Russia category: 2582 books
The Catastrophe
Kerensky’s Own Story of the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
In this book written in exile, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky, recounts his fascinating eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution and the victory of the extreme Bolshevik faction in 1917.
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky (4 May 1881 - 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and politician who served...
by Otto Preston Chaney
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, hero of Leningrad, defender of Moscow and Stalingrad, commander of the victorious Red Army at Berlin, was the most decorated soldier in Soviet history. Yet for many years Zhukov was relegated to the status of "unperson" in his homeland. Now, following...
Silent Conflict
A Hidden History of Early Soviet-Western Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This deeply informed book traces the dramatic history of early Soviet-western relations after World War I. Michael Jabara Carley provides a lively exploration of the formative years of Soviet foreign policy making after the Bolshevik Revolution, especially focusing on Soviet relations with the West...
Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte
Die Kirchen im Sozialismus am Beispiel Russlands und Polens
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Since 1997, FORUM has been an integral part of the landscape of European studies. In addition to contemporary history, it offers insights into the history of ideas and reviews books on Central and Eastern European history. It offers more than just history—for instance, interdisciplinary discussions...
The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity
The Stalin Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 1998
In this long-awaited sequel to his acclaimed Russia's Road to the Cold War (1979), Vojtech Mastny offers a thorough history of the early years of the Cold War, drawing upon his extensive research in newly opened Soviet archives. Just as the earlier volume offered the definitive portrait of Joseph...
Open Letters
Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard 1880-1922
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
During the fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary eras, picture postcards were an important medium of communication for Russians of all backgrounds. In Open Letters, the most comprehensive study of Russian picture postcards to date, Alison Rowley uses this medium to explore a variety of aspects of...
by Konstantin S Nossov, Konstantin Nossov
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
According to Russian legend, in the year AD 862 the Slav tribes of what is now European Russia invited a number of Scandinavian princes to rule over them. However, on the death of these princes, Prince Oleg seized Kiev and united the Northern and Southern Russian territories, building extensive fortifications...
Twilight of Empire
The Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917–1918
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Twilight of Empire is the first book in English to examine the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference during the later stages of World War I with the use of extensive archival sources. Two separate peace treaties were signed at Brest-Litovsk – the first between the Central Powers and Ukraine and the second...
by Serge Sazonov
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
THE catastrophe which overwhelmed Europe in July, 1914, the effects of which made themselves felt more or less over the whole world, cannot yet be made the subject of scientific historical investigation. So immense a task is beyond the powers of those who witnessed and still more of those who were...
by Lonely Planet, Mara Vorhees, Leonid Ragozin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Moscow is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Gawk at Red Square and the city’s countless glittering domes, lose yourself in a performance...
The "Domostroi"
Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
A manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It depicts a society that prized religious orthodoxy, reliance on tradition, and absolute subordination of the individual to the family and the...
by Kornei Chukovsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children’s linguistic creativity, and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. As benefactor to many writers including Alexander Solzhenitsyn and...
Word for Word
A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
A remarkable memoir of living in the Soviet Union and working as a literary translator.
In the early twentieth century, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when she was thirteen, her parents moved to the USSR—where...
Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution
Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Russians from all walks of life joyously celebrated the end of Nicholas II’s monarchy, but one year later, amid widespread civil strife and lawlessness, a fearful citizenry stayed out of sight. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa offers a new perspective on Russia’s revolutionary year through the lens of violent crime and its devastating effect on ordinary people.