Products tagged with History

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?

In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world’s first workers’ state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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