Publisher: Tempus Publishing Ltd
Presented here for the first time in any language are some 800 detailed biographies of the senior Russian officers who commanded troops in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This study spans the critical years of 1792 to 1815, but also includes those officers whose service fell before and after this period.The Russian […]
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Publisher: Tempus Publishing Ltd
In early October 1942 the German Sixth Army realized that it had one last chance to crush Soviet resistance in the strategically important city of Stalingrad before exhaustion and the harsh Russian winter set in. Stalingrad: The Vital 7 Days looks in detail at this last-gasp attempt by the Wehrmacht to win […]
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Drawing on Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, this work analyzes peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village.
Available at Blackwell Books. Click here for details
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Publisher: NPI Media Group
St Petersburg was commanded into existence by Peter the Great, and its inherent artifice has made it one of the world's most storied cities. This award-winning narrative history chronicles what is perhaps the greatest story of any modern city anywhere, from its foundation in a swampy war zone in 1703 to its […]
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Publisher: Alpine Fine Arts Collection (UK)
The Tragic Dynasty
Available at Blackwell Books. Click here for details
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Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
This is an illumination of one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective - that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov examines the evolution of the war in Chechnya that erupted in 1994, untangling the myths and the long-held resentments that have fuelled the […]
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