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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 Kapu?ci?ski for years ... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg and culminating with the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination by Ana Siljak Publisher Comments In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. Revenge , she cried, for... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (07 Edition) by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 "A tremendous achievement."--The Sunday Times (London) The Whisperers is a triumphant act of recovery. In this powerful work of history, Orlando Figes chronicles the private history of family life during the violent... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and at times superbly....No single volume known to me even begins to cater so adequately to those who want to discover what really happened to Russia....Nor do I know any other book better designed to help Soviet citizens to... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.98 Sale - 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: $10.50 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 fiery... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects by Dmitry Orlov Publisher Comments In the waning days of the American empire, we find ourselves mired in political crisis, with our foreign policy coming under sharp criticism and our economy in steep decline. These trends mirror the experience of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Peter the Great by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments "Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review<BR>The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT.<BR>Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War by Stephen F Cohen Publisher Comments With conflicts again dividing Russia and the United States, the need for balanced, accessible scholarship that benefits from new materials and critical perspectives is imperative. In seven lucid, groundbreaking essays, Stephen F. Cohen questions many... (read more) Your price: $28.50 New - Hardcover
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Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain. Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments The Long Walk is 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 $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments By "the conjuror extraordinary of modern portage" (John le Carre)--a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire. "When a writer of Mr. Kapuscinski's genius writes of the snows and the steppes of Siberia... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen Publisher Comments From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution comes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union's European empire during months of largely peaceful revolution that profoundly changed the world. At the start of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Russian Revolution, 1917 (New Approaches to European History) by Rex A Wade Publisher Comments This is a new introduction to the 1917 Russian Revolution.... (read more) List Price $38.25 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin by Vladimir Putin Publisher Comments Who is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly--overnight and without warning--was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? How can we trust him if we don't know him? First Person... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $11.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia by Vladislav Zubok Publisher Comments Among the least-chronicled aspects of post–World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. Young Soviet veterans had returned from the heroic struggle to defeat Hitler only to... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments History offers few eras richer in drama than the last years of imperial Russia. Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra, presided over a glittering world of huge palaces, lavish balls, and incomparable luxury. Then their cherished son Alexis was... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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