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by Piers Vitebsky  Publisher Comments Cambridge anthropologist Piers Vitebsky, the first westerner to live with the Eveny of Siberia since the Russian revolution, brings readers an extraordinary case of survival in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. of photos.... (read more)  List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by G Andreev Khomiakov Publisher Comments One dusty summer day in 1935, a young writer named Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov was released from the Siberian labor camp where he had spent the last eight years of his life. His total assets amounted to 25 rubles, a loaf of bread, five dried herrings, and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert C Tucker Publisher Comments A professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University explains at last in authoritative detail the motivations, personality, and actions of the brutal ruler whose years in power still cast a dark shadow on the world stage. A dramatic narrative... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adele Marie Barker Publisher Comments "This volume on post-Soviet Russian culture is noteworthy for its range and critical edge. The authors comment on the impact of Western productions and practices, as well as the reformulation of longstanding Russian traditions. Adele Barker is to be... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Handelman Publisher Comments Written by a veteran foreign correspondent and former Moscow bureau chief for the Toronto Star, this riveting book presents the first comprehensive investigation into the organized crime and corruption that plague Russia today. A New York Times Notable... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments History on a grand scale-an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations "A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now,... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mikhail Gorbachev Publisher Comments Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $7.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Politkovskaya Synopsis The first account written by a Russian woman of the Chechen conflict, "A Dirty War" is an edgy and intense study of a country in crisis. In a series of articles from July 1999 to February 2000, journalist Anna Politkovskaya vividly describes the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey Hosking Publisher Comments From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the history and destiny of Russia have unfolded. In a sweeping narrative, one of the... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Frost Kennan Publisher Comments In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book re-creates that unhappily memorable storythe arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Amis 
Publisher Comments Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political while remaining personal. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gabriel Gorodetsky Publisher Comments In this rich and engaging book Gorodetsky draws on vital new archival material to unravel the mystery of Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941 and Stalin's enigmatic behavior on the eve of the attack. 16 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments "Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"<BR>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<BR>Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $2.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Gregory L Freeze Publisher Comments Now fully updated to 2001, this is an authoritative and highly readable introduction to a thousand years of Russian history. From the formation of the Russian state in the 14th century to the political power struggles of the 1990s and the uncertainties... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Kotkin Publisher Comments A brief, vibrant history explores the most momentous event of the late 20th century: the collapse of the Soviet Union. Maps & halftones.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Schwartz Publisher Comments A sensational collection that is at once a crie de coeur against the abuse of power, and a serious discussion of the nature of political violence and corruption. An extremely controversial and important new publication on the abuse of power and violence... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter C Clemens Publisher Comments Why isn't the Baltic region like the Balkans? Why have the Baltic republics not experienced ethnic cleansing, border wars, authoritarian rule, and social chaos? Instead, peace, democracy, and market economies have taken root since the fall of communism... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 vividness and intimacy. 375 illustrations, 125 in color.... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Brent Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-386) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Meier Publisher Comments A Decade After the Soviet Collapse, Russia remains a country in limbo, a land of vast potential struggling with an unfinished past. Journeying to Russia's five corners -- Moscow, Chechnya, Norilsk, Sakhalin, and St. Petersburg -- Andrew Meier, a former... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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