Russia category: 2582 books
by Alexis Peri
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
The German blockade of Leningrad lasted 872 days and cost almost a million civilian lives—one of the longest, deadliest sieges in modern history. Drawing on 125 unpublished diaries written by individuals from all walks of life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic, intimate story of how citizens struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them.
The Chaplin Machine
Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin?
Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy?
And why did Lenin love circus clowns?
The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and, in particular, its unlikely passion for American...
Andrei Sakharov
The Conscience of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Andrei Sakharov holds an honored place in the pantheon of the world's greatest scientists, reformers, and champions of human rights. But his embrace of human rights did not come through a sudden conversion; he came to it in stages. Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution conference focused on Sakharov's...
Ukraine
A History, 4th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
In 1988, the first edition of Orest Subtelny's Ukraine was published to international acclaim, as the definitive history of what was at that time a republic in the USSR. In the years since, the world has seen the dismantling of the Soviet bloc and the restoration of Ukraine's independence - an event...
by Anton Ivanovitch Dénikine
Language: French
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Le général Denikine fut, pendant un temps, le chef de l'armée contre-révolutionnaire blanche, lors de la guerre civile qui embrasa la Russie apres la révolution d'Octobre. Battu, fin 1919, par l'Armée rouge et en désaccord avec le général Wrangel - lequel voulait restaurer le tsarisme, alors...
The Russo-Japanese War (Illustrated Edition)
Complete History of the Conflict: Causes of the War, Korean Campaign, Naval Operations, Battle of the Yalu, Battle for Port Arthur, Battle of the Japan Sea, Peace Treaty
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
The Russo–Japanese War (1904–05) was an armed conflict between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria (China)and Korea. The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the seas around Korea, Japan...
Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective
From Frontier Zones to Lands in Focus
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective draws together the new perspectives concerning the relevance of East Central Europe for current historiography by placing the region in various comparative contexts. The chapters compare conditions within East Central Europe, as well as between...
Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge
State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic...
by Stefan Auer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
After the collapse of communism there was a widespread fear that nationalism would pose a serious threat to the development of liberal democracy in the countries of central Europe. This book examines the role of nationalism in post-communist development in central Europe, focusing in particular on...
by K.S. Augustin
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
People, food, alcohol and politics…is there anything else in life?Join author Kaz Augustin as she opines (loudly) on three booze-soaked weeks spentin southern Poland and eastern Czech Republic. From Silesia to Kraków to thespunky little Moravian capital of Brno, this short book covers tourist traps,socialising,...
Sächsisches Montanwesen in Russland
Ein Transfer von Wissen und Technologien
Language: German
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Der Einfluss Sachsens auf das russische Montanwesen reicht bis zum Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts zurück, nachdem Peter der Große anlässlich seiner ersten Visite bei August dem Starken im Jahre 1698 um Hilfe ersucht hatte. Russland brauchte dringend Fachleute des Berg- und Hüttenwesens, um die zahlreichen...
by Friedrich Naumann
Language: German
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Der Russe Michail Vasil'evi? Lomonosov (1711-1765) zählt zu dem bekanntesten europäischen Gelehrtenpersönlichkeiten. Seine wissenschaftliche Karriere begann zu einer Zeit, als die russische Wissenschaftsentwicklung noch ganz am Anfang stand und überwiegend von ausländischen Gelehrten - zum großen...
by Karen Gilden, Ray Gilden
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
During the 1970s about 20,000 Americans visited the Soviet Union each year on highly structured guided tours. Very few chose to travel independently, and almost no U.S. tourists camped for six weeks, or drove 3,800 miles through the country commonly declared "our enemy." But the Gildens did.If...
Skylarks and Rebels
A Memoir about the Soviet Russian Occupation of Latvia, Life in a Totalitarian State, and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Skylarks and Rebels is a story about the fate of Latvia in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima. Laima, a Latvian-American, chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, which in the 1980s languished behind the Iron Curtain. In writing about her own...