Former Soviet Republics category: 758 books
Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan
Under the Falling Red Star in Kharkiv
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
What the world is now witnessing in Ukraine is the cumulative effect of history and memory in the lives of the people of the region—and this book directly addresses those subjects. Although the majority of scholarship on the Soviet Union focuses on top-level political and intellectual elites, these...
by Richard Lourie
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018
Seemingly shy, Andrei Sakharov was in fact a man of three great passions. His passion for physics ultimately lead him to create the Soviet H-Bomb, making the USSR a super power. But he rejected all the position and prestige his inventions had brought him in the name of a greater passion — for justice....
Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia
Oil, Gas, and Modernization
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
By the end of the 2000s, the term 'resource curse' had become so widespread that it had turned into a kind of magic keyword, not only in the scholarly language of the social sciences, but also in the discourse of politicians, commentators and analysts all over the world-_like the term 'modernization'...
The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present
Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This collection examines practical and ethical issues inherent in the application of oral history and memory studies to research about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Case studies highlight the importance of ethical good practice, including the reflexive...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
This special ebook provides a unique collection of government documents and reports about the notorious Katyn Forest Massacre of 1940. It includes the famous Madden Committee report which placed the blame for the atrocity on the Soviet Union.
On April 13, 1943, Americans awoke to a startling...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
These unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Kazakhstan, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime,...
Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-40
From Red Square to the Left Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Despite the appalling record of the Soviet Union on human rights questions, many western intellectuals with otherwise impeccable liberal credentials were strong supporters the Soviet Union in the interwar period. This book explores how this seemingly impossible situation came about.
Focusing...
by Kate Brown, Dominic Boyer, Robert Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state...
by Alex Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991, fuelled by the admixture of oil politics, great power rivalry, ethnic separatism and terrorism that characterizes the region. However, until...
by Jonathan D. Smele
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book is a detailed reference of the twentieth century struggles that were waged across and beyond the decaying Russian Empire at the end of the First World War, as tsarism and democratic alternatives to it collapsed and the world’s first Communist state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,...
The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw
Space, Materiality, Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Following Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953, the Soviet Union experienced a dramatic resurgence in cinematic production. The period of the Soviet Thaw became known for its relative political and cultural liberalization; its films, formally innovative and socially engaged, were swept to the center of...
by Sergei Lebedev
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among...
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989
The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. Afghan mujahideen upset their plans, holding on with little more than natural fighting skills, until CIA agents came...
Transformational Diplomacy after the Cold War
Britain’s Know How Fund in Post-Communist Europe, 1989-2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain’s bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War.
The Know How Fund (KHF) was the technical assistance programme which Margaret Thatcher’s government launched...