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Living Through Soviet Russia
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 186.00For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and western researchers.... more...
Rostov in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 44.95These documents were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don, and this book makes them available for the first time in print. Since becoming freely accessible Soviet archives have provided a rich source for understanding the hopes, fears and strivings of the Russians during the greatest crisis in their history. Both Reds and Whites realized Rostov's... more...
From Leningrad to Hungary
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 50.95This new book is a chronological narrative of the experiences of Evgenii Moniushko, who lived through and survived the first year of the siege of Leningrad and who served as a junior officer in the Red Army during the last eighteen months of war and the first year of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia and Hungary. This volume presents an intensely... more...
Stalinism
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 59.95Stalinism surveys the efforts made in recent years by professional historians, in Russia and the West, to better understand what really went on in the USSR between 1929 and 1953, when the country's affairs were shrouded in secrecy. The opening of the Soviet archives in 1991 has led to a profusion of historical studies, whose strengths and weaknesses... more...
Belorussia 1944
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 50.95A new edited translation of the Soviet Staff study of the Red Army's Belorussian operation in the summer of 1944, which was unprecedented in terms of its scale, scope and strategic consequences. The Soviet Stavka had planned a campaign consisting of a series of massive operations spanning the entire Soviet-German front. Four powerful fronts (army... more...
Legacy of Soviet Dissent
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 185.00This important book argues that the dissident movement between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s had profound repercussions for Gorbachev's reforms and for the post-Soviet order. more...
Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 51.95This critical examination of the final Soviet strategic offensive operation during World War II seeks to chip away at two generally inaccurate pictures many Westerners have of the war. Specifically, Westerners seem to think that only geography, climate, and sheer numbers negated German military skill and competency on the eastern front, a view that... more...
Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 44.95At the request of the other Allies, on 9th August 1945, a force of over 1.5 million Red Army soldiers unleashed a massive attack against the Japanese in Manchuria. Volume 2 covers the detailed course of operational and tactical fighting in virtually every combat sector. more...
Women at the Gates
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 27.00In the 1930s, the Soviet working class grew at an unprecedented rate, changing in size and social composition. Women at the Gates is the story of a world remade, from above and from below, as women entered waged labor in unprecedented numbers. more...
Battle for the Ukraine
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 49.95A comprehensive guide to the battle for the Ukraine from the Soviet perspective during the winter of 1943-1944. This volume is an unexpurgated translation of the originally classified Soviet General Staff Study No.14. more...









