Курган: Дамми, 2021. — 294 с. — ISBN 978-5-89506-184-8. Прошло уже более 200 лет со дня победы в войне, которая для многонационального населения бывшей Российской империи была народной и вошла в историю под именем Отечественной войны 1812 года. Свою лепту в победу над общим врагом внесли все национальности и народности, жившие в России, демонстрируя на полях сражений смелость и...
CreateSpace, 2015. — 71 p. — ISBN 1-5193-9556-6. Russia is an assortment of the world’s most beautiful cultures and religions. But how did Russia become home to such a diverse population and tradition that is redolent of so many parts of the world? How much does Russia owe to its spellbinding steppe in respect to its unparalleled history? This book uncovers the mystery behind...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2006. — xxiii, 596 p. — ISBN 978-0-8264-4212-3. Napoleon and Russia tells, for the first time, the full story of Napoleon and his crucial relationship with Russia, from the 1790s and Bonaparte’s rise to power, through the period of Austerlitz, Tilsit and the Russian invasion, to the Emperor’s fall and its aftermath. In doing so, it not only puts the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — xix, 939 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-966394-1. Russia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century.A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — xv, 151 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-258855-5. Russia today is as prominent in international affairs as it was at the height of the Cold War. Yet the role that the economy plays in supporting Russia's position as a 'great power' on the international stage is poorly understood. For many, Russia's political influence far exceeds its weight in the global...
М.: Рейтар, 1997. — 52 с. Эта книга посвящена истории войны 1812 г. и главному её событию Бородинскому сражению. Как и в первой книге (Боевые действия на северном фланге), автор воссоздает боевые действия в центре сражения с помощью воспоминаний как с одной, так и с другой стороны. До сих пор данная тема не была так полно изучена в российской и советской историографии и только...
3rd Revised Ed. — London: Oneworld Publications, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN 978-1-78607-143-9. Distinguished Professor Abraham Ascher offers an impressive blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this perennially popular introduction to Russia. Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia: A Short History begins with the origins of the first...
М.: Русский путь, 2004. — 560 с. — ISBN 5-85887-201-8. B книге собраны сведения о судьбах более 5700 офицеров флота и морского ведомства, остававшихся в живых ко времени крушения российской государственности осенью 1917 г.: расстрелянных большевиками в ходе «красного террора», погибших во время Гражданской войны B 1917—1922 гг., умерших в эмиграции, а также оставшихся в России...
2nd Ed. — Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2009. — xxvi, 256 p. — (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations). — ISBN 978-0-313-36308-5. Advisory board: John T. Alexander, Robert A. Divine, John V. Lombardi. When first published, Charles Ziegler’s The History of Russia was acclaimed as a source of information not easily found elsewhere, and as «clear, balanced, and...
Under the Gen. Editorship of H. M. Hyman. — New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1967. — 119 p. In the final months of World War II, with the Allied forces streaming into Germany on two fronts, a major decision had to be made; where to draw a stop line to prevent an accidental clash between the Russian and the Anglo-American armies. Behind this decision lay another. Which forces...
8th Ed. — New York — Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. — xviii, 710, [85] p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-534197-3. The eighth edition of A History of Russia has been substantially revised. The seventh edition, the first with Mark Steinberg’s participation, saw considerable change in certain areas: we took account of new research and interpretations, especially for 1855 to the...
Международная научно-практическая конференция к 75-летию Победы Советского Союза над фашистской Германией. Оренбург, 23—25 апреля 2020 г.: сборник статей. — Правительство Оренбургской области, Министерство образования Оренбургской области; Оренбургский государственный педагогический университет; Региональное отделение Общероссийской общественной организации содействия повышению...
London — New York: Routledge, 2006. — xiv, 322 p. — (Routledge/European Sociological Association Studies in European Societies). — ISBN: 978-0-415-37947-2. This is a timely volume that explores Europe in its relation to Asia in a way that moves beyond simplistic notions of West and East. Rejecting the idea of a clash of civilizations, the contributions highlight the interlinked...
Удмуртский институт истории, языка и литературы УрО РАН. — Ижевск: Удмуртский университет, 2012. — 496 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4312-0129-5. Монография является одним из первых исследований регионального процесса институционализации российского социума на рубеже XX—XXI вв. На основе историографического анализа, собственных авторских изысканий, широкого корпуса источников и...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — viii, 266 p. — ISBN: 978-0-230-60586-2. Russia has never been able to escape its relationship with Europe, or Europe with Russia. Geography and history have conspired to make them both neighbors and unavoidable factors in each other s daily lives. From the early 1700s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Europe and Moscow both...
London — New York: Routledge, 2005. — xiv, 394 p. — (Routledge Studies in the European Economy). — ISBN: 0-203-00042-0. Russia’s transition to a market economy has been tortuous to say the least. However, this book argues that the arguments and counter-arguments that pitch shock therapy against gradualism are wide of the mark and quite pointless. Indeed, the reasons for the...
М.: Горизонт, 2018. — 397 с. — (Служу России!). — ISBN: 978-5-906858-77-1. В современной российской историографии на основе данных, извлечённых из ранее засекреченных документов и материалов, а также анализа научно-исторической и мемуарной литературы многие авторы обращают внимание на роль человеческого фактора, утверждая, что воюет не железо, а воюют люди. С таким утверждением...
Forew. M. Galeotti. — Oxford — New York: Osprey Publ.; Bloomsbury Publ., 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN 978-1-4728-3654-0. The history of all armies is, by its very nature, steeped in blood, but that of the Soviet and then the Russian Army especially so. Born out of revolution, ideology and the catastrophic fighting on the Eastern Front in World War I, the Red Army fought for its...
Ed. by T. G. Bradbeer, forew. M. D. Lundy. — Kansas: Army University Press, 2018. — xvi, 214 p. — (Large-Scale Combat Operations Series Book 3). — ISBN: 978-1-940804-48-4. According to Army doctrine, the word Fires describes the use of weapon systems to create a specific lethal or nonlethal effect on a target. Similarly, the Fires Warfighting function, which evolved from the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 518 p. — (Cambridge Concise Histories). — ISBN: 978-0-521-54323-1. Accessible to students, tourists, and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in...
London — New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — xiv, 257 p. — ISBN: 978-0-333-76393-3. Imperial Russia provides an accessible reference tool for students, researchers, historians and Russian history enthusiasts. It covers the period from Ivan IV to the death of Nicholas II. There are chronologies for each of the reigns and the handbook covers important political and...
М.: Редакция журнала «На боевом посту» внутренних войск МВД России, 2015. — 416 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9906485-0-0, 978-5-9906485-3-1 (том 3). В третьем томе военно-исторического труда на основе анализа исторической литературы и архивных источников раскрываются вопросы организационного строительства и служебно-боевой деятельности войск НКВД СССР в 1944—1945 гг. Особое внимание...
М.: Редакция журнала «На боевом посту», 2015. — 328 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9906485-0-0, 978-5-9906485-2-4 (том 2). Во втором томе военно-исторического труда на основе анализа исторической литературы и архивных источников раскрываются вопросы организационного строительства и служебно-боевой деятельности войск НКВД СССР в 1941—1943 гг. Особое внимание обращено на участие войск НКВД...
М.: Ред. журнала «На боевом посту», 2015. — 280 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9906485-0-0, 978-5-9906485-1-7 (том 1). В первом томе военно-исторического труда на основе анализа исторической литературы и архивных источников раскрываются вопросы организационного строительства и служебно-боевой деятельности войск НКВД СССР в 1939—1941 гг. Показаны изменения органов управления, организационной...
London — New York: Routledge, 2018. — 208 p. — (Rethinking Asia and International Relations). — ISBN 978-1-138-50032-7. What explains the rise of populist movements across the West and their affinity towards Russia? UKIP’s Brexit victory, Trump’s triumph, and the successive elections and referendums in Europe were united by a repudiation of the liberal international order....
