Gen. ed. B.G. Smith, A.A. Yang. — Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. — 156 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-994789-8. This volume offers a lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history and the striking changes that characterize its story. Distinguished authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin show how Russia's peoples met the constant challenges posed by geography, climate,...
Cambridge University Press, 1976. — 403 p. — (Companion to Russian Studies 1). — ISBN: 0-521-20893-9; ISBN: 0-521-28038-9. An introduction, complete in one volume, to the history of Russia from medieval times to the fall of Khrushchev and beyond. A study of the geographical setting in which the Russian state grew to its present super-power status is followed by five chapters...
Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 2006. — 567 s. Nowe wydanie obejmuje dzieje Rosji do roku 1991. Prof. Wieczorkiewicz, uczeń prof. Bazylowa, dokonał uzupełnień pod kątem aktualnego stanu wiedzy, bez ograniczeń cenzury i marksistowskiej frazeologii. Autorzy omawiają politykę wewnętrzną i zagraniczną, sprawy gospodarcze i społeczne, a także przemiany kulturowe i obyczajowe.
Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2005. — 227 s. Książka stawia sobie za cel przedstawienie najważniejszych elementów procesu dziejowego, który od czasów bardzo dawnych rozwijał się nieprzerwanie na terytorium Europy Wschodniej i którego nosicielami byli głównie przedstawiciele wschodniosłowiańskiego pnia językowego. Niniejsze wydanie, autorstwa profesora Ludwika Bazylowa przygotował do...
Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2005. — 342 s. Książka stawia sobie za cel przedstawienie najważniejszych elementów procesu dziejowego, który od czasów bardzo dawnych rozwijał się nieprzerwanie na terytorium Europy Wschodniej i którego nosicielami byli głównie przedstawiciele wschodniosłowiańskiego pnia językowego. Niniejsze wydanie, autorstwa profesora Ludwika Bazylowa przygotował do...
Cornell University Press, 2008. Renovating Russia is a richly comparative investigation of late Imperial and early Soviet medico-scientific theories of moral and social disorder. Daniel Beer argues that in the late Imperial years liberal psychiatrists, psychologists, and criminologists grappled with an intractable dilemma. They sought to renovate Russia, to forge a modern...
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939. — 50 p. The Soviet solution of the national question is strikingly illustrated by the way the problems of the Jewish people have been dealt with in the Soviet Union. In Russia, in the past, the tsarist government pursued a policy of national oppression and national antagonism. In order the easier to keep the people in...
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939. — 50 p. The Soviet solution of the national question is strikingly illustrated by the way the problems of the Jewish people have been dealt with in the Soviet Union. In Russia, in the past, the tsarist government pursued a policy of national oppression and national antagonism. In order the easier to keep the people in...
New York: Facts On File, 2004. — xiv, 497 p. — (European Nations). — ISBN: 978-0-8160-4454-2. The inclusion of Russia in the present reference series on European nations from the Renaissance to the present reflects the belief that Russia is indeed a European nation, an assumption that many readers may take for granted but which has been debated for centuries. For while there...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. — 560 p. — ISBN10: 0253219116; ISBN13: 978-0253219114. Russian Empire offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. An international team of scholars explores the connections between Russia’s expansion over vast territories occupied by people of...
Indiana University Press, 2007. — 538 p. Russian Empire offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. An international team of scholars explores the connections between Russia's expansion over vast territories occupied by people of many ethnicities, religions, and political experiences and...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 518 p. — (Cambridge Concise Histories). — ISBN: 978-0-521-54323-1. Accessible to students, tourists, and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in...
Boston [Brighton], MA: Academic Studies Press, 2015. — xx + 394 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61811-458-7; ISBN: 978-1-61811-460-0. ''Word and Image'' invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker (born in 1948). Beginning with his dissertation on eighteenth-century publications and continuing with his more recent study of Ukrainian intellectuals, Gary Marker has probed the...
3rd Ed. — L.: Macmillan Education, 1998. — 430 p. — ISBN: 978-0-333-66067-6. While this History of Russia does not claim to be any better than its many predecessors, it does aim at providing a distinctive interpretation, even if through change of emphasis rather than complete novelty. Medieval Russia: Kiev to Moscow The Construction and Collapse of Kiev, 882 — 1240 Invasion and...
Indiannapolis: Indiana University Press, 2017. — 440 p. — ISBN10: 0253031214; ISBN13: 978-0253031211 Nikolai Charushin’s memoirs of his experience as a member of the revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to historians, but A Generation of Revolutionaries provides a broader and more engaging look at the lives and relationships beyond these memoirs. It shows how,...
Berlin Verlag. — 865 S. Der Krimkrieg ist eines der Schlüsselereignisse des 19. Jahrhunderts, und doch sind seine Dimensionen und Hintergründe hierzulande wenig bekannt. Frankreich, Großbritannien und das Osmanische Reich auf der einen Seite und Russland auf der anderen waren in einen erbitterten Kampf um Religion und Territorium gleichermaßen verstrickt. Der Krieg dauerte von...
