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The Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War (Greenwood Press Guide to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century)
by Rex A. Wade  Publisher Comments The Bolshevik Revolution remains one of the most important events of modern history. It reshaped the political, social, and economic structure of one of the world's "great powers" and had enormous international impact. This work brings together a rich...
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Russia's Balkan Entanglements, 1806-1914
by Barbara Jelavich Publisher Comments This book examines the reason for the Russian involvement in the Balkan peninsula....
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Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, & Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934
by George Liber Publisher Comments A study of the impact of industrial revolution on national consciousness in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic....
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The Romanov Empire and Nationalism: Essays in the Methodology of Historical Research
by Alexei Miller Publisher Comments Russian historiography has focused on the power of the central state. The national historiographies of the peoples that were once part of the empire, on the other hand, concentrate on their own nation, and the empire for them is only a burdensome context...
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Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant
by Amy Knight Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in...
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Pushkin's Children : Writing on Russia and Russians (03 Edition)
by Tatyana Tolstaya Publisher Comments These twenty pieces address the politics, culture, and literature of Russia with both flair and erudition. Passionate and opinionated, often funny, and using ample material from daily life to underline their ideas and observations, Tatyana Tolstaya's...
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Russia (06 Edition)
by Service Publisher Comments reshaping of their society, and the results will prove of vital importance to the global community. Robert Service has provided a valuable and engaging guide to their recent remarkable journey....
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Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia 1891
by Maxime Kovalevsky Publisher Comments Being the Ilchester Lectures for 1889-90....
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Nicholas and Alexandra
by George Vilinbakhov Publisher Comments This magnificent, compelling volume reveals in unparalleled detail the luxurious world and private lives of Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children. It accompanies the largest collection of Imperial family...
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Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power
by Virginia Rounding Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Grandes Horizontales comes a book that the Washington Post calls “a vivid portrait of a sensual and intellectual woman.” Dutiful daughter, passionate lover, doting grandmother, tireless legislator, generous...
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Russia Is No Riddle
by Edmund Stevens Publisher Comments RUSSIA IS NO RIDDLE CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION ix CHAPTER ONE TO MOSCOW WITH CHURCHILL i CHAPTER Tw6 RETURN TRIP 8 CHAPTER THREE A RUSSIAN IN ALGIERS 17 CHAPTER FOUR AMERICANS AND POLES IN PERSIA WILLKIE AND AFTER 26 CHAPTER FIVE THROUGH RUSSIAS SIDE...
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Russian Crossroads: Toward the New Millennium
by E. M. Primakov Publisher Comments A prominent Russian politician who served as prime minister, foreign minister, and head of foreign intelligence during the 1990s, Yevgeny Primakov has been part of all vital decisions on Russian domestic and foreign policy for the past two decades. His...
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Russian Identities: A Historical Survey
by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Publisher Comments This book investigates the question of Russian identity, looking at changes and continues over a huge territory, many centuries, and a variety of political, social, and economic structures. Its main emphases are on the struggle against the steppe peoples,...
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The History of Ukraine (Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations)
by Paul Kubicek Publisher Comments Ukraine's struggle for a national identity plagued this former Soviet Union state long before the Cold War shook the world. Its central location between Eastern Europe and Western Asia invited many different cultures to settle the land, ultimately...
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And God Created Lenin: Marxism Vs. Religion in Russia, 1917-1929
by Paul Gabel Publisher Comments When the Bolsheviks took power in Russia in November 1917, they used a wide range of techniques--some subtle, some violent--to eradicate religion in areas under their control. The new Soviet government arrested priests, closed church buildings, exposed...
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Hostile Waters #1: Hostile Waters
by Peter A Huchthausen Publisher Comments As the Cold War drew to a close, a Soviet submarine armed with fifteen nuclear missiles suffered a crippling accident, coming within moments of an apocalyptic meltdown that could have devastated the eastern seaboard of the United States. Although our own...
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The Balkans in World History
by Andrew Wachtel Publisher Comments In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent...
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St. Petersburg: A Cultural History
by Solomon Volkov Publisher Comments A compelling portrait of a city and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy--written by a cultural historian who has known some of the greatest figures of modern St. Petersburg, including Balanchine, Shostakovich, Akhmatova, and Brodsky. "A rich...
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Midland Book #661: Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising
by Alexander Rabinowitch Publisher Comments Alexander Rabinowitch's pioneering study of revolutionary events in Petrograd in the summer of 1917 challenges and revises the established view of the Bolshevik Party in 1917 as a disciplined, monolithic organization subservient to V.I. Lenin...
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A Brief History of the Crimean War: The Causes and Consequences of a Medieval Conflict Fought in a Modern Age
by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy Publisher Comments In September 1854, the armies of Britain, France and Turkey invaded Russia in what was to become the Crimean War. In the months that followed over half a million soldiers fell. They died from bullet wounds and shrapnel, cholera and disease, starvation...
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