Ivan the Terrible 9781461661085, 9780815412298, 1461661080

Czar Ivan IV (1530-1584), the first Russian ruler to take the title "czar," is known as one of the worst tyran

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Ivan the Terrible
9781461661085, 9780815412298, 1461661080

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Ivan IV "the Terrible" (1533-1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among th

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This is the first major re-assessment of Ivan the Terrible to be published in the West in the post-Soviet period. It bre

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Ivan The Terrible (1944/46) was envisaged by its director, Sergei Eisenstein as a trilogy. But, Eisenstein died before b

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Eisenstein’s last, unfinished masterpiece is a strange, complex and haunting film. Commissioned personally by Stalin in

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Survey of the reign of Ivan the Terrible

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Ivan was the first Russian ruler to invade Europe, and his Campaigns against the Livonian Confederation were initially v

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This book explores the contradictory images of Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584) in Russian historical memory since 1991 bec

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A manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russ

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