Russia category: 2582 books
The Battle of Kursk
The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive, July-August 1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter- Offensive, July - August 1943, offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War’s most critical events. While the Germans defeats at Moscow and Stalingrad showed that Hitler could not win the war in the East, the...
Resettling the Borderlands
State Relocations and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Until the arrival of the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century, the South Caucasus was traditionally contested by two Muslim empires, the Ottomans and the Persians. Over the following two centuries, Orthodox Christian Russia – and later the officially atheist Soviet Union – expanded into...
The Red Atlas
How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data clouds and leaks, but long before we had...
Face to the Village
The Riazan Countryside under Soviet Rule, 1921-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In the summer of 1924, the Bolshevik Party called on scholars, the police, the courts, and state officials to turn their attention to the villages of Russia. The subsequent campaign to 'face the countryside' generated a wealth of intelligence that fed into the regime's sense of alarmed conviction...
Physical Pain and Justice
Greek Tragedy and the Russian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
It has been said that all great literature is about suffering. But before the twentieth century, physical pain, one of the most primal forms of human suffering, has rarely been represented on the stage and in fiction. But when it is foregrounded in works of literature, it is not only the most dramatic...
Cossacks and the Russian Empire, 1598-1725
Manipulation, Rebellion and Expansion into Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Using a wide range sources, this book explores the ways in which the Russians governed their empire in Siberia from 1598 to 1725. Paying particular attention to the role of the Siberian Cossaks, the author takes a thorough assessment of how the institutions of imperial government functioned in seventeenth...
Age of Delirium
The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The first state in history to be based explicitly on atheism, the Soviet Union endowed itself with the attributes of God. In this book, David Satter shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious...
Two Shining Souls
Jane Addams, Leo Tolstoy, and the Quest for Global Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In his new book, Two Shining Souls, James Cracraft explores the decades-long encounter of Jane Addams, the famous American social reformer and peace activist, with Leo Tolstoy, the acclaimed Russian writer and sage. He documents Tolstoy’s influence in Progressive-era America and particularly on...
The Imperial Russian Project
Autocratic Politics, Economic Development, and Social Fragmentation
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
A pioneer in the field of Russian and Soviet studies in the West, Alfred J. Rieber’s five decade career has focused on increasing our understanding of the Russian Empire from Peter the Great to the coming of the First World War.
The Imperial Russian Project is a collection of Rieber’s lifetime...
by Michelle A Carter
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
At age 50, Michelle Carter, a married mother of two adult children, left her job as editor of a suburban newspaper in the San Francisco Bay area to move to Russia for a year as a United States Information Agency Journalist-in-Residence. There she worked with newspaper editors who struggled to adapt...
Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age
The Word as Image
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era, beginning with the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, focusing then on literature's role in helping to shape cinema as a tool of official totalitarian culture during the Soviet period,...
La questione cecena
Cenni storici e cause della crisi
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Un saggio storico interamente dedicato alla storia della Cecenia e al difficile rapporto fra questa regione caucasica e la Russia.
Putin v. the People
The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin’s grip on power is more fragile then we think
What do ordinary Russians think of Putin? Who are his supporters? And why might their support now be faltering? Alive with the voices and experiences...
Russian Studies and Comparative Politics
Views from Metatheory and Middle-Range Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This book brings together several of the author’s empirical studies that demonstrate the strength and utility of sociologist Robert Merton’s classic middle-range theory for understanding aspects of both Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics. Some of those studies demonstrate that testing middle-range...