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The Workers' Revolution in Russia, 1917
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 24.00An analysis of Bolshevik relations with the Russian working population. more...
Russia under Tsarism and Communism 1881-195
Hodder Education 2011; US$ 33.58A comprehensive, advanced level, core text on Russian history from 1881-1953, from Tsar Nicholas to the death of Stalin. more...
Stalin
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. In this groundbreaking study, leading international experts challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years, using recently declassified archive. more...
Spymaster
Basic Books 2009; US$ 16.95Oleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. In 1990, he went public, exposing the intelligence agency?s shadowy methods. Revised and updated in the light of the KGB?s enduring presence in Russian... more...
Young Stalin
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 18.00Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin. From the Trade Paperback... more...
Peter the Great
Head of Zeus 2012; US$ 8.01Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned at the age of 10. A barbarous, volatile feudal tsar with a taste for torture; a progressive and enlightened reformer of government and science; a statesman of vision and colossal significance: Peter the... more...
Ten Days that Shook the World
The Floating Press 1919; US$ 6.99Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917. Written in 1919 by the American journalist and socialist John Reed, it follows many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders of this time. Reed died the year after his book was finished and was buried in Moscow's Kremlin Wall Necropolis - one of the few... more...
Russian Conspirators in Siberia
Elliott & Thompson 2013; US$ 12.99Following Napoleon's defeat, a generation of young Russian officers was acutely conscious of the backward social and political conditions in their own country, compared to those in France. Taking advantage of the confusion after Alexander I's sudden death, on December 14, 1825 the officer-conspirators gathered their troops in St Petersburg to demand,... more...
Pflegeberatung von russischsprachigen Migranten aus der Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten (GUS)
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 37.73Hauptbeschreibung Im Zuge der Globalisierung wächst die Anzahl der in Deutschland lebenden Migranten rasant an. Unter den Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund, die keine homogene Gruppe darstellen, befinden sich zu einer großen Anzahl auch russischsprachige Migranten aus der GUS. Viele Migranten, so auch die Zielgruppe dieser Studie, haben aufgrund... more...









