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4) Prague
Author
Series
World bibliographical volume 195
Publisher
Clio Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xviii, 182 pages) : map.
Language
English
6) Russia
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
viii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One day in 1937, a car pulled up to a house in Ukraine. Boris Bibikov--Owen Matthews's grandfather--kissed his wife and daughters good-bye and disappeared inside. His family never saw him again. His wife soon vanished as well, leaving daughters Lyudmila and Lenina alone in the vast Russian landscape during World War II. Separated as the Germans advanced in 1941, they were miraculously reunited at war's end. In the early 1960s, Mervyn Matthews--Owen's...
11) Remaking Russia
Pub. Date
1995
Lexile measure
1380L
Physical Desc
xxvii, 330 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A highly regarded Moscow correspondent for the Economist, Arkady Ostrovsky comes to this story both as a participant and a foreign correspondent. His knowledge of many of the key players allows him to explain the phenomenon of Valdimir Putin - his rise and astonishing longevity, his use of hybrid warfare and the alarming crescendo of his military interventions. One of Putin's first acts was to reverse Gorbachev's decision to end media censorship...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 515 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" (The Wall Street Journal), award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren...
Author
Series
Publisher
The MIT Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Puts the conflict in historical perspective by examining the evolution of the crisis and assessing its implications both for the Crimean peninsula and for Russia's relations with the West more generally. Experts in the international relations of post-Soviet states, political scientists Rajan Menon and Eugene Rumer clearly show what is at stake in Ukraine, explaining the key economic, political, and security challenges and prospects for overcoming...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 241 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible is a journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of oligarchs convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, Bohemian theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators, and playboy revolutionaries. This is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality,...
Author
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages)
Language
English
Description
David G. Lewis explores the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir Putin. Using contemporary case studies - including Russia's legal system, the annexation of Crimea and Russian policy in Syria - he critically examines Russia's new authoritarian political ideology.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
372, 6, 29 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 electronic resource (xx, 394 pages )
Language
English
Description
''Word and Image'' invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker's scholarship on Russia--literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance of visual sources for historical study; and the intersections of religious and political discourse in Imperial Russia. A biography of Marker, a survey...
19) Russian roulette
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventure volume 10
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
20) Russia
Author
Series
Eyewitness books volume 74
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
61 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An overview of the land, people, history, and culture of Russia from its earliest days to the present.
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