Acton: ANU Press, 2016. — 538 p. — ISBN: 9781760460600; 9781760460617 Through a series of essays on key events in recent years in Russia, the western ex-republics of the USSR and the countries of the one-time Warsaw Pact, John Besemeres seeks to illuminate the domestic politics of the most important states, as well as Moscow’s relations with all of them. At the outset, he takes...
Calcutta: International Publishing House, Ltd, 1947. — 164 p. Education Science. S. I. Vavilov L0iterature. Charles Snow Stage. Eric Capon Cinema. Herbert Marshall Music. Boris Yagolim Sport. Evgeny Petrovsky
Calcutta: International Publishing House, Ltd, 1947. — 164 p. Education Science. S. I. Vavilov L0iterature. Charles Snow Stage. Eric Capon Cinema. Herbert Marshall Music. Boris Yagolim Sport. Evgeny Petrovsky
London: Routledge, 2016. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 0415670373; ISBN13: 978-0415670371. Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia's Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history and encourages students to analyze the ways in which citizens learnt to live...
London: Ink Links, 1979. — 580 p. — ISBN: 090613322X; 9780906133224. Part one transl. by Fernand G. Fernier and Anne Cliff, part two transl. by Margaret and Hugo Dewar. The book details Ciliga’s time spent in Soviet Prisons and ‘isolators’ following his arrest for belonging to the Trotskyist Opposition, and provides a wealth of important documentary information concerning the...
Cambridge, MA; London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995. — 966 p. — (Russian Research Center Studies 88). — ISBN13: 9780674587410. Linchpin of the Soviet system and exemplar of its ideology, Moscow was nonetheless instrumental in the Soviet Union's demise. It was in this metropolis of nine million people that Boris Yeltsin, during two frustrating years as the...
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015 — 296 p. — ISBN10: 0822963671; ISBN13: 978-0822963677. Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By...
Indianapolis; New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1969. Heretics and renegades The Ex-Communist’s Conscience The Tragic Life of a Polrugarian Minister ‘1984’—The Mysticism of Cruelty Historical essays Two Revolutions Marx and Russia Trotsky on Stalin Mr. E. H. Carr as Historian of the Bolshevik Regime The close of the Stalin era Mid-century Russia ‘Socialist Competition’...
Ed. by Eugene Gogol Franklin Dmitryev. — Leiden: Brill Academic Publishing, 2017. — 490 p. — ISBN-10: 9004323333; ISBN-13: 978-9004323339 — (Studies in Critical Social Sciences. Book 108) Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution is a selection of writings by the Marxist-Humanist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya, which begins with an examination of...
Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2015. Quality: originally electronic Der britische Historiker Orlando Figges hat den Versuch unternommen, die russische Revolution als großes Ganzes zu beschreiben. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, hundert Geschichtsjahre in Form eines einheitlichen revolutionären Zyklus darzustellen. Ein schier unmögliches Verlangen, das aber letztendlich gelungen ist. Nach...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. — 346 p. — ISBN10: 0300122411; ISBN13: 978-0300122411 Having emerged, exhausted but triumphant, from the bloody and divisive Russian Civil War, V. I. Lenin and his colleagues turned to eliminating perceived ideological foes from within. In On the Ideological Front, Stuart Finkel tells the story of the1922 expulsion from Soviet Russia of...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 322 p. Research and analysis of the post-Soviet Russian experience of political, economic and social change have generally focused attention on the complications and influences of the Soviet legacy on the transition process with most early main stream studies emphasizing the difficulties of the adoption of the institutions of democracy and a free market...
Routledge, 2007. — 252 p. With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front of the world's attention, this volume presents and discusses some of the complexities and problems arising in the region such as Islamic terrorists and al-Qaida. Scholars from different...
The Center on Global Interests, Washington DC, 2016. — 26 p. The purpose of this publication is to address a simple, but historically persistent, question: How do we assess Russia’s military capability, capacity, and intentions? But simple questions do not always have simple answers. It is helpful, but not sufficient, to reference the much recycled observation that “Russia is...
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 312 p. — ISBN10: 1350000779; ISBN13: 978-1350000773 Examining nine 'case histories' that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the particular experience of revolution, political terror and war its people endured after 1917....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. — 288 p. Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse-this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account of one of the great historical...
Centre for Economic and Financial Research at New Economic School, 2010. — 79 p. The last remaining gap in the national accounts of Russia and the USSR in the twentieth century, 1913 to 1928, includes the Great War, the Civil War, and postwar recovery. Filling this gap, we find that the Russian economy did somewhat better in the Great War than was previously thought; in the...
BRILL, 2011 - 328 p. ISBN10: 9004192867 ISBN13: 9789004192867 (eng) Georgii Fedotov's Saints of Ancient Russia, Georgii Florovsky's The Ways of Russian Theology, Nikolai Berdiaev's The Russian Idea and Vasily Zenkovsky's History of Russian Philosophy - these are among the most well-known and widely-read historical studies of Russian thought and culture. Having left their...
Mehring, 2015. — 483 S. Die Schlachten des 20. Jahrhunderts auf den Gebieten der Politik, Wirtschaft, Philosophie und Kunst sind nicht entschieden. Hundert Jahre nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg und der russischen Revolution bedrohen Wirtschaftskrisen, soziale Ungleichheit, Krieg und Diktatur wieder die Menschheit. Im Gegensatz zum Postmodernismus, der die Geschichtsschreibung als...
