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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jonathan d smele”
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  • The Russian Revolution of 1905

    Centenary Perspectives

    Edited by Anthony J. Heywood, Jonathan D. Smele ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    2005 marks the centenary of Russia’s ‘first revolution’ - an unplanned, spontaneous rejection of Tsarist rule that was a response to the ‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre of 9th January 1905. A wave of strikes, urban uprisings, peasant revolts, national revolutions and mutinies swept across the Russian Empire, and it proved a crucial turning point in the demise of the autocracy and the rise of a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

    2 Volumes

    by Jonathan D. Smele ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest
    This book is a detailed reference of the twentieth century struggles that were waged across and beyond the decaying Russian Empire at the end of the First World War, as tsarism and democratic alternatives to it collapsed and the world’s first Communist state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was born. At the same time, it is a necessary corrective to studies that have viewed events of the ... Read more

    $303.99 USD

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  • Hearts Grown Brutal

    Sagas of Sarajevo

    by Roger Cohen ...
    In this brilliant book, Roger Cohen of The New York Times weaves together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families.“I have tried to treat the story of Yugoslavia, which lived for seventy-three years, as a human one,” Cohen writes in this masterly book, which, like Thomas L. Friedman’s From Beirut to Jerusalem and David Remnick’s ... Read more

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  • What You Did Not Tell

    A Russian Past and the Journey Home

    by Mark Mazower ...
    ****NAMED FINANCIAL TIMES "TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR"****NAMED EVENING STANDARD "BOOK OF THE YEAR"****NAMED NEW STATESMAN "BEST BOOK OF 2017"**A warm and intimate memoir by an acclaimed historian that explores the European struggles of the twentieth century through the lives, hopes, and dreams of a single family—his own.**Uncovering their remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the ... Read more

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  • A History of Montenegro

    by Francis Seymour Stevenson ...
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  • Ukraine's Orange Revolution

    by Dr. Andrew Wilson ...
    The remarkable popular protest in Kiev and across Ukraine following the cooked presidential election of November 2004 has transformed the politics of eastern Europe. Andrew Wilson witnessed the events firsthand and here looks behind the headlines to ascertain what really happened and how it will affect the future of the region.It is a dramatic story: an outgoing president implicated via secret ... Read more

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  • The Golden Age Shtetl

    A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

    by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern ...
    A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ... Read more

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  • 101 Amazing Facts about Russia

    by Jack Goldstein ...
    Series Book 12 - Countries of the World
    In this amazing eBook you can find more than one hundred facts about the country of Russia. Separated into sections such as its geography, its people, famous Russian figures from history and many more, you will find some fascinating information inside! Whether you are planning on visiting Russia, working on a geography project or just want to know more about the biggest country (by landmass) in ... Read more

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  • Soviet Veterans of the Second World War

    A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941-1991

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    Millions of Soviet soldiers died in the USSR's struggle for survival against Nazi Germany but millions more returned to Stalin's state after victory. Mark Edele traces the veterans' story from the early post-war years through to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. He describes in detail the problems they encountered during demobilization, the dysfunctional bureaucracy they had to deal with once ... Read more

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