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In the summer of 1980, the eyes of the world turned to the Gdansk shipyard in Poland which suddenly became the nexus of a strike wave that paralyzed the entire country. The Gdansk strike was orchest……続きを見る

This engrossing collection of prison memoirs by Russian women is the first to portray the direct experiences of the wide range of women who were incarcerated in Soviet prisons and camps. Comprising ……続きを見る

Law, crime, and justice are among the most salient issues in any country. This is especially true for a transitional nation like Russia that is facing tremendous social, political, and economic chan……続きを見る

In The Life and Times of Charles R. Crane, Norman E. Saul analyzes the contributions of Charles R. Crane, world traveler, businessman, diplomat, and philanthropist in the setting of his times. Crane……続きを見る

Contributors. Stephen Feinstein, Robert O. Freedman, Theodore H. Friedgut, Zvi Gitelman, Marshall I. Goldman, Sidney Heitman, William Korey, Howard Spier 続きを見る

Remembering the Cold War examines how, more than two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cold War legacies continue to play crucial roles in defining national identities and shaping inte……続きを見る

This deeply informed book traces the dramatic history of early Soviet-western relations after World War I. Michael Jabara Carley provides a lively exploration of the formative years of Soviet foreig……続きを見る

Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea. For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the Russians drove the Circassians f……続きを見る

КЛЮЧЕВСКИЙ Василий Осипович (1841-1911) - российский ученый, историк, академик (1900), почетный академик (1908) Петербургской АН. Наиболее известный научный труд Ключевского, получивший всемирное пр……続きを見る

КЛЮЧЕВСКИЙ Василий Осипович (1841-1911) - российский ученый, историк, академик (1900), почетный академик (1908) Петербургской АН. «Сказания иностранцев» обращаются к темам, которые в дальнейшем стан……続きを見る

КЛЮЧЕВСКИЙ Василий Осипович (1841-1911) - российский ученый, историк, академик (1900), почетный академик (1908) Петербургской АН. Наиболее известный научный труд Ключевского, получивший всемирное пр……続きを見る

КЛЮЧЕВСКИЙ Василий Осипович (1841-1911) - российский ученый, историк, академик (1900), почетный академик (1908) Петербургской АН. Наиболее известный научный труд Ключевского, получивший всемирное пр……続きを見る

КЛЮЧЕВСКИЙ Василий Осипович (1841-1911) - российский ученый, историк, академик (1900), почетный академик (1908) Петербургской АН. Наиболее известный научный труд Ключевского, получивший всемирное пр……続きを見る

The Lamaze method is virtually synonymous with natural childbirth in America. In the 1970s, taking Lamaze classes was a common rite of passage to parenthood. The conscious relaxation and patterned b……続きを見る

Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet. Russia today is a world in a dark limbo. The body politic is diseased, the state in collapse. Yet for all the signs of encroaching doom,……続きを見る

The Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of Europe and its international significance can be obscured by separate treatments of the various Baltic states. With this wide-rangin……続きを見る

A second edition of this famous survey has been eagerly awaited. When the first edition appeared Brezhnev was still in power, Gorbachev did not make it to the index, and the USSR was a superpower. T……続きを見る

The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It ……続きを見る

The New York Times Notable Book of 2002 Finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize History on a grand scaleーan enchanting masterpiece that explores the making ……続きを見る

“A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with greatrange and insight. This will set a new standard for shortgeneral histories of China.” ーMichael Gasster,professor emeritus of history at Rut……続きを見る

Supporters of Stalin saw Trotsky as a traitor and renegade. Trotsky’s own supporters saw him as the only true Leninist. In Trotsky and the Russian Revolution, Geoffrey Swain restores Trotsky to his ……続きを見る

A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre. On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei ……続きを見る

«È una belva, ma una belva di dimensioni grandiose» (A. Hitler). Il 5 marzo 1953 moriva Josif Vissarionovič Džugašvili, meglio conosciuto come Stalin, l'uomo che aveva governato con il pugno di ferr……続きを見る

Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring citiesーa place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet o……続きを見る

Renaissance of Classical Allusions in Contemporary Russian Media builds on a growing body of work concerning post-Soviet media culture during the last, transformative decade. Making sense of the lit……続きを見る

From the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House. In Moscow, a man points on a map to the place where he was born. He is a Doukhobor, a ‘spirit-wrestler’, a member of a group of……続きを見る

В данный том вошло произведение о императрице Елизавете ー дочери Петра Великого. Обладавшая беспечным нравом и невысоким воспитанием, она тем не менее сумела многое сделать для укрепления Российско……続きを見る

Предлагаем читателю грандиозную энциклопедию русской этнографии, содержащую в себе в исчерпывающей полноте описания русских народных праздничных обычаев, примет, сказаний и поверий, которые бытовали……続きを見る

Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an……続きを見る

Bolshevism at a Deadlock was written Karl Kautsky, one of the leading Marxist intellectuals of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, in response to the catastrophic failures of Stalin’s……続きを見る