Author : Robert Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:935896817
Rise of Russia
Robert Wallace
A Great Russia
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A Great Russia
Fiona K. Tomaszewski
Author : Fiona K. Tomaszewski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313010781
A Great Russia by Fiona K. Tomaszewski Pdf
The Triple Entente of Great Britain, Russia, and France was the foreign policy prong of the Russian imperial government's reaction to the disastrous events of 1905, including the revolution and the near defeat in the Russo-Japanese War. This alignment with the two western, liberal powers was almost universally perceived within official Russian governing circles as a necessary, if ideologically distasteful, diplomatic relationship to offset the growing German threat on the continent. Maintaining the entente would help Russia retain its great power status. For the first time, Tomaszewski tells the official Russian side of the story, long inaccessible due to restrictions imposed by the relevant Russian archives during the Soviet era. In doing so, she sheds new light on the international scene as the crisis of World War One approached. The Triple Entente went hand in hand with two policies of Stolypin, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers: draconian repression of the revolutionaries and sweeping domestic reforms. Acutely aware that serious failures in foreign policy would threaten the regime's existence, the imperial government designed both its foreign and its domestic policies to consolidate the autocracy for the twentieth century. Nicholas II gambled on the Triple Entente and its diplomatic alignment with the other two status-quo powers as the best means of preserving the peace in Europe and thereby preserving the imperial system as well.
The Rebuilding of Greater Russia
Bertil Nygren
Author : Bertil Nygren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134076826
The Rebuilding of Greater Russia by Bertil Nygren Pdf
This book describes the strategies used by President Putin from 2000 onwards to recreate 'Greater Russia', that is a Russia that controls most of the territory of the former Soviet Union. It shows the subtlety of the means of control, often through creating economic dependencies in the 'near abroad', including exploiting energy dependency, through prolonging other political and military dependencies, and sometimes through traditional 'power politics'. Bertil Nygren argues that after seven years in power the results of this strategy are beginning to show, providing comprehensive coverage of Russia’s relations to the former Soviet territories of the CIS countries, including Ukraine and Putin's role in the events surrounding the 'Orange Revolution', Belarus and the attempts to form a union, the Caucasus and Russia's role in the various conflicts, Moldova, including the Transdniester conflict, and Central Asia. This is an important subject for Russian studies experts and international relations scholars in general.
Russia
Philip Longworth
Author : Philip Longworth
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429916868
Russia by Philip Longworth Pdf
Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible, and from the height of Communism to the truncated Russia of today. Philip Longworth explores the dynamics of Russia's past through time and space, from the nameless adventurers who first penetrated this vast, inhospitable terrain to a cast of dynamic characters that includes Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and Stalin. His narrative takes in the magnificent, historic cities of Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg; it stretches to Alaska in the east, to the Black Sea and the Ottoman Empire to the south, to the Baltic in the west and to Archangel and the Artic Ocean to the north. Who are the Russians and what is the source of their imperialistic culture? Why was Russia so driven to colonize and conquer? From Kievan Rus'---the first-ever Russian state, which collapsed with the invasion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century---to ruthless Muscovy, the Russian Empire of the eighteenth century and finally the Soviet period, this groundbreaking study analyses the growth and dissolution of each vast empire as it gives way to the next. Refreshing in its insight and drawing on a vast range of scholarship, this book also explicitly addresses the question of what the future holds for Russia and her neighbors, and asks whether her sphere of influence is growing.
Make Russia Great Again
Christopher Buckley
Author : Christopher Buckley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982157470
Make Russia Great Again by Christopher Buckley Pdf
Herb Nutterman, a long-time Trump Organization employee, unexpectedly becomes President Trump's White House chief of staff and finds himself entangled in Russian intrigue and leading the president's reelection campaign.
