Former Soviet Republics category: 758 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Security Dynamics in the Former Soviet Bloc focuses on four former Soviet sub-regions (the Baltic Sea region, the Slavic republics, the Black Sea region, and Central Asia) to explore the degree to which 'democratic security', which includes de-politicisation of, and civilian oversight of, the military,...
by Jamil Hasanli
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
On February 25, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev delivered the so-called “secret speech” in the Twentieth Party Congress of the CPSU in which he denounced Stalin’s transgressions and the cult of personality around the deceased dictator. Replete with sharp criticism of the Terror of the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This study of the conflict over the years involving Ukraine, Russia, and the Crimea is particularly interesting and relevant in light of the ongoing crisis in 2014. The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought about multidimensional problems to the former republics of the USSR and their inhabitants....
Open Mic Night in Moscow
And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
The raucous and surprisingly poignant story of a young, Russia-obsessed American writer and comedian who embarked on a solo tour of the former Soviet Republics, never imagining that it would involve kidnappers, garbage bags of money, and encounters with the weird and wonderful from Mongolia to Tajikistan.
Kazakhstan,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
These two unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in the Ukraine, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime,...
Constructing Grievance
Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Demands for national independence among ethnic minorities around the world suggest the power of nationalism. Contemporary nationalist movements can quickly attract fervent followings, but they can just as rapidly lose support. In Constructing Grievance, Elise Giuliano asks why people with ethnic identities...
by Sophie Pinkham
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A distinctive writer’s fascinating journey into the heart of a troubled region.
Ukraine has rebuilt itself over and over again in the last century, plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, substance abuse, ethnic clashes, and Russian aggression. Sophie Pinkham saw all this and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, NATO has enlarged its membership twice with countries formerly under Soviet influence and control and, as of this writing, is...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The former Soviet states in Central and Eastern Europe comprise a prominent portion of the Russian Federation's "Near Abroad." During and since World War II, these countries have alternately...
Everything Is Wonderful
Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
“Pages of dreamlike prose explore Estonia’s terrible Nazi-Soviet past, the trauma of dictatorship, and how memory processes that trauma.” —The Financial Times
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
Just like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned and slowly...
Strange Telescopes
Following the Apocalypse from Moscow to Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
The acclaimed author of Lost Cosmonaut “takes us into a world of exorcism, cults and oddballs” living in Ukraine, Siberia, and the catacombs beneath Moscow (The Guardian).
In Lost Cosmonaut, travel writer and anti-tourist Daniel Kalder ventured into the most distant republics of the former...
The Red Wake
A Hybrid of Travel, History and Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
A hybrid of history, travel and journalism.
Kurt has long been captivated by 'the communists' from his immigrant grandparents' past, transfixed by stories of the Soviet Union, the place where history happened. In the West, the Soviet universe has long been consigned to the dustbin of history,...
by Stylianos A. Sotiriou
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
This book places Eurasia in its entirety within a single explanatory framework and examines, for the first time to that extent, Russia as a Eurasian energy power in its affairs with the two main geopolitical players of the region, the EU and China. Part of this geopolitical space is the Former Soviet...
The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan
Nationalism, Islamism, and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
In May 1992 political and social tensions in the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan escalated to a devastating civil war, which killed approximately 40,000-100,000 people and displaced more than one million. The enormous challenge of the Soviet Union’s disintegration compounded by inner-elite...