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  • The Soviet Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Lovell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Almost twenty years after the Soviet Unions' end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How Russia Learned to Talk

    A History of Public Speaking in the Stenographic Age, 1860-1930

    by Stephen Lovell ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Modern European History
    Russia in the late nineteenth century may have been an autocracy, but it was far from silent. In the 1860s, new venues for public speech sprang up: local and municipal assemblies, the courtroom, and universities and learned societies. Theatre became more lively and vernacular, while the Orthodox Church exhorted its priests to become better preachers. Although the tsarist government attempted to ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Destination in Doubt

    Russia since 1989

    by Stephen Lovell ...
    Series series Global History of the Present
    The enormously complex changes triggered by the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were nowhere more ambiguous than in the heartland of the Soviet bloc, Russia itself. Here the population was divided on all the most fundamental questions of post-communist transition: economic reforms, the Communist Party, the borders of the state, even the definition of the Russian 'nation' itself. Russians ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Summerfolk

    A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000

    by Stephen Lovell ...
    Series series
    The dacha is a sometimes beloved, sometimes scorned Russian dwelling. Alexander Pushkin summered in one; Joseph Stalin lived in one for the last twenty years of his life; and contemporary Russian families still escape the city to spend time in them. Stephen Lovell's generously illustrated book is the first social and cultural history of the dacha. Lovell traces the dwelling's origins as a villa ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Shadow of War

    Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present

    by Stephen Lovell ...
    Series Book 8 - Blackwell History of Russia
    Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern Soviet and Russian history.Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union and Russia that begins with World War II and goes beyond the Soviet collapse through to the early twenty-first ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

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    The Soviet Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Lovell ...
    Narrated by Rich Miller ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 53 min

    The Soviet Union at its height occupied one sixth of the world's land mass, encompassed fifteen republics, and stretched across eleven different time zones. More than twice the size of the United States, it was the great threat of the Cold War until it suddenly collapsed in 1991. Now, almost twenty years after the dissolution of this vast empire, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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