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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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The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers Publisher Comments In this biography, Chambers traces Ransome's life back to his earliest childhood, his struggles as a hack writer, and his flight from a disastrous marriage, then on to the decade he spent in Russia during that country's violent, formative years... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed Publisher Comments In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service Publisher Comments Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Trotsky (Life & Times) by David Renton Publisher Comments A concise guide to one of the most significant figures in the much-debated history of... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service Publisher Comments Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Victory: Visions and Revisions (Major Problems in American History Series) by Ronald Grigor Suny Publisher Comments Original writings by Lenin, Tsereteli, and Trotsky enable students to view the causes and conflicts at the root of the revolution, while the insights of contemporary social history add depth to traditional political and personality-based assessments.... (read more) List Price $58.15 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand Patenaude Publisher Comments Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much passion, controversy, and curiosity as Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was that rare combination of the man of ideas and the man of action. His role in history—his epic rise and fall, his... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bolsheviks Come To Power: the Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (04 Edition) by Alexander Rabinowitch Publisher Comments This history of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), first published in 1976, is probably most notable in the emphasis author Rabinowitch (emeritus, Russian history, Indiana U.) places on the relationships between the Bolshevik... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lenin and the Russian Revolution (Interlink Illustrated Histories) by Antonella Salomoni Publisher Comments Interlink's new illustrated history series seeks to explore the persistent themes of our recent past in order to prepare for the new century. Each volume offers a concise yet comprehensive analysis of a particular political, cultural or social phenomenon... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917 by Vladimir Lenin Publisher Comments On September 11, 2001, a central critique of missile defence -- that it will be futile against the lowest-tech and most likely type of attack against the United States -- was brought home with terrible force. Yet the programme continues, as it has in one... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Russia Under Bolshevik Regime (94 Edition) by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Pipes is a widely recognized authority on Russia and is currently Baird professor of History at Harvard University. This is the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ten Days That Shook the World (07 Edition) by John Reed Publisher Comments An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook the World is Reed's... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude Publisher Comments The author offers the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico and the light they shed on one of the most captivating and controversial figures in modern history. 25,000 first printing.... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Three Whys of the Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Our foremost authority on Russian communism -- the author of the definitive studies The Russian Revolution and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime -- now addresses succinctly the enigmas of that country's seventy-year enthrallment, asking: Why did tsarism... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of 1917: Russia's Year of Revolution by Roy Bainton Publisher Comments Russia's Bolshevik Revolution began in 1917 and has remained a controversial political and academic battleground, fought over for almost a century. It has been demonized—its more sinister aspects used as an anti-Communist battering ram throughout... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff Publisher Comments Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Award Ignatieff chronicles five generations of his Russian family, beginning in 1815. Drawing on family diaries, on the contemplation of intriguing photographs in an old family album, and on stories passed down... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bolshevik Culture: Experiment & Order in the Russian Revolution by Abbott Gleason Synopsis In the tumultuous years after the revolution of 1917, the traditional cutlure of Imperial Russia was both destroyed and preserved, as a new Soviet culture began to take shape. This book focuses on the interaction between the emerging political and... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State: A Brief History with Documents by Jeffrey Brooks Publisher Comments Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) led the first successful revolt against market-based liberal democracy and founded the Soviet state in 1917, serving as the new nation's chief architect and sole ruler for the next five years. He created an innovative... (read more) List Price $16.90 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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