Russia

Acclaimed historian Gellately focuses on the dominant political leaders who enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945, and analyzes their catastrophic impact in global terms in this important addition to the understanding of modern history.This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great soc... More

It is a book produced by a remarkable cultural circumstance in the former Soviet Union which fostered the creation of groups of students, teachers, and mathematicians called “Mathematical Circles”. The work is predicated on the idea that studying mathematics can generate the same enthusiasm as p... More

Discover Eastern Europe Make like 'King' Wenceslas and look out from Prague Castle then ponder your own metamorphasis at the Franz Kafka Museum.Go gently on the world's longest-and slowest-trolleybus route from Simferopol to Yalta.Get naked, hot, sweaty, and whipped with birch twigs with the locals ... More

The star of the film "Kandahar creates a moving memoir of life, childhood and friendship as her world collapses around her Nelofer Pazira was born into a privileged family living in Kabul. When she was six, the Russians invaded Afghanistan and her childhood ended. Her father, a respected doctor, was... More

Russian military capacity remains a major consideration for global security even in the post-Soviet era. This book assesses today's Russian military and analyzes its possible future direction. The contributors -- experts on the subject from both Russia and the West -- consider not only how Russia ha... More

In this first biography of Alexander Griboyedov in English, Laurence Kelly paints a vivid picture of a man of remarkable literary talent and diplomatic gifts that were nevertheless overshadowed by ill-fortune. Involved in the 1825 Decembrist plot to overthrow the Tsarist state and the mission to fur... More

From Karl Marx to the Marx brothers, this volume presents a complete reference guide to more than one thousand prominent men and women who have shaped Jewish culture over the past twenty centuries.... More

From Manhattan to Moscow, this personal story of love and espionage takes you on a mesmerizing journey through the turbulent years of the early twentieth century. Advanced Praise for Russian Dance "It is a rare occasion to have an opportunity-as painful as it is-to look into the USSR's tragic past v... More

This book is an up-to-date analysis of the Russian Revolution, its origins and its consequences. Robert Service has gathered together a mass of information from both Western and Russian sources and condensed it in an easily accessible fashion. For this third edition, he has added a brief survey of t... More

What did it mean to be resonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus," in Laplace's words. In terms that can be easily grasp... More

Uzbekistan is a country of contradictions. Where legality meets torture and Islam meets a secular state, Uzbekistan is torn between its historical roots, Soviet rule, and modern consumerism. As a vital ally in the 'War on Terror', yet retaining a deeply troubling record on human rights, even the Wes... More

In 1945 Slovenia, 6,000 civilians and 12,000 members of the anti-Communist Home Guard, the "domobranci," fearing punishment for their wartime resistance to their Partisan enemies, fled to southern Austria. But there, the British 8th Army loaded them into trucks, purportedly to take them to Italy, on... More