Author: A. Litvin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403913897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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In this fascinating book Alter Litvin tells us what life was really like for professional Soviet historians from Lenin to Gorbachev, and assesses the efforts made since 1991 to create a more truthful picture of the turbulent Russian past. Passionate yet fair-minded, this is the first account of the subject to appear in English. Designed primarily for the general reader, it contains much fresh material of specialist interest and an ample up-to-date bibliography.
Author: Robert Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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A professor of Russian history offers a fresh and lively survey of the Soviet experience, from the rise of communism in 1917 to the aftermath of its collapse in 1991. 5 maps. 7 cartoons.
Author: Robert Service
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140174823
Category : Russia (Federation)
Languages : en
Pages : 653
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Author: Robert Service
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141944269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 571
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A comprehensive overview of twentieth-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to 2000 as a single period and analyses the peculiar mixture of political, economic and social ingredients that made up the Soviet compound. It takes the reader from the age of communist rule to the changes that occurred in 1991 and the more uncertain world of Yeltsin and Putin.
Author: T. S. Aleshina
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991604
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Author: Paul Dukes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000805786
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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World Order in History (1996) argues that historians’ ideas about world order have been influential in transforming nations’ sense of themselves, and it pursues these arguments with particular reference to Russia and the Soviet Union and the Western world.
Author: Boris F. Martyn
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527545040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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This second volume, focusing on 1945-1991, unpacks the reasons for the Cold War and takes the reader through its ebbs, flows and unexpected end. How did the allies of World War II become enemies? The authors argue that the Cold War controversy could have been avoided, or at least mitigated, had the sides been guided by healthy pragmatism instead of ideology and megalomania. Contradictory relations between the superpowers, regional wars and conflicts, and the scramble to escape a nuclear Holocaust—all of this reads sometimes as a good detective story. Perestroika and Glasnost, useful as they might be, came too late to radically improve the poisonous atmosphere of enmity in East-West relations. The end of the Cold War did not mean the end of rivalry. Good will in this case did not guarantee good outcomes. As civilizational, cultural, personal and religious contradictions begin to replace economic and social divides, we need to be fully aware of our past if we are to do our best to resolve these issues.
Author: Emily D. Johnson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271028726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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"Johnson traces the history of kraevedenie, showing how St. Petersburg-based scholars and institutions have played a central role in the evolution of the discipline. Distinguished from obvious Western equivalents such as cultural geography and the German Heimatkunde by both its dramatic history and unique social significance, kraevedenie has, for close to a hundred years, served as a key forum for expressing concepts of regional and national identity within Russian culture."--Jacket.
Author: Alastair Kocho-Williams
Publisher: Routledge Readers in History
ISBN: 9780415583091
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The twentieth century was, for Russia, one of the most challenging in its history. The country experienced war, revolution and systemic collapse, all of which brought serious challenges. Only by examining the whole century can modern Russia be properly understood and key questions as to the impact of war, revolution, collapse, the Cold War and Russia's post-Soviet development be addressed. This book contains key articles on history and politics from across the period; from the last Tsar, the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union and the Second World War, right up to the post-Soviet period.
Author: Choi Chatterjee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315621845
Category : Russia (Federation)
Languages : en
Pages :
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