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Catherine the Greatby Robert K. Massie
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.99The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into Empress of Russia by sheer determination. Possessing a brilliant mind and an insatiable curiosity as a young woman, she devoured the works of Enlightenment philosophers and, when she reached the throne, attempted to use their principles to guide her rule of the vast and backward Russian empire. She knew or corresponded with the preeminent... more...
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...
Stalin's Genocidesby Norman M. Naimark
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 16.95Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race,... more...
Moscow 1941by Rodric Braithwaite
Profile 2010; US$ 15.98Based on huge research and scores of interviews, this book offers an unforgettable and richly illustrated narrative of the military action that took place in Moscow during 1941; telling portraits of Stalin and his generals, some apparatchiks, some great commanders. It also traces the stories of individuals, soldiers, politicians and intellectuals, writers and artists and dancers, workers, schoolchildren and peasants. Click here to visit the author's website. 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...
Gender, State and Society in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russiaby Sarah Ashwin
Routledge 2000; US$ 52.95Featuring an outstanding panel of Russian contributors, this collection is a valuable resource for students and scholars of politics, gender studies and Russian studies. more...
Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empiresby Aviel Roshwald
Routledge 2000; US$ 41.95An examination of the critical dilemmas of nationalist politics in the First World War. It proposes that the war catapulted nationalist movements into positions of authority well before they were ready culturally or politically. more...