Rise of Russia
Author | : Robert Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1975 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Peter Baker |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2005-06-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0743281799 |
In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow correspondents. With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to Western-style democracy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor, Vladimir Putin, a childhood hooligan turned KGB officer who rose from nowhere determined to restore the order of the Soviet past, resolved to bring an end to the revolution. Kremlin Rising goes behind the scenes of contemporary Russia to reveal the culmination of Project Putin, the secret plot to reconsolidate power in the Kremlin. During their four years as Moscow bureau chiefs for The Washington Post, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser witnessed firsthand the methodical campaign to reverse the post-Soviet revolution and transform Russia back into an authoritarian state. Their gripping narrative moves from the unlikely rise of Putin through the key moments of his tenure that re-centralized power into his hands, from his decision to take over Russia's only independent television network to the Moscow theater siege of 2002 to the "managed democracy" elections of 2003 and 2004 to the horrific slaughter of Beslan's schoolchildren in 2004, recounting a four-year period that has changed the direction of modern Russia. But the authors also go beyond the politics to draw a moving and vivid portrait of the Russian people they encountered -- both those who have prospered and those barely surviving -- and show how the political flux has shaped individual lives. Opening a window to a country on the brink, where behind the gleaming new shopping malls all things Soviet are chic again and even high school students wonder if Lenin was right after all, Kremlin Rising features the personal stories of Russians at all levels of society, including frightened army deserters, an imprisoned oil billionaire, Chechen villagers, a trendy Moscow restaurant king, a reluctant underwear salesman, and anguished AIDS patients in Siberia. With shrewd reporting and unprecedented access to Putin's insiders, Kremlin Rising offers both unsettling new revelations about Russia's leader and a compelling inside look at life in the land that he is building. As the first major book on Russia in years, it is an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of the country and promises to shape the debate about Russia, its uncertain future, and its relationship with the United States.
Author | : Michael Stuermer |
Publisher | : Pegasus Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781605981314 |
An expert contemporary history of Vladimir Putin and Russia's resurgent role in world affairs.
Author | : John Meyendorff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2010-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521135337 |
This book describes the role of Byzantine diplomacy in the emergence of Moscow in the fourteenth century.
Author | : Ivan Sablin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429848234 |
The Russian Far East was a remarkably fluid region in the period leading up to, during, and after the Russian Revolution. The different contenders in play in the region, imagining and working toward alternative futures, comprised different national groups, including Russians, Buryat-Mongols, Koreans, and Ukrainians; different imperialist projects, including Japanese and American attempts to integrate the region into their political and economic spheres of influence as well as the legacies of Russian expansionism and Bolshevik efforts to export the revolution to Mongolia, Korea, China, and Japan; and various local regionalists, who aimed for independence or strong regional autonomy for distinct Siberian and Far Eastern communities and whose efforts culminated in the short-lived Far Eastern Republic of 1920–1922. The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Far Eastern Republic, 1905–1922 charts developments in the region, examines the interplay of the various forces, and explains how a Bolshevik version of state-centered nationalism prevailed.
Author | : Nancy Shields Kollmann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199280517 |
Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'politics of difference': the rulers and their elites at the center defined the state's needs minimally - with control over defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources - and otherwise tolerated local religions, languages, cultures, elites, and institutions. The center related to communities and religions vertically, according each a modicum of rights and autonomies, but didn't allow horizontal connections across nobilities, townsmen, or other groups potentially with common interests to coalesce. Thus, the Russian empire was multi-ethnic and multi-religious; Nancy Kollmann gives detailed attention to the major ethnic and religious groups, and surveys the government's strategies of governance - centralized bureaucracy, military reform, and a changed judicial system. The volume pays particular attention to the dissemination of a supranational ideology of political legitimacy in a variety of media - written sources and primarily public ritual, painting, and particularly architecture. Beginning with foundational features, such as geography, climate, demography, and geopolitical situation, The Russian Empire 1450-1801 explores the empire's primarily agrarian economy, serfdom, towns and trade, as well as the many religious groups - primarily Orthodoxy, Islam, and Buddhism. It tracks the emergence of an 'Imperial nobility' and a national self-consciousness that was, by the end of the eighteenth century, distinctly imperial, embracing the diversity of the empire's many peoples and cultures.
Author | : John Stevens Cabot Abbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Russia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Wallace |
Publisher | : Silver Burdett Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Striking illustrtions enhance this concise social, political, cultural, and religious history of Russia from the 9th century through the reign of Peter the Great.
Author | : M. N. Pokrovskii |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5875291818 |
Author | : John B. Dunlop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : |