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  • An Improper Profession

    Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia

    by Christine Ruane, Miranda Beaven Remnek ...
    Journalism has long been a major factor in defining the opinions of Russia’s literate classes. Although women participated in nearly every aspect of the journalistic process during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female editors, publishers, and writers have been consistently omitted from the history of journalism in Imperial Russia. An Improper Profession offers a more complete and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Red Notice

    A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

    by Bill Browder ...
    Freezing Order, the follow-up to Red Notice, is available now! “[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar’s Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browder’s business saga meshes well with the story of corruption and murder in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, making Red Notice an early ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Fragile Empire

    How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin

    by Ben Judah ...
    "A beautifully written and very lively study of Russia that argues that the political order created by Vladimir Putin is stagnating" ( Financial Times).From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has traveled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia in Revolution

    An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

    by S. A. Smith ...
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Historian S. A. Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Race

    The Complete True Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon

    by James Schefter ...
    "Indispensable to anyone interested in the space race."--Houston ChronicleIn 1963, a young reporter for Time-Life named James Schefter was given a dream job: cover America's race to the moon. Since the astronauts were under contract to Life for their stories, Schefter was given complete access to the biggest players at NASA. But at the time, his primary role was to excite the public about the new, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime

    by Richard Pipes ...
    From the accliamed authority on Russia and the Russian Revolution—the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924"Offers a penetrating analysis of the making of the Soviet system.... [It is] a passionate book whose outstanding scholarship is rooted in universal values like truth, honor, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Circassian Genocide

    by Walter Richmond ...
    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    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 from their homeland and deported them to the Ottoman Empire. At least 600,000 people lost their lives to massacre, starvation, and the elements while hundreds of thousands more were forced to leave their ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Children of Rus'

    Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation

    by Faith Hillis ...
    Well written and chock full of insights into the politics of late Imperial Russia Children of Rus' is a model of meticulous scholarship and perceptive analysis and should be essential reading for anyone interested in learning about the complexities of Russian and Ukrainian identities. — Robert Weinberg ― Journal of Modern HistoryExploring why and how the empire’s southwestern borderlands produced ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Tiny Revolutions in Russia

    Twentieth Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes and Jokes

    by Bruce Adams ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
    This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the 20th century. Anecdotes and jokes were a hidden form of discursive communication in the Soviet era, lampooning official practices and acting as a confidential form of self-affirmation. They were not necessarily anti-Soviet, by their very nature both criticising existing reality and acting as a form of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Between Truth and Time

    A History of Soviet Central Television

    by Christine Elaine Evans ...
    Series series Eurasia Past and Present
    In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic. Tracing the emergence of play, conflict, and competition on Soviet news programs, serial films, and variety and game shows, Evans shows that Soviet Central ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 1

    Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond

    Edited by William deJong-Lambert, Nikolai Krementsov ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume covers the global history of the Lysenko controversy, while exploring in greater depth the background of D. Lysenko’s career and influence in the USSR. By presenting the rise and fall of T.D. Lysenko in a variety of aspects—his influence upon art, unrecognized predecessors, and the extent to which genetics continued in the USSR even while he was in power, and the revival of his ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Russia, NATO and Cooperative Security

    Bridging the Gap

    by Lionel Ponsard ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book explores mutual common ground between Russia and NATO and the potential to move beyond cultural differences, particularly in political culture.Lionel Ponsard clearly demonstrates how cooperative security could serve as a means to bridge the gap between two supposedly antagonistic entities: NATO and Russia. He skilfully shows that by building confidence between the two parties about each ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD