Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union, Hardback - Bayram Balci

A tour d'horizon of the role Islam plays in politics and the private sphere in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demisePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor...

Reducere. Over hundreds of years, various ethnic groups have passed through Samarkand, sharing and influencing each other's cuisine and leaving their culinar...

Over hundreds of years, various ethnic groups have passed through Samarkand, sharing and influencing each other's cuisine and leaving their culinar...

Four books - Landscapes, Still Lifes, Nudes and Portraits - are opening a new series called Art of the Soviet Union. This set will examine differen...

Four books - Landscapes, Still Lifes, Nudes and Portraits - are opening a new series called Art of the Soviet Union. This set will examine differen...

Publisher: Old Street PublishingAuthor(s): Sheila FitzpatrickPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 225 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmec...

The Military History of the Soviet Union and The Military History of Tsarist Russia treat Russian military history from the rise of the Muscovite s...

DescriptionFinancial inclusion and financial education are becoming increasingly recognized as key requirements for sustainable and inclusive growt...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

The book covers the author's time reporting from the former Soviet Union not long after the fall of communism.

Reducere. This book outlines and summarizes the early years of the experience of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. "Short course" is an essential tool...

Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Ce...

Contributor(s): Author: Scott C. LeviThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth an...

Presenting a series of biographical portraits, this book forms a reign-by-reign record of the sultans, shahs, emperors and khans who all shared the...

DescriptionGet the perfect gift for Dad this Father's Day: President Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by th...

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Money did not become obsolete under Communism. The ruble remained a key feature of Soviet life. After World War II, money became an essential tool ...

Reducere. Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world. At the start of 1989, six European nations wer...

CONTENTS The Struggle for the Creation of a Social-Democratic Labour Party in Russia (1883 - 1901) Formation of the Russian Social-Democratic Labou...

Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half ...

In this two-volume work, published in 1912, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) describes his second expedition to the de...

A German soldier's graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army's offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944. Dra...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Jonathan ClementsIllustration(s): over 75 color and b&w photographs and mapsNumber of pages: 320Publication ...

"...that rare thing, a piece of careful scholarship that is also superby entertaining...Starr, who is president of Oberlin College and has been ass...

Paths out of the Apocalypse fundamentally rethinks some key debates in the scholarship on early 20th-century Central Europe, the First World War, v...

Between 1940 and 1946, about 200, 000 Polish Jewish refugees lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard labor, bitter cold, a...

Reducere. Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy. It is not unusual fo...

Douglas Smith's The Russian Job tells the captivating story of how American volunteers saved millions of people from starvation in Bolshevik Russia.

Samizdat, the production and circulation of texts outside official channels, was an integral part of life in the final decades of the Soviet Union....

Reducere. The Religion of Islam is based upon Five Primary Foundations or Pillars. Just as a building or a bridge would lack stability without strong pillars...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...