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Forging Stalin's Army
This innovative study examines the early years of the Red Army as it developed from a revolutionary partisan force into a modern, professional institution under the leadership of Mikhail Tukhachevsky, an important and controversial figure in the politics of the Stalin period. Sally Stoecker combines her institutional analysis of the formative perio
Human Traffic and Transnational Crime
Russian social scientists, legal scholars, and officials in government agencies examine human trafficking from Russia and Ukraine to the US. The original Russian Torgovlia Liud'mi was edited by Elena Tiuriukanova and Liudmila Erochina and published by Academia Press in 2002; the English edition has been updated and enlarged to eight studies in such
Slavery Past, Present and Future
Preliminary Material /Catherine Armstrong and Jaya Priyadarshini -- Gandhi and the Indian Indentured Servants in South Africa /David W. Bulla -- Napoleon, the British Public Opinion, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade /Lubomir Krastev -- Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: Menial Caste Women and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Jodhpur /Jaya Priyadarshini -- Legacies of Slavery in a Former Slave-Reservoir: The Case of the Guéra Region /Valerio Colosio -- Workers/Slaves of the State: Prisoners /Ozde Nalan Koseoglu -- The Efficacy of a Youth Initiative /Clare McLeod -- Male Victims of Human Trafficking /Polina Smiragina -- Teaching 'Slavery in a Global Context': Some Pedagogical Themes and Problems /Catherine Armstrong -- Canada and the Legend of the Underground Railroad /Eleanor Lucy Bird -- Making 'Slavery' Work /Karen E. Bravo -- The Slave Narrative that Freed Me /Regina E. Mason -- Misunderstanding Slavery of the Past, Misunderstanding Slavery Today /David Wilkins.
Environmental Crime and Corruption in Russia
Environmental devastation, a significant consequence of industrial activity in Soviet times, continues to be a major problem in Russia. Specific problems include radioactive pollutants from inadequately monitored nuclear plants, illegal logging and wildlife poaching which have grown into hugely profitable businesses for criminal gangs, and toxic waste from unsanctioned and poorly controlled metallurgical, petroleum and agricultural chemical industries. This book presents a wide ranging assessment of the environmental problems faced by Russia and of the crime and corruption which contribute to them. It also discusses the attitude of the Russian government which seems to view environmental protection as something for rich countries, something to be postponed until Russia is on the same economic footing as wealthier Scandinavian and western European countries. It concludes, gloomily, that the problems are getting worse and that little is being done to tackle them.
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The Politics of Unfree Labour in Russia
Discusses human trafficking out of the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet state, and labour migration into and within Russia.
Clausewitz and Escalation
Published in 1991, Clausewitz and Escalation is a valuable contribution to the field of Military & Strategic Studies.
Russia's Army
With the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s Russia seems to have stepped out of time, reverting to an imperial era of conquest and expansion. But as Roger Reese points out in this comprehensive new history, Russia’s way of war has changed little from one century to the next, one regime to another, from the army of the tsar to the army of today. Russia’s Army reveals how the Imperial Russian Army and its successors, the Soviet Army and the army of the Russian Federation, confronted the state’s foreign policy challenges—projecting power and defending the empire—and the domestic challenge of containing internal unrest generated by nationalism, competing ethnic and religious ident...
Rockets and Revolution
Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight. Between 1903 and 1953, Russia matured in radical and dramatic ways as the tensions and expectations of the Russian revolution drew it both westward and spaceward. European and American industrial capacities became the models to imitate and to surpass. The burden was always on Soviet Russia to catch up—enough to achieve a number of remarkable ...
