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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners¿ desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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In Siberia by Colin Thubron Synopsis An evocative portrait of one of the most breathtaking yet little-known places on earth, written by England's #1 bestselling, award-winning author--"one of the two or three best living travel writers, in some ways probably "the" best" (Jan Morris). Map.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Catherine the Great a Short History 2ND Edition by Isabel De Madariaga Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-224) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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People's Tragedy : a History of the Russian Revolution (96 Edition) by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments This multi-award book is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, "A People's Tragedy" offers a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Who's Who in Russia Since 1900 by Martin Mccauley Publisher Comments "Who's Who in Russia Since 1900" is a unique reference which examines the leading political, economic, cultural, military, scientific and sporting personalities from 1900-1991. Through analysis of figures such as Stalin, Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Yeltsin... (read more) List Price $42.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition by Andrew Horton Publisher Comments Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most interesting in the world, aesthetically as well as politically. How have Soviet... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price: $4.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Michael Dobbs Publisher Comments "One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."<BR>--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review <BR>As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive (Annals of Communism) by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Lenin - the man, the revolutionary, and the world leader - has remained an enigma, part myth arising from the tumult of the Russian Revolution and part image carefully controlled for nearly seventy years by the leaders of the Soviet Union and their... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fifty Russian Winters: An American Woman's Life in the Soviet Union by Margaret Wettlin Publisher Comments A gripping account of Soviet life as experienced by an American who lived for 50 years on an absolutely equal basis with Russians. Packed with details of everyday life from giving birth in a Soviet hospital to living in a Moscow communal apartment... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Russian Revolution: 1917-1921 (Routledge Sources in History) by Ronald I Kowalski Publisher Comments "The Russian Revolution: 1917-1921" is a collection of documents and sources reviewing the ever-changing debate on the nature of the Russian Revolution. Such events as the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, that had indeed grown from the Revolution... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg and culminating with the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Russians (Peoples of Europe) by R Milner Gulland Publisher Comments This book examines the history of the Russian peoples from the time of the first inhabitants of "Old Russia", or "Rus", up to the present day.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew Publisher Comments The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra by Peter Kurth Publisher Comments This spectacular illustrated history tells the story of the last Romanovs - one of the great tragic love stories of all time - with unparalleled vividness & intimacy. The text, which follows Nicholas & Alexandria from their childhood's to the Siberian... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Russia Under the Old Regime: Second Edition by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Harvard Professor of Russian History Richard Pipes traces the evolution of the Russian state from the ninth century to the 1800s. Pipes analyzes the political behavior of the principal social groupingspeasantry, nobility, middle class, and clergyand... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voting for Russia's Governors: Regional Elections and Accountability Under Yeltsin and Putin by Andrew Konitzer Publisher Comments Russian regional-level voting has been a better instrument of democracy than some might think, according to this close and systematic examination. In elections for provincial governors, republican presidents, and other executives of Russia's various sub... (read more) List Price $56.75 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization by Lynne Viola Publisher Comments 'In this ground-breaking study Lynne Viola--the first Western scholar to gain access to the Soviet state archives on collectivization--brilliantly examines a lost chapter in the history of the Stalin revolution. Looking in detail at the backgrounds... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution (Introducing...) by Richard Appignanesi Publisher Comments It is impossible to understand the events in post-communist Russia and eastern Europe today without some basic grasp of the Russian Revolution and Lenin's crucial role in it. This book is a re--issued classic which makes that history accessible and... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Post-Soviet Nations: Perspectives on the Demise of the U. S. S. R. by Alexander J Motyl Publisher Comments With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the subsequent creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the nationality question has assumed central importance. In this collection of essays, twelve leading specialists analyze the current situation.... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $4.60 Used - Trade Paper
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