No comments about INVITATION TO RUSSIA.

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2 comments about Behind the Urals (Russia Observed).

1. I had to read this book for my college history course in World History. The book gave good factual events from an American who had gone to Russia during the five year plan in Stalin's regime. This book is an autobiographical account of an American man's life and marriage in Russia, yet I did not enjoy the deep amount of factual literature that was implemented into the book, since the author did not let the reader become intimate with his personal life or feelings. I felt that this book was more of a textbook than a novel. However, I believe that professors will most likely assign this book for their students, especially for the topic of the five year plan, due to the amount of historical and factual content embedded into the story.



2. One of the best books ever written about the Soviet Union. This account of the construction of Magnitogorsk -- one of the largest and most ambitious industrial projects ever undertaken -- is deeply personal and moving. Yet, it also manages to communicate the idealism and revolutionary fervor that transformed the agricultural and technologically backward Soviet Union into a superpower.

No comments about An adventurous journey, Russia--Siberia--China.

No comments about Russia: Travels and Studies (Russia Observed).

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1 comments about The North Caucasus Barrier: The Russian Advance Towards the Muslim World.

1. The collapse of the Soviet Union has made ancient areas once again visible, both because information about them is newly accessible and because their many conflicts put them in the news. The Caucasus fits this description unusually well, for only a handful of specialists know anything about this very turbulent region. The North Caucasus Barrier contains outstanding studies by Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay on Russia's cooption of Caucasian elites; by Moshe Gammer on its strategies of conquest; by Paul B. Henze on the Circassian resistance; and by the editor and Abdurahman Avtorkhanov (a historic Chechen figure) on the Soviet period. It also contains a final chapter on developments after the 1991 putsch attempt. Broxup and her five colleagues provide an important service in bringing to general attention (and especially to Russian and Middle Eastern specialists) the scope of the North Caucasus's two-century war with Russia, the longest going between any Muslim and Christian peoples. The conflict's significance for Russia lies in the immense impact-psychological, literary, political-of the Caucasian wars. For the Middle East, that the martial peoples of that mountainous region "stood guard and protected the Muslim world" made it possible for Turkey and Iran to retain their independence.

   Middle East Quarterly, June 1994

No comments about Modern Russia - As Seen By An Englishwoman.

No comments about Russia: A Spy Guide (World Business Law Handbook Library) (World Business Law Handbook Library).

No comments about The boy travellers in the Russian empire: Adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across Siberia.