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Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld
Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld
by Nicolai Lilin
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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)

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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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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)

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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
by Charles King
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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)

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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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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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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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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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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz
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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)

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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 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)

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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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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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When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
by Gal Beckerman
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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)

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Forsaken From the Great Depression To the Gulags Hope & Betrayal in Stalins Russia
Forsaken From the Great Depression To the Gulags Hope & Betrayal in Stalins Russia
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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The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev
The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev
by Daniel Treisman
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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)

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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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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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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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Putin's Oil: The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia
Putin's Oil: The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia
by Martin Sixsmith
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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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Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great
by Simon Dixon
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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)

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