Russia category: 2582 books

In modernizing Russia, obshchestvennost', an indigenous Russian word, began functioning as a term to illuminate newly emerging active parts of society and their public identities. This volume approaches various phenomena associated with the term throughout the revolution, examining it in the context of the press, public opinion, and activists.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia witnessed a dramatic increase in psychotherapeutic options, which promoted social connection while advancing new forms of capitalist subjectivity amid often-wrenching social and economic transformations. In Shock Therapy Tomas Matza provides an ethnography...

In this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Robert Edelman uses a case study of peasant behavior during a particular revolutionary situation to make an important contribution to one of the major debates in contemporary peasant studies. Edelman's subject is...

The Great Northern War was a long series of campaigns in which Russia, linked with several other countries in temporary alliances, confronted and eventually replaced Sweden as the predominant power in Northern Europe. While contemporary with the Duke of Marlborough's pivotal campaigns against France,...

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. President Richard M. Nixon's November 25, 1969, terminated the U.S. offensive biological weapons program on November 25, 1969. This paper seeks to explain why the Soviet government, at...

Nel 2010, dopo decenni di oblio, le icone del Salvatore e di san Nicola sono tornate alla luce: dipinte su due porte d’accesso al Cremlino, avevano osservato dall’alto per quattro secoli i mutamenti del paese, scomparendo poi nel nulla nel 1937. Si pensava fossero state distrutte dalla furia iconoclasta...

Bringing together an impressive cast of well-respected scholars in the field of modern Russian studies, Russian History through the Senses investigates life in Russia from 1700 to the present day via the senses. It examines past experiences of taste, touch, smell, sight and sound to capture a vivid...

Il passaggio dall’ordine al disordine internazionale è la cifra del nostro tempo. Le speranze suscitate dalla fine della Guerra fredda si sono trasformate in un incubo ancor più inquietante. Le grandi nazioni stentano a trovare una via d’uscita che restituisca al mondo l’equilibro perduto. La...

A time when Russia’s movements in the East are being watched by all with such keen interest seems a fitting one for the appearance of a work dealing with her Central Asian possessions. “That eternal struggle between East and West,” to quote Sir William Hunter’s apt phrase, has made Russia...

Il 1917 è stato un anno cruciale tanto per la Russia, dove la rivoluzione ha posto fine a un impero secolare e ha dato vita a un ordine nuovo, quanto per l’Europa e per il mondo, su cui gli eventi russi hanno avuto decisive ripercussioni. Tutto il XX secolo è stato dominato dalla presenza del...

Nella prima metà dell’Ottocento, un brillante e tormentato intellettuale russo esprime in forma epistolare le sue riflessioni sul futuro spirituale della nazione. Scritte da Necropolis, la «città dei morti», come Čaadaev chiamava Mosca, le lettere sono un’analisi lucida e spietata dell’arretratezza...

In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men- Alexander Smolensky, Yuri Luzhkov, Anatoly...

Catherine II of Russia was the most remarkable monarch of the eighteenth century. New York Times bestselling historian Ian Grey paints an illuminating portrait of an enigmatic woman of compelling charm and elegance. She had a prodigious appetite for work, great curiosity, and boundless ambition and...

No tsar of Russia has been more widely known by name than Ivan the Terrible. He has exercised a sinister fascination but remained a nebulous figure, seen through a haze of blood and savagery. In truth, Ivan was extraordinarily complex, extreme in conduct and in speech. His personality was vivid and powerful....