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Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld by Nicolai Lilin Publisher Comments In a contested, lawless region between Moldova and Ukraine known as Transnistria, a tightly knit group of "honest criminals" live according to strict codes of ritualized respect and fierce loyalty. In a voice utterly compelling and unforgettable, Nicolai... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen Publisher Comments Early in the morning of February 21, 2012, five young women entered the enormous Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, took off their overcoats to expose neon dresses, tights, and balaclavas, climbed up on the dais and began to perform a punk... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King Publisher Comments In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from the writers Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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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: $4.98 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: $9.74 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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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk—a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their march over thousands of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir by Elena Gorokhova Publisher Comments Elena Gorokhova's andlt;Iandgt;A Mountain of Crumbs andlt;/Iandgt;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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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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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When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry by Gal Beckerman Publisher Comments A New Yorker Reviewers Favorites “Beckerman recounts the historic trajectory of this grand assertion of human rights with passionate clarity and pellucid conviction.”—Cynthia Ozick AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II, NEARLY THREE MILLION... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Forsaken From the Great Depression To the Gulags Hope & Betrayal in Stalins Russia 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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The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev by Daniel Treisman Publisher Comments In this critically acclaimed book, now available in paperback, noted scholar Daniel Treisman offers a refreshing and exhaustively reported look at the political, economic, and cultural changes in Russia, with an in-depth examination of the modern state... (read more) List Price $18.00 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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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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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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Putin's Oil: The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia by Martin Sixsmith Publisher Comments List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Catherine the Great by Simon Dixon Publisher Comments Admired for her achievements and satirized for her personal life, Catherine the Great was one of the most celebrated monarchs in history, turning eighteenth-century Russia into arguably the largest and most powerful state since the fall of the Roman... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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