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  • An Environmental History of Russia

    by Paul Josephson, Nicolai Dronin, Ruben Mnatsakanian, Aleh Cherp, Dmitry Efremenko, Vladislav Larin ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don and Angara; and extensive biodiversity. These resources and animals, as well as the people who lived in the former Soviet Union - Slavs, Armenians, Georgians, Azeris, Kazakhs and Tajiks, indigenous Nenets and Chukchi - were ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire

    by M. Sükrü Hanioglu ...
    At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now gives scholars and general readers a concise ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Georgia

    In the Mountains of Poetry

    by Peter Nasmyth ...
    "Elegiac, quirky, readable, deeply knowledgeable . . . The best cultural-historical introduction to that tempestuous land," the Georgian republic. (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs)Georgia has been called the world's most beautiful country, yet little is known about it beyond its borders. This topical and vital book by Peter Nasmyth, the "ideal chronicler" ( Literary Review) is the ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolution in Danger

    Writings from Russia 1919–1921

    by Victor Serge ...
    The author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary brings to life the unwavering commitment of red Petrograd during some of the Russian Revolution's darkest hours.Upon arrival in Petrograd in 1919, Victor Serge—the great chronicler of the Russian Revolution—found a society nearly shredded to ribbons by civil war. Threatened on all sides by invading armies from fourteen countries, and attacked from within by ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cold War 2: The Start of a New Conflict - Russia’s Hand in Ukraine

    by Joseph Spark ...
    In recent times, United States and Russia have had much to squabble over. However, between the Russian occupation of Crimea, the U.S. sanctions that followed, as well as granting Edward Snowden asylum; Russia’s and the United States leadership is threatening to finally push these old foes to full blown conflict – the Second Cold War. Since the end of the Cold War in the early 90s, following the ... Read more

    $4.16 CAD

  • Zaporozhian Cossacks and Other Notes.

    by Taras Shevchenko, Natalya Alatyreva (translator) ...
    The book contains:A short ethnographic note depicting some traditions of Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossacks written down around 1843.Preface to an unpublished edition of "Kobzar,” the publication of which was prevented by Shevchenko's arrest in 1847.A short recollection about Taras Shevchenko time as a student in Petersburg Academy of Arts and his friendship with the fellow student Vasily Shternberg.A ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Traveling in Siberia 1868, Illustrated

    by Thomas Knox ...
    An American makes the trek across Siberia via horse, carriage and sled, during the mid nineteenth century. Original Illustrations included. ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Central and Eastern Europe since 1919

    by Adrian Webb ...
    Series series Routledge Companions to History
    The Routledge Companion to Central and Eastern Europe since 1919 is a compact and comprehensive reference guide to the area, from the Treaty of Versailles to the present day. With particular focus on the early nationalist and subsequent fascist and communist periods, Adrian Webb provides an essential guide to the events, people and ideas which have shaped, and continue to shape, central and ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Making Yugoslavs

    Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia

    by Christian Axboe Nielsen ...
    When Yugoslavia was created in 1918, the new state was a patchwork of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and other ethnic groups. It still was in January 1929, when King Aleksandar suspended the Yugoslav constitution and began an ambitious program to impose a new Yugoslav national identity on his subjects. By the time Aleksandar was killed by an assassin’s bullet five years later, he not only had failed to ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Collective Memories of a Lost Paradise

    Jewish Agricultural Settlements in Ukraine During the 1920s and 1930s

    by Robert Belenky ...
    Author’s Visits to Ukraine Inform History and Inspire a Memoir In April, 2011, Robert Belenky set off on a trip to Ukraine. His goal was to record the memories of Jews who survived the era spanning post-Revolutionary Russia, the Holocaust, and World War II Belenky had a special interest in that period. It began with his father, Max, a Russian Jew who, barred from the land, longed to be a farmer. ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hotel Tito

    A Novel

    by Ivana Bodrozic ...
    Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac ...
    The most powerful autobiographical novel written about the Yugoslav wars. A timely and deeply accessible book that speaks to what it is like to be displaced by war.Hotel Tito is an award-winning autobiographical novel of the Serbo-Croatian War. Author Ivana Bodroić was born in the Croatian town of Vukovar, just across the Danube from Serbia. In the fall of 1991, Vukovar was besieged by the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Mobilizing the Russian Nation

    Patriotism and Citizenship in the First World War

    by Melissa Kirschke Stockdale ...
    Series Book 45 - Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    The First World War had a devastating impact on the Russian state, yet relatively little is known about the ways in which ordinary Russians experienced and viewed this conflict. Melissa Kirschke Stockdale presents the first comprehensive study of the Great War's influence on Russian notions of national identity and citizenship. Drawing on a vast array of sources, the book examines the patriotic ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD