Russia category: 2582 books
Reconstructing the Cold War
The Early Years, 1945-1958
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
General answers are hard to imagine for the many puzzling questions that are raised by Soviet relations with the world in the early years of the Cold War. Why was Moscow more frightened by the Marshall Plan than the Truman Doctrine? Why would the Soviet Union abandon its closest socialist ally, Yugoslavia,...
Soviet Soft Power in Poland
Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943-1957
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use "soft power" in order...
Showcasing the Great Experiment
Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves. Showcasing the Great Experiment explores the reception of these intellectuals and fellow-travelers...
Writing History in the Soviet Union
Making the Past Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The history of the Soviet Union has been charted in several studies over the decades. These depictions while combining accuracy, elegance, readability and imaginativeness, have failed to draw attention to the political and academic environment within which these histories were composed. Writing History...
Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics in the 1920s
Disenchantment of the Dreamers
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This is the first study of popular opinions in Soviet society in the 1920s. These voices which made the Russian revolution characterize reactions to mobilization politics: patriotic militarizing campaigns, the tenth anniversary of the revolution and state attempts to unite the nation around a new Soviet identity.
Pioneers and Partisans
An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The Nazi regime and local collaborators killed 800,000 Belorussian Jews, many of them parents or relatives of young Jews who survived the war. Thousands of young girls and boys were thus orphaned and struggled for survival on their own. This book is the first systematic account of young Soviet Jews'...
Stalinist Society
1928-1953
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Stalinist Society offers a fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Drawing on declassified archival materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new memoirs, and personal diaries, as well...
Revolution of the Mind
Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917. His fresh consideration of the era of the New Economic Policy and cultural politics after the Revolution explains...
by Geoff Layton
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC
Level: A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History...
by Ella Zeltserman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
"Freedom is something my father has never known. How do I explain freedom to the ones born bent?" -from "Not Scared" Ella Zeltserman's poetry cuts both ways. The story of her flight from the USSR in 1979-of the young family she brought to Edmonton and the older one she left behind-does...
by Moshe Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
One of the great political strategists of his era, V. I. Lenin continues to attract historical interest, yet his complex personality eludes full understanding. This new edition of Moshe Lewin's classic political biography, including an afterword by the author, suggests new approaches for studying...
Practicing Stalinism
Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
In the Enemy's House
The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America’s history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission...