Alexandra: The Last Tsarina
by Carolly Erickson
Listed under The Romanovs
The
Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: Foreign Dominion to Statehood:
The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century
by Richard G. Hovannisian (Editor)
(Hardcover -- August 1997)
Dreamworld
and Catastrophe : The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
by Susan Buck-Morss
(Paperback -- March 7, 2002)
The
Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in
Russia (Magic in History Series)
by W. F. Ryan
Paperback: 512 pages
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0271019670; (September
1999)
Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological
Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
by Ken Alibek, Stephen Handelman (Contributor)
Listed under Germ
Warfare
Black
Earth: A Journey through Russia after the Fall
by Andrew Meier
Book Description: With the power of Lenin's Tomb and Balkan
Ghosts, an illuminating portrait of contemporary Russia.
A decade after the Soviet collapse, Russia remains a country in limbo,
a land of vast potential struggling with an unfinished past. Journeying
to Russia's five corners—Moscow, Chechnya, Norilsk, Sakhalin,
and St. Petersburg—Andrew Meier presents a history of contemporary
Russia. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, Meier explores Russia's unbridled
market and often lethal politics. From Chechnya, where he investigates
the worst single-day massacre of civilians, to Norilsk, the world's northernmost
city, Meier uncovers a common theme: the need to find meaning amid the
Soviet ruins. In the tradition of Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon,
Black Earth is a penetrating view of the new Russia from a bold new voice
in political journalism. 7 maps.
Hardcover from W.W. Norton & Company
Book Published: 02 September, 2003
Black
Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Rebecca West
(Paperback -- April 1995)
Calming
The Ferghana Valley: Development and Dialogue in the Heart of Central Asia
by Barnett R. Rubin, et al
Of all the regions of the former Soviet Union, Central Asia is potentially
one of the most explosive and certainly one of the least understood. It
is also growing rapidly in importance to U.S. national security, commercial,
and foreign policy interests: it has vast oil, gas, gold, and other resources;
it has become a source and transit route for narcotics and possible nuclear
and other materials; and it is affected by the fierce conflicts in Tajikistan
and Afghanistan. Vast in size (larger than Eastern and Western Europe combined),
and with a rapidly growing population of over 50 million people, it is
marked by the persistence of relatively corrupt and authoritarian governments.
This report assesses the potential for conflict in Central Asia through
the prism of one of its most volatile areas, the Ferghana Valley. Spanning
parts of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, the Ferghana Valley is
home to 20 percent of Central Asia's entire population. The region has
recently experienced increasing religious and ethnic tensions--the further
danger being that instability in the valley could spread more widely throughout
Central Asia. The Ferghana Valley project of the Council on Foreign Relations'
Center for Preventive Action (CPA) has produced this report as the fourth
volume in its series of Preventive Action Reports. The Publisher.
(Paperback -- June 1, 2000)
Chechnya:
Tombstone of Russian Power
by Anatol Lieven, Heidi Bradner (Photographer)
A correspondent for the Financial Times, Anatol Lieven spent much time
in Chechnya, the postage-stamp-sized Caucasus republic whose break from
Russia in 1994 precipitated a major war (one that Russia lost). Lieven
looks into the long, troubled history of Russian-Chechen relations, noting
that each side despised the other for largely cultural reasons (the Chechens
have long been involved in organized crime in major Russian cities, whereas
Russians have long tried to strip Chechnya of its resources). He notes
that Chechen society has historically been militarized (one Armenian said
to Lieven, "The men are always fighting and the women are cooking for them,
nursing their wounds, and bringing up their children"), making the mountain
people a formidable foe. In the meanwhile, writes Lieven, the Russian military
suffered from low morale and from corruption of various kinds: Russian
field soldiers sold their guns to Chechen guerrillas for vodka and currency,
while Russian officers stole their soldiers' pay and Russian politicians
skimmed off the top. This is an extraordinary look at a little-known conflict.
--Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Paperback: 436 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.14 x
9.17 x 6.12
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; (May 1999)
ISBN: 0300078811
Catherine the Great: Profiles in Power Series
by Simon Dixon
Listed under Catherine the Great
The
Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia
by Richard Pipes
Book Description: Sergei Degaev (1857–1921), a
political terrorist in tsarist Russia, disappeared after participating
in the assassination of the chief of Russia’s security organization
in 1883. Those who later knew and admired the quietly brilliant Professor
Alexander Pell at the University of South Dakota never guessed this was
actually Degaev, who had triple-crossed friends and associates while entangled
in the revolutionary movement of his homeland. This book is the first in
any language to tell in detail the extraordinary story of one of the world’s
most intriguing revolutionaries, his role in building and betraying the
earliest political terrorist network, and his subsequent conventional academic
career in America. The well-known historian Richard Pipes uses previously
unexplored Russian archives to draw a brilliant psychological, political,
and sociological portrait of Degaev. Pipes pursues his protagonist on a
twisting journey of changing loyalties and fateful collaborations within
the network that provided the model for all modern terrorist organizations.
