Russia category: 2582 books
The Red Ripper
Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The shocking true story of the Russian serial killer who brutally murdered more than fifty victims—and evaded capture for over a decade.
By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women and children, often sexually abusing...
Writing the Stalin Era
Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union.
The Communist Century
From Revolution To Decay: 1917 to 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
From the very origins of the communism, in the radicalised European working class movements of the late 19th Century, a vast an complex ideological movement that would eventually dominate much of humanity a century later emerged. The 20th Century was communism's century, a belief system that promised...
by Svetlana Akhmatnurova, Ignat Bogdan, Natalia Bokova
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
This book examines recent political and psychological changes in Russian society during Vladimir Putin’s third term. Instability in 2011–2012 and new domestic and international contexts make this a unique period in the post-Soviet political history of Russia. This volume focuses on popular perceptions...
Soviet Karelia
Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In 1920, Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia, a Russian territory adjacent to Finland, into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could be achieved by socialist nationalities policy and economic planning, and to encourage other countries to follow this example. However, Stalin’s...
Notes From The Road Vol III
Notes From The Road, #3
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
NOTES FROM THE ROAD VOL. III
This book, the prequel to Vol IV, is a retrospective of Mansfield’s journey to Mongolia from London and return.
It takes place in 2012 before Russia invaded Ukraine.
The Russian Federation and Siberia were joyful, the people still happy and not fearful;...
Lysenko's Ghost
Epigenetics and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists now claim that discoveries in epigenetics prove that he was right after all. Loren Graham reopens the case, to determine whether new developments in molecular biology validate Lysenko’s claims.
Hammer, Sickle, and Soil
The Soviet Drive to Collectivize Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. History's biggest experiment in social engineering at the time and the first example of...
Travel Tales Collections: The USSR 1
No. 2 September 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, The USSR 1, features three wild travel tales of unbelievable things that could have happened to you during the old Cold War Soviet Union communist era.
Of course, there are always the usual, typical, expected sorts of Eastern Europe (a...
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2019
This book examines the major warships of the Imperial Russian Navy which participated in the Russo-Japanese War. The focus is on the battleships, coastal defence warships, and cruisers of the Pacific Squadron and Baltic Squadron that fought during the war.
It discusses in detail their design and development...
L'idiota
Ediz. integrale
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Il giovane principe Myskin ritorna in Russia per ottenere la sua eredità, dopo aver trascorso molto tempo in Svizzera, dove si era recato per curare una malattia nervosa. Durante il viaggio in treno incontra Parfen Rogozin, un ragazzo esuberante, follemente innamorato di Nastas’ja Filippovna. I...
Guerra e pace
Ediz. integrale
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Scritto da Lev Tolstoj tra il 1863 e il 1869, Guerra e pace è considerato il più grande romanzo russo. In questa celeberrima opera si fondono due narrazioni: da una parte, i grandi avvenimenti storici che travolsero la Russia all’inizio del XIX secolo; dall’altra, le vicende delle due famiglie...
Il Sultano e lo Zar
Due imperi a confronto
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 28, 2018
All’inizio dell’Età moderna, l’Impero ottomano si affaccia sul Mediterraneo con l’ambizione di dominare sull’Asia e sull’Europa. La “seconda Roma”, Istanbul, disposta su due continenti, incarna il sogno universale dei cesari che i sultani ereditano per diritto di conquista. Ma dalle...
Our Soviet Ally
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book, originally published in 1943 deals with the features of Soviet life which the editor and contributors feel are of particular significance to Western readers. It describes the soviet political system and gives an account of the institutions of soviet economic life, the principles on which...