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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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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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Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith by Andrew Wilson Publisher Comments This work examines the impact of nationalism on the politics of Ukraine, arguably the most important of the non-Russian states to emerge from the collapse of the USSR in 1991.... (read more) Your price: $55.75 New - 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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Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum Publisher Comments The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Survivors : an Oral History of the Armenian Genocide (93 Edition) by Lorna Touryan Miller Publisher Comments Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation. Yet their story has received scant attention... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century by Modris Eksteins Publisher Comments Part history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris Eksteins's family members lend an intimate dimension... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Soldiers of Memory: World War II and Its Aftermath in Estonian Post-Soviet Life Stories. by Ene Koresaar Publisher Comments Soldiers of Memory explores the complexities and ambiguities of World War II experience from the Estonian veterans' point of view. Since the end of World War II, contesting veteran cultures have developed on the basis of different war experiences and... (read more) Your price: $149.75 New - Hardcover
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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) Your price: $1.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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State & Nation Building in Ukraine 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) Your price: $243.25 New - Hardcover
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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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Islam Without a Veil: Kazakhstan's Path of Moderation by Claude Salhani Publisher Comments Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia that has been under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev since independence in 1991, has proven that a mostly Muslim nation can be active on the international scene. Its leaders have worked... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Ukrainian nationalism in the 1990s :a minority faith by Andrew Wilson Publisher Comments This work examines the impact of nationalism on the politics of Ukraine, arguably the most important of the non-Russian states to emerge from the collapse of the USSR in 1991.... (read more) Your price: $140.25 New - Hardcover
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Beyond the Pale (02 Edition) by Benjamin Nathans Publisher Comments A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Chechen Jihad: Al Qaeda's Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror by Yossef Bodansky Publisher Comments One of the most respected experts on radical Islamism returns to alert readers to the future course of Islamic extremism--by turning the spotlight on the troubled region of Chechnya.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Civil War in Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920 by Jonathan D. Smele Publisher Comments 'This book traces the clash between the \'Reds\" of the Moscow-based Soviet regime and the \'Whites\", the militaristic, counter-revolutionary governments.'... (read more) Your price: $178.25 New - Hardcover
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Ghost of Freedom: a History of the Caucasus (08 Edition) by Charles King Publisher Comments Named by Moscow Times the History Book of the Year, The Ghost of Freedom combines riveting storytelling with insightful analysis, in the first general history of the modern Caucasus, stretching from the beginning of Russian imperial expansion up to the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Soldier's War by Arkady Babchenko Synopsis One Soldiers War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldiers experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of the book was hailed by Tibor Fisher in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The A to Z of Moldova by Andrei Brezianu Publisher Comments The Republic of Moldova claims a European lineage reaching back in time long before its 14th century accession to statehood. In the 15th century, it managed against all odds to avoid being conquered by Islam and-albeit an intermittent vassal after 1485... (read more) Your price: $56.95 New - Trade Paper
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