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Iuzovka and Revolution, Volume II: Politics and Revolution in Russia's Donbass, 1869-1924 by Theodore H. Friedgut 9780691601496
RRP: £78.00£60.37In 1870 the Welsh ironmaster John James Hughes left his successful career in England and settled in the barren and underpopulated Donbass region of the Ukrainian steppe to found the town of Iuzovka and build a large steel plant and coal mine. Theodore... -
The Tsar's Colonels: Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia by David Alan Rich 9780674911116
RRP: £86.95£69.59In this impressive study, David Rich demonstrates how the modernization of Russia's general staff during the second half of the nineteenth century reshaped its intellectual and strategic outlook and equipped the staff to play a strong, and at times... -
Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism, and Civil Society by Joseph Bradley 9780674032798
RRP: £65.95£52.56On the eve of World War I, Russia, not known as a nation of joiners, had thousands of voluntary associations. Joseph Bradley examines the crucial role of voluntary associations in the development of civil society in Russia from the late eighteenth to the... -
Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Volume III: Russian Literature in Modern Times by Boris Gasparov 9780520302495
RRP: £34.00£26.97This publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, DC. Like many other conferences organized... -
Red Autobiographies: Initiating the Bolshevik Self by Igal Halfin 9780295991122
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Red Autobiographies, Igal Halfin reads admission records of the Soviet Communist Party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture. He identifies ways of speaking about oneself as a... -
Natasha's Dance by Orlando Figes 9780312421953
RRP: £37.99£23.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421953Author Orlando FigesFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union by Jeffrey Bruce Beshoner 9780268031664
RRP: £103.00£78.09Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin analyzes questions of nationality and religious identity in nineteenth-century Russian history as reflected in the life of Jesuit priest Ivan Gagarin. A descendent of one of Russia's most ancient and politically powerful families,... -
Voices from the Gulag: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria by Tzvetan Todorov 9780271019611
RRP: £49.95£44.08One of the most terrible legacies of our century is the concentration camp. Countless men and women have passed through camps in Nazi Germany, Communist China, and the Soviet bloc countries. In Voices from the Gulag, Tzvetan Todorov singles out the... -
The Lost World of Russia's Jews: Ethnography and Folklore in the Pale of Settlement by Abraham Rechtman 9780253056948
RRP: £74.00£64.85In 1913, Abraham Rechtman journeyed through the Russian Pale of Settlement on a mission to record its Jewish folk traditions before they disappeared forever. The Lost World of Russia's Jews is the first English translation of his extraordinary... -
Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century and the Shadow of the Past by Robert Legvold 9780231141222
£74.56Because the turbulent trajectory of Russia's foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union echoes previous moments of social and political transformation, history offers a special vantage point from which to judge the current course of events. In... -
Soviet Veterans of the Second World War: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941-1991 by Mark Edele 9780199237562
£98.82Millions of Soviet soldiers died in the USSR's struggle for survival against Nazi Germany but millions more returned to Stalin's state after victory. Mark Edele traces the veterans' story from the early post-war years through to the end of the Soviet... -
Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine by David R. Marples 9789639776296
RRP: £26.95£25.00In 2004, world attention was focused on Ukraine's 'Orange Revolution', which appeared to herald a new and promising era for independent Ukraine. Though such hopes proved over-optimistic there is no question that Ukraine has embarked on the process of... -
Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary, and Austria 1944/45-1948/49 by Csaba Bekes 9789633860755
RRP: £90.00£83.02This book compares the various aspects - political, military economic - of Soviet occupation in Austria, Hungary and Romania. Using documents found in Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian and Russian archives the authors argue that the nature of Soviet foreign... -
Nationalizing Empires by Alexei Miller 9789633860168
