Count 261Imprint SanskritiPublisher Sanskriti

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847109594Author Corinne GeeringFormat HardbackPage Count 454Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895006920Author Rufat SattarovFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 798g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847107866Author Julia ObertreisFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 907g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700168980Author Wolfgang MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

In Beau Monde on Empire's Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398440135Author Elena SommersFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857283917Author Vlas DoroshevichFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g