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Russiaby Gregory L. Freeze
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 22.00From the formation of the Russian state in the 14th century to the political power struggles of the 1990s and the uncertainties of the new millennium, this new history offers a fresh and systematic account of Russian history across six tumultuous centuries. This book - containing many little-known illustrations - represents an important attempt to rethink Russian history and to provide a new understanding of Russia's complex but ever-fascinating historical development. more...
Imperial Russiaby Jane Burbank; David L. Ransel
Indiana University Press 1998; US$ 19.95"On the basis of the work presented here, one can say that the future of American scholarship on imperial Russia is in good hands." -- American Historial Review "... innovative and substantive research... " -- The Russian Review "Anyone wishing to understand the 'state of the field' in Imperial Russian history would do well to start with this collection." -- Theodore W. Weeks, H-Net Reviews "The essays are impressive in terms of research conceptualization, and analysis." -- Slavic Review Presenting the results of new research and fresh approaches, the historians whose work is highlighted here seek to extend new ... more...
The Modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825by Simon Dixon; William Beik; T. C. W. Blanning
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 27.00Analytical and thematic account of a colourful period in Russian history accessible to undergraduates of European and Russian history, as well as to the non-specialist reader. Covers Russia's political, social, cultural and intellectual life during its emergence as a great power. more...
Uncivil Societyby Stephen Kotkin; Jan Gross
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 11.99Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies–East Germany, Romania, and Poland–to illuminate what led Communist regimes to surrender, or to be swept away in political bank runs. This is less a story of dissidents, so-called civil society, than of the bankruptcy of a ruling class–communism’s establishment, or “uncivil society.” The Communists borrowed... more...
Who's Who in Russia since 1900by Martin McCauley
Routledge 1997; US$ 34.95A unique reference guide which examines the leading personalities from 1900 up to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond. This book is invaluable for students, teachers, researchers and the general reader alike. more...
Communism and Its Collapseby Stephen White
Routledge 2000; US$ 28.95A survey of communism from the Russian revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the late 1980s. Focusing particularly on the USSR and Eastern Europe this book examines the development of communist rule in historical and analytical terms. more...
Stalin Eraby Philip Boobbyer
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95A wide ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin's Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia. more...
Imperial Russia, 1801-1905by Tim Chapman
Routledge 2001; US$ 35.95Imperial Russia, 1801-1905 traces the development of the Russian Empire from the murder of 'mad Tsar Paul' to the reforms of the 1890s that were an attempt to modernise the autocratic atate, more...
Russia 2010by Daniel Yergin; Thane Gustafson
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1994; US$ 11.95From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Prize, this book analyzes one of the most important events of the 20th and 21st centuries - what comes next after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It uses the management technique of scenario planning to build four stories of the future. more...
Demographic Trends and Patterns in the Soviet Union Beforeby Wolfgang Lutz; Sergei Scherbov; Andrei Volkov
Routledge 1993; US$ 278.00Provides an overview of demographic trends and patterns in the republics of the Soviet Union through the twentieth century providing a comprehensive and detailed review of fertility, marriage and the family, age and mortality. more...