Washington: Center on Global Interests, 2015. — 29 p. The concept of the «Russian World» (russkii mir) has a long history rooted in the 1990s, but it was propelled under the media spotlight in 2014, when Russian President Vladimir Putin used it to justify Russia’s interference in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. The Kremlin’s actions in its so-called «Near Abroad» — a...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. — xii, 276 p. — ISBN: 0-231-12228-4. Ethnic conflicts have created crises within NATO and between NATO and Russia, produced massive flows of refugees, destabilized neighboring countries, and increased the risk of nuclear war between Pakistan and India. Interventions have cost the United States, the United Nations, and other actors...
Leiden—Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Pub., 2007. — viii, 225 p. — (Law in Eastern Europe, No. 56). — ISBN: 978-90-04-15533-6. During the last two decades Russia has gone through a process of radical political and socio-economic transformation. The legal system has reflected the various stages of this process and has also been a major agent in moving it forward. The country is at a...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. — xii, 309 p. — ISBN: 0-691-05311-1. By examining the growth of legal institutions and concepts in Russia from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, Daniel Kaiser shows how the process of legal change reflects a gradual transformation of the political life, social relations, and accepted values of a traditional society. Notions...
London—New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. — xiii, 483 p. There are an ever burgeoning number of books analysing the Russian experience, or aspects of it. This Handbook is the first single volume work that gives both a broad survey of the literature as well as highlighting the cutting edge research in the area. Through both empirical data and theoretical...
Oxford—New York—Auckland—Cape Town—Dar es Salaam—Hong Kong—Karachi—Kuala Lumpur—Madrid—Melbourne—Mexico City—Nairobi—New Delhi—Shanghai—Taipei—Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2014. — x, 259 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-933620-3. The Russian state presents a mystery to outside observers. Although Russia was the site of some of the last century’s most radical upheavals, and although...
Cambridge—New York—Melbourne—Madrid—Cape Town—Singapore—São Paulo—Delhi—Mexico City: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — xii, 317 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-02552-3. Since Russia has reemerged as a global power, its foreign policies have come under close scrutiny. In Russia and theWest from Alexander to Putin, Andrei P. Tsygankov identifies honor as the key concept by which Russia’s...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — xvi, 240 p. — ISBN: 978-0-230-61418-5. In the spring of 2006, U.S. criticism of Russia became especially acute. The Council on Foreign Relations released a bipartisan report titled Russia’s Wrong Direction, condemning the country’s «de-democratization» and foreign policy. Vice President Cheney traveled to Vilnius to denounce Russia’s...
4th Ed. — Lanham—Boulder—New York—London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. — xxx, 305 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4422-5401-5. Winston Churchill once famously observed that the key to understanding Russia’s “enigma” is its national interest. However, he failed to explain what that interest was. It is therefore our scholarly task to uncover what Russians themselves understand to be their...
3th ed. — Oxford — New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. — ISBN: 978-0-19-956041-7. Russia, it is fair to say, does not automatically evoke feelings of empathy and goodwill in the West: the media, politicians, and even many scholars regard Russia with a mixture of condescension, antipathy, and fear. Not that Russia, or at least its rulers, has not done much to deserve the...
New York: Facts On File, 2004. — xiv, 497 с. — (European Nations). — ISBN: 978-0-8160-4454-2. The inclusion of Russia in the present reference series on European nations from the Renaissance to the present reflects the belief that Russia is indeed a European nation, an assumption that many readers may take for granted but which has been debated for centuries. For while there...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — xvi, 440 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-08760-6. In November 1941 Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, then less than 100 km away. Army Group Centre was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective, the final drive on Moscow had...
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1972. — xxviii, 412 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-05193-2. The historiography of the Russian Revolution in Western countries, for all its peculiar advantages of objective distance from the events, has produced a distorted view of the vast canvas of 1917—1918 by its almost exclusive concentration on the central cities, Petrograd and...
