History books

This book ​makes a major contribution to the continuing legal and historical struggle for equal pay in Australia,...  Read More >>

Recounted here by historian Gerald Friesen, John Norquay’s life story ignites contemporary conversations around...  Read More >>

This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics...  Read More >>

This book explores the life and teaching of John of the Cross, the Spanish mystic who remains a major source of...  Read More >>

A stunning, revelatory new book about the final years of the Beatles based on extraordinarily frank, never-before-published...  Read More >>

The Soviet Far East (1957) examines the Soviet economic and political development of the Russian Far East between...  Read More >>

The Russian Workers’ Republic (1921) is a result of the author’s two-month travels through Soviet Russia. Moving...  Read More >>

The Soviet Communist Party (1986) provides a concise and accessible description, analysis and assessment of the...  Read More >>

The Soviet Secret Police (1957) depicts the main aspects of the development, structure and functions of the secret...  Read More >>

Soviet Russia (1955) discusses the origins and growth of Russian industry, in particular the emergence of a large...  Read More >>

Soviet Local Politics and Government (1983) examines the local government system of the Soviet Union, an important...  Read More >>

The Soviet Space Programme (1988) presents a comprehensive over-view of the Soviet space programme from its beginnings...  Read More >>

Soviet Success (1947) deals with Soviet Russia after the Second World War. The author met Stalin, Molotov and other...  Read More >>

Soviet Socialism (1987) is based on the author’s specialized knowledge of many aspects of Soviet politics, including...  Read More >>

Soviet Succession Struggles (1988) is a key study of the history, nature and development of Soviet politics and...  Read More >>

Soviet Communism (1989) contains the full text of the 1986 significantly revised foundational documents of Soviet...  Read More >>

Communism in Transition (1993) examines the mainstays of Communist ideology, and goes on to look at the collapse...  Read More >>

The Cold War Past and Present (1987) analyses the generally antagonistic postwar relations between the Soviet Union...  Read More >>

The Way of Bitterness (1931) is a valuable record of life in Soviet Russia in the early days of Bolshevik rule....  Read More >>

The Soviet Union and Terrorism (1984) examines the extent of Soviet involvement in international terrorism, and...  Read More >>

The Soviet Union (1989) examines the state of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. It claimed to offer a new...  Read More >>

Constitutional Development in the USSR (1981) looks at the political institutions and practices of the Soviet state...  Read More >>

Improvement of Desert Ranges in Soviet Central Asia (1985) examines the progress made in the Soviet Union’s attempts...  Read More >>

The Road to Intervention (1988) uses rarely-seen British government papers to analyse the position of the Allied...  Read More >>

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (1992) is the definitive history and political analysis of this institution....  Read More >>