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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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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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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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One Soldier's War by Arkady Babchenko Synopsis One Soldiers Waris 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 Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew Publisher Comments The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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A History of Russia by Nichola Riasanovsky Publisher Comments Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume survey text available, A History of Russia presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an empire, to Soviet Russia, the successor states, and beyond... (read more) List Price $56.00 Your price: $24.98 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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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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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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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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Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising by Erich Lessing Publisher Comments Erich Lessing's landmark photographs of the Hungarian Revolution, published to mark the 50th anniversary of the uprising. On October 23, 1956, what began as a mass rally in Budapest quickly evolved into the Hungarian Revolution. Within days, millions of... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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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 $144.50 Your price: $33.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia by Timotheo Tzouliadis Publisher Comments A remarkable piece of forgotten history—the story of how thousands of Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives only to meet a tragic, and until now forgotten, end The Forsaken starts with a photograph of a baseball... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Spies in the Vatican: The Soviet Union's War Against the Catholic Church by John Koehler Publisher Comments Infamous for the arbitrary and paranoid persecution of their own citizens, it is a little known fact that the Soviet Union also waged a vicious espionage war against the Catholic Church and its followers. From the targeting of local priests to an... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Moscow: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) by Caroline Brooke Publisher Comments Caroline Brooke explores the way in which Moscow has reinvented itself over the years and the fascination it has exerted over the many writers, artists, and composers who made the city their home.... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $30.25 Sale - Hardcover
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