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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover 
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen Publisher Comments The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Publisher Comments “Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous.” —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Nicholas and Alexandra : the Story of the Love That Ended an Empire (00 Edition) by Robert K. Massie Publisher Comments Massie offers a moving, tragic, and unforgettable account of the extraordinary Imperial dynasty of Tsar Nicholas II, his doomed empire, and a revolution that would inexorably change the world forever. "A larger than life drama."--Saturday... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Crimean War: A History by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age. The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners¿ desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia by Piers Vitebsky Publisher Comments Since the last Ice Age, the reindeer's extraordinary adaptation to cold has sustained human life over vast tracts of the earth's surface, providing meat, fur, and transport. Images carved into rocks and tattooed on the skin of mummies hint at ancient... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - 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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Russian History and Culture #7: Reformulating Russia: The Cultural and Intellectual Historiography of Russian First-Wave Migr Writers by Kare Johan Mjr Publisher Comments G.P. Fedotov, G.V. Florovskii, N.A. Berdiaev, V.V. Zen'kovskii, historiography, migr literature, philosophy, theology, narrative... (read more) List Price $163.00 Your price: $109.21 New - Hardcover
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The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia by Angus Roxburgh Publisher Comments Russia under Vladimir Putin has proved a prickly partner for the West, a far cry from the democratic ally many hoped for when the Soviet Union collapsed. Abroad, Putin has used Russias energy strength as a foreign policy weapon, while at home he has... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International) by Ryszard Kapuscinski Staff Pick Several months ago, I happened upon a copy of The Shadow of the Sun. From its opening pages, I understood why I'd been hearing such laudatory praise about Ryszard Kapuściński for years — here was some of the most astonishing travel writing I'd ever... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village by Serge Schmemann Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-333) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick Publisher Comments Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russians by W Bruce Lincoln Publisher Comments For three centuries--beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613--the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia. Its reign ended with the execution of Nicholas II and Alexandra in the early 20th century. Noted Russian... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Midland Book #0536: Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russias City of Steel by John Scott Synopsis Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked. --Ronald Grigor Suny A genuine grassroots account of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 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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The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States by Ronald Grigor Suny Publisher Comments The West has always had a difficult time understanding the Soviet Union. For decades Americans have known a Soviet Union clouded by ideological passions and a dearth of information. Today, with the revelations under glasnost and the collapse of the... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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