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First Person
PublicAffairs 2000; US$ 16.00An astonishingly frank self-portrait by Russia's president more...
Russia - Culture Smart!
Kuperard 2010;Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will... more...
Kremlin Rising
Potomac Books Inc. 2007; US$ 18.95An eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia more...
The Slave Soul of Russia
NYU Press 1995; US$ 75.00Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing humility as the mother of virtues, the trauma... more...
Russias Energy Policies
Edward Elgar Publishing 2012; US$ 40.00Russia's vast energy reserves, and its policies towards them have enormous importance in the current geopolitical landscape. This important book examines Russia's energy policies on the national, interregional and global level. It pays particular attention to energy policy actors ranging from state, federal and regional actors, to energy companies... more...
Sunlight At Midnight St. Petersburg And The Rise Of Modern Russia
Basic Books 2009; US$ 19.95A fitting testament to [Lincoln's] literary skill. It evokes vividly the unconscionable gulf between the life of the city's aristocratic patrons and the misery of the masses.--New York Times ]]> more...
Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century and the Shadow of the Past
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 59.99Because the turbulent trajectory of Russia's foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union echoes previous moments of social and political transformation, history offers a special vantage point from which to judge the current course of events. In this book, a mix of leading historians and political scientists examines the foreign policy... more...
One Steppe Beyond
Summersdale 2012; US$ 9.99Traveling across the former Soviet Union is a challenge at the best of timesdoing so in a dilapidated VW is just that much more of an adventure A chance job offer at a timber yard in Estonia gives Thom and his old pal Jo a taste for the unknown. So when Uncle Tony asks them to drive to Vladivostok for another job, they can’t... more...
The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia
Springer 2010; US$ 179.99The Caspian Sea is a unique natural feature, the world's largest landlocked water body. Historically the Caspian was one of the key zones where the interests of great powers such as Russia, Britain and Persia clashed. And the reason was and still is the oil - the 'black gold' of the Caspian and also the natural riches of the sea, its other... more...
Russia?s Identity in International Relations
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00Bringing together leading scholars from Russia and outside experts on Russia, this book looks at the difference between the image Russia has of itself and the way it is viewed in the West. It discusses the historical, cultural and political foundations that these images are built upon, and goes on to analyse how contested these images are, and their... more...









