Products tagged with History

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.

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

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 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.

An unforgettable journey through Central Asia -- one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world.

“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.

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.