russia (federation)

Follows the life of the Russian leader from his childhood through his rise to power and the present situation in his country.

A collection of fifteen essays that debate whether a cold war is beginning in twenty-first-century Afghanistan, and discusses Russia's influence, the impact of a cold war on the United States and other countries, and related topics.

Describes the historical and contemporary lives of Russian women, their religious, family, and public lives, and issues and controversies they face, and discusses the work of individual Russian women who have made a difference in their society or the world.

Jake Grafton, a Defense Intelligence agent, is dispatched to Moscow. His mission is to keep the twenty thousand nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union from getting on the black market, but there are many who would like to see him fail.

Chronicles Russia's efforts to recover and reassert itself as a world power after the financial collapse of 1998, describing how the region used its oil-based power to build a stronger, more stable government and economy.

Examines the life of Vladimir Putin, the second president of Russia, discussing his humble beginnings in Leningrad, schooling and athletic prowess, college years, recruitment by and career with the KGB, his marriage and family, posting in East Germany, resignation from the KGB, and rise through the political ranks.

A biography of the Russian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1904 for research on the digestive system and is perhaps best known for his research on dogs.

On his own after his network is dismantled by the Nazis, American socialite spy Stephen Metcalfe sets out from Paris to Moscow to find a former lover, ballerina Svetlana Baranova, and must choose between potentially saving the free world and saving the woman he realizes he still loves.

Contains interviews with eleven Russian young adults conducted in 1992, in which the author discusses the changes that have taken place in their lives since he first spoke with them three years earlier, touching on issues of work, career, marriage, children, economic difficulties, and escalating crime in post-Soviet Moscow.