Amsterdam: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2008. — 508 p. — ISBN10: 3039117971; ISBN13: 978-3039117970. This volume brings together the latest work in Russian labour history, based on exciting materials from previously closed archives and collections. Sixteen essays, focusing on peasants and workers, explore the lives and struggles of working people....
3th ed. — Oxford — New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. — ISBN: 978-0-19-956041-7. Russia, it is fair to say, does not automatically evoke feelings of empathy and goodwill in the West: the media, politicians, and even many scholars regard Russia with a mixture of condescension, antipathy, and fear. Not that Russia, or at least its rulers, has not done much to deserve the...
London — New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. — xiii, 483 p. There are an ever burgeoning number of books analysing the Russian experience, or aspects of it. This Handbook is the first single volume work that gives both a broad survey of the literature as well as highlighting the cutting edge research in the area. Through both empirical data and theoretical...
Blackwell Publishing, 2009. — 554 p. — (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to World History). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-3560-3. This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day. - Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 289 p. — ISBN10: 0312225997; ISBN13: 978-0312225995 This book represents the first concerted effort to place 19th and 20th century Russia in European context, as well as to understand Soviet Russia against the historical background of Imperial Russia. In a wide-ranging selection of topics--from corporal punishment to diary-writing, from the...
New York, Palgrave, 2010. 184p. ISBN: 978-1-349-32232-9. Geir Hønneland discusses some of the big questions in social science: What is identity? What is the role of identity and narrative in the study of international relations? The location is the Kola Peninsula, the most heavily militarized area of the world during the Cold War, now set to become Europe's next big oil playground.
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 176 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-19-958098-9. Russia’s sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especially given its harsh climate, vast and vulnerable borders, and the diversity of its people. In this Very Short Introduction, Geoffrey Hosking discusses all aspects of Russian history,...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 347 p. — ISBN10: 0521689724; ISBN13: 978-0521689724. The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas, and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don, and Angara; and extensive biodiversity. These resources and animals, as well as the people who lived...
St. Petersburg: Imperial academy of sciences, 1851. — [14], xxiii, [1], 245 p. Translated from a select Turkish version and pub. with the texts and with notes, illustrative of the history, geography, antiquities, &c. &c. occurring throughout the work, by A. Kazem-Beg.
Facts on File, 2008. — 310 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8160-7113-5. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Russia. It covers the history of Russia, the world's largest nation - from its early beginnings in the ninth century when Rurik, a Varangian king, established the first Russian state near Kiev, to the current presidency of Vladimir Putin - is...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0521858496. This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev reforms, and finally farm enterprise privatization in the early 1990s. It shows a pattern emerging from a political...
2nd ed. — Leiden — Boston — Köln: Brill, 2002. — 550 p. — (History of Warfare, ISSN: 1385-7827, Vol. 14). — ISBN: 978-90-04-12273-4. Throughout Russian history, the army has played a vital role as a catalyst of historical development and social change. While the history of battles, strategy, and the army as an institution have all received a fair amount of attention from...
Hodder Headline, USA, 2005. — 296 p. — 2007 — ISBN: 031236041X Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible, and from the height of Communism to the truncated Russia of...
Hodder Headline, USA, 2005. — 312 p. — 2007 — ISBN: 031236041X Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible, and from the height of Communism to the truncated Russia of...
Washington: Center on Global Interests, 2015. — 29 p. The concept of the «Russian World» (russkii mir) has a long history rooted in the 1990s, but it was propelled under the media spotlight in 2014, when Russian President Vladimir Putin used it to justify Russia’s interference in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. The Kremlin’s actions in its so-called «Near Abroad» — a...
Transl. from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. — London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1919. — 500 p. Introductory Chapter. Russia and Europe. — The Russian Monk The Problems Of Russian Philosophy Of History And Philosophy Of Religion "Holy Russia." Moscow as Third Rome Peter's Reforms. The Linking Up of Russia with Europe Theocratic Reaction after the French Revolution; its...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 — 234 p. — ISBN10: 1349567949; ISBN13: 978-1349567942. 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...
London: Methropolitan, 2013 History of the Kremlin from the point of view of a British historian. The Kremlin is one of the most famous structures in the world. If states have trademarks, Russia’s could well be this fortress, viewed across Red Square. Everyone who comes to Moscow wants to see it, and everyone who visits seems to take a different view. ‘The only guarantee of a...
Macmillan Reference USA, 2003. — 2000 p. — ISBN: 978-0-02-865693-9. The Encyclopedia of Russian History is designed to help dispel the mystery of Russia. It is the first encyclopedia in the English language to comprehend the entirety of Russian history, from ancient Rus to the most recent events in post-Soviet Russia. It is not aimed primarily at specialists in the area but at...
