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Deception: The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today by Edward Lucas Publisher Comments From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the "Ace of Spies," by Lenins Bolsheviks in 1925 to the deportation from the United States of Anna Chapman, the "Redhead Under the Bed," in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover 
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A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia by Russell Martin Publisher Comments From 1505 to 1689, Russia’s tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm’s most beautiful young maidens—provided they hailed from the aristocracy—gathered in Moscow, where the tsar’s... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $54.95 New - Hardcover
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The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin by Stephen F. Cohen Publisher Comments Stalins Reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called “the other holocaust.” During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women, and children perished than in Hitlers destruction of the European Jews. Many millions... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King Publisher Comments In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from the writers Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Between East and West: The Origins of Modern Russia: 862-1953 by R. D. Charques Publisher Comments A classic work now back in print for the first time since 1956--and still regarded as one of the groundbreaking books on the subject--this narrative history of Russia was the first to encompass the myth-befogged beginnings of the nation-state, the rise... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Russia in 1913 by Wayne Dowler Publisher Comments A pivotal year in the history of the Russian Empire, 1913 marks the tercentennial celebration of the Romanov Dynasty, the infamous anti-Semitic Beilis Trial, Russia's first celebration of International Women's Day, the ministerial boycott of the Duma... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $29.25 New - Trade Paper
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A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present by Barbara Evans Clements Publisher Comments Synthesizing several decades of scholarship by historians East and West, Barbara Evans Clements traces the major developments in the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of the nation. Sketching lived experiences across the... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $25.75 New - Trade Paper
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Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith Publisher Comments Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalins Russia... (read more) Available October 2, 2012 Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present by Stephen M. Norris Publisher Comments A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies. For six centuries this diversity was contained within the sprawling territories of the... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $31.50 New - Trade Paper
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Russian Politics: The Paradox of a Weak State (Columbia/Hurst) by Marie Mendras Publisher Comments In recent years, it seems as if Russia's rulers -- and even its citizens -- have turned their backs on democracy and the rule of law. Vladimir Putin's regime often acts in opposition to Europe and maintains only strained relations with the rest of the... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $47.50 New - Hardcover
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Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie Publisher Comments In this commanding book, Robert K. Massie, prize-winning author of Catherine the Great, sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté... (read more) Available September 18, 2012 Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Liberals Under Autocracy: Modernization and Civil Society in Russia, 1866-1904 by Anton A. Fedyashin Publisher Comments With its rocky transition to democracy, post-Soviet Russia has made observers wonder whether a moderating liberalism could ever succeed in such a land of extremes. But in Liberals under Autocracy, Anton A. Fedyashin looks back at the vibrant Russian... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $26.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Summer Palaces of the Romanovs: Treasures from Tsarskoye Selo by Emmanuel Ducamp Publisher Comments Situated just south of St. Petersburg, the Russian imperial residence of Tsarskoye Selo is now more than three hundred years old. Tsarskoye Selo ("Tsar's Village") was once a modest estate housing a summer residence for Catherine I, second wife of Peter... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $100.00 New - Hardcover
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Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie Publisher Comments Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. The acclaimed author of Catherine the Great, Robert K. Massie delves deep into the... (read more) Available September 18, 2012 Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse by Lawrence Scott Sheets Publisher Comments A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it. Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day 1991: this is how... (read more) Available October 30, 2012 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present by Stephen M. Norris Publisher Comments A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies. For six centuries this diversity was contained within the sprawling territories of the... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $104.25 New - Hardcover
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Russia S International Relations in the Twentieth Century by Alastair Kocho-williams Publisher Comments Russia has long been a major player in the international relations arena, but only by examining the whole century can Russian foreign policy be properly understood, and key questions as to the impact of war, of revolution, of collapse, the emergence of... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $45.50 New - Trade Paper
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A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present by Barbara Evans Clements Publisher Comments Synthesizing several decades of scholarship by historians East and West, Barbara Evans Clements traces the major developments in the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of the nation. Sketching lived experiences across the... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $93.50 New - Hardcover
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An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia by Katherine Pickering Antonova Publisher Comments An Ordinary Marriage is the story of the Chikhachevs, middling-income gentry landowners in nineteenth-century provincial Russia. In a seemingly strange contradiction, the mother of this family, Natalia, oversaw serf labor and managed finances while the... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $85.95 New - Hardcover
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Independence Day: Myth, Symbol, and the Creation of Modern Poland by M. B. B. Biskupski Publisher Comments The 11th of November 1918, Polish Independence Day, is a curious anniversary whose commemoration has been only intermittently observed in the last century. In fact, the day -- and the several symbols that rightly or wrongly have become associated with it... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $127.25 New - Hardcover
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