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A History of Russia by Nichola Riasanovsky Publisher Comments Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume survey text available, A History of Russia presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an empire, to Soviet Russia, the successor states, and beyond... (read more) List Price $56.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew Publisher Comments The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra by Peter Kurth Publisher Comments This spectacular illustrated history tells the story of the last Romanovs - one of the great tragic love stories of all time - with unparalleled vividness & intimacy. The text, which follows Nicholas & Alexandria from their childhood's to the Siberian... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $11.95 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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Romanovs by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments In 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinberg, Siberia. Were these the remains of the last tsar and his family, murdered over 70 years before? Pulitzer Prize winner Massie now answers this question, going back to the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (07 Edition) by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 "A tremendous achievement."--The Sunday Times (London) The Whisperers is a triumphant act of recovery. In this powerful work of history, Orlando Figes chronicles the private history of family life during the violent... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia by Semyonova Tian Shans Publisher Comments ... a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasantsociety in the years before the revolution.... The translation is superb. --Steven Hoch ... one of the best ethnographic portraits thatwe have of the Russian village.... a highly readable... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev by Daniel Treisman Publisher Comments Russia has long been a source of puzzlement— and sometimes alarm—for Western observers. Since shaking off communism two decades ago, the country has seemed wobbly at best, thoroughly corrupt and threatening at worst. But in recent... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 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: $10.20 Used - Hardcover
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The Emergence of Russia: 750-1200 by Simon Franklin Synopsis This text charts the fractured and violent history of early Rus, covering Slav territories which are not, and do not want to be, part of modern Russia. It explores the development, amongst the diverse peoples of the area, of a society underpinned by a... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Peterthe Great as Russia's westward-oriented capital and as a visually stunning showcaseof Russia's imperial ambitions, has been the country's most mythologized city. Likea museum piece... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Russia's Far East: A Region at Risk by Judith Thornton Book News Annotation Eighteen articles explore the political, economic, and geostrategic contexts of the Far Eastern region of Russia. Presented by Thornton (economics, U. of Washington) and Ziegler (political science, U. of Louisville) the articles discuss such topics as... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $11.50 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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New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science by Paul R Josephson Publisher Comments In 1958 construction began on Akademgorodok, a scientific utopian community modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." The city, carved out of a Siberian forest 2,500 miles east of Moscow, was formed by Soviet scientists with Khrushchev's... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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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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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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