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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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Through Soviet Jewish Eyes by Prof. David Shneer Publisher Comments Most view the relationship of Jews to the Soviet Union through the lens of repression and silence. Focusing on an elite group of two dozen Soviet-Jewish photographers, Through Soviet Jewish Eyes presents a different picture. These artists participated in... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $35.46 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Through Dark Days and White Nights: Four Decades Observing a Changing Russia by Naomi F. Collins Publisher Comments The author provides a personal, eye-witness account from the mid 1960's through the turn of the 21st century, starting as a graduate student at Moscow State University and ending as the wife of the American Ambassador to Russia. This book is like a... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Adobe Digital Editions - 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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History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks by Sean McMeekin Publisher Comments Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies andleaving nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil war? In... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $35.15 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Dismantling the West by Janusz Bugajski Publisher Comments As the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 demonstrated in no uncertain terms, Russia has developed into a neo-imperialist power seeking to restore its spheres of dominance, to undermine the emergence of a wider Europe, and to prevent the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Russia in the Nineteenth Century: Autocracy, Reform, and Social Change, 1814-1914 by Alexander Polunov Publisher Comments This is a comprehensive interpretive history of Russia from the defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I. It is the first such work by a post-Soviet Russian scholar to appear in English. Drawing on the latest Russian and Western historical... (read more) List Price $27.96 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Stalin by Sarah Davies Publisher Comments The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the controversial Soviet leader. Leading international experts accordingly challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $29.84 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Soviet State and Society under Nikita Khrushchev by Melanie Ilič Publisher Comments This book examines the social and cultural impact of the 'thaw' in Cold War relations, decision-making and policy formation in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev. It highlights the fact that many of the reform initiatives generally associated with... (read more) Your price: $43.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Erotic Nihilism in Late Imperial Russia: The Case of Mikhail Artsybashev's Sanin by Otto Boele Publisher Comments Otto Boele is assistant professor of Russian literature at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825 by Simon Dixon Publisher Comments Synthesis and in-depth thematic analysis of Russia's modernisation and her emergence as a Great Power.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $25.99 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Lost and Found in Russia by Susan Richards Publisher Comments After the fall of communism, Russia was in a state of shock. The sudden and dramatic change left many people adrift and uncertain—but also full of a tentative but tenacious hope. Returning again and again to the provincial hinterlands of this rapidly... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ukraine: State and Nation Building by Taras Kuzio Publisher Comments Taras Kuzio uses primary sources and interviews to survey the transformation of the Ukraine into an independent state, exploring issues such as borders, symbols, myths, national histories and new elites.... (read more) List Price $218.00 Your price: $209.82 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Revenge of the past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Ronald Grigor Suny Publisher Comments This timely and pathbreaking work shows how and why the dramatic collapse of the soviet Union was caused in large part by nationalism, that is, by the increasingly urgent demands of the subject nationalities of the Soviet Union for independence and... (read more) Your price: $24.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia by Robert V. Daniels Publisher Comments Robert V. Daniels is professor emeritus of history, University of Vermont. Among his many previous books are The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia and The End of the Communist Revolution. He lives in Burlington, VT.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $46.25 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Legacy of Soviet Dissent by Robert Horvath Publisher Comments This important book argues that the dissident movement between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s had profound repercussions for Gorbachev's reforms and for the post-Soviet order. It shows how certain ideas crystallized in the dissident milieu, and then... (read more) Your price: $175.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village by Serge Schmemann Publisher Comments A correspondent for The New York Times returns to his family's native village north of Moscow and shares stories of its past and his impressions of modern Russia. Reprint. Winner of the PEN/Albrand Award.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Sino-Soviet Split by Lorenz M. Lüthi Publisher Comments A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart. InThe Sino-Soviet Split, Lorenz L thi tells... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $29.24 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The History of Russia by Charles E. Ziegler Publisher Comments An updated edition of the acclaimed history of Russia, this new volume includes a wealth of material on events of the last decade.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $44.33 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Terror in Chechnya by Emma Gilligan Publisher Comments Terror in Chechnyais the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides a comprehensive history of the second Chechen conflict of 1999 to 2005, revealing one of the most appalling human rights catastrophes of the modern era--... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $31.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
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