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New Arrivals
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Romanovs
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. Massie
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen... (read more)

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Post Soviet Republics
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Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith
Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith
by Andrew Wilson
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This work examines the impact of nationalism on the politics of Ukraine, arguably the most important of the non-Russian states to emerge from the collapse of the USSR in 1991.... (read more)

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General Russian History
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The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 (Annals of Communism)
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 (Annals of Communism)
by J. Arch Getty
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Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalins purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret... (read more)

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Soviet Union
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Midland Book #0536: Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russias City of Steel
Midland Book #0536: Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russias City of Steel
by John Scott
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Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked. --Ronald Grigor Suny A genuine grassroots account of... (read more)

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Travel
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Frommer's Moscow Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day: Moscow)
Frommer's Moscow Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day: Moscow)
by Hillary Gilbert
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Enjoy your time in Moscow the smart way, with this full colour guide packed with  special interest tours, bulleted maps and star ratings for all hotels, restaurants and attractions. Includes special interest tours exploring the cities history... (read more)

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Siberia
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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
by Piers Vitebsky
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Since the last Ice Age, the reindeer's extraordinary adaptation to cold has sustained human life over vast tracts of the earth's surface, providing meat, fur, and transport. Images carved into rocks and tattooed on the skin of mummies hint at ancient... (read more)

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Tsarist Russia
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Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate, and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia
Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate, and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia
by Mary W Cavender
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This study establishes the deep loyalty of a segment of the Russian gentry to life in the provinces during the period 1820-1860, centering on the family but extending to estates, peasants, and neighborhood society. Arguing against the previously accepted... (read more)

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Soviet States Post 1985
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Gorbachev, Yeltsin, & Putin: Political Leadership in Russia's Transition (Carnegie Endowment Series)
Gorbachev, Yeltsin, & Putin: Political Leadership in Russia's Transition (Carnegie Endowment Series)
by Archie Brown
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This volume analyzes various aspects of the political leadership during the collapse of the Soviet Union and formation of a new Russia. Comparing the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin, the book reflects upon their goals... (read more)

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Sale Books
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The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia
The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia
by Douglas Smith
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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)

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Used Books
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Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s
Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s
by Veronique Garros
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The private diary accounts of daily life in Russia at the height of Stalinism.... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Tuesday,
May 29, 2012
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
  1. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
    by Robert K. Massie
  2. Pavlovsk: The Life of a Russian Palace
    by Suzanne Massie
  3. The Romanovs :the final chapter
    by Robert K Massie
  4. Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith
    by Andrew Wilson
  5. Anastasia
    by Peter Kurth
Guests | March 27, 2012

Jennifer duBois: IMG The Power of Derision



Of the many monopolies once and future Russian president Vladimir Putin has held over the years — on violence, on the media, on the gas... Continue »
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    A Partial History of Lost Causes

    Jennifer duBois 9781400069774
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