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Gorbachev, Yeltsin, & Putin: Political Leadership in Russia's Transition (Carnegie Endowment Series) by Archie Brown Publisher Comments This volume analyzes various aspects of the political leadership during the collapse of the Soviet Union and formation of a new Russia. Comparing the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin, the book reflects upon their goals... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Rasputin File 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... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia by Piers Vitebsky Publisher Comments Since the last Ice Age, the reindeer's extraordinary adaptation to cold has sustained human life over vast tracts of the earth's surface, providing meat, fur, and transport. Images carved into rocks and tattooed on the skin of mummies hint at ancient... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Midland Book #0536: Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russias City of Steel by John Scott Synopsis Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked. --Ronald Grigor Suny A genuine grassroots account of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova Publisher Comments A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political deception. Elena, born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, finds her passion in the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century by Modris Eksteins Publisher Comments Part history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris Eksteins's family members lend an intimate dimension... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate, and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia by Mary W Cavender Publisher Comments This study establishes the deep loyalty of a segment of the Russian gentry to life in the provinces during the period 1820-1860, centering on the family but extending to estates, peasants, and neighborhood society. Arguing against the previously accepted... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russians by W Bruce Lincoln Publisher Comments For three centuries--beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613--the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia. Its reign ended with the execution of Nicholas II and Alexandra in the early 20th century. Noted Russian... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (In-Formation) by Alexei Yurchak Publisher Comments Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $18.50 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: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia by Helena Goscilo Publisher Comments For more than three centuries, St. Petersburg, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's westward-oriented capital and as a visually stunning showcase of Russia's imperial ambitions, has been the country's most mythologized city. Like a museum piece,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin by Vladimir Putin Publisher Comments Who is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly--overnight and without warning--was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? How can we trust him if we don't know him? First Person... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Russia the Soviet Union & the United S by John Lewis Gaddis Publisher Comments From the capricious reign of Catherine the Great and Alexander I to the provocative leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the author concentrates on the interplay between interests and ideologies in the relationship between the United States and the Soviet... (read more) List Price $54.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina (Hoover Inst Press Publication) by Paul Gregory Publisher Comments Nikolai Bukharin was only one of the millions of Stalin’s victims. Most were ordinary people, unlike Nikolai and his wife, Anna Larina, who were members of the Bolshevik elite. But his and Anna’s tale provides a more enduring understanding... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tatars of Crimea: Return to the Homeland (Central Asia Book) by Edward Allworth Publisher Comments This new edition of Edward A. Allworth’s The Tatars of Crimea has been extensively updated. Five new chapters examine the situation of Crimean Tatars since the breakup of the USSR in 1991 and detail the continuing struggle of the Tatars to find... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $13.95 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: $1.25 Used - Hardcover
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The Secret Plot to Save the Tsar: New Truths Behind the Romanov Mystery by Shay Mcneal Publisher Comments Chapter One Setting the Stage Chaos and Fear At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Romanov dynasty had ruled Russia for 300 years and Tsar Nicholas II was considered one of the wealthiest men in the world. Russia was an immense country... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Russians in Alaska (1741-1867) by Lydia T Black Publisher Comments This definitive work, a crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia Black, presents a comprehensive story of the Russian presence in America from the point of view of social anthropology and ethnohistory. Drawing on extensive... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Documentary History of Communism in Russia by Robert V Daniels Publisher Comments An extensive revision of the valued but unobtainable 1960 edition. Nearly 300 key documents are now readily available in translation.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Nobility: Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (11 Edition) by Irina Borogan Publisher Comments The security services have played a central—and often mysterious—role at key turning points in Russia during the tumultuous years following the Soviet collapse: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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