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Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution by Robert Service Publisher Comments The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years when the West strove to understand the new communist regime while also seeking to undermine it. Meanwhile, the... (read more) Your price: $32.99 New - Hardcover 
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Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport Publisher Comments Helen Rappaports Conspirator is a vivid account of Vladimir I. Lenins years of exile in Europe, showing that this often-overlooked period shaped the life of one of the 20th centurys most important figures. In the years leading up to the Russian... (read more) Your price: $18.99 New - Trade Paper
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Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust by Miron Dolot Publisher Comments In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Natasha's Dance : a Cultural History of Russia (02 Edition) by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg and culminating with the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nicholas and Alexandra : the Story of the Love That Ended an Empire (00 Edition) by Robert K. Massie Publisher Comments Massie offers a moving, tragic, and unforgettable account of the extraordinary Imperial dynasty of Tsar Nicholas II, his doomed empire, and a revolution that would inexorably change the world forever. "A larger than life drama."--Saturday... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Publisher Comments “Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous.” —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra by Peter Kurth Publisher Comments This spectacular illustrated history tells the story of the last Romanovs - one of the great tragic love stories of all time - with unparalleled vividness & intimacy. The text, which follows Nicholas & Alexandria from their childhood's to the Siberian... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Trade Paper
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Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire by Steven Seegel Publisher Comments The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and... (read more) Your price: $55.00 New - Hardcover
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From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julia P Gelardi Publisher Comments This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of life for these Imperial women The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914 by William C Fuller Publisher Comments "A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty".--Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard University.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Petrostate: Putin, Power, New Russia (10 Edition) by Marshall I. Goldman Publisher Comments In the aftermath of the financial collapse of August 1998, it looked as if Russia's day as a superpower had come and gone. That it should recover and reassert itself after less than a decade is nothing short of an economic and political miracle. Based on... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis Publisher Comments A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Crimean War: A History by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age. The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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Last Days of the Romanovs (10 Edition) by Rappaport Publisher Comments The brutal murder of the Russian Imperial family on the night of July 16-17, 1918 has long been a defining moment in world history. This book gives a riveting day-by-day account of the last fourteen days of their lives, as the conspiracy to kill them... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gorbachev, Yeltsin, & Putin: Political Leadership in Russia's Transition (Carnegie Endowment Series) by Archie Brown Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Second Edition by Raymond Pearson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-204) and index.... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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People's Tragedy : a History of the Russian Revolution (96 Edition) by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Paradoxes of Postcommunist Consciousness by Dmitri N Shalin Publisher Comments During the waning years of Soviet power, glasnost laid bare the distress of people trapped in a system they despised but felt powerless to change. The reexamination of values that began then continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one... (read more) List Price $53.75 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaya Publisher Comments Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Russian domination for centuries. The region declared its independence in 1991, leading to a brutal war, Russian withdrawal, and subsequent "governance" by bandits and... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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