Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

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11. The History of Siberia

    By Igor V. Naumov

    Edited by David Collins

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

    Siberia has had an interesting history, quite distinct from that of Russia. Absolutely vast, containing many non-Russian nationalities, and increasingly important at present because of its huge energy reserves, Siberia was at one time part of the Mongol Empire, was settled relatively late by the...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
12. Cossacks and the Russian Empire, 1598–1725

    Manipulation, Rebellion and Expansion into Siberia

    By Christoph Witzenrath

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

    Using a wide range sources, this book explores the ways in which the Russians governed their empire in Siberia from 1598 to 1725. Paying particular attention to the role of the Siberian Cossaks, the author takes a thorough assessment of how the institutions of imperial government functioned in...

    Published April 2nd 2009 by Routledge
13. The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II

    Relics, Remains and the Romanovs

    By Wendy Slater

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

    How did Nicholas II, Russia’s last Tsar, meet his death? Shot point blank in a bungled execution by radical Bolsheviks in the Urals, Nicholas and his family disappeared from history in the Soviet era. But in the 1970s, a local geologist and a crime fiction writer discovered the location of their...

    Published June 20th 2007 by Routledge
14. Tiny Revolutions in Russia

    Twentieth Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes and Jokes

    By Bruce Adams

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

    This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the 20th century. Anecdotes and jokes were a hidden form of discursive communication in the Soviet era, lampooning official practices and acting as a confidential form of self-affirmation. They were not...

    Published January 9th 2005 by Routledge
15. Modernizing Muscovy

    Reform and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Russia

    Edited by Jarmo Kotilaine, Marshall Poe

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

    Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge