Russia category: 2582 books
Da Lenin a Stalin
1917-1937. Cronaca di una rivoluzione tradita
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 19, 2017
A cento anni dalla Rivoluzione d’Ottobre cosa sappiamo di quegli eventi? Quanto è rimasto nelle generazioni più giovani di quella storia complessa, violenta, alla lunga perdente – e tuttavia animata da un profondo afflato ideale, guidato da ideali di uguaglianza, giustizia e libertà –,...
by Frank Jacob
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However, while appearing regional, the war itself in fact had a major global impact. The conflict and Japanese victory stimulated the Russian revolutionary movement in 1905 and...
The Sámi Peoples of the North
A Social and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
There is no single volume that encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sámi people from the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. Neil Kent's book fills this lacuna. In the first instance, he considers how the Sámi homeland is defined: its geography, climate, and early contact...
The Russian Military Resurgence
Post-Soviet Decline and Rebuilding, 1992-2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
The transition from the Soviet to the post–1991 Russian military is a fascinating story of decline and reinvention. The Soviet army suffered a slow demise, dissolving in 2000 and only gradually reforming based on radically different principles. The First Chechnya War (1994–1996) was the lowest...
Wolfhounds and Polar Bears
The American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1920
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Details the military aspects of the American Expeditionary Force's (AEF) deployment to Siberia following World War I to protect the Trans-Siberian Railroad
In the final months of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and many US allies decided to intervene in Siberia in order to protect Allied...
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 Pocket Moscow & St Petersburgis 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 St Basil’s Cathedral, lose yourself in...
All Shook Up
The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917-1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Earthquakes, nuclear accidents, and floods were among the many unexpected tragedies that struck the Soviet Union over its history. Requiring the immediate mobilization of vast resources and aid, and embedded within a specific context and time, these catastrophes provide critical insights into the nature...
Sex, Love, and Migration
Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the mobility of...
by Anders Åslund
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Ukraine suffered unprecedented political, economic, and military turmoil following Russia's annexation of Crimea in early 2014. Russian military aggression in the east and a legacy of destructive policies and corruption have created an imminent existential crisis for this young democracy. Yet Ukraine...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
The "new mobilities paradigm" which emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century has identified mobility as a process intrinsic to the human experience and fundamental to the formation of social and political structures. This volume breaks new ground by demonstrating the role of...
A Moscú sin Kaláshnikov
(Crónica sentimental de la Rusia de Putin envuelta en papel de periódico)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Este libro es un striptease sentimental envuelto en papel de periódico y conservado a 20 grados bajo ceroSe puede leer como una novela de formación, de amor, de muerte, de reflexión, de estrés, de periodismo, de literatura, de los escalofríos del scoop, en medio de un hilarante choque cultural que...
Sovietistan
Un viaggio in Asia centrale
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Con il crollo dell’Unione Sovietica nel 1991, le cinque repubbliche dell’Asia centrale fino ad allora controllate da Mosca ottengono l’indipendenza. Nel corso di settant’anni di regime sovietico, Turkmenistan, Kazakistan, Kirghizistan, Tagikistan e Uzbekistan, i paesi che, dalle catene montuose...
Muscovite and Mandarin
Russia's Trade with China and Its Setting, 1727-1805
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This is the first published study in English of Russian trade and commercial relations with China from the Treaty of Kiakhta (1727) to the early nineteenth century. It is a study in Russian economic and entrepreneurial history, focusing on Russian state economic policy and activity concerning China....
by Nikolaj Berdjaev
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 7, 2013
«La rivoluzione in Russia c’è stata. Questo è un fatto, e non resta che prenderne atto. Constatare un fatto non vuol dire apprezzarlo. La rivoluzione è un fenomeno naturale, come il terremoto in Giappone, e non ha senso discutere se riconoscerla oppure no. La Rivoluzione russa è una grande...