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The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europ)
by Wendy Slater  Publisher Comments How did Nicholas II, Russia's last Tsar, meet his death? Shot point blank in a bungled execution by radical Bolsheviks in the Urals, Nicholas and his family disappeared from history in the Soviet era. But in the 1970s, a local geologist and a crime...
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments History on a grand scale-an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations "A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now,...
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Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (08 Edition)
by Martin Mccauley Publisher Comments The birth of the Soviet Union surprised many, its demise amazed the whole world....
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Ivan's War : Life and Death in the Red Army (06 Edition)
by Catherine Merridale Publisher Comments A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources. Of the thirty million who fought, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by...
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Magnetic Mountain : Stalinism As a Civilization (95 Edition)
by Stephen Kotkin Publisher Comments "A kind of archaeological analysis of Soviet life during the momentous years of Stalinist industrialization."--Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State...
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Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War
by Isabella Ginor Publisher Comments Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez’s groundbreaking history of the Six-Day War in 1967 radically changes our understanding of that conflict, casting it as a crucial arena of Cold War intrigue that has shaped the Middle East to this day. The authors...
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Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
by Martin Amis 
Publisher Comments In "Koba the Dread"--Koba itself a childhood nickname of Stalin's--Amis is compelled, through his scathing prose and razor-sharp insight, to reevaluate the era of Stalin and the unbelievably broad scope of human suffering he caused....
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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...
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Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917
by Jonathan Frankel Publisher Comments In the period from 1881 to 1917 socialist movements flourished in every major centre of Russian Jewish life, but, despite common foundations, there was often profound and bitter disagreement between them. This book describes the formation and evolution...
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Gulag Archipelago Volume 3
by Aleksa Solzhenitsyn Publisher Comments Volume 3 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight...
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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia
by Svetlana Boym Publisher Comments What is the "real Russia"? What is the relationship between national dreams and kitsch, between political and artistic utopia and everyday existence? Commonplaces of daily living would be perfect clues for those seeking to understand a culture. But all...
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The Road to Modern Jewish Politics: Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia (Studies in Jewish History)
by Eli Lederhendler Publisher Comments In this innovative study, Eli Lederhandler explores the previously ignored antecedents to the political awakening of Jewish intellectuals and their break with the traditional, religion-centred culture in Tsarist Russia. Only in the last few years have...
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Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917 (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)
by Aaron J. Cohen Publisher Comments As World War I shaped and molded European culture to an unprecedented degree, it also had a profound influence on the politics and aesthetics of early-twentieth-century Russian culture. In this provocative and fascinating work, Aaron J. Cohen shows how...
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments The award-winning author of "A Peoples Tragedy" and "Natashas Dance" has written this landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression....
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History of Russian Thought
by Andrzej Walicki Publisher Comments This book covers virtually all the significant Russian thinkers from the age of Catherine the Great Down to the eve of the 1905 Revolution....
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Karamzin's Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia: A Translation and Analysis (Ann Arbor Paperbacks for the Study of Russian and Soviet His)
by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Russian history was typically studied through liberal or socialist lenses until Richard Pipes first published his translation of Karamzin's Memoir. Almost fifty years later, it is still the only English-language edition of this classic work. Still fresh...
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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 1703, a seven-year-old African boy in chains stepped off a slave ship in Constantinople. He claimed to be a prince of Abyssinia and was rescued by Peter the Great. Under the tsar's tutelage, he soared to dizzying heights. This is the extraordinary...
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Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953
by Geoffrey Roberts Publisher Comments This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list...
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Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia
by Lesley Chamberlain Publisher Comments In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. 'We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin,...
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The Romanov Empire, 1613-1917 (Brief Histories)
by Alan Wood Publisher Comments This is the first modern account devoted to an investigation of the Romanov Empire from its inception to its demise. It combines a fascinating study of the personalities and policies of individual autocrats, such as Peter the Great, with an examination...
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