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Lenin: The Compulsive Revolutionary by Stefan T. Possony
RRP: £49.99£43.50Originally published in the UK in 1966, this was the first biography of Lenin which tied together extensive material unearthed in WWII, and it illuminates the complex personality and explains the riddle of Lenin's seemingly impossible rise to power... -
The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304 by John Fennell
RRP: £135.00£117.28John Fennell's history of thirteenth-century Russia is the only detailed study in English of the period, and is based on close investigation of the primary sources. His account concentrates on the turbulent politics of northern Russia, which was... -
Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I by Alexander M. Martin
RRP: £33.00£29.45In this richly researched and highly original study, Alexander M. Martin explores conservatism in Russian thought, politics, and culture during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Tracing the indigenous and foreign origins of conservative... -
Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era by Louise McReynolds
RRP: £58.00£50.57An athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing restaurant reviews. Intrepid women hunt bears, drive in automobile races, and fly, first in balloons and then in airplanes. Sensational... -
Between Tsar and People: Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia by Edith W. Clowes
RRP: £65.00£50.91This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and cultural life of late imperial Russia describes the struggle of new elites to take up a "middle position" in society--between tsar and people. During this period autonomous social and cultural... -
Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia by Stephen Frank
RRP: £42.00£33.04The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg have gathered here a diverse collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and... -
Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy by Sergei Antonov
RRP: £47.95£38.64As readers of classic Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. With incomes erratic and banks inadequate, Russians of all social castes were deeply enmeshed in networks of credit and debt. The necessity... -
Open Skies: Eisenhower's Proposal of July 21, 1955 by W. W. Rostow
RRP: £21.99£17.54In 1955 the United States and the Soviet Union were matching steps in a race to develop missiles tipped with thermonuclear weapons. American officials were frustrated and alarmed by their inability to learn the scale and progress of the Soviet program,... -
The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia by Elizabeth A. Wood
RRP: £23.99£21.24"Meticulously researched, impressively documented, and engrossingly written, . . . [it] contributes to a long-overdue reconception of the New Economic Policy (NEP). . . ." -Choice" . . . a well-organized, sophisticated analysis of the difficulties... -
Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia by Vladimir Nalivkin
RRP: £24.99£21.67Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is the first English translation of an important 19th-century Russian text describing everyday life in Uzbek communities. Vladimir and Maria Nalivkin were Russians who settled in a "Sart" village in 1878, in a... -
The Socialist Sixties: Crossing Borders in the Second World by Anne E. Gorsuch
RRP: £27.99£24.14The 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) are the... -
Russia's Diamond Colony: The Republic of Sakha by John Tichotsky
RRP: £120.00£117.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057024207Author John TichotskyFormat HardbackPage Count 393Imprint Harwood Academic (Medical, Reference and Social ScPublisher Gordon and... -
Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union by Nanette Funk
RRP: £32.99£29.56In the wake of communism's decline, women's concerns had become increasingly important in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet most discussions of post-communism changes had neglected women's experiences.Originally published in 1993, this... -
The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic John E. O'Neill 9781684512546
RRP: £22.00£14.05Communism must kill what it cannot control. So for a century, it has killed artists, writers, musicians, and even dancers. It kills them secretly, using bioweapons and poison to escape accountability. Among its victims was Anna Pavlova, history's... -
Nuclear Russia: The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture by Professor Paul Josephson
RRP: £12.99£11.78In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthusiastic pursuit of military and peaceful nuclear programs through the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse... -
The Decline of Imperial Russia: 1855-1914 by Hugh Seton-Watson
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book, originally published in 1952, describes and explains the stage of the decline of the Russian Empire between the Crimean and First World Wars. The book is divided up by period: the reign of Alexander II (1855-81), the period of reaction... -
The Unknown Revolution, 1917-21 by "Voline"
RRP: £30.00£24.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919618251Author VolineFormat PaperbackPage Count 716Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books -
An Academy at the Court of the Tsars: Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia by Nikolaos A. Chrissidis
RRP: £49.00£42.57The first formally organized educational institution in Russia was established in 1685 by two Greek hieromonks, Ioannikios and Sophronios Leichoudes. Like many of their Greek contemporaries in the seventeenth century, the brothers acquired part of their... -
Imperial Saint: The Cult of St. Catherine and the Dawn of Female Rule in Russia by Gary Marker
RRP: £108.00£93.80Historian Gary Marker traces the Russian veneration of St. Catherine of Alexandria from its beginnings in Kievan times through the onset of female rulership in the 18th century. Two narratives emerge. The first focuses on St. Catherine within Christendom... -
Deterring Russia in Europe: Defence Strategies for Neighbouring States Nora Vanaga 9780815370154
RRP: £135.00£117.68This edited volume examines deterrence and the defense efforts of European states neighboring Russia, following the Crimean intervention.Deterrence, after being largely absent from debates among academics and policy-makers for almost a quarter of a... -