A cunning conspirator, Degaev went on to reinvent himself in the United
States as a beloved mathematics professor. Either of his lives would be
considered remarkable; that Degaev lived both is nothing short of amazing.
Hardcover from Yale Univ Pr
Book Published: April, 2003 |
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The
End of Empire? : The Transformation of the USSR in Comparative Perspective
(International Politics of Eurasia)
by Karen Dawisha (Editor), Bruce Parrott (Editor)
Special Order
Democratization
and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-91
by Jerry F. Hough
Ecocide
in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege
Forward
Soviet! : History and Non-Fiction Film in the USSR (Kino : The Russian
Cinema Series)
by Graham Roberts
The
Forgotten : Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin Through Stalin
by Christopher Lawrence Zugger
(Hardcover - April 2001)
A Frozen Hell : The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40
by William R. Trotter
Listed under Scandinavia
WWII
The
Great Game : The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
by Peter Hopkirk
(Paperback -- April 1994)
Gulag
: A History
by ANNE
APPLEBAUM
Book Description
The Gulag—the vast array of Soviet concentration camps—was
a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized
inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust.
The Gulag entered the world’s historical consciousness
in 1972, with the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s epic oral history
of the Soviet camps, The Gulag Archipelago. Since the collapse of the Soviet
Union, dozens of memoirs and new studies covering aspects of that system
have been published in Russia and the West. Using these new resources as
well as her own original historical research, Anne Applebaum has now undertaken,
for the first time, a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system,
from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of
glasnost. It is an epic feat of investigation and moral reckoning that
places the Gulag where it belongs: at the center of our understanding of
the troubled history of the twentieth century.
Anne Applebaum first lays out the chronological history
of the camps and the logic behind their creation, enlargement, and maintenance.
The Gulag was first put in place in 1918 after the Russian Revolution.
In 1929, Stalin personally decided to expand the camp system, both to use
forced labor to accelerate Soviet industrialization and to exploit the
natural resources of the country’s barely habitable far northern regions.
By the end of the 1930s, labor camps could be found in all twelve of the
Soviet Union’s time zones. The system continued to expand throughout the
war years, reaching its height only in the early 1950s. From 1929 until
the death of Stalin in 1953, some 18 million people passed through this
massive system. Of these 18 million, it is estimated that 4.5 million never
returned.
But the Gulag was not just an economic institution. It
also became, over time, a country within a country, almost a separate civilization,
with its own laws, customs, literature, folklore, slang, and morality.
Topic by topic, Anne Applebaum also examines how life was lived within
this shadow country: how prisoners worked, how they ate, where they lived,
how they died, how they survived. She examines their guards and their jailers,
the horrors of transportation in empty cattle cars, the strange nature
of Soviet arrests and trials, the impact of World War II, the relations
between different national and religious groups, and the escapes, as well
as the extraordinary rebellions that took place in the 1950s. She concludes
by examining the disturbing question why the Gulag has remained relatively
obscure, in the historical memory of both the former Soviet Union and the
West.
Gulag: A History will immediately be recognized as a
landmark work of historical scholarship and an indelible contribution to
the complex, ongoing, necessary quest for truth.
Paperback from Anchor
Book Published: 09 April, 2004 |
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The
Gulag Archipelago Vol. I
by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn.
Translated by Thomas P. Whitney
(Paperback -- May 1997)
A
History of Russia: Medieval, Modern, Contemporary C. 882-1996
by Paul Dukes
(Paperback - January 1998)
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia : Inner Eurasia from
Prehistory to the Mongol Empire
by David Christian
Listed under Asian History
The Icon and the Axe : An Interpretive History of Russian Culture
by James H. Billington
Listed under Russian Art
In
Siberia
by Colin Thubron
In Siberia explores a region of astonishments, where "white cranes
dance on the permafrost, where a great city floats lost among the ice floes,
where mammoths sleep under glaciers." Colin Thubron's latest chronicle
also delivers its subject from rumor into reality. An expanse larger than
the entire United States, Siberia is undoubtedly a country of contrasts,
which elicits from the author both awe and melancholy. Here on one hand
is a northern wilderness "shattered into a jigsaw of ponds and streams,"
and on the other a "black detritus of factories and ruins." No less memorable
than the landscape are the people that Thubron encounters. He gathers their
stories like rough jewels, showing us a self-proclaimed descendant of Rasputin,
an isolated Jewish community, and a parade of "indestructible babushkas."