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press; Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1978. — 134 p. Soviet Revolutionary Culture: A Special Issue Annette Michelson. A Specter and Its Specter Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Russian Diary 1927-28 Jere Abbott Foreword John E. Bowlt. Afterword Elizabeth Jones. A Note on Barr's Contribution to the Scholarship of Soviet Art A. V. Lunacharsky....
London: Soviet Booklet, 1959. — 30 p. — (The fifteen Soviet Socialist Republics today and tomorrow). Heroic struggle. A community of free peoples. Masters of the country. Immense creative energy. Countless riches. Our economy - past and present. Life has become better. Communist society. The mighty tread of socialist industry. Complete electrification. No one fears automation....
ABC-CLIO, 1999. — 372 p. When the lists of people who have had a significant impact on the twentieth century were published at the end of 1999, Joseph Stalin's name was prominent. This volume, one in a series of ABC-CLIO Biographical Companions, acknowledges his influence in 171 entries that shed light on some of the most fundamental aspects of Stalin as a man, the political...
East-West Highway - Bethesda, University Publications of America, 1984. — 43 p. — ISBN: 0-89093-660-9. Names of reports of military intelligence of the USA with data on Russia and the USSR for the period from 1919 to 1941 received from residents of investigation in Russia and from foreign sources are given.
University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2018. — 244 p. Debates over the remote and beguiling Southern Kuril Islands have revealed a kaleidoscope of divergent and contradictory ideas, convictions, and beliefs on what constitutes the "national” identity of post-Soviet Russia. Forming part of an archipelago stretching from Kamchatka to Hokkaido, administered by Russia but claimed by Japan,...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 773 p. Straddling Europe and Asia, the Russian Federation is the largest country in the world and home to a panoply of religious and ethnic groups from the Muslim Tatars to the Buddhist Buryats. Over the past 30 years, Russia has experienced the most dramatic transformation of any modern state.Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation provides...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 1403974500; ISBN13: 978-1403974501 This book investigates the significance of historical narratives in Soviet and post-Soviet space. Encompassing reform under Mikhail Gorbachev and retrenchment under Vladimir Putin, it explains the political, social, and cultural importance of a polity's myths. Charting the rise of...
Leiden; Boston: Brill Academic, 2006. — 209 p. — ISBN10: 9004154159; ISBN13: 978-9004154155 — (International Studies in Sociology & Social Anthropology. Book 102) This book covers the origins of Eurasianism, dwells on Eurasianisms major philosophical paradigms, and places Eurasianism in the context of the development of Polish and Turkish thought. The book should be of great...
New York: Russell & Russell, 1967. — 600 p. This volume is the result of an extensive collaborative effort which took the initial form of a Conference held at Arden House, March 26-28, 1954, under the auspices of the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. A steering committee of ten of the leading...
Revised Edition. — Ballantine Books, 1989. — 816 p. The book by American journalist and publicist Hedrick Smith is dedicated to describing the internal life of the USSR in the period before Gorbachev and the perception of the peculiarities of the Soviet mentality. The book is structured as a series of essays and notes, distributed on three topics: people, the state system,...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 399 p. — (Oxford Histories). — ISBN10: 0199227624. — ISBN13: 978-0199227624. The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 is a new history of Russia's revolutionary era as a story of experience-of people making sense of history as it unfolded in their own lives and as they took part in making history themselves. The major events, trends, and explanations,...
University of British Columbia Press, 2008. — 304 p. Based on extensive research in the Arctic Russian region of Chukotka, Settlers on the Edge is the first English-language account of settler life anywhere in the circumpolar north to appear since Robert Paine's The White Arctic (1977), and the first to explore the experiences of Soviet-era migrants to the far north. Niobe...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0199336210; ISBN13: 978-0199336210. The Russian state presents a mystery to outside observers. Although Russia was the site of some of the last century's most radical upheavals, and although Russian governments are usually characterized by autocracy, corruption, and political decay, the central government has retained a...
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. — 312 p. — ISBN10: 9042025859; ISBN13: 978-9042025851 — (On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics. Book 17) The book contains the memoirs of Robert van Voren covering the period 1977-2008 and provides unique insights into the dissident movement in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, both inside the country and...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2015 — 172 p. — ISBN10: 9004303960; ISBN13: 978-9004303966. Consumption in Russia and the former USSR has been lately studied as regards the pre-revolutionary and early Soviet period. The history of Soviet consumption and the Soviet variety of consumerism in the 1950s-1990s has hardly been studied at all. This book concentrates on the late Soviet period...
The Caucasian republic of Dagestan, on Russia's southern frontier, has become contested territory in a hegemonic competition between Moscow and resurgent Islam. In this authoritative book the leading experts on Dagestan provide a pathbreaking study of this volatile region far from the world's gaze
Klaus Hesse. Zur Geschichte der UdSSR und der KPdSU. Über erste praktische Erfahrungen mit dem Sozialismus. Fragen zur historischen Wahrheit, zu den Quellen, zu Hintergründen der Siege, der Niederlagen und des Scheiterns. Von den Anfängen bis 1941. Leipzig, 2012.
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