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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 Bolshevik Regime (94 Edition) 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: $11.00 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: $7.95 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Days of the Romanovs (10 Edition) by Rappaport Publisher Comments The brutal murder of the Russian Imperial family on the night of July 16-17, 1918 has long been a defining moment in world history. This book gives a riveting day-by-day account of the last fourteen days of their lives, as the conspiracy to kill them... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of the Baltic States (Palgrave Essential Histories) by Andres Kasekamp Publisher Comments Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania experienced a sequence of foreign regimes, including Nazism and communism, before recovering their independence and joining the European Union. Clearly and accessibly written, this book is one of the first to provide a... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Steeltown, USSR by Stephen Kotkin Publisher Comments No one, not even Mikhail Gorbachev, anticipated what was in store when the Soviet Union embarked in the 1980s on a radical course of long-overdue structural reform. The consequences of that momentous decision, which set in motion a transformation... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies #19: The Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era by Ludmilla Alexeyeva Publisher Comments The Thaw Generation offers an insider's look at the Soviet dissident movement--the intellectuals who, during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras, dared to challenge an oppressive system and demand the rights guaranteed by the Soviet constitution. ... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of 1917: Russia's Year of Revolution by Roy Bainton Publisher Comments Russia's Bolshevik Revolution began in 1917 and has remained a controversial political and academic battleground, fought over for almost a century. It has been demonized—its more sinister aspects used as an anti-Communist battering ram throughout... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime: The Changing Views of Russians. Richard Rose, William Mishler and Neil Munro by Richard Rose Publisher Comments All forms of government require popular support to survive, whether voluntary or involuntary. Following the collapse of the Soviet system, Russia's rulers took steps toward democracy, yet under Vladimir Putin Russia has become increasingly undemocratic... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eitingons : Twentieth-century Story (10 Edition) by Mary-kay Wilmers Publisher Comments Leonid Eitingon was a KGB assassin who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Turkey in the late 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially, in Mexico, helping to organize the assassination of Trotsky... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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The man who killed Rasputin :Prince Felix Youssoupov and the murder that helped bring down the Russian Empire by Greg King Publisher Comments The author of the highly acclaimed Russian biography The Last Empress uncovers the truth behind the murder of one of Russia's most notorious figures. On December 16, 1916, Prince Felix Youssoupov and a group of conspirators, in what they considered to be... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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China: The Balance Sheet What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower by Center For Strategic Publisher Comments China's emergence as a major international power is perhaps the most important development in world affairs of the 21st century. Now, this book provides an indispensable survey of that country, the world's largest-- a vast land with 1.4 billion people... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Goodbye Stalin: A True Story of Wars, Escapes and Reinvention by Sigrid Von B Thomas Synopsis The planes came. My mother leaped from the driver's seat screaming. Into the ditch! A heart-wrenching story of one family's struggle to be free. Sigrid and her family escaped communism not once but four times. They went from feudal glory under the Czars... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Grief of My Heart: Memoirs of a Chechen Surgeon by Khassan Baiev Publisher Comments A Booklist Editors Choice for 2003 In this riveting memoir, Khassan Baiev relates his harrowing experiences as a surgeon in one of the worst war zones of the last decade. When the hospital where Baiev worked in Grozny, the Chechen capital, was destroyed... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny by Jeffrey Tayler Publisher Comments In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler traveled some 2,400 miles down the Lena River, from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, re-creating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He was searching for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Armageddon Averted : the Soviet Collapse Since 1970-2000 (2ND 09 Edition) by Stephen Kotkin Publisher Comments Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hoover Institution Press Publication #545: Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime: The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915 by Stephen F. Williams Book News Annotation The agricultural reform unleashed by Russian Prime Minister Petr Stolypin in 1906, which was aimed at the widespread privatization of peasant communal lands, was "reform in the direction of liberal democracy" in the estimation of Judge Williams (US... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev Publisher Comments This stunning book, based on KGB archives that have never come to light before, provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was permitted unique access to Stalin-era... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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