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Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall by Andrew Meier Publisher Comments "A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 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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Molotov's Magic Lantern by Rachel Polonsky Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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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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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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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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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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The Russian Revolution (Brief Insight) by S A Smith Publisher Comments The fall of Soviet Russia inspired many people to reflect on the significance of the Russian Revolution, and the horrors of Stalin's regime that followed. Historian S.A. Smith uses new sources to examine the events of 1917 to 1936 and their impact on... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression by Wendy Goldman Publisher Comments Terror and Democracy in Stalin's Russia is the first book devoted exclusively to popular participation in the ?Great Terror,? a period in which millions of people were arrested, interrogated, shot, and sent to labor camps. In the unions and the factories,... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default by Martin Gilman Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;In 1998, President Boris Yeltsin's government defaulted on Russia's debts and the country experienced a financial meltdown that brought its people to the brink of disaster. In No Precedent, No Plan, Martin Gilman offers an insider's view of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Hardcover
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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 Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer Publisher Comments “Fascinating….A highly readable history of the conflict.” —New York Times Book Review In The Great Gamble, a groundbreaking account of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer vividly... (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 $28.00 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 $36.75 Your price: $13.97 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 $28.95 Your price: $11.87 Sale - Hardcover
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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) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.37 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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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 $45.95 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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