Products tagged with Russian History

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

Catherine the Great modernized Russia through the ardent promotion of art and culture, founding the Hermitage and expanding both social and geographic borders.

Offering a close examination of these two-thousand-year-old occult practices, Helvin also includes Slavic folk advice adapted for the modern era.

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.

The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia’s history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it.

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. 

A vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine from celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein.

An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution by John Reed, American journalist and revolutionary writer.

Volume 3 of Solzhenitsyn's three-part masterpiece: his moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years.

Volume 1 of Solzhenitsyn's three-part masterpiece: a chilling and detailed report of the historical events precipitating his own arrest.

Volume 2 of Solzhenitsyn's three-part masterpiece: the story of his entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade.

The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history -- Catherine the Great.