Essays on the history of railways. The third book. The Great Russian Way from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow 9780231546393

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of

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How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie 9780271030371

In the bookshops of present-day St. Petersburg, guidebooks abound. Both modern descriptions of Russia’s old imperial cap

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The History of Railways

Take a journey through time to discover the history of railways, from the pioneering days of steam to the high-speed ele

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The End of St Petersburg 9780755699650, 9781860649110

Pudovkin’s epic is the most complex work of his brilliant career. The film was made to commemorate the Bolshevik Revolut

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St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past 9780300198591

Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring cities—a place

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The End of St. Petersburg: The Film Companion 1860649114, 9781860649110

Vsevolod Pudovkin is one of the recognized masters of Soviet cinema, along with Eisenstein and Vertov, and his epic The

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Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration 9780300162899

The West has been accused of seeing the East in a hostile and deprecatory light, as the legacy of nineteenth-century Eur

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Essays on the Great Depression [Course Book ed.] 9781400820276

Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency

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Russian corporate capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika 0195096770

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The Formation of the Great Russian state;: A Study of Russian History in the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries 1131812654

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