2nd ed. — Leiden—Boston—Köln: Brill, 2002. — 550 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 14). — ISBN: 1385-7827, 978-90-04-12273-4. Throughout Russian history, the army has played a vital role as a catalyst of historical development and social change. While the history of battles, strategy, and the army as an institution have all received a fair amount of attention from historians, the...
Gen. Ed. T.A. Wilson. — Revised and Expanded Edition. — Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2015. — xv, 557 p. — (Modern War Studies). — ISBN: 978-0-7006-2121-7. When the first edition of this book was published in 1995, the authors gratefully benefited from the modest first wave of archival materials released by the Russian Federation, which increased our knowledge...
Gen. Editor W.H. Chafe. — Oxford — New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. — 384 p. — (Oxford Student Companions to American History). — ISBN: 978-0-19-510800-2. The Second World War was the most deadly and costly military struggle ever fought. It is estimated that some 60 million people died as a result of it, most of them civilians. But this figure is only a guess. Despite...
2nd Revised Edition. — London—Boulder: Macmillan Publ.; Westview Press, 1981. — 707 p. — ISBN: 0-86531-102-1. For a period of three years — from the summer of 1941 to the summer of 1944 — large parts of the Soviet Union were under German occupation. For another year thereafter, until the capitulation of the Third Reich, several millions of former Soviet citizens were under...
Учебное пособие. — СПбГУ. — СПб.: Скифия-принт, 2018. — 268 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98620-309-6. Учебное пособие предназначено для преподавателей ВУЗов, студентов и магистрантов, изучающих курсы по истории международных отношений, истории стран Северной Америки, истории США, Канады и Мексики, а также внутренней и внешней политике этих стран. Цель пособия — предоставить студентам...
Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 2016. — 225 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60223-303-4. The Alaska Purchase — denounced at the time as «Seward’s Folly» but now seen as a masterstroke—is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story. This book aims to correct that. Lee Farrow offers here a detailed account of just what the Alaska Purchase was, how it came...
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985. — ix, 180 p. — ISBN: 978-0-253-20445-5. In his text «Russia and the Golden Horde,» Charles Halperin effectively investigates the developments within Russian society under Mongol rule. Halperin argues that prior scholarship regarding this period has been distorted by academic bias and misleading source material, mechanisms that...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. — xxxv, 619 p. — (Blackwell History of the World). — ISBN: 978-0-631-21039-9. This volume covers a vast area — the central, or «Inner» half of Eurasia — and more than 750 years of that region’s history. Writing at this scale, it is easy to overlook the contingent events, the pathways not taken. So, though my central argument is about...
London; N. Y.: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. — ix + 203 p. — (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, 2). — ISBN: 0-203-29381-9. This book examines how civil–military relations have been transformed in Russia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in 1991. It shows how these countries have worked to reform their...
СПб.: Бранко, 2015. — 216 с. — ISBN: 978-5-903521-34-0. В предлагаемом издании, опирающемся на обширную документальную базу, прежде всего на материалы российских архивов, многие из которых впервые вводятся в научный оборот, мемуары и воспоминания участников событий, опубликованную литературу, объективно раскрываются такие важные периоды Великой Отечественной войны, как её...
3rd Ed. — L.: Macmillan Education, 1998. — 430 p. — ISBN: 978-0-333-66067-6. While this History of Russia does not claim to be any better than its many predecessors, it does aim at providing a distinctive interpretation, even if through change of emphasis rather than complete novelty. Medieval Russia: Kiev to Moscow The Construction and Collapse of Kiev, 882—1240 Invasion and...
М.: ИНСАН, Российский фонд культуры, 1993. — 160 с. — ISBN: 5-85840-265-8. Чуваши или татары — кто является наследником языка, духовной и материальной культуры волжских булгар, кого следует считать их потомками — на этот актуальный вопрос этногенеза этих народов пытаются дать ответ авторы книги. В ней критически анализируется булгаро-чувашская теория, отождествляющая волжских...