Russia category: 2582 books
Angel of Vengeance
The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. "Revenge!," she cried, for the governor's brutal treatment of...
Gorbachev
On My Country and the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1999
Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects concerning Russia's past, present, and future place...
Russia: Putin's Playground
Empire, Revolution, & the New Tsar
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Empire, Revolution, and the New TsarIs Russia in the hands of a lunatic?Ever since Vladimir Putin’s presidential incarnation, pundits and political analysts have asked this question with increasing frequency. Known for his aggressive politics abroad, and irresponsible despotism domestically,...
The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep
Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, “it was surprising it took so long.” Satter is known in Russia for having written that the apartment bombings in 1999, which...
by Peter Conradi
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
When the Soviet Union collapsed on 26 December 1991, it looked like the start of a remarkable new era of peace and co-operation. Some even dared to declare the end of history, assuming all countries would converge on enlightenment values and liberal democracy.
Nothing could be further from...
by Jeff Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
“Parker’s exquisitely titled book is as off-kilter as a Kurt Vonnegut novel, and wholly absorbing.” —Maclean’s
Jeff Parker went to Russia intending to write a book about the country’s resurgence as a major global superpower under President Vladimir Putin and about the emergence,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
Discover every aspect of Ukraine and Crimea in this massive, authoritative compilation of up-to-date official documents with details about everything from history and geography to the crisis with Russia in 2014. Thirty-six parts total over one thousand pages of informative coverage, with extensive...
Rival Power
Russia's Influence in Southeast Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast Europe
Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades’ of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2014
In August 2008, the armed conflict between Russia and Georgia broke out on the territory of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The Russian-planned military campaign lasted 5 days until the parties reached a preliminary ceasefire agreement on August 12. The European Union (EU),...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Despite uncertainty and difficulties in the modern Russian Federation, the Putin regime enjoys massive popularity among its people, with approval ratings unrivaled in the past twenty-five...
Putinism
Russia and Its Future with the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
There is no question that tensions between Russia and American are on the rise. The forced annexation of Crimea, the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, and the Russian government's treatment of homosexuals have created diplomatic standoffs and led to a volley of economic sanctions. Much of the...
Eurasianism and the European Far Right
Reshaping the Europe–Russia Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The 2014 Ukrainian crisis has highlighted the pro-Russia stances of some European countries, such as Hungary and Greece, and of some European parties, mostly on the far-right of the political spectrum. They see themselves as victims of the EU “technocracy” and liberal moral values, and look for...
by Bobo Lo
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
The Russian annexation of Crimea was one of the great strategic shocks of the past twenty-five years. For many in the West, Moscow's actions in early 2014 marked the end of illusions about cooperation, and the return to geopolitical and ideological confrontation. Russia, for so long a peripheral presence,...
by Tim McDaniel
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1998
Boris Yeltsin's attempts at democratic reform have plunged a long troubled Russia even further into turmoil. This dramatic break with the Soviet past has left Russia politically fragmented and riddled with corruption, its people with little hope for the future. In a fascinating account for anyone...