Russia category: 2582 books
A History of Russia and Its Empire
From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This clear and focused text provides an introduction to imperial Russian and Soviet history from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 to Vladimir Putin’s new term. Through a consistent chronological narrative, Kees Boterbloem considers the political, military, economic, social, religious, and...
The End of Tsarist Russia
The March to World War I and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
**An Economist Best Book of the Year
AFinancial TimesBest Book of the Year
Winner of the the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize
An Amazon Best Book of the Month (History)
One of the world’s leading scholars offers a fresh interpretation of the linked origins...
A Little War That Shook the World
Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of...
by Benson Bobrick
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time. This acclaimed biography of one of Russia's most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also...
by George Fetherling
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
A travel narrative written over the course of ten years, One Russia, Two Chinas is about change and resistance to change in the postmodern world. In 1991, when the Soviet Union was about to morph into the Russian Federation, George Fetherling found himself in Moscow. He both marched with the workers...
Russia's Dead End
An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin—such is the environment in which Andrei A. Kovalev lived and worked. In this memoir of his time as a diplomat in key capacities and as a member of Mikhail Gorbachev’s staff, Kovalev...
by Alexander Werth
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894-1971) was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953-1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958-1964. Khrushchev was responsible...
Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia
Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book examines the Russian conquest of the ancient Central Asian khanates of Bukhara and Khiva in the 1860s and 1870s, and the relationship between Russia and the territories until their extinction as political entities in 1924. It shows how Russia's approach developed from one of non-intervention,...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
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The Empire Must Die
Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From Tolstoy to Lenin, from Diaghilev to Stalin, The Empire Must Die is a tragedy of operatic proportions with a cast of characters that ranges from the exotic to utterly villainous, the glamorous to the depraved.
In 1912, Russia experienced a flowering of liberalism and tolerance that placed...
Russia and the Golden Horde
The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1987
... an imaginative and dispassionate re-examination of the significance of the Mongol Conquest and its aftermath for Russia’s historical development." —Slavic Review
On all counts Russia and the Golden Horde infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations." —History
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by Luke Harding
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper, The Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service --the successor to the KGB--had broken into his apartment. He found himself tailed by men in leather jackets,...
Orders to Kill
The Putin Regime and Political Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin’s reign that even includes...
Russians
The People behind the Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today.
RUSSIANS explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling...