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Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917, Enlarged Edition
by Geoffrey Hosking  Publisher Comments The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation--a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. And this, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma...
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Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s
by Veronique Garros Publisher Comments The private diary accounts of daily life in Russia at the height of Stalinism....
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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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The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements
by Lynne Viola Publisher Comments One of Stalin's most heinous acts was the ruthless repression of millions of peasants in the early 1930s, an act that established the very foundations of the gulag. Solzhenitsyn barely touched upon this brutal episode in his magisterial Gulag Archipelago...
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From Peasant to Petersburger
by Evel Economakis Publisher Comments This book analyzes the processes of proletarianization and urbanization undergone by the St. Petersburg industrial working class from its inception in the early nineteenth-century up until 1914. Attention is focused on the severing of workers' ties to...
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Tsar's Last Armada : Epic Journey To the Battle of Tsushima (03 Edition)
by Constantine Pleshakov Publisher Comments On May 14-15, 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ships sunk, scattered, or captured by the Japanese. In the deciding battle of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese lost only three destroyers but the...
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History of Russia 6TH Edition
by Nichola Riasanovsky Publisher Comments Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume survey text available, A History of Russia presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an empire, to Soviet Russia, the successor states, and beyond...
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Rethinking the Russian Revolution (Reading History)
by Edward Acton Publisher Comments For its admirers, the Russian Revolution is a milestone in human progress; for its critics, it is a catastrophe of monstrous proportions. Edward Acton's stimulating study combines an introduction to the momentous events of 1917 with an analysis of this...
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The Origins of the Russian Revolution, 1861-1917
by Alan Wood Publisher Comments Alan Wood provides a concise introduction to the Russian Revolution and its origins dating back to the emancipation of the Russian peasant serfs in 1861. The third edition of this successful pamphlet brings the historiography up to date to include the...
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The Cossacks
by Shane O'rourke Publisher Comments This book covers 500 years of the history of the Cossacks -- the recklessly brave, wild horsemen, or the romantic hero of the steppe, or the brutal mounted policemen, as they have been remembered throughout history. A lucid and engaging book that conveys...
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Russia Abroad: A Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919-1939
by Marc Raeff Publisher Comments The dramatic events of the twentieth century have often led to the mass migration of intellectuals, professionals, writers, and artists. One of the first of these migrations occurred in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when more than a million...
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Stalin, Siberia and the Crisis of the New Economic Policy
by James Hughes Publisher Comments This book makes an important contribution to the current re-evaluation of the origins of Stalinism....
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The Soviet Space Race with Apollo
by Asif A. Siddiqi Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 861-870) and index....
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Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
by Richard Stites Publisher Comments 'The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival,...
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The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure
by Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy Publisher Comments A revelatory and startling book that solves a sixty-year mystery about the eighth wonder of the world. The history of art has produced few works as ambitious and as valuable as the Amber Room. Famous throughout Europe as "the eighth wonder of the world,"...
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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...
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich 
Publisher Comments Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of what happened on April 26, 1986, when the worst nuclear reactor accident in history contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Svetlana Alexievich--a journalist who now...
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Twentieth Century Russia (9TH 00 Edition)
by Donald W. Treadgold Publisher Comments Donald Treadgold was one of the most distinguished Russian historians of his generation. His Twentieth Century Russia, a standard text in colleges and universities for several decades, has been regularly revised and expanded to reflect new events and...
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Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia
by Laurence Kelly Publisher Comments In this first biography of Alexander Griboyedov in English, Laurence Kelly paints a vivid picture of a man of remarkable literary talent and diplomatic gifts that were nevertheless overshadowed by ill-fortune. Involved in the 1825 Decembrist plot to...
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Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
by D C Lieven Publisher Comments In this ambitious book, Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire form ancient Rome to the present. Focusing on Russia, Lieven compares the Tsarist and Soviet empires with others throughout history....
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