(Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: Duff Hart-Davis
ISBN: 9781910723326
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books
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The only history of Ascension Island, one of the strangest places on earth. 800 miles from its nearest neighbour, uninhabited until the British claimed it in 1815, and now of key military and space-watch importance, it is also a marine reserve and a land of giant turtles, tropical forests, bleak mountains of lava and huge seabird colonies.
(Paperback)
By: Rebecca Priestley
ISBN: 9781927249055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Awa Press
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(Paperback)
By: Tom Parfitt
ISBN: 9781472294807
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about how British journalist Tom Parfitt walked a thousand miles across Russia's Caucasus mountains to lay to rest a ghost after witnessing the carnage of the Beslan school siege in 2004.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Norman Stone
ISBN: 9781788160513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2019
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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In this robust overview of Hungarian history, award-winning historian professor Norman Stone tells the story of the nation's struggle for self-determination and survival.
(Paperback)
By: Roland Huntford
ISBN: 9781441126672
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. December 2011 marks the centenary of the conclusion to the last great race of terrestrial discovery. This title presents each man's full account of the race to the South Pole in their own words.
(Paperback)
By: Andrei Soldatov
ISBN: 9781541730175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th December 2022
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country---be it antagonistic or far too chummy.
(Hardback)
By: Sandy Winterbottom
ISBN: 9781778400902
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Greystone Books,Canada
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(Paperback)
By: Sandy Winterbottom
ISBN: 9781778401732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Greystone Books,Canada
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(Hardback, Large Print Edition)
By: Orlando Figes
ISBN: 9798885786874
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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(Paperback, Large Print Edition)
By: Shona Riddell
ISBN: 9781525285370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Read How You Want
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(Paperback, Second Edition)
By: Kees Boterbloem
ISBN: 9781538104408
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This concise text provides an introduction to Russian and Soviet history from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 to Putins current term. Through a clear chronological narrative, Boterbloem traces the political, military, economic, social, religious, and cultural developments that led Russia from an exotic backwater to superpower stature.
(Hardback, Second Edition)
By: Kees Boterbloem
ISBN: 9781538104392
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This concise text provides an introduction to Russian and Soviet history from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 to Putins current term. Through a clear chronological narrative, Boterbloem traces the political, military, economic, social, religious, and cultural developments that led Russia from an exotic backwater to superpower stature.
(Paperback)
By: Tim McDaniel
ISBN: 9780691608341
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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What did the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Iranian revolution of 1978-1979 share besides their drama How can we compare a revolution led by Lenin with one inspired by Khomeini How is a revolution based primarily on the urban working class similar to one founded to a significant degree on traditional groups like the bazaaris, small craftsmen,
(Hardback)
By: Tim McDaniel
ISBN: 9780691636818
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Will Fowler
ISBN: 9780850454826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1982
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Adrian English
ISBN: 9780850454925
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1982
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Roy Braybrook
ISBN: 9780850454932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1982
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Professor Jonathan Daly
ISBN: 9781474224352
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Jonathan Daly
ISBN: 9781474224369
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Juliane Frst
ISBN: 9781498525169
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines alternative subcultures in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the era of late socialism. The contributors analyze how these marginal communities rejected mainstream socialist culture, sought ideological and physical space from the state, and contributed to the demise of the USSR.
(Hardback)
By: Ivan P. Iuvachev
ISBN: 9781785278228
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Anthem Press
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This memoir by Ivan P. Iuvachv, a cofounder of the Peoples Will, details his time as a political exile in the Sakhalin penal colony from 1887 to 1895. Iuvachv experienced one of the penal colonys most tumultuous periods. His vivid descriptions make this both a work of literature and a valuable historical document.
(Hardback)
By: Gregory Guroff
ISBN: 9780691641386
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Gregory Guroff
ISBN: 9780691613628
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This multidisciplinary study of entrepreneurship in Russian society from the sixteenth to the twentieth century demonstrates the crucial influence of central government on economic initiative. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
(Paperback)
By: Huw Lewis-Jones
ISBN: 9780755600991
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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