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By the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment had become the largest in the world, but very little of its history was known in the West. What has been needed for many years in order to fill that gap in our knowledge is a history of Russian and Soviet science written for the e…
"Fontanka 16 takes a fresh look at the feared Russian tsarist secret police, the Okhranka, during the period of the imperial regime leading up to the Revolution of 1917. It is a fascinating account of the development of a secret police organization that was deeply rooted in tsar…
"Fontanka 16 takes a fresh look at the feared Russian tsarist secret police, the Okhranka, during the period of the imperial regime leading up to the Revolution of 1917. It is a fascinating account of the development of a secret police organization that was deeply rooted in tsar…
Slavophile empire: Imperial Russia's illiberal path
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In this work, Laura Engelstein pays attention to the Slavophiles and their heirs, whose aversion to the secular individualism of the West and embrace of an idealized version of the native part established a pattern of thinking that had an enduring impact on Russian political lif…
In a fascinating "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in late Imperial Russi…
ISBN: 069103253X LCCN: 9316290.
In a fascinating ""urban biography, "" Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in late Imperial Ru…
Examines the development of 20th-century Russian architecture as it relates to the transformation of imperial Russia into an industrialized Soviet empire and shows how Western notions of style and technology were assimilated on a massive scale into a uniquely Russian vision.
Essays probe the culture that spawned the great novels of Dostoevsky and explore the author's influence on world literature.