Russia & the Former Soviet Union

Taken together, these essays redefine the preconceived notion of Soviet happiness as the product of official ideology imposed from above and expressed predominantly through collective experience, and provide evidence that the formation of the concept of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857283498Author E. A. ReesFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857287786Author Carter ElwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857285577Author Christian NoackFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503542485Author Jon Vidar SigurdssonPage Count 316Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

In Russian Idea--Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian...

From the first anniversary of the revolution in 1918, 7 November was the day of celebrations that marked the founding of the Soviet regime. Through marches, speeches, military parades, carnivals, and the inaugurations of public monuments and plaques, it...

Nobody now thinks the Webbs' Soviet Communism a 'great book' - as Harold Laski hailed it after its publication in 1935. Closer to the mark seems A.J.P. Taylor's verdict - 'the most preposterous book ever written about Soviet Russia'. Some ascribe its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894865432Author Andrij MakuchFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of Ukrainian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843313106Author Marina BalinaFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843313090Author Vlas DoroshevichFormat HardbackPage Count 514Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839983160Author Shane O'RourkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785278228Author Ivan P. IuvachevFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Russia and the Dutch Republic, 1566-1725: A Forgotten Friendship outlines how the Netherlands had an outsized impact on the early development of Russia into a Great Power in the course of the seventeenth century. Although this influence is usually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783084302Author Marietta StankovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Petr Filippovich Iakubovich represents the many young people whose opposition to the Russian state turned to extremism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His conviction and banishment to forced labor and settlement in Siberia was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783084173Author Petr Filippovich IakubovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783082322Author Marietta StankovaFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783081127Author Petr Filippovich IakubovichFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783081110Author Petr Filippovich IakubovichFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 680g

Word and Image invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker's scholarship on Russia-literacy, education, and...

The Vekhi (Landmarks) symposium (1909) is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia in the period of crisis that led to the...

Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin's Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While acknowledging the normative power...

In Russian Idea-Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian...

For Russian modernists in search of a past, there were many antiquities of different provenances and varying degrees of prestige from which to choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium or Egypt. The modernists central to ""Our Native Antiquity"" located their...

During the 1740s, literate Russians mostly kept to traditional forms of written language. Although the linguistic reforms undertaken by Peter the Great earlier in the century affected printed secular texts and the imperial administration, these reforms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644697726Author Jason GalieFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Academic Studies PressPublisher Academic Studies Press

Drawing on a wide range of sources and historiographical material, Between East and West provides a comprehensive analysis of the efforts of the Moscow princes to form a centralized Russian state. According to the author, the unification of Russia around...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644695876Author Charles J HalperinFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Academic Studies PressPublisher Academic Studies PressWeight(grams) 156g

This literary, cultural history examines imperial Russian tourism's entanglement in the vexed issue of cosmopolitanism understood as receptiveness to the foreign and pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety about the allure and the influence...

During the 1740s, literate Russians mostly kept to traditional forms of written language. Although the linguistic reforms undertaken by Peter the Great earlier in the century affected printed secular texts and the imperial administration, these reforms...

After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle as she traveled back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Elisa Brodinsky Miller discovers she's writing her own chapter in a book of three generations. Shortly after her father's death,...

Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoevsky's House of the Dead from the perspective of his fellow inmates and Siberians who were imprisoned,...

The year 2017 saw a multitude of conferences and exhibitions devoted to the centenary of the Russian Revolutions, both in Russia and in other parts of the world. The commemoration of this event would be incomplete without an exploration of its Northern...

The Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens, or the Smolny Institute, was founded by Catherine the Great as the first state educational institution for women in Russia. An informative article by Alexander Liarsky, drawing on primary sources,...

This study explores the evolution of Lomonosov's imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years of the Soviet period. It reveals much about the intersection in Russian culture of attitudes towards the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647124083Author Kevin P. RiehleFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Georgetown University PressPublisher Georgetown University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260397611Author George C HerringImprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 5g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260164343Author James West DavidsonImprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 45g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975114858Author Gerard RummeryPage Count 143Imprint David Lovell Publishing Pty LtdPublisher David Lovell Publishing Pty LtdWeight(grams) 147g