Russia and the Russians: A History, Paperback

Reducere. This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. ...

`It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.' Philip Marsden...

Reducere. Swimming the Volga is a personal eyewitness account of day-to-day life in a provincial Russian city during a remarkable period in world history jus...

DescriptionThis detailed study explains and illustrates the Russian, Scandinavian, Polish, and German armies of the crucial series of wars that saw...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not "occupied" but "liberated." This, until the recent collapse of the Soviet...

DescriptionThe battle of Borodino was one of the greatest encounters in European history, and one of the largest and most sanguinary in the Napoleo...

DescriptionUsing specially commissioned artwork, this is the engrossing story of the victory at Kulikovo in 1380 that heralded the birth of Russian...

Reducere. Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt a...

Reducere. This definitive work, a crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia Black, presents a comprehensive story of the Russi...

DescriptionAfter the initial successes of Operation Barbarossa, at the end of September 1941 Hitler turned his focus to Moscow, with the unshakable...

Reducere. For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural pr...

Reducere. This book gives a radically new reading of Russia's cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories ...

Part of the acclaimed "Special Campaign" series of works intended for serious professional students of military history, each volume is intersperse...

Reducere. This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and ...

Reducere. At the stirring center of the story lie the resourcefulness and resolve of the Finnish people, who against all military odds--in want of ammunition...

Reducere. During the First World War, a large group of German settlers in Volhynia and surrounding areas of western Russia became early victims of the 20th c...

DescriptionImperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the sig...

In April 1945, the Allies are charging toward Berlin from the west, the Russians from the east. For Hitler, the situation is hopeless. But at this ...

Reducere. It was billed as the greatest event in the history of pair skating: three of the best teams of all time battling for Olympic gold on one night in S...