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  • Canadian-Soviet Relations between the World Wars

    Series series Heritage
    This study, based on archives only recently made available, examines Canada’s relations with the Soviet Union between the first and second world wars. It shows how Canada’s policy towards Russia was influenced by the economic and foreign policies of Great Britain, by the revolutionary policies of the Comintern, by economic pressures within Canada and the Soviet Union, and by pressures from ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Nicholas Karamzin and Russian Society in the Nineteenth Century

    A Study in Russian Political and Historical Thought

    Series series Heritage
    Nicholas Karamzin (1766–1826) was a remarkably active thinker and writer during a time that was trying to all Europeans. A first-hand witness to the French Revolution, Napoleonic suzerainty over Europe, the burning of Moscow, and the Decembrist revolt in St. Petersburg, he presented in his voluminous correspondence and published writings a world view that recognized the weaknesses of the Russian ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Polish Revolutionary Populism

    A Study in Agrarian Socialist Thought From the 1830s to the 1850s

    by Peter Brock ...
    Series series Heritage
    Polish populism, which advocated agrarian socialism by either revolutionary or reformist means, emerged first among the émigrés who had left Poland after the Russians defeated the nationalist uprising of 1830. In exile they came into contact with the ideas of French ‘Utopian’ socialists such as Babeuf, Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Cabet, and they attempted to adapt these ideas to the very different ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Lenin's Legacy

    by Robert Wesson ...
    This concise monograph traces Russian Marxism from its beginnings to mid-1977, shows how and why the party achieved power, how it has strengthened its position, and how it has undertaken to remold the country and to solve its internal problems. Wesson's study is the only up-to-date party history currently available. The book opens with background material on Russian discontent and endeavors to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolution and Survival

    The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia 1917-18

    by Richard Debo ...
    Series series Heritage
    This is a highly readable and absorbing account of Bolshevik foreign policy during Lenin's first year in power. In tracing the development of that policy, the book considers both the impact it had on a world torn by war and the effect it had on the Bolsheviks themselves, now no longer engaged in clandestine struggle but in effective state control.The book explores Lenin's relationship with the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Vanguard

    The Early Years of the Communist Youth International 1914-1924

    Series series Heritage
    The monolithic nature of the communist movement during the Stalinist period overlay pluralist tendencies. These were suppressed in the 1920s, though they were to re-emerge after Stalin's death.The history of the Communist Youth International is revealed in this volume as an important example of the 'autonomist' tendencies in the communist movement after the First World War. The experience of the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Dostoevsky, Grigor'ev, and Native Soil Conservatism

    by Wayne Dowler ...
    Series series Heritage
    Native soil was a mid-nineteenth-century Russian reaction against materialism and positivism. It emphasized the need for people to live their lives and develop themselves naturally, so that class difference might be reconciled, the achievements of the West fused with the communalism and Christian fraternity preserved by the Russian peasant, and the Russian nation united in the pursuit of common ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Ukraine

    Volume I: A-F plus Map and Gazetteer

    Edited by Volodymyr Kubijovyc ...
    Series series Heritage
    Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Soviet Experience

    Politics and History since 1917

    Series series Galaxy Books
    In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Stephen F. Cohen cuts through Cold War stereotypes of the Soviet Union to arrive at fresh interpretations of that country's traumatic history and its present-day political realities. Cohen's lucidly written, revisionist analysis reopens an array of major historical questions. As he probes Soviet history, society, and politics, Cohen demonstrates how this ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Another Winter, Another Spring

    A Love Remembered

    Set at the turn of the twentieth century and spread across the enormous canvas of Russia itself, Another Winter, Another Spring is a tale of love and loyalty tested against great hardship and suffering. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia and the Golden Horde

    The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History

    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    This revelatory study of Russian medieval history and the age of Mongolian conquest “infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations” (History).In the 13th century, a Mongolian confederation known as The Golden Horde dominated a vast region including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the Caucuses. Though it would hold power into the 15th century, the influence of the Mongolian Empire on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spetsnaz: The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces

    Viktor Suvorov is a Soviet army officer who has defected to the West. Here is the full story of the Spetsnaz forces, the Soviet army's secret killer elite.This is the first comprehensive insight for the West into a Soviet "army within an army" whose existence has been known until recently only to a few highly placed people--most of whom would deny it.The spetsnaz Soviet special forces are one of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Catherine the Great

    Life and Legend

    Series series Oxford Lives
    One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Ukraine

    Volume II: G-K

    Edited by Volodymyr Kubijovyc ...
    Series series Heritage
    The appearance of Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine makes the second stage of a major publishing project. Based on twenty-five years' research by more than 100 scholars from around the world, the encyclopedia provides the most essential information about Ukraine and its people, history, geography, economy, and cultural heritage.Volume II contains entries beginning with the letters G to K, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Unfree Labor

    American Slavery and Russian Serfdom

    by Peter Kolchin ...
    Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Peter Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time in this ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty: The New York Times's Man in Moscow

    by S.J. Taylor ...
    Short, unattractive, hobbling about Stalin's Moscow on a wooden leg, Walter Duranty was an unlikely candidate for the world's most famous foreign correspondent. Yet for almost twenty years his articles filled the front page of The New York Times with gripping coverage of the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. A witty, engaging, impish character with a flamboyant life-style, he was a Pulitzer ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Red Road from Stalingrad

    Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman

    A Soviet infantryman offers a raw and candid look at life and death on the Eastern Front of WWII in this harrowing military memoir.While the average Soviet infantryman survived the battlefield for mere weeks before being killed or wounded, Mansur Abdulin fought on the front ranks for an entire year—and survived to tell his remarkable story. His extensive service pitted him against the German ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat

    M. N. Pokrovskii and the Society of Marxist Historians

    Mikhail Nikolaevich bridges 19th- and 20th-century Russian culture as well as Leninism and Stalinism, and later became an instrument in Khrushchev's effort at de-Stalinization. Pokrovskii was born in Moscow in 1868. He described the years before 1905 as his time of "democratic illusions and economic materialism." His interest in legal Marxism began in the 1890's but it was only with the Revolution ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Dreams

    Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution

    The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city planning, and the arts. In this study, historian Richard Stites offers a vivid portrayal of revolutionary life and ... Read more

    $88.99 USD

  • The Russian Idea

    Translated by R. M. French ...
    Series series Library of Russian Philosophy
    In this powerful, moving book, first published in 1946, Berdyaev is not so interested in the empirical details of Russian history as he is in "the thought of the Creator about Russia." The "Russian idea" is thus a mystical notion. Religion and philosophy--not economics or politics--determine history and society.Berdyaev begins his story in the nineteenth century, tracing the lineage of such ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Explorations in Political Psychology

    Series series Duke studies in political psychology
    Mapping the territory where political science and psychology intersect, Explorations in Political Psychology offers a broad overview of the the field of political psychology—from itshistorical evolution as an area of inquiry to the rich and eclectic array of theories, concepts, and methods that mark it as an emerging discipline.In introductory essays, editors Shanto Iyengar and William J. McGuire ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Ukraine

    Volume III: L-Pf

    Edited by Danylo Husar Struk ...
    Series series Heritage
    Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Ukraine

    Volume V: St-Z

    Edited by Danylo Husar Struk ...
    Series series Heritage
    Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Ukraine

    Volume IV: Ph-Sr

    Edited by Danylo Husar Struk ...
    Series series Heritage
    Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD