The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians

History

W. BRUCE LINCOLN

Russia

Random House]

The Indiana U. Press edition (1978) is cited in BCL3 . A scholarly biography that provides a view of Russian autocracy. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Nicholas I, Emperor and Autocrat of All The Russias

Biographies & Memoirs

Indiana University Press

Moscow: Treasures and Traditions (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service)

The richness of Moscow's artistic legacy and the effects of various political, social and religious changes on the city's creative climate over the past 500 years are recorded here in 12 insightful essays by American and Soviet curators and academics, and in more than 180 brilliant color photographs and illustrations. Lincoln chronicles the capital's cultural heritage from the 1300s, when Moscow's princes appropriated art belonging to formerly independent territories as a symbol of the city's burgeoning political power. Olga G. Gordeeva examines the influence of European and Oriental styles on the traditional clothing of Moscow. The most interesting essay is John E. Bowlt's piece on Russian art from 1910--when a group of artists including Kandinsky and Malevich began to apply radically new concepts like neoprimitivism to their work--until the present, when artists are allowed to shun the socialist realist method that had been forced upon them for decades. Also included are essays on metalwork, jewelry, porcelain and armor. This book is being published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S.S.R. Ministry of Culture. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Univ of Washington Pr

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

This is the story of the Russian people's entry into the 20th century. It concentrates specifically on the 25 years before the outbreak of World War I.

In war's dark shadow: The Russians before the Great War

Europe

The Dial Press

Based on rare documents and eyewitness information, this book dramatically recounts the critical years of Russia's defeat in World War I, the abdication of the Romanovs, and the doomed experiment with democracy

Passage Through Armageddon: the Russians in War and Revolution 1914-1918

Simon&Schuster

The Russian Civil War was one of the most momentous conflicts of our century. It shattered the nation, yet insured its survival as a muscle-bound empire. In three nearly forgotten years, 1918-1921, seven million died.Near the end of WW I, German armies devoured Russia, public confidence evaporated and Czar Nicholas II abdicated, leaving power to a provisional government that fell six months later. The Bolsheviks emerged as winner.Then came peace with Germany, freeing a million men to fight France, Britain and America in the West with Lenin talking of worldwide revolution. In response, 14 nations sent support to the Whites--including 20,000 American soldiers. But it was all in vain.

Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War

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Shortly after withdrawing from World War I, Russia descended into a bitter civil war unprecedented for its savagery: epidemics, battles, mass executions, forced labor, and famine claimed millions of lives. From 1918 to 1921, through great cities and tiny villages, across untouched forests and vast frozen wasteland, the Bolshevik "Reds" fought the anti-Communist Whites and their Allies (fourteen foreign countries contributed weapons, money, and troops—including 20,000 American soldiers). This landmark history re-creates the epic conflict that transformed Russia from the Empire of the Tsars into the Empire of the Commissars, while never losing sight of the horrifying human cost.

Red Victory: History of the Russian Civil War

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The first decade of Alexander II's reign is known in Russian history as the Era of the Great Reforms, a time recognized as the major period of social, economic, and institutional transformation between the reign of Peter the Great and the Revolution of 1905. Coming directly after the notoriously repressive last decade of the Nicholas era, the appearance of such dramatic reform has led scholars to seek its causes in dramatic events. Surely some great, even cataclysmic, force must have driven Alexander II and his advisers to initiate what appears to be such an astonishing change in policy.In their search for the origins of these Great Reforms, historians generally have focused upon two phenomena. The first of these was Russia's defeat in the Crimean War by a relatively small, ineptly commanded Allied expeditionary force. The second was the serf revolts, which increased dramatically in the 1850s. From these events, most historians have concluded that the economic failings of serfdom, the problem of preserving domestic peace, and the need to restore Russia's tarnished military prestige were the major forces that convinced Alexander II's government to embark upon a new reformist path.As Lincoln's examination of the long-unstudied Russian archival evidence shows, there are good reasons to question whether such crises of policy and failings of Russia's servile economy impelled Alexander II and his advisers along a previously uncharted reformist path after the Crimean War. Further, in light of the Russian bureaucracy's slowness in drafting much less complex administrative reforms during the previous century, Lincoln argues that the Great Reform legislation simply was too complex and required too much sophisticated knowledge about the Empire's economic, administratvive, and judicial affairs to have been formulated in the brief half-decade after the war's end.

In the vanguard of reform: Russia's enlightened bureaucrats, 1825-1861

Northern Illinois University Press

The first decade of Alexander II's reign is known in Russian history as the Era of the Great Reforms, a time recognized as the major period of social, economic, and institutional transformation between the reign of Peter the Great and the Revolution of 1905. Coming directly after the notoriously repressive last decade of the Nicholas era, the appearance of such dramatic reform has led scholars to seek its causes in dramatic events. Surely some great, even cataclysmic, force must have driven Alexander II and his advisers to initiate what appears to be such an astonishing change in policy. In their search for the origins of these Great Reforms, historians generally have focused upon two phenomena. The first of these was Russia's defeat in the Crimean War by a relatively small, ineptly commanded Allied expeditionary force. The second was the serf revolts, which increased dramatically in the 1850s. From these events, most historians have concluded that the economic failings of serfdom, the problem of preserving domestic peace, and the need to restore Russia's tarnished military prestige were the major forces that convinced Alexander II's government to embark upon a new reformist path. As Lincoln's examination of the long-unstudied Russian archival evidence shows, there are good reasons to question whether such crises of policy and failings of Russia's servile economy impelled Alexander II and his advisers along a previously uncharted reformist path after the Crimean War. Further, in light of the Russian bureaucracy's slowness in drafting much less complex administrative reforms during the previous century, Lincoln argues that the Great Reform legislation simply was too complex and required too much sophisticated knowledge about the Empire's economic, administratvive, and judicial affairs to have been formulated in the brief half-decade after the war's end.

In the Vanguard of Reform: Russia's Enlightened Bureaucrats, 1825–1861 (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

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The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians

Nicholas I, Emperor and Autocrat of All The Russias

Moscow: Treasures and Traditions (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service)

The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians

In war's dark shadow: The Russians before the Great War

Passage Through Armageddon: the Russians in War and Revolution 1914-1918

Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War

Red Victory: History of the Russian Civil War

In the vanguard of reform: Russia's enlightened bureaucrats, 1825-1861

In the Vanguard of Reform: Russia's Enlightened Bureaucrats, 1825–1861 (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)