Products tagged with History

A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made—and resisted—Russia’s many empires.

This book presents the results of in-depth research and extensive travels in former Soviet space. Its prime focus is the impact of space exploration on everyday life in its pioneering age between the late 1950s and the 1980s.

From Sputnik to Gorbachev: an intricately detailed graphic exploration of Russian history that only you can complete

Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country has ski resorts and mineral springs, monuments and an oil pipeline. It also has one of the longest and most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world.

First published in 1963, this unique and pioneering anthology contains over sixty selections from the finest of Russia’s medieval authors, much of the material published in this anthology has never before been available in English. 

From the Mongol hordes of the 13th century, the autocratic fists of successive tsars, to the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia's re-emergence as a superpower.

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union

Solomon Volkov, a Russian emigre and acclaimed cultural historian, has written the definitive cultural biography of St. Petersburg and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy.

The definitive story of a game so great, even the Cold War couldn't stop it

The first history of the epic defeat of Napoleon's empire told from the Russian perspective.

The Romanovs ruled a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?

Nearly thirty years after the fall of the USSR, the word "Soviet" should be meaningless. Strangely, though, it endures, former Soviet environs define themselves for or against it. Does that experience mean anything today? This book attempts to find out.