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Forsaken From the Great Depression To the Gulags by Tim Tzouliadis Publisher Comments A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir by Elena Gorokhova Publisher Comments Elena Gorokhovas A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by. Elenas country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Russian Revolution (Brief Insight) by S A Smith Publisher Comments The fall of Soviet Russia inspired many people to reflect on the significance of the Russian Revolution, and the horrors of Stalin's regime that followed. Historian S.A. Smith uses new sources to examine the events of 1917 to 1936 and their impact on... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB by Alex Goldfarb Publisher Comments The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Revolution 1989 the Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen Publisher Comments Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world. At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By year's end, they had all declared national independence and embarked on the road... (read more) Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival by Owen Matthews Publisher Comments A transcendent history/memoir of one familys always passionate, sometimes tragic connection to Russia. On a midsummer day in 1937, a black car pulled up to a house in Chernigov, in the heart of the Ukraine. Boris Bibikov—Owen Matthewss... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julia P Gelardi Publisher Comments This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of life for these Imperial women The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya Publisher Comments A collection of final dispatches by the famed journalist, including the first translation of the work that may have led to her murder Anna Politkovskaya won international fame for her courageous reporting. Is Journalism Worth Dying For? is a long-awaited... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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One Soldier's War by Arkady Babchenko Synopsis One Soldiers War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldiers 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 Fisher in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir *** I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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What Life Was Like in the Time of War and Peace: Imperial Russia, Ad 1696-1917 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Letters from Russia (New York Review Books Classics) by Astolphe De Custine Publisher Comments Edited by the winner of the 2000 Prix Goncourt Lyceens, Astolphe de Custines report on his visit to Russia in 1839 is a perceptive, even prophetic, reckoning with the institutions and character of a powerful, troubled country. Lauded by Louis Auchincloss... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power by Virginia Rounding Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Grandes Horizontales comes a book that the Washington Post calls a vivid portrait of a sensual and intellectual woman. Dutiful daughter, passionate lover, doting grandmother, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chronicle of the Russian Tsars by David Warnes Publisher Comments The lives of tsars famous and infamous are covered in a lively series of biographical portraits stretching from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Discover the facts behind the reputations of rulers such as Ivan the Terrible, whose... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars by Ethan Pollock Publisher Comments "Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars is a fascinating book about one of the most enigmatic periods in Soviet history. With great insight, and on the basis of thorough archival research, Ethan Pollock examines the organized discussions of science in Stalin'... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914 by William C Fuller Publisher Comments "A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty".--Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard University.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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War and Peace in the Caucasus: Ethnic Conflict and the New Geopolitics by Vicken Cheterian Synopsis Having spent decades reporting on conflicts in Georgia and Chechnya, Vicken Cheterian provides an authoritative account of ethno-nationalistic strife in the Caucasus since the collapse of the Soviet Union. He investigates why some nationalist movements... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments Although some twenty million people died during Stalins reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev by R W Davies Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive survey of Soviet economic development from 1917 to 1965 in the context of the prerevolutionary economy. In these years the Soviet Union was transformed from a predominantly agrarian country into a major industrial power.... (read more) List Price $71.75 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Hardcover
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