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Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
by Anna Politkovskaya  Publisher Comments A searing portrait of a country in disarray, and of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of journalists" (The New York Times) Hailed as "a lone voice crying out in a moral wildernes" (New Statesman), Anna Politkovskaya made her name with her...
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The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd
by Alexander Rabinowitch Synopsis A major contribution to the historiography of the world in the 20th century, The Bolsheviks in Power focuses on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoundly shaped the Soviet political system that endured through...
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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...
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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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History of Russian Revolution (80 Edition)
by Leon Trotsky Synopsis The social, economic, and political dynamics of the first socialist revolution as explained by one of the principal leaders of this victorious struggle that changed the course of history in the twentieth century....
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Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
by Alex Goldfarb Publisher Comments The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay...
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The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Wars
by Vladimir N. Brovkin Publisher Comments In this book distinguished scholars from East and West draw on recently opened archives to challenge the commonly held view that the Bolsheviks enjoyed widespread support and that their early history was simply a march toward inevitable victory. They...
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Russian Thinkers (Penguin Classics)
by Isaiah Berlin Publisher Comments 'Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard\'s The Coast of Utopiathe landmark investigation into Russian history and thought Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian...
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Reinterpreting Russian History: Readings, 860-1860s
by Daniel H Kaiser Publisher Comments The first comprehensive reader in Russian history in almost two decades, this collection includes primary and secondary material, much of which has never before been published in English, reflecting the latest scholarship on the subject. Supplemented by...
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Russian Revolution ((2ND)94 - Old Edition)
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...
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Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
by Adam Zamoyski Publisher Comments Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the civilized world. But Britain eluded him. To conquer the island nation, he needed Russia's Tsar Alexander's help. The Tsar refused, and Napoleon vowed to...
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Peter the Great
by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments "Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"<BR>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<BR>Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great...
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Small Corner of Hell : Dispatches From Chechnya (04 Edition)
by Anna Politkovskaya Publisher Comments Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Russian domination for centuries. The region declared its independence in 1991, leading to a brutal war, Russian withdrawal, and subsequent "governance" by bandits and...
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Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia
by Stephen P. Frank Publisher Comments The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg have gathered here a diverse collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and...
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The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure
by Catheri Scott Clark Publisher Comments One of mankind's greatest treasures, the Amber Room stood as a symbol of Russian glory for over 200 years. But after the Nazi invasion, it was never seen again. Now, in a masterpiece of detection, two investigative journalists reveal what happened to the...
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Russia: The Once and Future Empire from Pre-History to Putin
by Philip Longworth Publisher Comments Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the...
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And Quiet Flows the Vodka, Or, When Pushkin Comes to Shove: The Curmudgeon's Guide to Russian Literature and Culture, with the Devil's Dictionary of R
by Alicia Chudo 
Publisher Comments Russia has fascinated outsiders for centuries, and according to Alicia Chudo (the pen name of Gary Saul Morson), it is high time this borscht stopped. Examining one thousand years worth of unreadable writers, revolutionaries who can't hit the broad side...
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Letters from Russia (New York Review Books Classics)
by Astolphe De Custine Publisher Comments Edited by the winner of the 2000 Prix Goncourt Lyceens, Astolphe de Custines report on his visit to Russia in 1839 is a perceptive, even prophetic, reckoning with the institutions and character of a powerful, troubled country. Lauded by Louis Auchincloss...
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