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Stamping Out the Virus:: Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War 1918-1920 Perry Moore 9780764316258
RRP: £31.99£21.00Stamping Out the Virus was a phrase used by Col. Fuller in an internal memeo in 1919 to describe Communism - to the Allies (French, British and U.S.) this is what the Russian Civil War was about. Thus, began a two year attempt to eradicate this virus. In... -
We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin by Chris Miller 9780674292147
RRP: £16.95£13.85"Miller's terrific book reminds that Russia made moves toward the East five hundred years ago, and explains why ignoring the Russian factor in Asian geopolitics today would be a big mistake."-Michael McFaul, author of From Cold War to Hot Peace"Miller... -
Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937 by Meredith L. Roman 9781496216663
RRP: £23.99£20.84Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Soviet officials had already labeled the United States the most racist country in the world. Photographs, children's stories, films, newspaper articles, political education campaigns, and court proceedings... -
Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953 by Jonathan Brent 9780060933104
RRP: £18.99£14.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060933104Author Vladimir NaumovFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 204mm... -
State Building in Ukraine: The Ukrainian parliament, 1990-2003 by Sarah Whitmore 9780415651929
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book examines the development of the Ukrainian parliament - the Verkhovna Rada - from before Ukraine's independence in 1991 to the present. It shows how the parliament transformed itself from a provincial republican Soviet to the national... -
Bodies like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia by Robert H. Greene
RRP: £39.00£34.52While Russian Orthodox theologians celebrated saints as paragons of virtue and piety whose lives were to be emulated in the search for salvation, ordinary believers routinely sought the assistance of the holy dead for commonplace and earthly matters. The... -
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork by Witold Szablowski 9780143137184
RRP: £20.00£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137184Author Witold SzablowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255g -
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes 9781250871398
RRP: £19.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250871398Author Orlando FigesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham 9781501134630
RRP: £21.99£12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501134630Author Adam HigginbothamFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454g -
The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin 9781541675483
RRP: £19.99£12.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541675483Author Sean McMeekinFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 140mm * 38mm -
In the Wake of Empire: Anti-Bolshevik Russia in International Affairs, 1917-1920 by Anatol Shmelev
RRP: £49.95£47.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817924249Author Anatol ShmelevFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Hoover Institution PressPublisher Hoover Institution PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Russia in War and Revolution: The Memoirs of Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff by Gary M Hamburg
RRP: £49.95£47.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817923648Author Gary M HamburgFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Hoover Institution PressPublisher Hoover Institution PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Separate Schools: Gender, Policy, and Practice in Postwar Soviet Education by E. Thomas Ewing
RRP: £36.00£31.98Starting in 1943, millions of children were separated into boys' and girls' schools in cities across the Soviet Union. The government sought to reinforce gender roles in a wartime context and to strengthen discipline and order by separating boys and... -
Russia and Its Islamic World: From the Mongol Conquest to The Syrian Military Intervention by Robert Service
RRP: £19.95£13.98Russia has long played an influential part in its world of Islam, and not all the dimensions are as widely understood as they ought to be. In Russia and Its Islamic World, Robert Service examines Russia's interactions with Islam at home and around the... -
The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia by William C. Fuller
RRP: £53.00£46.34In the early morning of March 19, 1915, Lt. Colonel S. N. Miasoedov, a former gendarme officer on active duty with the Russian army in World War I, was hanged after a two-hour trial in Warsaw for treason. Although he was innocent of this charge,... -
Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution by Frederick C. Corney
RRP: £27.99£24.14All revolutionary regimes seek to legitimize themselves through foundation narratives that, told and retold, become constituent parts of the social fabric, erasing or pushing aside alternative histories. Frederick C. Corney draws on a wide range of... -
Lenin and the End of Politics by A. J. Polan
RRP: £36.99£32.53Originally 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... -
An Ideology in Power: Reflections on the Russian Revolution by Bertram Wolfe
RRP: £37.99£33.38Originally published in 1969 and representing a quarter of a century's work of one of the USA's most respected scholars in Soviet affairs, this volume discusses the question of what happens to an ideology in power, by focusing on the evolution and uses... -
Late Imperial Russia, 1890-1917 by John F. Hutchinson
RRP: £135.00£117.28This new interpretation of the final years of Imperial Russia provides a clear and concise introduction to a critical period in the history of modern Russia. Professor Hutchinson outlines the key problems facing the Tsarist regime, and the attitudes of... -
