No prince more often went to pay his respects to the Mongol potentate than did Ivan Kalita, .nor was he ever aught but a welcome guest on his arrival, seeing that heath-ck" care never. to come empty-handed. Already it was an accepted ...
The buildings of the Constructivists bore some similarities to the Functional architecture of Western architects such as Le Corbusier ( who visited the Soviet Union on several occasions ) and Walter Gropius .
Roger Bartlett traces the history of the country from its beginnings in Kiev Russia, through the Muscovite and Imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet periods, to the start of the twenty-first century.
Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history—political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural—with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance, and to ...
Generally recognized as the standard one-volume history of Russia, this monumental work describes Russia's growth from the times of the nomadic tribes to the present Cold War and examines the social, religious, and cultural as well as the ...
Bernard Pares, in his classic, A History of Russia, takes the reader a long way towards a knowledge and understanding that few single volume histories have been able to give....
The first edition, 1974, was endorsed by BCL3 . Here are added two chapters to bring the work through 1985. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
This book is an attempt to look back at Russian history and to try and discover why these particular rulers are so relevant today.