Category: History

The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms characteristic of the modern nation-state. In the 1920s, the Bolshevik government, seeking to defuse nationalist sentiment, created tens of thousands of national territories. It trained new national leaders, established national languages, and financed the production of national-language cultural products.This was a massive and fascinating historical expe... View more info

The sunne in splendour

By: Penman, Sharon Kay

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 1990, c1982.:

Seller ID: BB0241451

ISBN: 0345363132

Condition: vg

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The flight of the Romanovs

By: Perry, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, c1999.:

Seller ID: BB0240826

ISBN: 0465024629

Condition: vg/vg

A saga of love and lust, personal tensions and rivalries, antagonisms and hatreds, "The Flight of the Romanovs "describes the last century of the Russian imperial dynasty, the Romanovs, from the youth of the future tsar Alexander III in the 1860s until the death in 1960 of his daughter, Olga Alexandrovna, the last grand duchess.John Curtis Perry and Constantine V. Pleshakov use a wealth of previously untapped sources, including unpublished diaries of many of the principal characters, interviews with people who knew them well, and never before published photographs to create a history of a fami... View more info