Engelstalige boeken / English language books

What were the causes, characteristics, and effects of the great flood of migration over the Ural Mountains into Siberia in the late 19th and 20th centuries? The author studies the background conditions fostering the migration and…

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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In this major reassessment of Russian labor history, Charters Wynn shows that in Imperial Russia's primary steel and mining region the same class that posed a powerful challenge to the tsarist government also undermined the…

Tapestries, Tapisserien, Tapisseries. 3-talig boek met prachtige kleuren afbeeldingen.

Auteur : Jacob Baal-Teshuva
Artikelnummer : BF3793
Categorie : Kunst en schilderkunst / Engels- / Duits- / Franstalige boeken
Taal : Engels /…

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…

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…

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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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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Russian's North Asian colony 1581-1990.

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Auteur : James Forsyth
Artikelnummer : BF4874
Categorie : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
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This book focuses on a particular cultural domain, surveying the historical origins of Russian beliefs and behaviors, and exploring their Soviet and post-Soviet permutations. It raises provocative questions about the social,…

An examination of political, social and cultural developments in the Soviet Union. The book identifies the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in the government of Russia, from the turn of the…

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Auteur : Alter L. Litwin
Artikelnummer : BF8976
Categorie : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 9780333764879
Uitgever : Palgrave
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The inside story of the Collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Auteur : Andrei S. Grachev
Artikelnummer : BF8972
Categorie : Geschiedenis / politiek / Engelstalige…