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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 Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments The Long Walk is 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 $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Peter the Great by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments "Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review<BR>The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT.<BR>Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism by Paul Klebnikov Publisher Comments From nuclear superpower to impoverished nation, post-communist Russia has become one of the most corrupt regimes in the world. Paul Klebnikov pieces together the previous decade in Russian history, showing that a major piece of "the decline of Russia... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Stalin's Secret Service: Memoirs of the First Soviet Master Spy to Defect by Walter G Krivitsky Publisher Comments Walter Krivitsky was the first Soviet spymaster to defect to the West in 1937. He sought safety in the United States and found time to write his account of his defection and knowledge of Stalin's many crimes. A classic text of espionage history last... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Lenin a Biography by Robert Service Publisher Comments of political oppression and social intimidation that has yet to be expunged.... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nicholas and Alexandra : the Story of the Love That Ended an Empire (00 Edition) 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... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick Publisher Comments In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Russian Revolution, 1917 (New Approaches to European History) by Rex A Wade Publisher Comments This is a new introduction to the 1917 Russian Revolution.... (read more) List Price $30.99 Your price: $18.95 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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Voices From Chernobyl (05 Edition) by Svetlana Alexievich Publisher Comments On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred in Chernobyl. Although this was one of the most devastating tragedies ever, until now, no book has appeared in English giving the inside story of what happened to the people living in... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 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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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: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe by Angela Stent Publisher Comments The relationship between Russia and Germany has been pivotal in some of the most fateful events of the twentieth century: the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the emergence of a new Europe from the ashes of communism. Here Angela Stent combines... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival by Owen Matthews Publisher Comments A transcendent history/memoir of one familys always passionate, sometimes tragic connection to Russia. On a midsummer day in 1937, a black car pulled up to a house in Chernigov, in the heart of the Ukraine. Boris BibikovOwen Matthewss grandfatherkissed... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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