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Transylvania by Brownen Riley Synopsis Transylvania is the birthplace of Dracula, where the Pied Piper carried the children of Hamelin, and home to Harry Potters dragons. Its a place where truth is often stranger than fiction: streams run with silver, the mountains are full of gold, and... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Nicholoas & Alexandra the Tragic Compell by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments Indigo edition of this well-received biography of the Romanovs. "The story of the last Tsar has probably never been so powerfully - and so accurately - told" "Guardian". 16pp b/w photos.... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution by Robert Service Publisher Comments The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years when the West strove to understand the new communist regime while also seeking to undermine it. Meanwhile, the... (read more) List Price $32.99 Your price: $12.98 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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Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra by Peter Kurth Publisher Comments This spectacular illustrated history tells the story of the last Romanovs - one of the great tragic love stories of all time - with unparalleled vividness & intimacy. The text, which follows Nicholas & Alexandria from their childhood's to the Siberian... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen Publisher Comments A chilling and unflinching portrait of one of the most fearsome figures in world politics. In 1999, the “Family” surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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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: $9.74 Sale - Trade Paper
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Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design by Michael Idov Publisher Comments This irreverent survey celebrates the more populist and enduring work in graphic and industrial design that was a product of the Soviet era - a period that remain politically sensitive and under-explored, yet whose influence on the objects and aesthetics... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir by Elena Gorokhova Publisher Comments Elena Gorokhova’s 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. Elena’s country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport Publisher Comments Helen Rappaports Conspirator is a vivid account of Vladimir I. Lenins years of exile in Europe, showing that this often-overlooked period shaped the life of one of the 20th centurys most important figures. In the years leading up to the Russian... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M Patenaude Publisher Comments In Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, Stanford University lecturer Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico. Shedding new light on Trotskys tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera, his... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 "A tremendous achievement."--The Sunday Times (London) The Whisperers is a triumphant act of recovery. In this powerful work of history, Orlando Figes chronicles the private history of family life during the violent... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Between East and West: The Origins of Modern Russia: 862-1953 by R D Charques Publisher Comments A classic work now back in print for the first time since 1956--and still regarded as one of the groundbreaking books on the subject--this narrative history of Russia was the first to encompass the myth-befogged beginnings of the nation-state, the rise... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Putin and the Rise of Russia by Michael Stuermer Publisher Comments When the Soviet Union collapsed, the world was left wondering about its destiny. In spite of the losses incurred, Russia is still a power with vast military inventories and an energy giant whose oil reserves will last, at present rates of exploitation... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky Publisher Comments When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was the ruthless apparatchik Vyacheslav Molotov, a henchman for Stalin... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Molotov's Magic Lantern by Rachel Polonsky Publisher Comments When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was the ruthless apparatchik Vyacheslav Molotov, a henchman for Stalin... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History (New Studies in European History) by Sarah Badcock Publisher Comments After the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in February 1917, Russia was subject to an eight month experiment in democracy. Sarah Badcock studies its failure through an exploration of the experiences and motivations of ordinary men and women, urban and... (read more) List Price $141.75 Your price: $33.98 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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