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The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
by Edvard Radzinsky  Publisher Comments Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days. Updated For The...
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Liberal City, Conservative State: Moscow and Russia's Urban Crisis, 1906-1914
by Robert W Thurston Publisher Comments Between 1906 and the outbreak of World War I, Moscow was the locale of great uncertainty and experimentation. Moscow's liberal leaders sought social and political stability for their city following the violence of the 1905 revolution by offering...
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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 the spring of 1703, a young African boy stepped off a slave ship in Constantinople, the gateway between East and West. Huddling in chains, with other frightened captives, the seven-year-old claimed to be a prince of Abyssinia, a "noble Moor" kidnapped...
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The History of Pugachev
by Aleksandr S Pushkin Publisher Comments Written by Russia's greatest poet, this fact-based tale of an illiterate Don Cossack who nearly succeeded in deposing Catherine the Great was greeted with hostility by Czar Nicholas I, who insisted on censoring it. Pushkin did fieldwork and research that...
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The Rasputin Files
by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Rasputin, one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the twentieth century, has remained cloaked in the myth of his own devising since his extraordinary ascent to power in the court of Nicholas and Alexandra, the last tsar and tsarina of...
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Ivan the Terrible
by Henri Troyat Publisher Comments The author of the best-selling Tolstoy, winner of France's prestigious Prix Goncourt, member of the Académie Française, and renowned expert on Russia paints yet another indelible portrait of one of Russia's imposing historical figures...
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The Prince of Princes
by Sebag Montefiore Publisher Comments Prince Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover, secret husband, and partner in ruling the Russian Empire. Their affair was so tumultuous, they negotiated an arrangement that allowed them to share power while he was free to love his beautiful...
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Rasputin File (00 Edition)
by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the revolution can only now be fully known. For...
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Journey for Our Time: The Russian Journals of the Marquis de Custine: An Intriguing Look at the Continuities in Russian Politics and Society
by Astolphe Custine Synopsis Presents the penetrating and timeless observations from the Marquis's 1839 trip to Russia....
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The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the the End of Imperial Russia
by William C Fuller Synopsis Examines the crippling effects of the 1915-"1917 wave of politically motivated "treason" arrests that swept through the highest levels of the Russian Empire....
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Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner
by Simon Sebag Montefiore Publisher Comments As a young guardsman, Grigory Potemkin caught the eye of Catherine the Great with a theatrical act of gallantry during the coup that placed her on the throne. Over the next thirty years he would become her lover, co-ruler, and husband in a secret...
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Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia's Vanished Bourgeoisie
by James West Publisher Comments With the collapse of the Soviet system, the long-neglected history of the early capitalists is being recovered and rewritten. Once regarded as the "losers" in the Russian Revolution, these merchants can now be seen as early pioneers in Russia's...
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Song Without Words: The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy
by Leah Bendavid Val Publisher Comments Through never-before-seen photographs and intriguing personal diaries, this beautiful book provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of Countess Sophia Tolstoy and her husband, Leo Tolstoy--one of the greatest authors of all time--set against the grand...
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For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
by Robert D Crews Publisher Comments Russia occupies a unique position in the Muslim world. Unlike any other non-Islamic state, it has ruled Muslim populations for over five hundred years. Though Russia today is plagued by its unrelenting war in Chechnya, Russia's approach toward Islam once...
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The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and Its Legacy (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)
by Galina Rylkova Publisher Comments The “Silver Age” (c. 1890-1917) has been one of the most intensely studied topics in Russian literary studies, and for years scholars have been struggling with its precise definition. Firmly established in the Russian cultural psyche, it...
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The Russian Worker
by Victoria E Bonnell Synopsis Here, for the first time in English translation, are contemporary accounts of working-class life during the final decades of the Russian Empire. Written by workers and other close observers of their milieu, these five selections recreate the world of...
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Fragile Empire
by Alexander Chubarov Synopsis With the fall of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the tsarist past has caught up with Russia's present with a vengeance. The process of rethinking the past is not without its pitfalls: the negative evaluations of tsarist Russia...
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To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Gregori Rasputin (Revealing History)
by Andrew Cook Publisher Comments Gregori Rasputin is probably one of the best known, but least understood of the key figures in the events which ultimately led to the downfall of the Russian Tsars some 90 years ago. His political role as the power behind the throne is as much obscured...
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A Woman's Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861
by Michelle La Marrese Synopsis In A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen's unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth...
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The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia
by Douglas Smith Publisher Comments Filled with a remarkable cast of characters and set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance could be the stuff of a great historical novel. But in fact The Pearl tells a true tale, reconstructed in part from archival...
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