Woven among the often bitter and eroding memories of a Siberian past
is a sense of new freedom. After all, this is the first time in Russia's
history when foreigners can travel freely throughout the region--and its
inhabitants can comment openly about their government without fear of reprisal.
Thubron coaxes an institute official at the Akademgorodok Praesidium to
speak his mind:
His face was heavy with anger. "We have one overriding problem
here. Money. We receive no money for new equipment, hardly enough for our
salaries. There are people who haven't been paid for six months." Then
his anger overflowed. He was barking like a drill sergeant. "This year
we requested funds for six or seven different programmes! And not one has
been accepted by the government! Not one!"
Thubron's portrait is as elegant as it is evocative. But just as notably,
his journey to the east manages to break the long and destructive Siberian
silence. --Byron Ricks - Amazon.com
Paperback: 304 pages
Harper Perennial; ISBN: 006095373X; (December 26, 2000) |
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In
the Russian Style
by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Editor), Audrey
Kennett (Introduction), Bryan Holme (Designer)
Hardcover: 184 pages
Fine Communications; ISBN: 156731256X; (May 1998)
Man
Is Wolf To Man: Surviving the Gulag
by Janusz Bardach
In 1941, accidentally rolling a Soviet tank while fording a river was
considered a death offense by the Red Army. Unfortunately for young Janusz
Bardach, he committed just such an error; lucky for him that an old acquaintance
from his hometown in Poland had enough rank and influence to commute the
court-martial penalty from death to 10 years hard labor in Siberia. For
the next four years, Bardach endured hellish conditions in various labor
camps - first a logging camp, then a gold mine in the frozen north. Frigid
temperatures, inadequate food and clothing combined with physical and spiritual
malaise to bring prisoners first to the edge of despair and then to the
brink of suicide. Bardach survived by turning his mind off, by refusing
to remember happier times or to anticipate the future. He became, simply,
a beast of burden, shuffling through the hours of his slavery until he
could fall into the brief oblivion of sleep.
Ironically, it was a near brush with death that proved to be Bardach's
salvation. After surviving an explosion, he was sent to a prison hospital
where he managed to talk his way into a job as a medical assistant. There
he gained both a new lease on life and a future profession. Released from
his sentence early, in 1945, Bardach went on to become a surgeon. His memoir,
"Man Is Wolf to Man", is more than just an account of his sufferings in
a Russian labor camp it is also a meditation on the will to survive in
the face of hopelessness, the occasional kindnesses of strangers in unexpected
places, and above all, the struggle to remain human under the most inhumane
conditions. Amazon.com
Paperback: 397 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.12 x
9.03 x 6.08
Publisher: University of California Press; (October 1999)
ISBN: 0520221524
Masters of Death : The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the
Holocaust
by Richard Rhodes
Listed under Nazi
SS
The Russia Hand : A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
by Strobe Talbott
Listed under Bill Clinton
K-19: The Widowmaker: The Secret Story of the Soviet Nuclear Submarine
by Peter A. Huchthausen
Listed under Submarines
Armageddon
Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
by Stephen Kotkin
(Hardcover -- October 2001)
The
Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the
KGB
by Christopher Andrew, et al
(Paperback -- September 5, 2000)
We
Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
by John Lewis Gaddis
(Paperback -- July 1998)
Panzers on the Eastern Front : General Erhard Raus and His Panzer
Divisions in Russia, 1941-1945
by Peter G. Tsouras (Editor)
Listed under Panzers
Nicholas and Alexandra
by Robert K. Massie
Listed under The Romanovs
The Road to Berlin: Stalin's War With Germany
by John Erickson
Listed under Eastern
Front WWII
A
Russian Journal (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by John Steinbeck, Robert
Capa (Photographer)
Postwar Russia, 1948 - an illuminating view of the aftermath of war
and the recovery of the Russian people by two of America's greatest journalists.
Db.
