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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... -
Turks, Tatars and Russians in the 13th-16th Centuries by Istvan Vasary 9781138375154
RRP: £54.99£48.12The setting for the studies collected here is the West-Eurasian steppe region, extending from present-day Kazakhstan through southern Russia, Ukraine and Moldavia to the Carpathian Basin. The first articles deal with pre-Mongol, Turkic peoples of the... -
Political Elites and the New Russia: The Power Basis of Yeltsin's and Putin's Regimes by Anton Steen 9781138362901
RRP: £43.99£38.44Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial strategic actors in reshaping Russia's economy,... -
Artists, Writers, and Diplomats’ Wives: Impressions of Women Travelers in Imperial Russia by Evelyn M. Cherpak 9781538180983
RRP: £30.00£27.08In Russia Through Women’s Eyes: Women Travelers in The Russian Empire, 1786-1920, the experiences and impressions of sixteen European and North American women who both lived and traveled in Russia during times of peace and war come alive. All these women... -
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Through Much Tribulation by Leonard G. Friesen 9781487505516
RRP: £62.00£53.96Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in... -
New Russia by Anatole de Monzie 9781138085114
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in English in 1932 and written a former French Minister of Public Works, this volume reviews the situation in Russia in the early decades of the twentieth century. It places the situation in its historical setting and traces the... -
Russian Zone by Gordon Schaffer 9781032527482
RRP: £86.99£75.54First published in 1947 Russian Zone is a record of the conditions Gordon Schaffer found in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany during a stay of ten weeks. In that time, he had interviewed scores of Germans in positions of responsibility- ministers of... -
War & Revolution in Asiatic Russia by Morgan Philips Price 9781138633100
RRP: £36.99£32.53Part diary, part journalistic dispatches this volume, originally published in 1918 is a short history of the Caucasus campaign and connects the events that were taking place in the Middle East with the past history of Central Asia. Witnessing the effects... -
Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917–1941 by David L. Hoffmann 9780801440892
RRP: £108.00£93.40Soviet official culture underwent a dramatic shift in the mid-1930s, when Stalin and his fellow leaders began to promote conventional norms, patriarchal families, tsarist heroes, and Russian literary classics. For Leon Trotsky—and many later... -
Self and Story in Russian History by Laura Engelstein 9780801437915
RRP: £108.00£93.80Russians have often been characterized as people with souls rather than selves. Self and Story in Russian History challenges the portrayal of the Russian character as selfless, self-effacing, or self-torturing by exploring the texts through which... -
The New Russia: A Handbook of Economic and Political Developments by Ian Jeffries 9780367604752
RRP: £39.99£35.46The rapid changes in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union are often bewildering, with many frequent, highly significant changes in the different sectors of the economy and the political system. There have been frequent changes of personnel in... -
Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Interest and Identity in Russia and the Post-Soviet Space by P l Kolst 9781474495011
RRP: £24.99£22.71Argues that nationalism and ethnic conflict can be used as strategies to achieve power and influence Collects 8 thoroughly revised articles and book chapters, together with a new introductory theoretical chapter, based on P l Kolst 's 30 years of study... -
Armenia: Cradle of Civilization by David Marshall Lang 9781032169279
RRP: £31.99£28.73Originally published in 1970, this book is the result of many years of study and research in the field. It begins with a geographic and ethnic survey of the land and Armenian people and traces the land’s prehistory back to the Old Stone Age. The origins... -
A History of Postwar Russia by Roger Pethybridge 9781032128894
RRP: £28.99£25.09First Published in 1966, A History of Postwar Russia covers sixteen years of Soviet history, from the closing stages of the Second World War (1945) until the Twenty-second Soviet Party Congress (1961), dealing with both domestic and foreign policy and... -
A Key to Soviet Politics: The Crisis of the Anti-Party Group by Roger Pethybridge 9781032128870
RRP: £28.99£25.09First Published in 1962, A Key to Soviet Politics is the first full scale attempt to analyse the internal struggle for power in Russia since 1957. The changes in the Soviet government after the ‘Crisis’ of June 1957 are probably better documented than... -
Youth in Soviet Russia by Klaus Mehnert 9781032120324
RRP: £28.99£25.09First published in 1933, Youth in Soviet Russia presents Klaus Mehnert’ s honest and personal account of the state of the youth in USSR. It contains themes like living human beings, student and class, student and the state, the idea of the Komsomol, the... -
The Armenians: A People in Exile by David Marshall Lang 9781032168852
RRP: £28.99£25.09Originally published in 1981, this book tells the story of the Armenian dispersion and gives a graphic account of the persecution of the Armenians by the Turks from 1895 to 1922 which foreshadowed the Jewish holocaust at the hands of Hitler, who is said... -
The First Russian Radical: Alexander Radishchev 1749-1802 by David Marshall Lang 9781032168272
RRP: £31.99£28.33When this was originally published in 1959 it was the first full-length biography of Alexander Radishchev published outside Russia and was based on hitherto unpublished material, memoir literature and Radishchev’s own writings. Radishchev occupies a... -
