Products tagged with History

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

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.

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

Looking to the future of the region, Conquering the North canvasses the still fractious interplay of two rival cultures and the continuing struggle for Mongolian sovereignty as China continues to edge north.

“Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expert.

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

In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs.

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.

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.

An original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams.

Revolution 1989 is an authoritative account, by journalist Victor Sebestyen, of the few months, and the few ordinary people, that brought down the Soviet Union, and changed the world forever.