(Paperback - December 1999)
The
Russian Avant Garde Book, 1910-1934
by Deborah Wye, Margit Rowell
(Hardcover -- March 2002)
Sakharov
: A Biography
by Richard Lourie
Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner
(Hardcover -- March 2002)
Stalin : The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents
from Russia's Secret Archives
by Edvard Radzinsky
Listed under Stalin
Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces
by P. L. Podvig (Editor)
Listed under Nuclear
Weapons
Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicholas II
by John Van Der Kiste, Coryne Hall
Listed under The Romanovs
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Inner Eurasia from
Prehistory to the Mongol Empire (History of the World , Vol 1)
by David Christian
Paperback: 464 pages
Blackwell Publishers; ISBN: 0631208143; (January 1999)
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Survivors:
An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide
by Lorna Touryan Miller, Donald Eugene Miller
(Paperback -- February 1999)
Estonia:
Return to Independence (Westview Series on the Post-Soviet Republics)
by Rein Taagepera (Preface)
(Paperback -- December 1993)
Antler
on the Sea: The Yup'Ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East
by Anna M. Kerttula
(Paperback -- November 2000)
Nation-Building
in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities
by Graham Smith (Editor), et al
Book Description: The emergence in 1991 of the fourteen borderland
post-Soviet states has been accompanied by the reforging of their national
identities. Such attempts to rethink or reimagine the nation have had a
major impact in reshaping the political, cultural and social lives of both
national and ethnic minority groups alike. This book analyzes these national
identities and explores their consequences for the borderland states, with
substantive studies drawn from the Baltic states, Ukraine and Belarus,
Transcaucasia and Central Asia.
Paperback: 308 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x
8.89 x 5.92
Book Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (November
1998)
ISBN: 0521599687
Ukraine:
A History
by Orest Subtelny, Orest Subteiny
(Paperback -- December 2000)
The Rasputin File
by Edvard Radzinsky
Listed under Rasputin
Stalin's
Loyal Executioner : People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940
by Marc Jansen, Nikita Petrov
(Paperback -- April 5, 2002)
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943
by Antony Beevor
Listed under Eastern
Front WWII
Ivan the Terrible
by Henri Troyat, et al
Listed under Ivan the Terrible
The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Studies in Russian
and East European History and Society)
by Maureen Perrie
Listed under Ivan the Terrible
A
History of Russia
by Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky
(Hardcover - October 1999)
1812:
Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
by Paul Britten Austin
(Paperback - August 2000)
Witness
: To Apparitions and Persecution in the USSR : An Autobiography
The
USSR Olympiad Problem Book : Selected Problems and Theorems of Elementary
Mathematics
Soviet Uniforms and Militaria 1917-1991 : Ministry of Defence of
the USSR : Red Army, Navy, Naval Infantry, Air Force & Paratroopers
by Laszlo Bekeski
Listed under Military
Uniforms
The
Soviet Experiment : Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States
by Ronald Grigor Suny
Propaganda
and Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US
by Leah Bendavid-Val (Editor), Philip Brookman
Stakhanovism
and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (Soviet and East
European Studies)
by Lewis H. Siegelbaum (Author)
Russia
and the USSR 1905-1991 (Cambridge History Programme)
by Philip Ingram (Author)
Book Description:
This text covers the history of the USSR from the 1905 revolution through
the Khrushchev years to 1997. Particular attention is paid to the collapse
of the tsarist regime, the revolutions of 1917, civil war and the New Economic
Policy, and the influence of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin on Soviet history.
The questions and activities are suitable for students of varying abilities
and a range of written and visual sources encourage student involvement.
Paperback: 63 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.17 x 10.82 x 8.57
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (July 1997)
ISBN: 0521568676
After
the USSR : Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of
Independent States
Steeltown,
USSR : Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era
The
Soviet Home Front, 1941-1945 : A Social and Economic History of the USSR
in World War II
The
Soviet Experiment : Russia, the Ussr, and the Successor States
Jews in Eastern Poland and the Ussr, 1939-46
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: From an Original Idea by Karl Marx
Vascular
Plants of Russia and Adjacent States (The Former Ussr)
Warships of the USSR and Russia 1945-1995
by A. S. Pavlov et al.
Listed under Navies
Sovietology,
Rationality, Nationality : Coming to Grips With Nationalism in the USSR
The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima
by Constantin Pleshakov, et al
Listed under The
Russo-Japanese War
War,
Holocaust and Stalinism : A Documented Study of the Jewish Anti-Facist
Committee in the USSR (New History of Russia, Vol 1)
by Shimon Redlich, K. M. Anderson, I. Altman
War
and Peace (Modern Library)
by Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett (Translator)
(Hardcover - June 1994)
On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers
by Kate Marsden
Introduction by Eric Newby
Book Description: While serving as a nurse in Bulgaria, Kate
Marsden saw firsthand the horrors of leprosy--and determined to journey
to the leper colonies of Yakutsk, 2,000 miles across the Siberian wastes.
Armed with the patronage of both Queen Victoria and the Russian Czarina,
she strode forth. With passion and wit, this extraordinary Victorian lady
recounts the amazing story of her search for the lepers and for an elusive
remedial herb. Illustrated with contemporary drawings. 22 b/w illus.,
Paperback: 256 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.85 x
8.48 x 5.50
Publisher: Phoenix Press, London WC2; (October 2001)
ISBN: 1842123971
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