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Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed Publisher Comments "Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. While it is intended as an impartial and unbiased historical account, by Reed's own admission, "in the struggle... (read more) Your price: $2.99 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Grief of My Heart by Khassan Baiev Publisher Comments A Booklist Editor's Choice for 2003 In this riveting memoir, Khassan Baiev relates his harrowing experiences as a surgeon in one of the worst war zones of the last decade. When the hospital where Baiev worked in Grozny, the Chechen capital, was destroyed... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $11.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Wars by Vladimir N. Brovkin Publisher Comments Was the Bolshevik success in Russia during the revolution and civil war years a legitimate expression of the will of the people? Or did Russian workers, peasants, bourgeoisie, and upper-class groups pose numerous challenges to Bolshevik authority... (read more) Your price: $66.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Islam without a Veil: Kazakhstan's Path of Moderation by Claude Salhani Publisher Comments Examines the religious and political foundations of modern day Kazakhstan and argues that the country should serve as an example for other Muslim nations to live peacefully with citizens and international neighbors alike.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by John B. Dunlop Publisher Comments This is the first work to set one of the great bloodless revolutions of the twentieth century in its proper historical context. John Dunlop pays particular attention to Yeltsin's role in opposing the covert resurgence of Communist interests in post-coup... (read more) List Price $46.95 Your price: $41.67 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Global Trends in Eastern Europe by Nikolai Genov Publisher Comments Eastern Europe was once clearly defined by the centralised political and economic organisation of the societies in the region. They shared the same official ideology and were members of the same alliances. After 1989, the region collapsed in an economic,... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price: $96.20 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Petersburg Fin De Siecle by Mark D. Steinberg Publisher Comments The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg described and... (read more) Your price: $45.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System by Nanci Adler Publisher Comments The Gulag Survivor, now available in paperback, is the first book to examine at length and in-depth the post-camp experience of Stalins victims and their fate in post-Soviet Russia. It is an essential companion to the classic work of Aleksandr... (read more) List Price $23.96 Your price: $21.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore Publisher Comments A comprehensive biography of the Soviet tyrant and the men and women who surrounded him focuses on the the foundation of human, psychological, and physical supports that encouraged the dictator through the early days of Communism, World War II, and the... (read more) Your price: $15.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953 by Jonathan Brent Publisher Comments A study based on KGB documents and classified archives discusses the conspiracy known as "The Doctor's Plot," exploring the theory that Stalin was responsible for its engineering as part of his intent to start a holocaust in the Soviet Union and... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julia P. Gelardi Publisher Comments Profiles a turbulent period in Tsarist Russia history during which the country underwent a massive transformation, tracing the pivotal contributions and experiences of Marie Alexandrovna, Olga Constantinovna, Marie Feodorovna and Marie Pavlovna. By the... (read more) Your price: $16.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State by Michael S. Melancon Publisher Comments In 1912 a thin line of Russian soldiers, confronted by a large crowd of gold miners on strike for several weeks, reacted with fear and anger. At their officers' orders, they opened fire, shooting five hundred unarmed protestors. The event reverberated... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price: $11.09 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Many Deaths of Nicholas II by Wendy Slater Publisher Comments How did Nicholas II, Russia?s last Tsar, meet his death? Shot point blank in a bungled execution by radical Bolsheviks in the Urals, Nicholas and his family disappeared from history in the Soviet era. But in the 1970s, a local geologist and a crime... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price: $45.72 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Modernizing Muscovy by Jarmo Kotilaine Publisher Comments Modernizing Muscovyis a comprehensive account of seventeenth-century Russian history. It rejects the traditional interpretation of this era as the twilight of the Russian Middle Ages. By revealing important instances of dynamic change in the late... (read more) List Price $180.00 Your price: $173.25 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914-1939 by David L. Hoffmann Publisher Comments Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions. Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $39.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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On the Ideological Front by Stuart Finkel Publisher Comments This book centers on a powerful and gripping story, the 1922-1923 expulsion from Soviet Russia of some one hundred prominent intellectuals—professors, journalists, philosophers, writers, engineers, agronomists, and others. Stuart Finkel’s... (read more) Your price: $55.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Local Politics and Democratization in Russia by Cameron Ross Publisher Comments This comprehensive study of local politics in Russia shows that the key reforms of local government, and the struggle to forge viable grassroots democracies have been inextricably linked to the wider struggle for power between the regions and the Kremlin,... (read more) List Price $160.00 Your price: $154.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere Publisher Comments Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $19.25 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 by J. Arch Getty Publisher Comments 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 Stalin’s purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $21.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain by Dale Roy Herspring Publisher Comments The second edition of Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain is completely updated and expanded to provide the most current and complete review of Russia under President Vladimir Putin available. New chapters include analysis of Putin's... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $30.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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