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Rasputin: An Introduction (Essential Biographies) by Harold Shukman Publisher Comments Accessible and authoritative, this biography covers the truth behind the shadowy figure of Gregory Rasputin. Rasputin features in Russian history as a malign and destructive force, a man with an unhealthy influence on the Empress Alexandra... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga by John Curtis Perry Publisher Comments A saga of love and lust, personal tensions and rivalries, antagonisms and hatreds, The Flight of the Romanovs describes the last century of the Russian imperial dynasty-a century that saw the greatest social and political upheavals in all of recorded... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation (New Anthropologies of Europe) by Sarah Phillips Publisher Comments In postsocialist Ukraine, with privatization and the scaling back of the social safety net, it is primarily women who have been left as leaders of service-oriented NGOs and mutual aid associations, caring for the marginalized and destitute with little or... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Siberia: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination) by A J Haywood Publisher Comments Before Russians crossed the Urals Mountains in the sixteenth century to settle their "colony" in North Asia, they heard rumors about bountiful fur, of bizarre people without eyes who ate by shrugging their shoulders and of a land where trees exploded... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin by Susan Butler Publisher Comments My Dear Mr. Stalin is the first publication that contains the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. This collection of more than three hundred hot-war messages, never before fully available in any language, is an... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $18.87 Sale - Hardcover
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The History of Pugachev by Aleksandr S Pushkin Publisher Comments Written by Russia's greatest poet, this fact-based tale of an illiterate Don Cossack who nearly succeeded in deposing Catherine the Great was greeted with hostility by Czar Nicholas I, who insisted on censoring it. Pushkin did fieldwork and research that... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom by Stefan Waydenfeld Synopsis In a forgotten chapter of history, 1.5 million Polish civilians-arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939-were deported to slave labor camps throughout the most inhospitable forests... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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"--exiled there by Stalin-live according to strict codes of ritualized respect and fierce loyalty. Here, tattoos tell the story of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917 (Historical Materialism Book) by Marc Van Der Linden Publisher Comments “The amount of sources the author has studied is staggering . . . the book [has] an encyclopedic value and [is] accessible to all scholars interested in political history.”—Martin Kragh, Stockholm School of Economics “Since the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe: The Cold War's End and the Soviet Union's Fall Reappraised by Dick Combs Publisher Comments Much ink has been spilled by scholars, journalists, and former government officials from both the United States and the Soviet Union in efforts to explain how the Cold War came to an end and the Soviet system collapsed. Yet little consensus has emerged... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.37 Sale - Hardcover
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The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer Publisher Comments The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the twenty-first century. In The Great Gamble, Gregory Feifer examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. During the last years of the Cold... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State by David Satter Publisher Comments Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This riveting book... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.57 Sale - Trade Paper
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Out of Order: Russian Political Values in an Imperfect World by Ellen Carnaghan Publisher Comments One common explanation for the failure of democracy to take root in Russia more quickly and more thoroughly than it has points to inherited cultural values that predispose Russian citizens to favor an autocratic type of governance. Ellen Carnaghan takes... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life: 1865-1906 by Dmitry Shlapentokh Publisher Comments Sandwiched between the East and West, Russian intellectuals have for centuries been divided geographically, politically, and culturally into two distinct groups: the Slavophiles, who rejected Western-style democracy, preferring a more holistic and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military by Zoltan Barany Publisher Comments "The collapse of the Red Army was one of the most spectacular in human history, and also one of the most mysterious. Neither Soviet nor Russian armed forces suffered catastrophic losses on the battlefield, while Russian soldiers became more involved, not... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States by Ronald Grigor Suny Publisher Comments The West has always had difficulty understanding the Soviet Union. For decades, analyses of America's Cold War foe were clouded by ideological passions and a shear dearth of information. Then came the flood of dramatic revelations under glasnost... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Russian Nationalisms Since 1856: Ideology and the Making of Foreign Policy by Astrid Tuminez Synopsis This thoughtful book describes the range of nationalist ideas that have taken root in Russia since 1856. Drawing on a wide range of archival documents and unparalleled interview material from the post-Soviet period, Tuminez analyzes two cases_Russian... (read more) Your price: $21.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia by Douglas Smith Publisher Comments Filled with a remarkable cast of characters and set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance could be the stuff of a great historical novel. But in fact The Pearl tells a true tale, reconstructed in part from archival... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $16.77 Sale - Hardcover
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Putin's Oil: The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia by Martin Sixsmith Synopsis Putin's Oil relates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $18.50 Sale - Hardcover
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