Russia category: 2582 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
100 years ago, workers and peasants in Russia turned the world upside down when they overthrew their Tsar, took over their factories, farms, and schools, and set out to build a new society. In this gripping reader participants and firsthand observers of the revolution tell the inspiring, heroic, and sometimes tragic story of what happened over the course of 1917.
by A. D. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
At the end of December 1922, Vladimir Lenin became the first Premier of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Eleven men followed him in the following years, including perhaps the most famous – Joseph Stalin. On Christmas Day 1991, amidst great turbulence, the Soviet Union was dissolved and replaced...
Russian and Soviet Health Care from an International Perspective
Comparing Professions, Practice and Gender, 1880-1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This collection compares Russian and Soviet medical workers – physicians, psychiatrists and nurses, and examines them within an international framework that challenges traditional Western conceptions of professionalism and professionalization through exploring how these ideas developed amongst medical...
by Jamil Hasanli
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
This book presents the ups and downs of the Soviet-Turkish relations during World War II and immediately after it. Hasanli draws on declassified archive documents from the United States, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan to recreate a true picture of the time when the 'Turkish crisis'...
The Near Abroad
Socialist Eastern Europe and Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine, 1956-1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
From the Soviet perspective, Eastern Europe was the near abroad – more accessible than the capitalist West, yet also unambiguously foreign. Observing their western neighbours, citizens of the USSR developed new ideas about the role of states, borders, and national identities in the Soviet empire.
In...
by Oleg Budnitskii
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In the years following the Russian Revolution, a bitter civil war was waged between the Bolsheviks, with their Red Army of Workers and Peasants on the one side, and the various groups that constituted the anti-Bolshevik movement on the other. The major anti-Bolshevik force was the White Army, whose...
Dreams of a Great Small Nation
The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale.” -Winston S. Churchill
In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure...
The Crimean Tatars
From Soviet Genocide to Putin's Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The Russian annexation of the Crimea in March 2014 focused the world's attention on the Peninsula in ways not seen since the Crimean War. Thousands of Crimean Tatars clashed with pro-Russian militiamen in Simferopol, while Moscow has in turn stoked fears of jihadi terrorism among the overwhelmingly...
by Baron P. Graevenitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This volume, originally published in 1918, discusses the events which gave rise to the Russian Revolution and finally resulted in Russia’s political, economic and military collapse. In order to fully understand the events, the author places them against their social and political background, discussing...
by Harri Luukkanen, William W. Fitzhugh, Evguenia Anichtchenko
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2020
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia is a history and description of bark and skin boat traditions of the native peoples of Scandinavia and northern Russia. The history of northern peoples and cultures is inextricably linked to the technology of water transport. This is particularly...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Russia, like the United States, has experienced its struggles with counterinsurgency warfare. In Afghanistan, the Russian General Staff chose to approach the operation with a violently offensive...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This important report from the U.S. Army's Strategic Studies Institute provides the complete history of tactical nuclear weapons starting with the early days of the Cold War, along with unique up-to-date insights into the future of tactical nukes in Europe and Asia.
The role and future of tactical...
Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier
An Autobiography [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
[Illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War]
Thomas Faughnan served in the 6th Royal Regiment, now the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, during a most bloody period of British History. Born in Derry in...
Russian World War II Dictionary
A Russian-English Glossary of Special Terms, Expressions and Soldiers' Slang
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world. The frontline veterans' reminiscences occupy a prominent place among most important...