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Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall
Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall
by Andrew Meier
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"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)

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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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Molotov's Magic Lantern
Molotov's Magic Lantern
by Rachel Polonsky
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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)

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Revolution 1989 the Fall of the Soviet Empire
Revolution 1989 the Fall of the Soviet Empire
by Victor Sebestyen
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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)

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Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
by Edvard Radzinsky
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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)

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The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga
The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga
by John Curtis Perry
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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)

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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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Siberia: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination)
Siberia: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination)
by A J Haywood
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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)

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The Russian Revolution (Brief Insight)
The Russian Revolution (Brief Insight)
by S A Smith
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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)

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Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression
Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression
by Wendy Goldman
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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)

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No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default
No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default
by Martin Gilman
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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)

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My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin
My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin
by Susan Butler
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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)

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The History of Pugachev
The History of Pugachev
by Aleksandr S Pushkin
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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)

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The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
by Gregory Feifer
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“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)

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Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
by David Satter
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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)

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Out of Order: Russian Political Values in an Imperfect World
Out of Order: Russian Political Values in an Imperfect World
by Ellen Carnaghan
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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)

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Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military
Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military
by Zoltan Barany
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"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)

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Russian Nationalisms Since 1856: Ideology and the Making of Foreign Policy
Russian Nationalisms Since 1856: Ideology and the Making of Foreign Policy
by Astrid Tuminez
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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)

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What Life Was Like in the Time of War and Peace: Imperial Russia, Ad 1696-1917
What Life Was Like in the Time of War and Peace: Imperial Russia, Ad 1696-1917
by Time Life
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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)

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Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising
Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising
by Erich Lessing
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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)

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