RRP: £98.00£90.83The essays in Nationalizing Empires want to overcome the strict dichotomy between empire and nation state that has dominated historiography for decades. Their main focus is nation-building in the imperial core. The authors in the volume subscribe to the... -
The First Russian Political Emigre: Notes from Beyond the Grave, or Apologia Pro Vita Mea by Vladimir Pecherin 9781904558934
RRP: £42.50£40.72This memoir by Vladimir Pecherin (or Petcherine) (1807-85) is a story of the life of a rebel against any form of despotism. Shortly after his appointment as Professor of Classics at Moscow University, Pecherin fled from Russia in 1836 to pursue radical... -
Perestroika and the Soviet People by David Mandel 9781895431148
RRP: £10.99£9.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895431148Author David MandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 318g -
Making Ukraine: Studies on Political Culture, Historical Narrative, and Identity by Zenon E. Kohut 9781894865227
RRP: £34.99£29.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894865227Author Zenon E. KohutFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of Ukrainian... -
Religion, Nation, and Secularization in Ukraine by Frank E. Sysyn 9781894865388
RRP: £19.99£16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894865388Author Frank E. SysynFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of Ukrainian... -
Frontier Orientalism and the Turkish Image in Central European Literature by Charles D. Sabatos 9781793614872
RRP: £85.00£75.10This comparative study analyzes the ways that Central European writers used stereotypes of the Turks to develop their national identities from the early modern period to the present. Charles D. Sabatos uses Andre Gingrich's concept of "frontier... -
Stalin's Double-Edged Game: Soviet Bureaucracy and the Raoul Wallenberg Case, 1945-1952 by Johan Matz 9781793609199
RRP: £109.00£95.57Raoul Wallenberg, the courageous Swedish businessman turned diplomat and savior of thousands of Jews in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944, was arrested in January 1945 by the Soviet military counterintelligence, incarcerated in the Lubianka prison in Moscow and... -
Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration: Collected Articles on the Representation of Russian Monarchy by Richard Wortman 9781618113474
RRP: £98.99£94.70Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration continues the work begun in Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule, which analysed the interplay between the symbolic representations of Russian monarchs and the legal and institutional instruments... -
The Russian-Jewish Tradition: Intellectuals, Historians, Revolutionaries by Brian J. Horowitz 9781618115560
RRP: £77.99£74.60The book argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society. In their diasporic cultural creations Russia's Jews employed the general themes of artists under tsars and Soviets, but they modified these themes to fit... -
Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin's Gulag by Julie S. Draskoczy 9781618112880
RRP: £84.99£81.16Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, this book moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While acknowledging the normative power of Stalinism-an ethos so hegemonic it... -
Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule by Richard Wortmann 9781618112583
RRP: £91.99£88.13Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule is devoted to studies of the political culture of the Russian monarchy as it influenced aspects of historical development such as law, representations of family, and concepts of nation and empire. The articles... -
Russians Abroad: Literary and Cultural Politics of Diaspora (1919-1939) by Greta Slobin 9781618112149
RRP: £84.99£81.16This book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, when Russian writers had to relocate to Berlin and Paris under harsh conditions. Divided... -
Spiritual Influence in the Georgian Cultural Heritage by Mamuka Matsaberidze 9781613245767
RRP: £78.99£52.08One of the demonstrations of systemic world-view, the interaction between belief and knowledge, is the oldest problem the essence of which was discussed as far back as the first to second centuries. The proof of this is the work by Saint Clement of... -
Dialogue of Civilizations: The Lord Reignethj by David Muskhelishvili 9781608760138
RRP: £115.99£76.78For the last two decades, the world has been constantly facing challenges having completely new qualities: the growing tension between West and East, the uncontrolled spread of weapons of mass destruction, and the problems of facing large-scale... -