The Year I Was Peter the Great
Marvin Kalb
Author : Marvin Kalb
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815731627
The Year I Was Peter the Great by Marvin Kalb Pdf
" A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia—and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents 1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called “the year of the thaw”—a time when Stalin’s dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing despair opened with a speech by Nikita Khrushchev, then the unpredictable leader of the Soviet Union. He astounded everyone by denouncing the one figure who, up to that time, had been hailed as a “genius,” a wizard of communism—Josef Stalin himself. Now, suddenly, this once unassailable god was being portrayed as a “madman” whose idiosyncratic rule had seriously undermined communism and endangered the Soviet state. This amazing switch from hero to villain lifted a heavy overcoat of fear from the backs of ordinary Russians. It also quickly led to anti-communist uprisings in Eastern Europe, none more bloody and challenging than the one in Hungary, which Soviet troops crushed at year’s end. Marvin Kalb, then a young diplomatic attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, observed this tumultuous year that foretold the end of Soviet communism three decades later. Fluent in Russian, a doctoral candidate at Harvard, he went where few other foreigners would dare go, listening to Russian students secretly attack communism and threaten rebellion against the Soviet system, traveling from one end of a changing country to the other and, thanks to his diplomatic position, meeting and talking with Khrushchev, who playfully nicknamed him Peter the Great. In this, his fifteenth book, Kalb writes a fascinating eyewitness account of a superpower in upheaval and of a people yearning for an end to dictatorship. "
Russia as a Great Power
Jakob Hedenskog,Vilhelm Konnander,Bertil Nygren,Ingmar Oldberg,Christer Pursiainen
Author : Jakob Hedenskog,Vilhelm Konnander,Bertil Nygren,Ingmar Oldberg,Christer Pursiainen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134239160
Russia as a Great Power by Jakob Hedenskog,Vilhelm Konnander,Bertil Nygren,Ingmar Oldberg,Christer Pursiainen Pdf
After a period of relative weakness and isolation during most of the 1990s, Russia is again appearing as a major security player in world politics. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Russia's current security situation, addressing such questions as: What kind of player is Russia in the field of security? What is the essence of its security policy? What are the sources, capabilities and priorities of its security policy? What are the prospects for the future? One important conclusion to emerge is that, while Russian foreign policy under Putin has become more pragmatic and responsive to both problems and opportunities, the growing lack of checks and balances in domestic politics makes political integration with the West difficult and gives the president great freedom in applying Russia's growing power abroad.
The Reforms of Peter the Great
Evgenii V. Anisimov,J.T. Alexander
Author : Evgenii V. Anisimov,J.T. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317454878
The Reforms of Peter the Great by Evgenii V. Anisimov,J.T. Alexander Pdf
This psychologically penetrating revisionist account of the life and rule of Rusia's 18th-century Tsar-reformer develops an important theme - that is, what happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic, expansionist impulse rather than to a larger goal of human emancipation? And, what has been the price of power - both for Peter and for Russia?
A Concise History of Russia
Paul Bushkovitch
Author : Paul Bushkovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139504447
A Concise History of Russia by Paul Bushkovitch Pdf
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 1991. Since then, new material has come to light on the history of the Soviet era, providing new conceptions of Russia's pre-revolutionary past. The book traces not only the political history of Russia, but also developments in its literature, art and science. Bushkovitch describes well-known cultural figures, such as Chekhov, Tolstoy and Mendeleev, in their institutional and historical contexts. Though the 1917 revolution, the resulting Soviet system and the Cold War were a crucial part of Russian and world history, Bushkovitch presents earlier developments as more than just a prelude to Bolshevik power.
Russian Foreign Policy
Jeffrey Mankoff
Author : Jeffrey Mankoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442208247
Russian Foreign Policy by Jeffrey Mankoff Pdf
Introduction: the guns of August -- Contours of Russian foreign policy -- Bulldogs fighting under the rug: the making of Russian foreign policy -- Resetting expectations: Russia and the United States -- Europe: between integration and confrontation -- Rising China and Russia's Asian vector -- Playing with home field advantage? Russia and its post-Soviet neighbors -- Conclusion: dealing with Russia's foreign policy reawakening.
The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics
Taras Kuzio,Paul D'Anieri
Author : Taras Kuzio,Paul D'Anieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1910814393
The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics by Taras Kuzio,Paul D'Anieri Pdf
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has transformed relations between Russia and the West into what many are calling a new cold war. The West has slowly come to understand that Russia's annexations, interventions and support for anti-EU populists emerge from Vladimir Putin's belief that Russia is at war with the West.
Kremlin Rising
Peter Baker,Susan Glasser
Author : Peter Baker,Susan Glasser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780743281799
Kremlin Rising by Peter Baker,Susan Glasser Pdf
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.
History of Russia and of Peter the Great
Philippe Paul comte de Ségur
Author : Philippe Paul comte de Ségur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600005472
History of Russia and of Peter the Great by Philippe Paul comte de Ségur Pdf
The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689
Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny
Author : Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521812276
The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689 by Maureen Perrie,D. C. B. Lieven,Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf
An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.
The Reforms of Peter the Great
Evgeniĭ Viktorovich Anisimov
Author : Evgeniĭ Viktorovich Anisimov
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1563240475
The Reforms of Peter the Great by Evgeniĭ Viktorovich Anisimov Pdf
Aims to provide an exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life of Russia's 18th century tsar/reformer and the theme of progress through violence in Russia.
