Russia category: 2582 books
Imagining America
Influence and Images in Twentieth-Century Russia
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
In Imagining America, historian Alan M. Ball explores American influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic. Ball deftly illustrates how in each era Russians have approached the United States with a conflicting mix of ideas—as a land to admire from...
by Peter Abbott, Eugene Pinak
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
There can be no region in Europe whose history has been more tortured than Ukraine. During the 20th century Austria, Poland, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania vied for power over parts of this vast and fragmented area; and its divided peoples rose time and again in vain attempts...
To the Tashkent Station
Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In summer and fall 1941, as German armies advanced with shocking speed across the Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership embarked on a desperate attempt to safeguard the country's industrial and human resources. Their success helped determine the outcome of the war in Europe. To the Tashkent Station...
by Irina Mukhina
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The Germans were a very substantial minority in Russia, and many leading figures, including the Empress Catherine the Great, were German. Using rarely seen archival information, this book provides an account of the experiences of the Germans living in the Soviet Union from the early post-revolution...
The Moscow Pythagoreans
Mathematics, Mysticism, and Anti-Semitism in Russian Symbolism
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
In Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, mysticism, anti-Semitism, and mathematical theory fused into a distinctive intellectual movement. Through analyses of such seemingly disparate subjects as Moscow mathematical circles and the 1913 novel Petersburg, this book illuminates a forgotten aspect of Russian cultural and intellectual history.
The Role of the Soviet Union in the Second World War
A Re-examination
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This book investigates several controversial issues regarding the role of the Soviet Union and the performance of the Soviet government and Red Army, to which the author provides some provocative answers. The primary question explored by the author, however, regards the effectiveness of both the Red...
by Gregory Babin
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Who Will Pray for Me? Written by Gregory Babin Edited by Susanne Babin Paper
A Jewish family lives under the oppressive rule in Czarist Russia. Jake grows up first as a Jew, secondly as a tailor, and lastly as a Cossack. He is known for his strength and fighting ability. He fears nobody, but everybody...
by Nancy Shields Kollmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed....
Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red
The Ukrainian Marxist Critique of Russian Communist Rule in Ukraine, 1918-1925
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red, Stephen Velychenko traces the first expressions of national, anti-colonial Marxism to 1918 and the Russian Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine. Velychenko reviews the work of early twentieth-century Ukrainians who regarded Russian rule over their country as...
by Norman E. Saul
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The conduct of the foreign relations of the Russian state in its several contexts—Kiev Rus, Muscovy, Russian Empire, Provisional Government, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Russian Federation—were unique in its common currents from the beginning to the present. Geography was certainly...
Veiled Empire
Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Drawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women. In Uzbekistan it focused above all on a massive effort to eliminate the heavy horsehair-and-cotton...
Crossing Borders
Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of...
Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin
The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin analyzes questions of nationality and religious identity in nineteenth-century Russian history as reflected in the life of Jesuit priest Ivan Gagarin. A descendent of one of Russia's most ancient and politically powerful families, Father Ivan Gagarin, S.J. (1814-1882) dedicated...
by Daniel Brower
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The central argument of this book is that the half-century of Russian rule in Central Asia was shaped by traditions of authoritarian rule, by Russian national interests, and by a civic reform agenda that brought to Turkestan the principles that informed Alexander II's reform policies. This civilizing...