Ukraine Today -- Perspectives for the Future: Proceedings of the Conference "Ukraine Today -- Perspectives for the Future", 19-21 June 1992 by Halyna Koscharsky 9781560722298
RRP: £84.99£68.91The Ukraine is one of the largest and most strategically important newly independent countries in the world. Ukraine's history and culture extend back over thousands of years and form a tapestry which reveals much about mankind's history. This book... -
Russia on the Threshold of an Uncertain Future by G. Diligensky 9781560722144
RRP: £101.99£82.41Russia on the Threshold of an Uncertain FutureBook InformationISBN 9781560722144Author G. DiligenskyFormat HardbackPage Count 197Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 480g -
Tedo Zhordania: A Researcher of the History of Georgia by Ketevan Nadiradze 9781536148688
RRP: £75.99£61.02This work presents the first monographic study of Tedo Zhordanias life (1853 1916) as a scholar tirelessly exploring the history of Georgia, whose heritage presents a genuinely significant case of 19th century Georgian historiography.Following the... -
Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia by Tricia Starks 9781501722059
RRP: £39.00£34.52Approaching tobacco from the perspective of users, producers, and objectors, Smoking under the Tsars provides an unparalleled view of Russia's early adoption of smoking. Tricia Starks introduces us to the addictive, nicotine-soaked Russian version of the... -
The Gulag after Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev's Soviet Union, 1953-1964 by Jeffrey S. Hardy 9781501702792
RRP: £39.00£34.12In The Gulag after Stalin, Jeffrey S. Hardy reveals how the vast Soviet penal system was reimagined and reformed in the wake of Stalin's death. Hardy argues that penal reform in the 1950s was a serious endeavor intended to transform the Gulag into a... -
Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution: Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm by Lonny Harrison 9781498597982
RRP: £95.00£83.78Language and Metaphors of the Russian Revolution: Sow the Wind, Reap the Storm is a panoramic history of the Russian intelligentsia and analysis of the language and ideals of the Russian Revolution, from its inception over the long nineteenth-century,... -
The Life and Thought of Filaret Drozdov, 1782-1867: The Thorny Path to Sainthood by Nicholas S. Racheotes 9781498577595
RRP: £109.00£95.57The Life and Thought of Filaret Drozdov, 1782-1867: The Thorny Path to Sainthood is an intellectual biography of the foremost historical figure in the religious world of nineteenth-century Russia. The product of decades of archival research, most of... -
Russian and American Cultures: Two Worlds a World Apart by Konstantin V. Kustanovich 9781498538336
RRP: £95.00£83.12Russia is a great country-both in terms of size and its achievements. It is the largest country in the world and, perhaps, the richest one as well, if one counts all its natural resources combined. The Russian population is well educated and its sciences... -
Party Leadership under Stalin and Khrushchev: Party Officials and the Soviet State, 1948-1964 by Jonathan Harris 9781498528382
RRP: £90.00£78.81This study demonstrates that the full time party officials of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) used the term "party leadership" to both disguise and signal their efforts to lead the Communists who manned the Soviet state. In 1946,... -
Russia: A 1,000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith 9781468305012
RRP: £21.95£15.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468305012Author Martin SixsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 611Imprint Overlook PressPublisher Overlook PressWeight(grams) 621g -
Foundations of Russian Culture by Alexander Schmemann 9781942699507
RRP: £22.95£18.72At a time when tensions between Russia and “the West '' are increasing, this book is very timely, even though, its contents were first broadcast over fifty years ago. It offers a history of Russian culture and its particular trends and tendencies, which... -
Armenia, Azerbaijan & Georgia: Politics, Profiles & United States' Interests by Ronald J. Clark 9781624170058
RRP: £168.99£111.20The United States recognized the independence of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia when the former Soviet Union broke up at the end of 1991. The United States has fostered these states' ties with the West in part to end their dependence on Russia for... -
Georgia: Current Issues & Historical Background by T.O. Sirap 9781590334157
RRP: £61.99£50.00Since regaining its independence in 1991, Georgia has faced formidable problems of economic collapse, civil war, separatist conflict, rampant crime, political infighting and human rights abuses. This new book offers basic facts about today's Georgia but...