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Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars by Alison K. Smith 9780875806686
RRP: £37.00£32.42Alison K. Smith examines changing attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs about the production and consumption of food in Russia from the late 18th century through the mid 19th century. She focuses on the way that competing ideas based either in... -
Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 Cathleen M. Giustino 9780857456694
RRP: £99.00£79.83During much of the Cold War, escape from countries in the East Bloc was a near impossible act. There remained, however, possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time away from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life. The... -
Russia's Economy: Signs of Progress and Retreat on the Transitional Road by Charles Wolf 9780833039767
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833039767Author Charles WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 145g -
Opening the Red Door: The Inside Story of Russia's First Christian Liberal Arts University by John A. Bernbaum 9780830852611
RRP: £24.99£7.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852611Author John A. BernbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 553g -
The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere 9780814774823
RRP: £24.99£21.67Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and... -
Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path by Laura Engelstein 9780801447402
RRP: £108.00£93.40Twentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile Empire, the leading historian Laura Engelstein pays... -
Broad Is My Native Land: Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia's Twentieth Century by Lewis H. Siegelbaum 9780801453335
RRP: £108.00£93.80Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through... -
Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934 by David R. Shearer 9780801483851
RRP: £37.00£32.42In his reexamination of the origins of the Stalinist state during the formative period of rapid industrialization in the late 1920s and early 1930s, David R. Shearer argues that a centralized state-controlled economic system was the consciously conceived... -
Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution by Amir Weiner 9780691095431
RRP: £48.00£38.00In Making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary... -
Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869-1955 Prof. Angela V. John 9780719080142
RRP: £80.00£56.69This is the first biography of a remarkable writer and incorrigible rebel. Evelyn Sharp's story encapsulates the shifts in opportunities for talented Victorian women who survived into the mid-twentieth century.She was born into a privileged family in... -
Mothers of Misery: Child Abandonment in Russia by David L. Ransel 9780691630298
RRP: £134.00£114.71At the height of its operation in the second half of the nineteenth century, the central foundling home in Moscow was receiving 17,000 children each year. The home dispatched most to wet nurses and foster care in the countryside, where at any one time it... -
The End of the Russian Imperial Army: The Old Army and the Soldiers' Revolt (March-April, 1917) by Allan K. Wildman 9780691616247
RRP: £58.00£45.58Allan Wildman presents the first detailed study of the Army's collapse under the strains of war and of the front soldiers' efforts to participate in the Revolution. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930: A Study in Continuity Through Change by Jane McDermid 9780582279865
RRP: £42.99£31.50This study considers the impact of industrialisation, revolution and world war on women's working lives in Russia. Unlike existing studies this new text looks at women from all social classes. In the process the authors reveal how the stereotypical... -
A History of the Russian Church to 1488 by John L. Fennell 9780582080676
£46.38The Russian church is central to an understanding of early Russian and Slav history, but for many years there has been no accessible, up-to-date introduction to the subject in English - until now. The late John Fennell's last book, is a masterly survey... -
For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia by Alison K. Smith 9780190939625
RRP: £22.99£20.80Every subject of the Russian Empire had an official, legal place in society marked by his or her social estate, or soslovie. These sosloviia (noble, peasant, merchant, and many others) were usually inherited, and defined the rights, opportunities, and... -
In the Shadow of the Red Banner by Yitzhak Arad 9789652294876
RRP: £38.99£24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652294876Author Yitzhak AradFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 868g -
A History of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company, 1948-1989: How a Small, Landlocked Country Ran Maritime Business During the Cold War by Lenka Kratka 9783838206660
RRP: £22.90£18.68This book offers a comprehensive history of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company (C. O. S.) from its beginning in the late 1940s until the fall of communism. Owned by the Czechoslovak state, C. O. S.'s activities were shaped by Soviet standards. This... -
Forum fur osteuropaische Ideen- und Zeitgeschich - Der lange Abschied vom totalitaren Erbe by Leonid Luks 9783838207223
RRP: £30.99£25.63Forum features interdisciplinary discussions by political scientists-literary, legal, and economic scholars-and philosophers on the history of ideas, and it reviews books on Central and Eastern European history. Through the translation and publication of... -
The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin's Russia I: Back to Our Future! History, Modernity, and Patriotism According to Nashi, 2005-2013 by Ivo Mijnssen 9783838203683
RRP: £29.90£24.10This book analyses the dubious role of the so-called Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement 'Nashi' in contemporary Russia. Part and parcel of the Putinist project of political stabilisation, Nashi dominates state-sponsored youth politics in Russia,... -
Science and Empire in Eastern Europe: Bad Wiesseer Tagungen des Collegium Carolinum by Daniel Baric 9783525310748
RRP: £47.99£39.11The essays in this volume present a nuanced analysis of the development of scientific fields and institutions in Eastern Europe during the "long 19th century" (1789a1914).In 19th century Western Europe science often developed in the context of... -
Lenin by Sean Sheehan 9781905791262
