This book relates the extraordinary adventures of Colonel F.M. Bailey, the famous British undercover agent. Long accused by Moscow as a master-spy orchestrating

Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of

This intensively researched urban study dissects Russian Imperial and early Soviet rule in Islamic Central Asia from the diverse viewpoints of tsarist functiona