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Russia (Exploring Countries of the WOR)
by Arnaldo Alberti Synopsis This excellent resource presents an authentic portrait of Russia's tumultuous history, chaotic present, and uncertain but promising future. Supplemented by an insightful text, the colorful images evoke the differences between modernity and the past...
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B-Zone: Becoming Europe and Beyond
by Anselm Franke Synopsis This collaborative research and art project investigates ongoing changes to the social and political geographies of the land from southeast Europe (the Balkans) to Turkey and the Caucasus. Each of its three core projects follows the trajectory of a large-...
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Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps
by Tomasz Kizny Synopsis A pictorial history of the Soviet Union's network of labor and penal camps. Each chapter covers a key camp and includes a concise introductory essay, archival and contemporary photographs, chronology, and personal accounts....
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Motherland
by Simon Roberts Publisher Comments "A remarkable photo-essay."-Robert McCrum, The Observer Photographer Simon Roberts traveled throughout Russia for twelve months for this photo-essay. His awe-inspiring landscapes and intimate portraits combine to present a powerful and beautiful vision...
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St. Petersburg: Lost and Found
by Colin Amery Synopsis This lavishly illustrated book tells the epic 300- story of St. Petersburg through its architecture, literature, music and art, from the city's origins and its earliest buildings through to the present day....
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On the Way Home
by Anne Fishbein Publisher Comments Anne Fishbein made her first trip to Yaroslavl, Russia, in 1990. She has returned nearly every year since, documenting the city's progress away from communist isolation and into the modern world. This mesmerizing collection of more than 50 black-and...
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Transylvania
by Bronwen Riley Publisher Comments Transylvania is the birthplace of Dracula, where the Pied Piper carried the children of Hamelin, and home to Harry Potter’s dragons. It’s a place where truth is often stranger than fiction: streams run with silver, the mountains are full of...
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Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising
by Erich Lessing Publisher Comments Erich Lessing's landmark photographs of the Hungarian Revolution, published to mark the 50th anniversary of the uprising. On October 23, 1956, what began as a mass rally in Budapest quickly evolved into the Hungarian Revolution. Within days, millions of...
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Cracow: City of Treasures
by Beata Moore Synopsis This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of Poland's most historic and architecturally ornate city. Crakow was the seat of secular ecclesiastical power in Poland and has traditional ly been one of the leading scientific, cultural an d artistic...
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Soviet Posters: The Sergo Grigorian Collection
by Maria Lafont Synopsis This massive book of Soviet propaganda posters, many rare and never before published, is at once a revealing historical document and a sublime example of graphic art at its best. Dating from 1917 to the beginning of the Cold War, the posters in this book...
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The Soviet Image: A Hundred Years of Photographs from Inside the Tass Archives
by Peter Radetsky Synopsis For the first time, the Russian news agency TASS has opened its complete photographic archives to create an unprecedented and uncensored look at the last 100 years of life in the Soviet Union and the new Russia. Featuring more than 300 astonishing...
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St. Petersburg: Portrait of an Imperial City
by Boris Ometev Book News Annotation Some 300 striking, unpublished photographs from archives in the Soviet Union recreate life as it was lived in one of Europe's most beautiful cities from the turn of the century through the Revolution of 1917. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland...
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Prague
by Alena Kubova Publisher Comments A luxurious but very affordable guide to the marvelous and unveiled treasures and secrets of Prague. This book summarizes the history of this gorgeous city in Central Europe, focusing on its architecture, its urbanism and its arts. The book for all...
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Cultural atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union
by Robi Milner Gulland Book News Annotation Forget the fluffy text (example: "Peter Kropotkin gave anarchism intellectual stuffing."). Instead, stuff yourself on the 50 maps, 200 color and 100 b&w photographs, chronological table, glossary, gazetteer, bibliography and index. Embracing geography,...
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Russian Century
by Brian Moynahan
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Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace
by Sara Terry
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St. Petersburg
by Steve Raymer Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 190) and index....
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Realms of the Russian Bear
by John Sparks Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 284) and index....
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Photographs for the Tsar
by Se Prokudin-gorskii
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Classic Russian Idylls
by Proctor Jones
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