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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 demonizedits more sinister aspects used as an anti-Communist battering ram throughout... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 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: $2.95 Used - 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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The Russian Revolution (Brief Insight) by S A Smith Publisher Comments The fall of Soviet Russia inspired many people to reflect on the significance of the Russian Revolution, and the horrors of Stalin's regime that followed. Historian S.A. Smith uses new sources to examine the events of 1917 to 1936 and their impact on... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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My Life : an Attempt At an Autobiography (07 Edition) by Leon Trotsky Publisher Comments This priceless historical document by the Bolshevik leader features firsthand accounts from the top levels of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Trotsky chronicles the struggle to consolidate a government run by workers and peasants, along with... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life (Jewish Lives) by Joshua Rubenstein Publisher Comments Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lenin by Dmitri Volkogonov Publisher Comments For years, westerners have wondered what secrets were preserved not only in the KGB archives, but also in dozens of other off-limits locations. Now that Dmitri Volkogonov, historian and former general in the Soviet Army, has been entrusted with the... (read more) List Price $62.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service Publisher Comments of political oppression and social intimidation that has yet to be expunged.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Russian Revolution: 1917-1921 (Routledge Sources in History) by Ronald I Kowalski Publisher Comments The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has provided fresh perspectives from which to view the Revolution out of which it grew. The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921, by Ronald Kowalski, reviews the ever-changing debate on the nature of the Russian... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Russian Revolution by Graham Darby Synopsis This series is designed for students of all abilities at A Level and Scottish Higher Grade. Each chapter includes questions at the beginning which cover a range of core objectives, such as causation, continuity and change, interpretation and source... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky: 1921-1929 by Isaac Deutscher Publisher Comments Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky’s extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience, yet there was a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolution at the Gates: A Selection of Writings from February to October 1917 (Essential Zizek) by V I Lenin Publisher Comments Isn't Lenin little more than a byword for one of the great catastrophes of the twentieth century? No, Slavoj Žižek argues, Lenin deserves wider consideration, and his writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political mind. Everything is here... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Russian Anarchists by Paul Avrich Publisher Comments In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of “direct action”—workers’ control of production, the creation of free rural and urban communes, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lenin a Biography by Robert Service Publisher Comments of political oppression and social intimidation that has yet to be expunged.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M Patenaude Publisher Comments In Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, Stanford University lecturer Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico. Shedding new light on Trotskys tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera, his... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Russian Revolution (Seminar Studies in History) by Anthony Wood Publisher Comments A popular concise guide - one of the clearest available on the Russian Revolution.... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick Publisher Comments This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution as successive stages in a single process. Focusing on the Russian Revolution in its widest sense, Fitzpatrick covers not only the events of 1917 and what... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Queen of Bohemia :the life of Louise Bryant by Mary Dearborn Publisher Comments The wife of radical journalist John Reed, Louise Bryant was a pioneering reporter and shrewd social activist, a committed feminist and champion of sexual freedom. Bryant's stormy life is the enthralling story of one woman's struggle to live by her... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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