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Allah's Angels
Naval Institute Press 2011; US$ 34.95In this comprehensive portrait of the women of Chechnya in modern war, Paul Murphy argues that they are the principal victims of the 1994 and 1999 wars with Russia and the present conflict with Islamic jihadists. War forced Chechen women to venture far beyond their traditional roles and advance their human rights, but the current movement championing... more...
Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective
OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 139.99Leaders and leadership continue to dominate Russia's political development. Like his predecessors in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin has made a crucial impact on the substance and style of Russian politics. His efforts to use traditional tools of state power to manage democracy and market capitalism have had mixed effects on both.Leading Russia investigates... more...
From Nyet to Da
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2011; US$ 21.86From Nyet to Da illuminates the dynamics of traditional Russian culture in the framework of contemporary events. Yale Richmond enlightens readers about virtually every aspect of Russian life, covering social and interpersonal skills as well as the underlying cultural assumptions and values of the Russian people. The fourth edition is completely up-to-date... more...
Russian Imperialism and Naval Power
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 95.00From 1904-1905, Russia and Japan were locked in conflict arising from rival imperial ambitions in the Far East. Nicholas Papastratigakis offers an integrated analysis of Russian naval strategy in the decade before this Russo-Japanese War, in which the Russians suffered catastrophic defeat. He seeks to determine the extent to which their defeat can... more...
Kremlin Rising
Scribner 2005; Not AvailableIn the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow correspondents. With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful... more...
Kremlin Rising
Scribner 2005; Not AvailableIn the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow correspondents. With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful... more...
Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft
Potomac Books Inc. 2011; US$ 24.95An interpretive biography of one of Russias most formidable leaders more...
Moscow, December 25, 1991
PublicAffairs 2011; US$ 16.99The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking ?bulldozer,? wished to destroy... more...
Chinese Migrants in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 140.00Much of the former Soviet bloc has become a destination for new Chinese migrants. Throughout Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Chinese migrants are engaged in entrepreneurial activities, primarily as petty merchants of consumer goods in unsteady economies. This book situates these migrants within the broader context of Chinese globalization... more...