From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II by Karl D. Qualls
RRP: £42.00£36.65Sevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and revered by Russians for its role in the Crimean War, was utterly destroyed by German forces during World War II. In From Ruins to Reconstruction, Karl D. Qualls... -
Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics by Philip G. Roeder
RRP: £58.00£45.18Why did the Soviet system fail? How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation? What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse? Philip Roeder finds the answer to these questions in the Bolshevik "constitution"--the... -
Moscow's Third World Strategy by Alvin Z. Rubinstein
RRP: £65.00£50.51The description for this book, Moscow's Third World Strategy, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691023328Author Alvin Z. RubinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton University... -
A Generation of Revolutionaries: Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika by Ben Eklof
RRP: £35.00£30.74Nikolai Charushin's memoirs of his experience as a member of the revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to historians, but A Generation of Revolutionaries provides a broader and more engaging look at the lives and relationships beyond... -
The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs Wendy Slater 9780415427975
RRP: £53.99£46.87How did Nicholas II, Russia's last Tsar, meet his death? Shot point blank in a bungled execution by radical Bolsheviks in the Urals, Nicholas and his family disappeared from history in the Soviet era. But in the 1970s, a local geologist and a crime... -
Secularism Soviet Style: Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic by Sonja Luehrmann
RRP: £21.99£19.19Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the... -
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: 2019/1 by Eleonora Narvselius
RRP: £26.00£21.07Special Sections: Remembering Diversity in East-Central European Cityscapes and Russias Annexation of Crimea I. Based on up-to-date field material, this issuefocuses onthe palimpsest-like environments of East-Central European borderland cities. The... -
The Russian Social-democratic Labour Party, 1899-1904: Documents of the Economist Opposition to Iskra and Early Menshevism: Historical Materialism, Volume 84 Richard Mullin 9781608465552
RRP: £50.00£33.79Much has been written about the activity of Lenin and his colleagues on the editorial board of the Iskra newspaper, whereas little has been said about the opponents of Leninism, who unsuccessfully fought for control of the Russian Social-Democratic... -
Stalin's Quest for Gold: The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization by Elena Osokina
RRP: £39.00£34.12Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to finance the USSR's ambitious industrialization program. At a time of desperate scarcity, Torgsin had... -
From Victory to Peace: Russian Diplomacy after Napoleon by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
RRP: £17.99£11.67In From Victory to Peace, Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter brings the Russian perspective to a critical moment in European political history. This history of Russian diplomatic thought in the years after the Congress of Vienna concerns a time when Russia... -
On Russian Soil: Myth and Materiality by Mieka Erley
RRP: £34.00£29.89Blending close readings of literature, films, and other artworks with analysis of texts of political philosophy, science, and social theory, Mieka Erley offers an interdisciplinary perspective on attitudes to soil in Russia and the Soviet Union from the... -
Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953 by Kiril Tomoff
RRP: £28.99£24.96Why 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... -
Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge and Practices, 1800-1950 by D. Hoffmann
RRP: £89.99£89.87Russian Modernity places Imperial and Soviet Russia in a European context. Russia shared in a larger European modernity marked by increased overlap and sometimes merger of realms that had previously been treated as discrete entities: the social and the... -
Images of Dictatorship: Stalin in Literature by Rosalind J. Marsh
£72.00Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a... -
Leninism: Volume One by Joseph Stalin
RRP: £32.99£29.16Translated from the Russian in 1928, this and the second volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of... -
The Economic Development of Russia 1905-1914: With Special Reference to Trade, Industry, and Finance by Margaret Miller
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book, originally published in 1926 but updated in 1967 analyses Russia's economy in the decade preceding the outbreak of the First World War. It covers trade, finance, transport and industry and each chapter is supported by statistics drawn from... -
The Central Workers' Circle of St. Petersburg, 1889-1894: A Case Study of the "Workers' Intelligentsia" by Michael Share
RRP: £37.99£33.38Filling an important gap in a neglected area of Russian history, namely the 1880s and early 1890s, this volume, originally published in 1987, examines the labour movement from the perspective of the politicized workers themselves. It examines not only... -
The Fate of the New Man: Representing and Reconstructing Masculinity in Soviet Visual Culture, 1945-1965 by Claire E. McCallum
RRP: £53.00£45.94Between 1945 and 1965, the catastrophe of war-and the social and political changes it brought in its wake-had a major impact on the construction of the Soviet masculine ideal. Drawing upon a wide range of visual material, The Fate of the New Man traces... -
The High Title of a Communist: Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime by Edward Cohn
RRP: £44.00£38.34Between 1945 and 1964, six to seven million members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were investigated for misconduct by local party organizations and then reprimanded, demoted from full party membership, or expelled. Party leaders viewed these... -
Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia by Isolde Thyret
RRP: £42.00£37.05Challenging traditional interpretations of the roles of royal women in patriarchal Muscovite society, Between God and Tsar opens a new approach to understanding medieval Russia. Drawing upon a wide range of sources in anthropology, sociology, art...