[Cartographie: Cyrille Suss]. — Autrement, 2017. ─ 96 p. ─ (Atlas/Mémoires). — ISBN: 978-2746-7-45971. Plus de 90 cartes et infographies inédites présentent l’histoire de la Russie, mettant l’accent sur les différentes régions d’un territoire immense et sur les modalités de son contrôle par l’État. La Russie impériale, puissance en expansion depuis le XVe siècle, est fragilisée...
Oxford University Press, USA; 6th edition (November 28, 2000) Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume survey text available, A History of Russia presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an empire, to Soviet Russia, the successor states, and beyond. Drawing on both primary sources and major interpretive works, this...
Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies. — Warsaw, 1995. Social Constructions and Transformations How Peasants Became Backward: Agrarian Policy andCo-operatives in Russia, 1905-14. Yanni Kotsonis Exhibiting Kustar' Industry in Late Imperial Russia. Exhibiting Late Imperial Russia in Kustar' Industry Lewis H. Siegelbaum Tracking Social...
Basic Books, 2017. — 432 p. From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe, a new history of Russian imperialism In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a...
Allen Lane, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN: 0241255570, 9780241255575 In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning...
Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. — 116 p. — ISBN: 0-691-11612-1. Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union’s demise and Russia’s ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative and elegantly written short history of Russia, Marshall Poe takes us well beyond the Soviet haze...
London: Routledge, 2018. — 312 p. — ISBN10: 1138317306; ISBN13: 978-1138317307 — (Imperial Transformations - Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet History. Book 1) The Russian Far East was a remarkably fluid region in the period leading up to, during, and after the Russian Revolution. The different contenders in play in the region, imagining and working toward alternative futures,...
Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi, 2013. — 254 s. — ISBN: 978-975-06-1522-1 Kuzey komşumuz Rusya'nın zengin tarihi ve kültürel yapısını meydana getiren temel dinamiklerin öğrenilmesi bu ülke ile 500 yılı aşan ilişkilerimizin de daha ayrıntılı bilinmesini sağlayacaktır. Rusya Tarihi ders kitabı, bütün bu amaçlar doğrultusunda hazırlanmıştır. Bir ülkeyi ve onu meydana getiren...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0198734824; ISBN13: 978-0198734826. The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0198734824; ISBN13: 978-0198734826. The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian...
Indiana University Press, 2016. — 398 p. "Threads of Empire" examines how Russia’s imperial officials and intellectual elites made and maintained their authority among the changing intellectual and political currents in Eurasia from the mid-16th century to the revolution of 1917. The book focuses on a region 750 miles east of Moscow known as Bashkiria. The region was split...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — xxiv + 842 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-81144-6. The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of the trials and triumphs of Russia and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century. It encompasses not only the ethnically Russian part of the country but...
Boulder, USA: Westview Press, 2009. — xvi, 415 p. — ISBN: 978-08133-4395-2. This lucid account of Russian and Soviet history presents major trends and events from ancient Kievan Rus' to Vladimir Putin's presidency of the twenty-first century. Now thoroughly revised and updated, Russia and the Soviet Union does not shy away from controversial topics, including the impact of the...
Oxford — New York — Auckland — Cape Town — Dar es Salaam — Hong Kong — Karachi — Kuala Lumpur — Madrid — Melbourne — Mexico City — Nairobi — New Delhi — Shanghai — Taipei — Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2014. — x, 259 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-933620-3. The Russian state presents a mystery to outside observers. Although Russia was the site of some of the last century’s most...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 261 p. — ISBN10: 0230393071; ISBN13: 978-0230393073 This book explores the role played by families in the Russian revolutionary movement and the first decades of the Soviet regime. While revolutionaries were expected to sever all family ties or at the very least put political concerns before personal ones, in practice this was rarely...
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 1405169605; ISBN13: 978-1405169608 Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia and the USSR 1861-1945 offers a broad interpretive account of Russian history from the emancipation of the serfs to the end of World War II. Provides a coherent overview of Russia's development from 1861 through to 1945; reflects the latest...
Atlantic Books, 2013 It is the world's longest railway line. But it is so much more than that, too. The Trans-Siberian stretches nearly 6,000 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast and was the most ambitious railway project in the nineteenth century. A journey on the railway evokes a romantic roam through the Russian steppes, but also reminds travellers of...
London: A. Rivers, 1905. — XVI, 366 p. The First Revolutionary Outbreak in Russia The Opposition under Nicholas I The Reign of Alexander II The Era of Reform The Revolutionary Movement under Alexander II The Terror The Last Years of the Reign of Alexander II The Reign of Alexander III The Revolutionists at the Accession of Alexander III The Influence of the Slavophiles in the...
London: A. Rivers, 1905. — XVI, 366 p. The First Revolutionary Outbreak in Russia The Opposition under Nicholas I The Reign of Alexander II The Era of Reform The Revolutionary Movement under Alexander II The Terror The Last Years of the Reign of Alexander II The Reign of Alexander III The Revolutionists at the Accession of Alexander III The Influence of the Slavophiles in the...
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