Manchuriathe name given to China s North-eastern provinces by foreign powers ...Manchuria the name given to China s North-eastern provinces by foreign powers has been contested by China Russia and Japan in particular over many centuries. This book surveys the history of Manchuria focusing particularly on the Russian and Soviet...more
Manchuriathe name given to China s North-eastern provinces by foreign powers ...Manchuria the name given to China s North-eastern provinces by foreign powers has been contested by China Russia and Japan in particular over many centuries. This book surveys the history of Manchuria focusing particularly on the Russian and Soviet...more
This book surveys thehistoryofManchuria focusing particularly on theRussia...This book surveys the history of Manchuria focusing particularly on the Russian and Soviet perspective.more
Presenting a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of...Presenting a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the twentieth century this book provides an unusual and original perspective on Soviet and Russian history.more
This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different pe...This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the twentieth century to provide an unusual perspective on Soviet and Russian history. Anecdotes and jokes were a hidden form of discursive communication in the...more
This book examines the meanings that were attached to the terms parliament and...This book examines the meanings that were attached to the terms parliament and parliamentarism in different historical and discursive contexts of the late Russian Empire revolutionary and Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.more
This book brings together the large volume of work on late Tsarist Russia publ...This book brings together the large volume of work on late Tsarist Russia published over the last 30 years to show an overall picture of Russia under the last two tsars - before the war brought down not only the Russian empire but also those of...more
This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived inRussia alongs...This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity demonstrating that double belief dvoeverie is in fact an academic myth. Scholars citing the medieval origins of the term have often portrayed...more
First Published in 2004. Modernizing Muscovy is a comprehensive account of sev...First Published in 2004. Modernizing Muscovy is a comprehensive account of seventeenth-century Russian history. It rejects the traditional interpretation of this era as the twilight of the Russian Middle Ages. By revealing important instances of...more
Using a wide range sources this book explores the ways in which the Russians g...Using a wide range sources this book explores the ways in which the Russians governed their empire in Siberia from 1598 to 1725. Paying particular attention to the role of the Siberian Cossaks the author takes a thorough assessment of how the...more
The Soviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation but really a...The Soviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation but really an empire liable to break up when individual federal units which were allegedly really subordinate colonial units sought independence. This book questions this...more
Using a wide range sources this book explores the ways in which the Russians g...Using a wide range sources this book explores the ways in which the Russians governed their empire in Siberia from 1598 to 1725. Paying particular attention to the role of the Siberian Cossaks the author takes a thorough assessment of how the...more
Siberia has had an interesting history quite distinct from that ofRussia. Abs...Siberia has had an interesting history quite distinct from that of Russia. Absolutely vast containing many non-Russian nationalities and increasingly important at present because of its huge energy reserves Siberia was at one time part of the Mongol...more
This book looks at Russian women s mobilization and agency during the two peri...This book looks at Russian women s mobilization and agency during the two periods of transformation the turn of the 19th-20th century and the 20th - 21st century. Bringing together the parallels between the two great transformations it focuses on...more
This book looks at Russian women s mobilization and agency during the two peri...This book looks at Russian women s mobilization and agency during the two periods of transformation the turn of the 19th-20th century and the 20th-21st century. Bringing together the parallels between the two great transformations it focuses on both...more