Russia category: 2582 books
by Michael Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 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...
Taming the Wild Field
Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited...
by Michael Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 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...
The Legacy of Soviet Dissent
Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
During the 1970s, dissidents like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn dominated Western perceptions of the USSR, but were then quickly forgotten, as Gorbachev's reformers monopolised the spotlight. This book restores the dissidents to their rightful place in Russian history. Using a vast array of samizdat and...
Blowout
Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All
In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million to a guy who was,...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Vladivostok (Russia) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Steven Drew
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Our illustrated travel guide features of the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
Finding Internet access when traveling...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Lake Baikal (Russia) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Vladimir De Bogory Mokrievich
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
When I Was a Boy in Russia is the story of a Russian man's life, written around the turn of the 20th century.
by Andrey Davydov
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
If we rely on logic of history of political and legal teachings, then this implies that this history began in Rus’ at the time when pagans were huddled into a river. This fact in itself is of little interest. What is of interest is the following: what is the essence of this fact?In his time,...
Russian America
An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only overseas colony, illustrating how the colony fit into and diverged from the structures developed in...
Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930
A Study in Continuity Through Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This study considers the impact of industrialisation, revolution and world war on women's working lives in Russia. Unlike existing studies this new text looks at women from all social classes. In the process the authors reveal how the stereotypical portrayal of Russian women's work as a struggle of...
Russian Energy Policy and Military Power
Putin's Quest for Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book examines the interplay between energy policy and security policy under Vladimir Putin, and his drive to re-establish Russia’s ‘greatness’.
Assessing the internal contradictions of this policy, the book argues that Russia’s desire to strengthen its role of ‘energy security’...
Rockets and Revolution
A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets,...