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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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The Russian Origins of the First World War by Sean Mcmeekin Publisher Comments The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate, and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia by Mary W Cavender Publisher Comments This study establishes the deep loyalty of a segment of the Russian gentry to life in the provinces during the period 1820-1860, centering on the family but extending to estates, peasants, and neighborhood society. Arguing against the previously accepted... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lenin's Brother (09 Edition) by Philip Pomper Publisher Comments In 1886, Alexander Ulyanov, a brilliant biology student, joined a small group of students at St. Petersburg University to plot the assassination of Russia's tsar. Known as "Second First March" for the date of their action, this group failed disastrously... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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On the Estate: Memoirs of a Russian Lady Before the Revolution by Mariamna Davydoff Publisher Comments Mariamna Davydoff, the Russian lady who wrote and illustrated this unique memoir, was born in 1871. It was after she emigrated from Russia to France in 1919 that she set down her detailed recollections and painted the accompanying watercolors. She did... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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What Life Was Like in the Time of War and Peace: Imperial Russia, Ad 1696-1917 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the revolution can only now be fully known. For... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 #2: Readings in Russian Civilization, Volume 2: Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 by Thomas Riha Publisher Comments "This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Song Without Words: The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy by Leah Bendavid Val Publisher Comments In a first-ever publishing event, the remarkable photography and writings of Countess Sophia Tolstoy reveal the unfolding of her life with her famous husband--and evocatively portray a glittering world that soon would fade away. 120 photographs.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Readings in Russian Civilization by Thomas Riha Publisher Comments "This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $27.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia by Semyonova Tian Shans Publisher Comments ... a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution.... The translation is superb. --Steven Hoch ... one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village.... a highly readable... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Russian Worker by Victoria E Bonnell Publisher Comments Here, for the first time in English translation, are contemporary accounts of working-class life during the final decades of the Russian Empire. Written by workers and other close observers of their milieu, these five selections recreate the world of... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned by Brian Moynahan Publisher Comments Grigory Efimovich Rasputin came to St. Petersburg from his Siberian cabin in 1903 like a projectile from the medieval past, tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time he was murdered thirteen years later, the peasant was the "beloved" Friend of Tsar... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fragile Empire by Alexander Chubarov Publisher Comments The empire of the tsars became ever more vulnerable until it was shattered by the turmoil of war and revolution. Using the most recent Russian and Western research, the book provides the reader with a good historical basis on which to judge Russia's... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Russia Under the Old Regime: Second Edition by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Harvard Professor of Russian History Richard Pipes traces the evolution of the Russian state from the ninth century to the 1800s. Pipes analyzes the political behavior of the principal social groupingspeasantry, nobility, middle class, and clergyand... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stolen Prince: Gannibal, Adopted Son of Peter the Great, Great-Grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, and Europe's First Black Intellectua by Hugh Barnes Publisher Comments In the spring of 1703, a young African boy stepped off a slave ship in Constantinople, the gateway between East and West. Huddling in chains, with other frightened captives, the seven-year-old claimed to be a prince of Abyssinia, a "noble Moor... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $5.25 Used - Hardcover
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The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia by Douglas Smith Publisher Comments Filled with a remarkable cast of characters and set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance could be the stuff of a great historical novel. But in fact The Pearl tells a true tale, reconstructed in part from archival... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engelgardt's Letters from the Country, 1872-1887 by A N Engelgardt Publisher Comments With scientific precision, Engelgardt produced the first comprehensive eye-witness account of the serf's daily affairs and environment, with detailed descriptions of land reform and collectivization, reflections on the role of peasant women and the... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia 1804-1824 by Aleksandr Nikitenko Publisher Comments He recalls his town, his schooling, his masters and mistresses, and the utter capriciousness of a serf's existence, illustrated most vividly by his father's lurching path from comfort to destitution to prison to rehabilitation. Nikitenko's description of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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In the Vanguard of Reform: Russia's Enlightened Bureaucrats, 1825-1861 by Bruce Lincoln Synopsis The first decade of Alexander II's reign is known in Russian history as the Era of the Great Reforms, a time recognized as the major period of social, economic, and institutional transformation between the reign of Peter the Great and the Revolution of... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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