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Hope Against Hope: A Memoir (Modern Library) by Nadezhda Mandelstam Publisher Comments A poignant monument to their love and is also a unique first-hand account of the life of the intelligentsia under Stalin. Mandelstam describes what it was like to get the knock on the door in the middle of the night and to live a life in exile, unable to... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies #105: Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways by Anthony Heywood Publisher Comments Reveals Lenin??'s dealings with Western business through a study of Russian railways.... (read more) List Price $148.50 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Long Walk (Movie Tie-in) (11 Edition) 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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The White Night of St. Petersburg by Prince Michael Of Gr Publisher Comments From the glittering splendor of Imperial Russia to treks across the barren steppe, "The White Night of St. Petersburg" brings to life a fascinating and forgotten member of one of history's most legendary families.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Chechen Jihad: Al Qaeda's Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror by Yossef Bodansky Publisher Comments Yossef Bodansky, the author whose #1 New York Times bestseller Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America first introduced American readers to al Qaeda's evil mastermind prior to 9/11, returns to sound an important alert. In this authoritative look... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $11.95 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 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: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis Publisher Comments A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 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: $8.50 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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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 $29.95 Your price: $18.95 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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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: $4.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime by Richard Pipes Publisher Comments Pipes is a widely recognized authority on Russia and is currently Baird professor of History at Harvard University. This is the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.95 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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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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