Russia in Transition: A Business Man's Appraisal by Elisha M. Friedman
RRP: £45.99£40.13The result of visits to Russia from 1930-1932, this book, published in 1933, at a time when the social structure of the world was in great upheaval, covers a wide range of the activities of Soviet Russia. Much of the book covers the Five-Year Plan in... -
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: 2018/1 by Dr. Andreas Umland
RRP: £21.90£18.31Featuring a special section on Identity Clashes: Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History, and Politics. This issue's special section explores the discursive gaps, tensions, and ruptures between Ukrainian and Russian narratives of national... -
When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home: A Memoir by Elisa Brodinsky Miller
RRP: £19.99£15.23After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle as she travelled 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... -
Revolution in Perspective: Essays on the Hungarian Soviet Republic by Andrew C. Janos
RRP: £34.00£26.97This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice by Xenia A. Cherkaev
RRP: £23.99£20.84Gleaning for Communism is a historical ethnography of the property regime upon which Soviet legal scholars legislated a large modern state as a household, with guaranteed rights to a commons of socialist property, rather than private possessions... -
Russia Through the Centuries: The Historical Background of the U.S.S.R. by M. Philips Price
£93.60First 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... -
Lenin and his Rivals: The Struggle for Russia's Future, 1898-1906 by Donald W. Treadgold
RRP: £36.99£32.53Originally published in 1955, this is an illuminating study of the political thought and action of the Russian intelligentsia, in the decade up to and including the Revolution of 1905-6. It is based on the writings, including those in the revolutionary... -
Makers of the Russian Revolution: Biographies by Georges Haupt
RRP: £37.99£33.38Until the publication of this book in 1974, the leaders of the October Revolution remained very badly known. This book exhumes the autobiographies written by the men whose actions and ideas have moulded events. Unique as sources of documentation on the... -
Bandits, Gangsters and the Mafia: Russia, the Baltic States and the CIS since 1991 by Martin McCauley
RRP: £135.00£117.68During the 1990s, the "roving bandits", big business or the oligarchs, stole Russia. They gained influence over President Yeltsin and his government, and gradually shaped policy in their own interests. In this first comprehensive account to... -
Russia: Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past by Roderick Braithwaite
RRP: £27.95£16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362882Author Roderick BraithwaiteFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 140g -
A Physician's Tour in Soviet Russia by James Purves-Stewart
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in 1933, this volume was written by a practicing physician who visited Russia during the summer of 1932. Although the book makes no claim to offer anything more than a transient view of the constantly changing condition of Russian... -
Pharmapolitics in Russia: Making Drugs and Rebuilding the Nation by Olga Zvonareva
RRP: £72.27£63.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438479910Author Olga ZvonarevaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Youth in Soviet Russia by Klaus Mehnert
£106.61First 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... -
Great Powers in Competition and the Path to Democracy: The Case of Georgia, 1991-2020 by Professor Zarina Burkadze
RRP: £80.00£76.61Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly formed transitional regimes took up the challenging task of democratization. Democracy promotion in some cases produced unintended consequences. A retrospective evaluation of the Georgian case shows that... -
Nationalism in the Soviet Union by Hans Kohn
RRP: £86.99£75.54First published in 1933, Nationalism in the Soviet Union aims at presenting the mentality of the Soviet citizen, of the Communist ‘theology,’ and the way in which it tried to make its peace with the ‘theology’ of nationalism that dominated the world. The... -
Eternal Memory: Holodomor Monuments and Memorials by Wiktoria Kudela-Swiatek
RRP: £33.99£28.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894865616Author Wiktoria Kudela-SwiatekFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of... -
A History of Postwar Russia by Roger Pethybridge
£106.61First 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... -
Allied Intervention in Russia 1918-1919: And the Part Played by Canada by John Swettenham
RRP: £36.99£32.93When originally published in 1967 and using archive material from official records in Ottawa, this book threw new light on the motives and actions of the intervening powers. Allied intervention took place in three main areas: Northern and Southern Russia... -
From Autocracy to Bolshevism by Baron P. Graevenitz
£111.61This volume, originally published in 1918, discusses the events which gave rise to the Russian Revolution and finally resulted in Russia's political, economic and military collapse. In order to fully understand the events, the author places them against... -
Russia in the Wake of the Cold War: Perceptions and Prejudices by Dorothy Horsfield
RRP: £37.00£32.66Amid widespread and increasing alarm in Western strategic and foreign policy circles following Russia's capture of Crimea, support for rebels in Ukraine, and military intervention in Syria, this study provides a timely and sophisticated analysis of the... -
Television and Political Communication in the Late Soviet Union by Kirsten Boenker
RRP: £85.00£75.50This study focuses on Soviet television audiences and examines their watching habits and the way they made use of television programs. Kirsten Boenker challenges the common misconception that viewers perceived Soviet television programming and...