RRP: £14.99£10.80"Views of Lenin" are currently set in a tone of highly judgemental opinion: he was inflexible, doctrinaire and a cold-blooded revolutionary. A man whose indifference to culture led to political extremes, paving the way for his successor Stalin's... -
At the Kremlin Gates: A Historical Portrait of Moscow by Gerald R. Skinner 9781904955818
RRP: £14.99£14.04?By tradition, Moscow is the easternmost bastion of western civilisation. Moscow has stood against invasion and war, pestilence and fire. It has been rejected by its own rulers, and its destruction has been planned by its dreamers and invaders alike. Yet... -
Post-communist Nostalgia by Maria Todorova 9781845456719
RRP: £99.00£80.23"These lively essays make for the rare collection that is greater than the sum of its parts. Bookended by a substantive Foreword and Afterword, they upend the standard 'diagnosis of nostalgia' found across the former Soviet bloc, refuting the... -
The Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow by Julia Herzberg 9781800731271
RRP: £107.00£86.17Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of... -
Russia Before The 'Radiant Future': Essays in Modern History, Culture, and Society Michael Confino 9781845457617
RRP: £99.00£80.23One of the major historians of prerevolutionary Russia has collected in this volume some of his most important essays. Written over a number of years, these pioneering works have been revised and updated and are complemented by others being published for... -
Shadowlands: Memory and History in Post-Soviet Estonia Meike Wulf 9781789207910
RRP: £27.95£22.58Located within the forgotten half of Europe, historically trapped between Germany and Russia, Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the violent conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. This innovative study traces the tangled... -
Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commmoration of Russia's Repressive Past by Zuzanna Bogumil 9781785339271
RRP: £99.00£79.83Though the institution of the Gulag was nominally closed over half a decade ago, it lives on as an often hotly contested site of memory in the post-socialist era. This ethnographic study takes a holistic, comprehensive approach to understanding memories... -
Communist Parties Revisited: Socio-Cultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 by Ruediger Bergien 9781785337765
RRP: £107.00£86.17The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions... -
Shadowlands: Memory and History in Post-Soviet Estonia by Meike Wulf 9781785330735
RRP: £99.00£79.83Located within the forgotten half of Europe, historically trapped between Germany and Russia, Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the violent conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. This innovative study traces the tangled... -
Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives by Malgorzata Pakier 9781782389293
RRP: £107.00£86.57In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European memory eastward, contributors to this volume avoid the trap of... -
Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 Cathleen M. Giustino 9781782389255
RRP: £27.95£22.58During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the East Bloc was a near impossible act. There remained, however, possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time away from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday... -
Eyewitnesses To The Russian Revolution Todd Chretien 9781608468614
RRP: £19.99£13.56Tells the story of The Russian Revolution with riveting eyewitness accounts. One hundred years ago, workers and peasants in Russia turned the world upside down when they overthrew their Tsar, took over their factories, farms, and schools, and set out to... -
Iron-making Societies: Early Industrial Development in Sweden and Russia, 1600-1900 by Maria Agren 9781571819550
RRP: £107.00£86.57"[The results of the Russian-Swedish research team] are presented an exemplary fashion and rigorously edited ...Whoever is interested in the industrial development of European economy and society should read this book." * Vierteljahrschrift... -
Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory by Kevin Murphy 9781571814296
RRP: £99.00£79.83"Kevin Murphy has written an important book. It steers a course between the prevailing historical orthodoxy that dismisses the Russian Revolution of October 1917 as a disastrous aberration and the so-called 'revisionists' who have portrayed... -
Russian Colonization of Alaska: Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741-1799 by Andrei Val'terovich Grinev 9781496207623
RRP: £58.00£50.17In Russian Colonization of Alaska, Andrei Val'terovich Grinev examines the sociohistorical origins of the former Russian colonies in Alaska, or "Russian America," between 1741 and 1799. Beginning with the Second Kamchatka Expedition of Vitus Ivanovich... -
The Human Tradition in Imperial Russia by Christine D. Worobec 9780742537378
RRP: £35.00£28.82This compelling set of essays presents richly human stories of individual and group experiences, as well as of key events in the history of Imperial Russia. Beginning with Peter I's dress reforms in the early eighteenth century and concluding with poets... -
Communist Parties Revisited: Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 Rudiger Bergien 9781789208450
RRP: £27.95£22.58The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions... -
Lenin and the End of Politics by A. J. Polan 9781138637221
£112.01Originally published in 1984 this book reconsiders the effect of Lenin on the politics and culture of the 20th Century. In a detailed examination of Lenin's famous text, The State and Revolution, the author argues that the peculiar status of this work... -
Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Galina Ulianova 9781138663725
RRP: £53.99£46.87This pioneering work comprehensively examines the history of female entrepreneurship in the Russian Empire during nineteenth-century industrial development.Book InformationISBN 9781138663725Author Galina UlianovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint... -
The Telengits of Southern Siberia: Landscape, Religion and Knowledge in Motion Agnieszka Halemba (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) 9781138500174
RRP: £49.99£43.50In a new and engaging study, Halemba explores the religion and world outlook of the Telengits of Altai. The book provides an account of the Altai, its peoples, clans and political structures, focusing particularly on on the Telengits, whilst also...