General Russian History

The Russian Moment in World History
The Russian Moment in World History
by Marshall T Poe

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Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative and elegantly written short history of Russia, Marshall Poe takes us well beyond the Soviet haze deep into the nation's fascinating — not at all inevitable, and in key respects remarkably successful — past....(read more)
 
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General Russian History

Ivan's War : Life and Death in the Red Army (06 Edition)
by Catherine Merridale

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A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources. Of the thirty million who fought, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by... (read more)
 
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Soviet Union

The Long Walk, New PB Edition: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz

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"I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor... (read more)
 
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Romanovs

The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russians
by W Bruce Lincoln

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For three centuries--beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613--the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia. Its reign ended with the execution of Nicholas II and Alexandra in the early 20th century. Noted Russian scholar W. Bruce Lincoln... (read more)
 
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Travel

St Petersburg (Lonely Planet St. Petersburg)
by Mara Vorhees

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Author has almost 20 years of Russian travel experience. Special 16-page color section highlighting the Hermitage museum floor by floor. Interviews with locals for valuable insights into St Petersburg's daily life.... (read more)
 
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Post Soviet Republics

One Soldier's War
by Arkady Babchenko

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One Soldier’s War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of the book was hailed by Tibor... (read more)
 
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Soviet States Post 1985

Notes from Russia: Hand-Made Street Notices
by Alexei Plutser-samo

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The world of Russian public notices is fascinating, bizarre and saturated in tragic-comedy: An old woman. Left home and has not returned. Small, hunchbacked. Wears: a blue dress, red wool cardigan, a white handkerchief with red flowers on her head, grey... (read more)
 
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Siberia

River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny
by Jeffrey Tayler

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One of today's most intrepid writers chronicles a deadly trek through the legendary region that gave birth to the gulag and gave Siberia its outsize reputation for perilous isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down... (read more)
 
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Russian Revolution

Ten Days That Shook the World
by John Reed

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In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record... (read more)
 
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Russian Lapland, a region of amazing contrasts. Here lies the last true wilderness of Europe, a rich and pristine ecosystem teeming with bird and animal life. But here too lie the dark, satanic mills of the former Soviet Union and the rotting remnants of... (read more)
 
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Tsarist Russia

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by Leah Bendavid Val

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General Russian History

Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War
by Rodric Braithwaite

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In 1941 close to one million Russian soldiers died defending Moscow from German invasion–more causalities than that of the United States and Britain during all of World War II. Many of these soldiers were in fact not soldiers at all, but instead... (read more)
 
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A History of the World in Six Glasses
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Nicholas and Alexandra : the Story of the Love That Ended an Empire (00 Edition)
by Robert K. Massie

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History offers few eras richer in drama than the last years of imperial Russia. Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra, presided over a glittering world of huge palaces, lavish balls, and incomparable luxury. Then their cherished son Alexis was... (read more)
 
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Lost Cosmonaut: Observations of an Anti-Tourist
by Daniel Kalder

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Daniel Kalder belongs to a unique group: the anti-tourists. Sworn to uphold the mysterious tenets of The Shymkent Declarations, the anti-tourist seeks out the dark, lost zones of our planet, eschewing comfort, embracing hunger and hallucinations, and... (read more)
 
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