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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments A heroic love story and an unprecedented inside view of one of Stalin's most notorious labor camps, based on a remarkable cache of letters smuggled in and out of the Gulag "I went to get the letters for our friends, and couldn't help but feel a little... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover 
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Expelled: A Journalist's Descent Into the Russian Mafia State by Luke Harding Publisher Comments In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper, The Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service --the successor to the KGB--had broken into his apartment. He... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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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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Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles by Isaiah Gruber Publisher Comments A pivotal period in Russian history, the Time of Troubles in the early seventeenth century has taken on new resonance in the country’s post-Soviet search for new national narratives. The historical role of the Orthodox Church has emerged as a key... (read more) Your price: $48.50 New - Hardcover
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The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story by Mary Kay Wilmers Publisher Comments Mary-Kay Wilmers began looking into aspects of her remarkable family twenty years ago. The result is a book of astonishing scope and originality that throws light into some of the darkest corners of the last century. At the center of the story stands the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History by Edmund Wilson Publisher Comments One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik Revolution Edmund Wilsons To the Finland Station is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda During World War II by Karel C Berkhoff Publisher Comments Much of the story about the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany has yet to be told. In Motherland in Danger, Karel Berkhoff addresses one of the most neglected questions facing historians of the Second World War: how did the Soviet leadership... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Germany, Poland and Postmemorial Relations: In Search of a Livable Past (Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies) by Kristin (edt) Kopp Publisher Comments Following the end of the Cold War, Germans and Poles engaged in wide-reaching reassessments of their shared traumatic past. This volume examines the roles the German occupation, the Holocaust, and the postwar expulsion of Germans from Poland have come... (read more) Your price: $90.00 New - Hardcover
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Understand Stalin's Russia a Teach Yourself Guide (Teach Yourself: History & Politics) by Evans Publisher Comments Unravel the mystery surrounding Stalin's Russia Understand Stalin's Russia covers all aspects of this fascinating history, from the shadows of Tsarism and the legacy of Lenin, to the implications of Stalin's rule. You will be gripped by the horrific... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Creating a Socialist Yugoslavia: Tito, Communist Leadership and the National Question (International Library of Twentieth Century History) by Hilde Katrine Haug Publisher Comments When the Yugoslav communists came into power in 1945, they claimed to have introduced a socialist solution to the Yugoslav national question. But what did this claim imply? This book charts the approach pursued by Yugoslav communist leaders from their... (read more) Your price: $105.00 New - Hardcover
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Russian History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Geoffrey Hosking Publisher Comments Russia's sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especially given its harsh climate, vast and vulnerable borders, and the diversity of its people. In this Very Short Introduction, Geoffrey Hosking discusses all... (read more) Your price: $11.95 New - Trade Paper
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On the Run in Siberia by Rane Willerslev Publisher Comments If I had let myself be ruled by reason alone, I would surely be lying dead somewhere or another in the Siberian frost. The Siberian taiga: a massive forest region of roughly 4.5 million square miles, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Bering Sea,... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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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 $19.99 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Next Generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan: Youth, Politics, Identity, and Change by Nadia M. Diuk Your price: $81.50 New - Hardcover
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A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End by Peter Kenez List Price $25.00 Your price: $24.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways by Anthony Heywood List Price $59.00 Your price: $56.79 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe by Roger Dale Petersen List Price $38.00 Your price: $36.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Dynasty of Chernigov: 1146-1246 by Martin Dimnik List Price $45.00 Your price: $43.31 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865 by Mark Bassin List Price $55.00 Your price: $52.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943-1953 by Donald A. Filtzer List Price $93.00 Your price: $89.51 Google eBooks - Electronic
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