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Transylvania
Transylvania
by Brownen Riley
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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)

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Nicholoas & Alexandra the Tragic Compell
Nicholoas & Alexandra the Tragic Compell
by Robert K Massie
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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)

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Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution
Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution
by Robert Service
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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)

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Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
by Alex Goldfarb
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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)

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Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
by Peter Kurth
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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)

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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
by Masha Gessen
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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)

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Forsaken From the Great Depression To the Gulags
Forsaken From the Great Depression To the Gulags
by Tim Tzouliadis
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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)

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Letters from Russia (New York Review Books Classics)
Letters from Russia (New York Review Books Classics)
by Astolphe De Custine
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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)

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Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design
Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design
by Michael Idov
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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)

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A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
by Elena Gorokhova
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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)

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Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
by Helen Rappaport
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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)

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Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary
Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary
by Bertrand M Patenaude
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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)

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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
by Orlando Figes
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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)

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Between East and West: The Origins of Modern Russia: 862-1953
Between East and West: The Origins of Modern Russia: 862-1953
by R D Charques
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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)

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Putin and the Rise of Russia
Putin and the Rise of Russia
by Michael Stuermer
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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)

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Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History
Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History
by Rachel Polonsky
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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)

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Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival
Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival
by Owen Matthews
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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)

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Molotov's Magic Lantern
Molotov's Magic Lantern
by Rachel Polonsky
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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)

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Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History (New Studies in European History)
Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History (New Studies in European History)
by Sarah Badcock
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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)

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Revolution 1989 the Fall of the Soviet Empire
Revolution 1989 the Fall of the Soviet Empire
by Victor Sebestyen
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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)

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