The World of the Russian Peasant: Post-Emancipation Culture and Society by Ben Eklof 9781032572062
RRP: £91.99£80.20First published in 1990 The World of the Russian Peasant is designed to provide a wide-ranging survey of new developments in Russian peasant studies. Editors Eklof and Frank paint a broad picture of what life was like for the vast majority of Russia’s... -
Muscovy: Russia through Foreign Eyes 1553-1900 by Francesca Wilson 9781032485874
RRP: £110.00£95.11First Published 1970, Muscovy presents a lively and amusing selection of travellers’ tales from the most important of old and rare books. There is the journal of the Dutch sailor Struys, whose imbroglios with Cossacks and Tartars reads more like a... -
Western Perceptions Of Soviet Goals: Is Trust Possible? by Klaus Gottstein 9780367216191
RRP: £37.99£33.38This study investigates Western views on the potential future developments in the U.S.S.R. It traces the facts, figures, fears and ideological prejudices that have contributed to the mutual mistrust between the East and the West over long-range political... -
The Kremlin: Nerve- Centre of Russian History by Victor Alexandrov 9781032452111
RRP: £110.00£95.11First Published in 1963, The Kremlin presents the story of a gigantic citadel, of its grandeur and its horrors, of its masters, famous and infamous, and of the scenes, both splendid and terrible, which its stones have witnessed since the Kremlin’s... -
Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to Putin by Associate Professor Eugene M. Avrutin 9781350097278
RRP: £50.00£43.76In October 2013, one of the largest anti-migrant riots took place in Moscow. Clashes and arrests continued late into the night. Some in the crowd, which grew to several thousand people, could be heard chanting "Russia for the Russians" with... -
Russian Populism: A History by Professor Christopher Ely 9781350095533
RRP: £80.00£70.20Russian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of... -
Lenin's Jewish Question by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 9780300152104
£64.42In this first examination of Lenin's genealogical and political connections to East European Jews, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern reveals the broad cultural meanings of indisputable evidence that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jew. He examines why and how... -
Russian Public Diplomacy: From USSR to the Russian Federation Marina M. Lebedeva (MGIMO University, Russia) 9780367708764
RRP: £17.99£16.04Public diplomacy is widely used in the contemporary world, and this book is devoted to its use and study in Russia.It explores how, even though scientific diplomacy and people's diplomacy were used in the USSR, the ideas of public diplomacy were not in... -
Kyiv as Regime City: The Return of Soviet Power after Nazi Occupation by Martin J. Blackwell 9781648250538
RRP: £24.99£20.90Kyiv as Regime City charts the resettlement of the Ukrainian capital after Nazi occupation, focusing on the efforts of returning Soviet rulers to regain legitimacy within a Moscow-centered regime still attending to the warfront. Beginning with the... -
Living the High Life in Minsk: Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus' Impending Crisis by Margarita M Balmaceda 9789633867037
RRP: £20.95£19.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789633867037Author Margarita M BalmacedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Central European University PressPublisher Central European University Press -
Caucasus: A Journey to the Land Between Christianity and Islam Nicholas Griffin 9780226308593
RRP: £21.00£20.31The rugged land between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus is the front line of a fascinating and formidable clash of cultures; Russia on one side, the predominantly Muslim mountains on the other. Here, award-winning author Nicholas Griffin... -
Russia's French Connection: A History of the Lasting French Imprint on Russian Culture Adam Coker (Brewton-Parker College, USA) 9780367515454
RRP: £39.99£35.06While it is generally acknowledged that Russia's culture has been influenced by France, the present study goes beyond the Francophile preferences of the noble elite and examines Russian society more broadly, exploring those elements of French cultural... -
Russian Anarchists by Paul Avrich 9780691620251
RRP: £45.00£35.32Professor Avrich records the history of the anarchist movement from its Russian origins in the 19th century, with a full discussion of Bakunin and Kropotkin, to its upsurge in the 1905 and 1917 Social Democratic Revolutions, and its decline and fall... -
Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia by Claudia R. Jensen 9780253353542
£39.62Claudia R. Jensen presents the first unified study of musical culture in the court and church of Muscovite Russia. Spanning the period from the installation of Patriarch Iov in 1589 to the beginning of Peter the Great's reign in 1694, her book offers... -
Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine: Leaflets, Pamphlets, and Cartoons, 1917-1922 by Stephen Velychenko 9781487504687
RRP: £64.00£55.64Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine is a survey of domestic government and party printed propaganda in revolutionary Ukraine. It is the first account in English to study these materials using an illustrative sample of printed texts and to assess their... -
Sedition: Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev Vladimir A. Kozlov 9780300111699
RRP: £59.00£56.63This book explores Soviet prosecution records to tell the hidden story of ordinary citizens who were arrested for expressing discontent during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years.Book InformationISBN 9780300111699Author Vladimir A. KozlovFormat...