Russia & the Former Soviet Union

Following his country's victory over Nazi Germany, Joseph Stalin was widely hailed as a great wartime leader and international statesman. Unchallenged on the domestic front, he headed one of the most powerful nations in the world. Yet, in the period from...

Russia Changes The Events Of August 1991 & The Russian ConstitutionBook InformationISBN 9781560720799Author A S DurgoFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 415g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779345379Author Line BjergFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

This book explores the Russia-Georgia Conflict in South Ossetia, as well as Russia's political, economic and security issues and its implications for U.S. interests. Washington and Moscow have found some common ground on the Iranian and North Korean...

This book presents current developments in the study of the politics and economics of Eastern and Central Europe. Topics discussed include recent developments and U.S. interests in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan; reunification troubles in Cyprus; U.S. policy...

Unlike their condemnations of Nazi atrocities, contemporary Western responses to Soviet crimes have often been ambiguous at best. While some leaders publicly denounced them, many others found reasons to dismiss wrongdoings and to consider Soviet...

In the early 1990s, Georgia and its breakaway South Ossetia region had agreed to a Russian-mediated ceasefire that provided for Russian "peacekeepers" to be stationed in the region. Moscow extended citizenship and passports to most ethnic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260847802Author R R PalmerPage Count 704Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 885g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260847796Author Lloyd KramerPage Count 512Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 658g

St Petersburg's 300th annuiversary was in May 2003. This text combines original photography - over 250 full-colour illustrations with a unique collaboration between Russian and non-Russian writers to reveal the essence of one of the world's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260687323Author R R PalmerImprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 45g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555976040Author Francis SpuffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 562g

First Published in 1943 Russia Through the Centuries provides a comprehensive historical background of the U.S.S.R. The book tries to showcase how Russia grew through the centuries, and how the new Russia was a consummation of all that went before. It...

From the end of the Mongol Empire to today, Russian history is a tale of cultural, political, economic and military interaction with Western powers. The depth of this relationship has created a geopolitical dilemma: Russia has persistently been both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780910155656Author Izyaslav DarakhovskiyFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Bartleby PressPublisher Bartleby PressWeight(grams) 248g

Unsettled and uncertain situations still persist in the former Soviet states of Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, posing a serious threat to the stability of civil society, democratic institutions, and the pursuit of human rights. The cry...

Holy Fathers, Secular Sons is the first study of the Orthodox clergyAEs contribution to Russian society. Prior to the 1860s, clergymenAEs sons were not allowed to leave the castelike clergy in large numbers. When permission was granted, they responded by...

Of all of history's great romances, few can compare with that of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin. Their turbulent and complicated relationship shocked their contemporaries and continues to intrigue observers of Russia centuries later...

From 1505 to 1689, Russia's tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm's most beautiful young maidens-provided they hailed from the aristocracy-gathered in Moscow, where the tsar's trusted boyars reviewed their medical...

The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep...

From the classical dialogues of Plato to current political correctness, manipulating language to advance a particular set of values and ideas has been a time-honored practice. During times of radical social and political change, the terms of debate...

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...

Journalism has long been a major factor in defining the opinions of Russia's literate classes. Although women participated in nearly every aspect of the journalistic process during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female editors, publishers,...

Why did the Stalin era, a period characterized by bureaucratic control and the reign of Socialist Realism in the arts, witness such an extraordinary upsurge of musical creativity and the prominence of musicians in the cultural elite? This is one of the...

Exploiting new findings from former East Bloc archives and from long-ignored Western sources, this book presents a wholly new picture of the coming of World War II, Allied wartime diplomacy, and the origins of the Cold War. The author reveals that the...

In Children of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River-which today is located at the heart of the independent state...

In the courtrooms of seventeenth-century Russia, the great majority of those accused of witchcraft were male, in sharp contrast to the profile of accused witches across Catholic and Protestant Europe in the same period. While European courts targeted and...

Russia's attempt to consolidate its authority in the North Caucasus has exerted a terrible price on both sides since the mid-nineteenth century. Michael Khodarkovsky tells a concise and compelling history of the mountainous region between the Black and...

Available at long last, this volume is the posthumous memoir of a peasant from the depths of old Russia who rose to great wealth and influence as his country's most successful publisher. Though never fully literate, Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (1851-1934) was...

Until the arrival of the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century, the South Caucasus was traditionally contested by two Muslim empires, the Ottomans and the Persians. Over the following two centuries, Orthodox Christian Russia - and later the...

"Why have I been exiled to prison?" It was a question millions of Soviet citizens asked themselves in the latter 1930s and in the years that followed World War Two. The charges brought against those who were imprisoned were decided by the State...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717807567Author Philip S. FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.

The Bolsheviks Come to Power is one of the most important histories of the Russian Revolution to challenge the mainstream narratives. Originally published to great acclaim in 2004, this new edition marks the 100th anniversary of one of the explosive and...

"Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term...

This book presents a fresh view of Russian political change in the Gorbachev and early post-Soviet periods not by examining perestroika and glasnost in and of themselves, but by investigating the autonomous political organizations that responded to...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize, this absorbing volume explores the complexities of the Soviet-American relationship between the November Revolution...

A critical issue in the origins of the Cold War--the development of Soviet--American conflict over Eastern Europe from 1941 to 1945--is the subject of Lynn Etheridge Davis's book. Disagreeing with those writers who argue that conflict arose from the...

What were the causes, characteristics, and effects of the great flood of migration over the Ural Mountains into Siberia in the late 19th and 20th centuries? The author studies the background conditions fostering the migration and then the migration...

A critical issue in the origins of the Cold War--the development of Soviet--American conflict over Eastern Europe from 1941 to 1945--is the subject of Lynn Etheridge Davis's book. Disagreeing with those writers who argue that conflict arose from the...

What did the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Iranian revolution of 1978-1979 share besides their drama? How can we compare a revolution led by Lenin with one inspired by Khomeini? How is a revolution based primarily on the urban working class similar...