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The Tower by Alexander Rensing 9781716295713
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716295713Author Alexander RensingFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint -
The Necromancer by Alexander Sorensen 9781969819025
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781969819025Author Alexander SorensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprin -
Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions by Mitchell Alexander Orenstein 9780822959946
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05When Vladimir Putin claimed "outside forces" were at work during the Ukrainian Orange Revolution of 2004, it was not just a case of paranoia. In this uprising against election fraud, protesters had... -
The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism Alexander Sorenson 9781501777097
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.32The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature-death by drowning. Characters find themselves before bodies of water, presented with the... -
The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism Alexander Sorenson 9781501777103
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature-death by drowning. Characters find themselves before bodies of water, presented with the... -
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A timely and important book . . . he brings to it rare clarity and common sense. His book is a fast-paced account of the last sixteen months of the tsar's life; brief, sharp, but laced with... -
You Say You Want a Revolution?: Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences by Daniel Chirot
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure-and what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremismWhy have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in... -
Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899-1923 by John D. Bell 9780691655444
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Agrarianism has received relatively little attention from scholars interested in the modern history of Eastern Europe. Contending that an understanding of the agrarian constribution is necessary for... -
Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899-1923 by John D. Bell 9780691656861
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £89.94Agrarianism has received relatively little attention from scholars interested in the modern history of Eastern Europe. Contending that an understanding of the agrarian constribution is necessary for... -
Iuzovka and Revolution, Volume II: Politics and Revolution in Russia's Donbass, 1869-1924 by Theodore H. Friedgut 9780691601496
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £79.30In 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... -
Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Volume I: Russia Leaves the War by George Frost Kennan 9780691008417
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize, this absorbing volume explores the complexities of the... -
The End of the Russian Imperial Army: The Old Army and the Soldiers' Revolt (March-April, 1917) by Allan K. Wildman 9780691616247
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £54.45Allan 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. ... -
Sergey Prokofiev and His World by Simon Morrison
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story of his prodigious childhood in tsarist Russia, maturation in... -
The News under Russia's Old Regime: The Development of a Mass-Circulation Press by Louise McReynolds 9780691607283
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43In this lively account of the rise of a commercial newspaper industry in imperial Russia, Louise McReynolds explores how the mass-circulation press created a forum for popular opinion advocating... -
Germany and the Ottoman Empire, 1914-1918 by Ulrich Trumpener 9780691622750
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.17Questioning whether the Germans were actually as influential or dominant in the Ottoman empire as most standard works suggest, the author attacks the myths surrounding Turkey's role in the war. ... -
Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930 by Zvi Gitelman 9780691619484
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.01In order to "Bolshevize" the Jewish population, the Soviets created within the Party a number of special Jewish Sections. Charged with the task of integrating the largely hostile or indifferent Jews... -
The Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution: Social Realities and Political Strategies by Ziva Galili 9780691655697
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £65.11At the end of Febraury 1917 the tsarist government of Russia collapsed in a whirlwind of demonstrations by the workers and soldier of Petrograd. Ziva Galili tells how the moderate socialists, or... -
The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny 9780691655611
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £62.06Ronald Grigor Suny examines the Revolution in Baku, important provincial capital and oil center of the Russian empire. His study of Baku's national and class conflicts, Bolshevism as it developed in... -
The Russian Revolution 1917: A Personal Record by N.N. Sukhanov by Nikolai Nikolaevich Sukhanov
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £93.78Author of the only full-length eyewitness account of the 1917 Revolution, Sukhanov was a key figure in the first revolutionary Government. His seven-volume book, first published in 1922, was... -
Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution: Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University by Diane P. Koenker 9780691610795
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £54.45Whereas most Soviet and American scholars of the Russian Revolution have emphasized the great leaders and the great events of 1917, Diane Koenker reverses this trend in a study of the Russian working... -
Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1921, Volume 2: Britain and the Russian Civil War by James Ramsey Ullman 9780691655123
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £59.78At the end of World War I the British government found itself deeply mired in a Russian civil war aimed at destroying the infant Bolshevik regime. A year later this effort was in shambles despite... -
British-American Relations 1917-1918: The Role of Sir William Wiseman. Supplementary Volume to The Papers of Woodrow Wilson by Wilton B. Fowler 9780691621692
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.05Throughout the First World War Woodrow Wilson considered Britain's ambitions in the war as objectionable as Germany's. He repeatedly expressed distrust of the British government's motives; for their... -
Russia, Bolshevism, and the Versailles Peace by John M. Thompson 9780691623566
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £55.10This book describes disagreements among the diplomats in Paris over the Russian problem, and it analyzes Allied policy toward Russia as it developed at the conference and led into a halfhearted... -
Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1921, Volume 1: Intervention and the War by Richard Henry Ullman 9780691655116
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87In an intriguing work based largely on new sources, Richard H. Ullman shows how the British government--the politicians, civil servants, military and naval officers--dealt with the problem of Russia...