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The Russian Empire and Its Rivals

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book,…

Two men loom large in the waning days of the Russian empire: Lenin and Nicholas II--the former by force of his personality and ideas, the latter by virtue of his inherited dominion over one-sixth of the earth. Yet, although the…

This is the first comprehensive modern study of Paul I, son of Catherine the Great and Tsar of Russia 1796-1801. Considered by some to have been a cruel despot verging on the insane, Paul has been seen by others as a progressive…

Providing a theoretical paradigm for understanding the relationship of history and literature in Russia, this book traces how major Russian writers of the past 200 years defined the nation's past through creating fictional and…

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Auteur : Alexander Chubarov
Artikelnummer : BF8991
Categorie : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 9780826411884
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From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the history and destiny of Russia have unfolded. In a…

This portrait of the last Tsar tells the story of the family man, the father of the haemophiliac heir, the protector of Rasputin, and the victim of the infamous murder at Ekaterinburg in 1918. It also considers Nicholas as…

Drawn from traditional sources, this history explores the life, history and culture of the gypsies, or Roma, from their arrival in the Eastern European region in the Middle Ages until the present. Their past reflects the diverse…

The area from the Balkans to the Caucasus is often seen as a zone of timeless conflict, a frontier region at the meeting place of mutually antagonistic civilizations. But in this pathbreaking work, Charles King investigates the…

This epic of adventure, heroism, discovery, exploitation, and almost unimaginable cruelty is perhaps unrivaled in human history. It is a sweeping account of the conquest of a formidable landmass millions of square miles bigger…

Wedged between China, Korea, Japan, and the United States, the Russian Far East has for centuries been a meeting ground for Eurasian and American peoples and cultures. Conventionally regarded as a perimeter, it is in fact a…

For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove…

This book looks at the past and present condition of Russian nationalism. Several chapters also highlight the various long-standing inhibitions to the emergence of a consolidated civic nationalism in a Russian Federation which…

The Riga German Community: Social Change and the Nationality Question, 1855-1905.

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Auteur : Anders Henriksson
Artikelnummer : BF8980
Categorie : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
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Entstehung. Geschichte. Zerfall.

Die Geschichte des russischen Reiches wird oft als russische Nationalgeschichte mißverstanden. Erst der Zerfall des sowjetischen Imperiums hat einer breiten Öffentlichkeit bewußt gemacht, daß…

An in-depth account of the life, reign, and final days of the last Russian tsar draws on Nicholas II's personal diaries, firsthand accounts of the murder of the royal family, and other sources.

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Since glasnost began, Russia's most eminent historians have taken advantage of new archival access and the end of censorship and conformity to reassess and reinterpret their history. Through this process they are linking up with…

Founded in 1794 as a frontier city on the Black Sea, Odessa soon grew to be one of Russia's busiest seaports. This history of Jewish Odessa traces the rise of that community from its foundation in 1794 to the pogroms of 1881 that…

This is a comprehensive and topical history of the Jews in the Soviet Union and is based on firsthand documentary evidence and the application of a pioneering research method into the fate of national minorities. Within a…

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Auteur : Benjamin Nathans
Artikelnummer : BF4876
Categorie : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 9780520242326
Uitgever : University of California…

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Auteur : David Kirby
Artikelnummer : BF4875
Categorie : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 9780582004092
Uitgever : Longman
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