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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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Stalin the Court of the Red Tsar
by Simon Montefiore Synopsis The story of the men and women who sustained Stalin in power in the Soviet Union for nearly 30 years....
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Yeltsin: A Life
by Timothy J. Colton Publisher Comments Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and the withdrawal of Soviet control over eastern Europe, it...
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Travels with Herodotus
by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain. Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his...
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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
by Piers Vitebsky Publisher Comments In this acclaimed work, the anthropologist Piers Vitebsky offers a unique account of the Eveny, nomads who live in intimate partnership with an extraordinary animal. For centuries reindeer have provided the Eveny with food, fur, transport, and spiritual...
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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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Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
by Ilya Ilf Publisher Comments In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of...
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One Soldier's War
by Arkady Babchenko Publisher Comments One Soldier’s War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of the book was hailed by Tibor...
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The Long Walk, New PB Edition: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments "I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor...
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments From the award-winning author of A People’s Tragedy and Natasha’s Dance, a landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression There have been many accounts of the public aspects of...
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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
by Robert Conquest Publisher Comments The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human and social tragedies of our century. As Robert Conquest shows in heart-rending detail, Stalin's plan to collectivize Soviet agriculture amounted to an unparalleled...
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Ten Days That Shook the World
by John Reed Publisher Comments In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record...
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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
by Sheila Fitzpatrick Publisher Comments Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the...
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Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power
by Virginia Rounding Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Grandes Horizontales comes a book that the Washington Post calls “a vivid portrait of a sensual and intellectual woman.” Dutiful daughter, passionate lover, doting grandmother, tireless legislator, generous...
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Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
by Edvard Radzinsky Publisher Comments Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual...
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The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky: 1921-1929
by Isaac Deutscher Publisher Comments Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience, yet there was a danger...
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
by David Hoffman Publisher Comments David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia'...
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Blowing Up Russia : the Secret Plot To Bring Back KGB Terror (07 Edition)
by Alexander Litvinenko Synopsis Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian...
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A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson
by Frances Welch Publisher Comments An extraordinary story of tenacity and intrigue, and the deep human urge to salvage hope from tragedy. Did the seventeen-year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia survive the massacre of the Russian imperial family in 1918? Over the years, the possibility that...
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Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 #02: The Decision to Intervene
by George Frost Kennan Publisher Comments In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book re-creates that unhappily memorable storythe arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian...
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