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.
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co, 1872. — 312 p. Edna Dean Proctor (1829-1923), an American poet and traveler. In 1867, she visited St. Petersburg, and Moscow, traveled along the Volga (Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Kamyshin), then Rostov-on-Don, Azov, Crimea, Odessa, and Moldova. As a result of this trip, in 1872, a real collection of essays, "Russian Journey", was published, in...
Taylor & Francis, 2017. — ISBN: 9781317086529. Notes on Muscovite Affairs (Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii) (1549) was a Latin book by Baron Sigismund von Herberstein on the geography, history, and customs of the Grand Duchy of Muscovy. The book was the main early source of knowledge about Russia in Western Europe.
Yale University Press, 2022, 259p., e-ISBN: 978-0-300-26559-0. In this life Stalin, the author explores the books he read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography and an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of...
London; New York; Melbourne: Hutchinson & Co., no date. Comrades, citizens, brothers and sisters, men of our Army and Navy! My words are addressed to you, dear friends! The perfidious military attack by Hitlerite Germany on our fatherland, began on June 22, is continuing. Despite the heroic resistance of the Red Army, and although the enemy’s finest divisions and finest air...
Jacobson, Esther. Brill. 1993. Studies in the History of Religions, Vol. LV. 320p. ISBN: 9004096280 Central to this study is the image of the deer within the iconography of the Early Nomads of South Siberia. By examining the symbolic structures revealed in the art and archaeology of the Early Nomads, the author challenges existing theories regarding Early Nomadic cosmology. The...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 224 p. Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, when the Muslim Caucasus first came under Russian rule, witnessed many of the historical antecedents to today's violent confrontations. With this in mind, On The Religious Frontier examines the history of Muslim Azerbaijan under Christian...
Harper Collins Books, 2009. — 425 p. In this sweeping history of vodka scion Pyotr Smirnov and his family, distinguished journalist Linda Himelstein plumbs a great riddle of Russian history through the story of a humble serf who rose to create one of the most celebrated business empires the world has ever known. At the center of this vivid narrative, Pyotr Smirnov comes to life...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 356 p. This is the first comprehensive study of the origins and early uses of Russian writing. Simon Franklin examines a wide range of writings, from the parchment manuscripts of the Orthodox Church, through the Novgorod birch-bark documents, to inscriptions on stone and metal. He analyzes the texts from a variety of perspectives, and...
2nd Edition, Fully Revised And Updated. — Routledge, 2019. — 260 p. In this text, Dr. Hammer presents an analytical model of the Soviet political system and its process of political decisionmaking, based on the theory of "bureaucratic pluralism". He interprets the Soviet regime as a product of three different influences: the Tsarist tradition of nondemocratic rule, the...
The History Press, 2018. — 240 p. The Crimean War 1853-1856 was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victoria’s reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most historians see it as an irrelevant, unnecessary conflict despite Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Here Hugh Small shows how the history of the Crimean War has been manipulated to conceal...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 564 p. The Crimean War 1854-1856 is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in Florence Nightingale, it produced one of history's great heroes. New weapons were introduced; trench...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 78 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 78 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 94 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 94 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 42 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 42 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 42 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 42 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 42 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 42 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 66 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 66 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 42 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...
Moscow: Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1932. — 42 p. Monthly periodical published in 1932-1934 by The Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries). VOKS was created by the government of the Soviet Union in 1925 to promote international...