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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz
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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)
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History of Russia 7TH Edition
by Nichola Riasanovsky
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Now completely revised in this seventh edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the postcommunist present. Featuring a new coauthor, Mark Steinberg, this edition offers extensively updated... ( read more)
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Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power
by Virginia Rounding
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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... ( read more)
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Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution (Introducing...)
by Richard Appignanesi
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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)
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Law and Disorder on the Narova River
by Reginald E Zelnik
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Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode--a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant--to explore the broad historical moment. In examining this crucial event of Russian history he sheds fresh light on local power relations... ( read more)
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Imperium (94 Edition)
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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By "the conjuror extraordinary of modern portage" (John le Carre)--a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire. "When a writer of Mr. Kapuscinski's genius writes of the snows and the steppes of Siberia... ( read more)
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The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy
by David Mayers
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George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, William Bullitt, Joseph E. Davies, Llewlleyn Thompson, Jack Matlock: these are important names in the history of American foreign policy. Together with a number of lesser-known officials, these... ( read more)
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The History of Pugachev
by Aleksandr S Pushkin
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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... ( read more)
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Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000
by Brian D Taylor
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This book is a comprehensive overview of the political role of the Russian military, from the time of Peter the Great to the present.... ( read more)
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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
by Sheila Fitzpatrick
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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... ( read more)
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)
by Nicholas Rzhevsky
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An introduction to modern Russian culture, from language and religion to literature and the arts.... ( read more)
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Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya
by Sebastian Smith
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A mixture of travelogue, history and war journalism, Allah's Mountains tells the story of the conflict between this nation of mountain tribes and the might of the Russian army. It is also a story of the history, people and cultures of the Caucasus and of... ( read more)
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Nicholas and Alexandra : the Story of the Love That Ended an Empire (00 Edition)
by Robert K. Massie
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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)
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich
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Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of what happened on April 26, 1986, when the worst nuclear reactor accident in history contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Svetlana Alexievich--a journalist who now... ( read more)
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The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
by Edvard Radzinsky
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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... ( read more)
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Ten Days That Shook the World
by John Reed
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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)
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Voting for Russia's Governors: Regional Elections and Accountability Under Yeltsin and Putin
by Andrew Konitzer
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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)
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Voices From Chernobyl (05 Edition)
by Svetlana Alexievich
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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)
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The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization
by Lynne Viola
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'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)
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Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower
by Steven Rosefielde
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This book demonstrates Russia's intention to re-emerge as a full-fledged superpower before 2010.... ( read more)
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