Former Soviet Republics category: 758 books
Stag & Hen Party Guide, Eastern Europe
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Stags behaving badly? You better believe it, but with all that cheap beer, who can blame them? After all, the women are all drop dead gorgeous and boys will be boys, right? Back in the bad old days of the Soviet Union, much of Eastern Europe was pretty much forbidden territory to the average Joe....
Pathways
A Study of Six Post-Communist Countries
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Political and economic developments after the implosion of the Soviet Union have not been easy, nor have outcomes been similar. The different trajectories of political development in post-communist countries are traced through cases from within the post-communist region that exhibit maximum variation...
by Robert A. Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2019
Straddling Europe and Asia, the Russian Federation is the largest country in the world and home to a panoply of religious and ethnic groups from the Muslim Tatars to the Buddhist Buryats. Over the past 40 years, Russia has experienced the most dramatic transformation of any modern state. The second...
Komrads
Russian Street Photography
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
As one of the most audacious street photographers John D Williams in “Komrads” offers to you unique and compelling images of city people in the urban environment, as well as the rural folk of modern Russia in the 21st century. Committed to creating original visions of documentary photography his...
Thirteen Years at the Russian Court
A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2018
Nicholas II (1868-1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from November 1, 1894 until his forced abdication on March 15, 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. He was given the nickname Nicholas...
by Michael L. Dockrill, Michael F. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
Michael Dockrill's concise study of the early years of the Cold War between the Western Powers and Soviet Union has been widely acclaimed as an authoritative guide to the subject. In this second edition, he and Michael Hopkins bring the story up to the events of 1991, and also expand coverage of key topics.
Politically Homeless
A Five-Year Odyssey Across Three Continents
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Multicultural/Social Science, Women//Travel
In this Memoir, Terzians aspirations to attend college meet parents refusal, flaring her yearnings even more. Consequently she quits her home in Cairo to work with the United Nations (UN) World Health Organization in Alexandria.Five years later she...
Bears in the Streets
Three Journeys across a Changing Russia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
**One of Bustle's 17 of the Best Nonfiction Books Coming in January 2017 and Men's Journal's 7 Best Books of January**
"Brilliant, real and readable." —former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
**A USA Today "New and Noteworthy" Book**
Lisa Dickey...
White Fever
A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
No one in their right mind travels across Siberia in the middle of winter in a modified Russian jeep, with only a CD player (which breaks on the first day) for company. But Jacek Hugo-Bader is no ordinary traveler. As a fiftieth birthday present to himself, he sets out to drive from Moscow to Vladivostok,...
by Marcus Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
From the ashes of former Yugoslavia an independent Croatian state has arisen, the fulfillment, in the words of President Franjo Tudjman, of the Croats' "thousand-year-old dream of independence." Yet few countries in Europe have been born amid such bitter controversy and bloodshed: the savage war between...
by Tim Judah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central-geographically, historically, and politically-to the future of the Western...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The ongoing crisis in the Ukraine with the armed intervention of Russia instigated by Russian President Vladimir Putin is covered in this unique ebook with extensive information about the Ukraine and Crimea, history, military and political background, and much more. Contents include:
2014 Crisis...
The Devil's Garden
A War Crimes Investigator's Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
In 2002 John Cencich traveled to a safe house in Belgrade to interview the former head of a Yugoslav secret intelligence agency. In less than an hour, Cencich had what he needed: corroboration of information provided by another spy. This evidence would be used against Slobodan Milo?evic in his war...
by Alina Potter
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
The Essential Kiev Guide (2017 Edition) has been revised and updated to introduce Kiev’s key sights, experiences and travel essentials to make your stay in the Ukrainian capital and enjoying and exciting one. Our experience as one of the top Kiev private guides leading tours for hundreds of western...