An introduction to the geography, history, and culture of the Soviet Union.
Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state.
In this second edition, he also examines the post-Soviet period, tracing Russia's development up to the time of publication.
This is the third in a series of volumes detailing the history of Soviet foreign policy from the Great Depression to the Great Patriotic War.
From the capricious reign of Catherine the Great and Alexander I to the provocative leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the author concentrates on the interplay between interests and ideologies in the relationship between the United States and ...
Acton, Edward, Vladimir Cherniaev, and William Rosenberg. Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914–1921 (London: Arnold, ... A Social and Economic History (London: Pearson Longman, 2005). Gatrell, Peter. A Whole Empire Walking.
This book examines how the history, geography, and culture of the region impacted the formation and dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century. Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable.
Stalin's Russian Winter War against Finland, and his World War II campaigns on Nazi Germany's eastern front (around Kiev, Lenningrad, Moscow, Kharkov, Stalingrad, Kursk, Byelorussia, the Balkans, East Prussia, Warsaw, Hungary, and Berlin) ...
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union examines the strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions of the first Marxist state, and reassesses the role of power, authority and legitimacy in Soviet politics.
A prize-winning historian describes the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, dispelling the myth that the event was spurred on in part by the close relationship between George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. 20,000 first printing.