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  • Soviet Space Culture

    Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies

    Edited by E. Maurer, J. Richers, M. Rüthers, C. Scheide ...
    Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space became a new utopian horizon. This book explores the profound repercussions of the Soviet space exploration program on culture and everyday life in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union itself. ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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  • The Icon and Axe

    An Interpretative History of Russian Culture

    by James Billington ...
    "A sweeping, intricate description of Russian cultural history, spanning the pre-Romanov era through six centuries to the reign of Joseph Stalin. Flowing with ease through time and topic — from art to music, literature, philosophy, mythology and more — the book provides readers with an alluring portrayal of Russia’s proud heritage. Its impressive scope and lasting insights have made it a ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Soviet Hurricane Aces of World War 2

    by Yuriy Rybin ...
    Series Book 107 - Aircraft of the Aces
    In 1942, about 80 per cent of the fighters serving with Air Forces of the Karelian and Northern Fronts were Hurricanes. This book explores the bitter struggle against well-drilled Luftwaffe and Finnish units flying in the polar regions of northern Russia.Following the destruction wrought on the Red Army Air Forces during the first days of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Soviet Union found ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Postcommunist Welfare States

    Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe

    by Linda J. Cook ...
    In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social welfare from 1990 to 2004 in the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Odd Man Karakozov

    Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism

    by Claudia Verhoeven ...
    On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his "unheard-of act" changed the course of Russian history-and gave birth to the revolutionary political violence known as terrorism.Based on clues pulled out of the pockets of Karakozov's peasant ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Conduct of War 1789-1961

    A Study of the Impact of the French, Industrial and Russian Revolutions on War and Its Conduct

    by J. F. C. Fuller ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Military and Naval History
    This book, originally published in 1961, examines the wars from the age of absolute rulers, and the destructive impact of revolutionary and democratic government on this state of affairs. It discusses the relation between war and policy, and takes into account how the character of war in the first half of the twentieth century affected international diplomacy. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Gulag Voices

    Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile

    by J. Gheith, K. Jolluck ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women, members of the working class and intelligentsia, people who live in the major cities and those from the "provinces," and from an array of corrective hard labor camps and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule

    by Alex Marshall ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
    The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991, fuelled by the admixture of oil politics, great power rivalry, ethnic separatism and terrorism that characterizes the region. However, until now there has been little understanding of how these issues came to assume the importance they ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War

    Issues, Interpretations, Periodizations

    Edited by Silvio Pons, Federico Romero ...
    Series series Cold War History
    As the activities of individuals, organizations, and nations increasingly occur in cyberspace, the security of those activities is becoming a growing concern. Political, economic and military leaders must manage and reduce the level of risk associated with threats from hostile states, malevolent nonstate actors such as organized terrorist groups or individual hackers, and high-tech accidents. The ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin

    Accommodation, Survival, Resistance

    by Dr Boris B. Gorshkov ...
    Series series The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series
    The peasantry accounted for the large majority of the Russian population during the Imperialist and Stalinist periods – it is, for the most part, how people lived. Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin provides a comprehensive, realistic examination of peasant life in Russia during both these eras and the legacy this left in the post-Soviet era.The book paints a full picture of peasant ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Russian Revolution

    by James Mavor ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The revolutionary movements of 1905-1907 formed the first stage of the Russian Revolution, followed by an interval of peace and economic prosperity, but the outbreak of WWI and social unrest led to further revolutionary action in 1917 resulting in the abdication and murder of Tsar Nicholas II and the creation of the Soviet Union. Originally published in 1928, this volume traces the course and the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

    Edited by Melanie Ilic ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the geographic coverage of the book beyond Russia itself to examine women and gender relations in the Soviet ‘East’ (Tatarstan), ... Read more

    $287.99 USD