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Russia
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... more...
Russian Transformations
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95The transition of Russia to a 'developed market economy' has been slower, more contradictory and less predictable than expected. This book examines contemporary Russian socio-economic development, and explores the degree to which Russian experiences can be incorporated into current social science theories. In particular, it questions how far the concept... more...
Russia's Economic Transitions
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 48.00Examines the three major transformations that the country underwent from the early 1860s to 2000. The three transitions originated within different socio-economic settings, but have had a similar primary goal, namely the changing of the economy's ownership pattern in the hopes of providing a better basis for subsequent development. more...
Russia in the 21st Century
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 28.00This book demonstrates Russia's intention to re-emerge as a full-fledged superpower before 2010 that would challenge America and China and potentially threaten a new arms race. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this goal is within the Kremlin's grasp, but the cost to the Russian people and global security would be immense. more...
Everyday Stalinism
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 18.99Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed. With the abolition of the market, shortages... more...
Heralds of Revolution
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 84.99Reading Russian revolutionary culture through its stories, the author of this text explores how the quest for consciousness evolved into student radicalism. The study examines the dynamics of political and cultural change in late-Imperial Russia, questioning the founding myths of the Soviet Union. more...
Russia Abroad
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 65.00A remarkable feature of the Great Russian Emigration which followed the Revolution is how the Russian communities abroad preserved a flourishing Russian culture. This is a comprehensive cultural history of this phenomenon. more...
Introducing Marxism
Icon Books Ltd. 2004; US$ 12.95Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? more...
Russia's Economy
RAND Corporation 2006; US$ 9.95The good news and the bad news about the Russian economys movement toward becoming a market economy are both abundant; however, the Russian economy can still-16 years after the Soviet Unions demise-be appropriately characterized as transitional. It is the second largest of the economies considered to be transitional (China is the largest),... more...
Shostakovich and Stalin
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 30.00?Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.? So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under the totalitarian rule of Stalin, with his unpredictable... more...









