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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir *** I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Peter the Great by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. Robert K. Massie delves deep into the life of this... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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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 Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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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) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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A History of Russia by Nichola Riasanovsky Publisher Comments Revised and expanded to cover the initiation of glasnost and perestroika in 1985, the resignation of Gorbachev in 1991, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the events of 1992, the most authoritative, readable, and well-balanced history of Russia is... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman Publisher Comments The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments Massie offers a moving, tragic, and unforgettable account of the extraordinary Imperial dynasty of Tsar Nicholas II, his doomed empire, and a revolution that would inexorably change the world forever. "A larger than life drama."--Saturday... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Catherine the Great :life and legend by John T Alexander Publisher Comments Catherine II of Russia is one of the most colorful characters in modern history. Born a minor German princess, she was betrothed to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at 15, through the designs of the childless Empress Elizabeth and her own scheming mother... (read more) List Price $90.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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In Siberia by Colin Thubron Publisher Comments An enormous and mysterious land, Siberia remains an exotic unknown that has haunted the imagination of Westerners for centuries. Colin Thubron takes us into the heart of Siberia on a journey of discovery from Mongolia to the Arctic Circle, from Rasputin... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $8.50 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: $6.95 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 $15.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld by Nicolai Lilin Publisher Comments In a contested, lawless region between Moldova and Ukraine known as Transnistria, a tightly knit group of "honest criminals"--exiled there by Stalin-live according to strict codes of ritualized respect and fierce loyalty. Here, tattoos tell the story of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Remaking Russia: Voices from Within by Heyward Isham Publisher Comments "Isham has brought together an interesting group and turned their essays into answers to three questions: 'Who are we (Russians)?' 'Where are we going?' and, 'How do we get there?'" -- Foreign... (read more) List Price $46.75 Your price: $1.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World by Christopher Andrew Publisher Comments In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West remained a secret until the publication of The Sword and the Shield in 1999. That man was Vasili Mitrokhin, the KGB's most senior archivist... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Memoirs of 1984 by Yuri Tarnopolsky Publisher Comments Tarnopolsky recounts his year in a Siberian labor camp, and offers his interpretation of the fall of the Soviet Empire and the future Russian crossroads.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Three Whys of the Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Our foremost authority on Russian communism -- the author of the definitive studies The Russian Revolution and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime -- now addresses succinctly the enigmas of that country's seventy-year enthrallment, asking: Why did tsarism... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments “A book to astonish readers: never before has Stalins Gulag been the setting for a love affair. This powerful narrative by a distinguished historian will take its place not just in history but in literature.”—Robert K... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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