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Kazakhstan
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2010; US$ 18.99At the outset of independence 18 years ago, Kazakhstan's leaders promised that the country's rich natural resources, with oil and gas reserves among the largest in the world, would soon bring economic prosperity. It appeared that democracy was beginning to take hold in this newly independent state. Nearly two decades later, Kazakhstan has achieved... more...
Siberian Dreams
Eye Books 2006; US$ 9.99Every year thousands compete to win the RGS/BBC Journey of a Lifetime award and fulfill their travel dreams. However, Andy Home's dream would be most people's nightmare. Andy went to Siberia, to the Russian industrial mining city of Norilsk where temperatures drop to minus 50, half the year is spent in perpetual darkness, and the pollution has destroyed... more...
Politics, Identity and Education in Central Asia
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00Focusing on the areas of politics, identity and education, this book looks at some of the most pressing and challenging issues that Kyrgyzstan faces in the post-Soviet era. It argues that Kyrgyzstan is challenged with oscillations between the old and the new on the one hand, and domestic and international on the other. The book analyses the process... more...
Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia
Routledge 1992; US$ 224.00In a unique survey, based on new census data, this book highlights the region's geographic, economic and ecological problems since 1945. more...
The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146-1246
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 45.00This book examines the later twelfth- and early thirteenth-century history of the dynasty of Chernigov, demonstrating (contrary to the views of most historians) that the princes of Chernigov were among the most powerful in Kievan Rus' and challenging successfully the established view of the period. more...
In Siberia
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on foot, Colin Thubron traversed this vast territory, talking to everyone he encountered about the state of the beauty, whose natural resources have... more...
Siberian Village
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 40.00A fascinating portrait of the history and landscape of this remote settlement. more...
Living with Koryak Traditions
University of Nebraska Press 2011; US$ 35.00An examination of the globalization of culture and the invention of tradition, and what it means to modern Koryak people living in post-Soviet Siberia. more...
Siberia
Andrews UK 2010; US$ 14.49Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their colony in North Asia, they heard rumours about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded from cold. This region of frozen tundra, endless forest and humming steppe between the Urals... more...
Russian Far East
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 170.00This book is a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary Russian Far East (RFE) and offers an argument about federal relations and power in the state. It is the only easily available, single volume book to examine the RFE in such depth. more...









