Russia - General
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Lenin’s Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922-23
$17.00 Read moreIn 1922 and 1923, V.I. Lenin, central leader of the world’s first socialist revolution, waged what was to be his last political battle. At stake was whether that revolution, and the international move… [more below]
- Author: Lenin, V. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 379
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1604880279
- Language: English
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Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
$22.00 Read more“His is a voice that must be heard.” –Patti Smith
“A poetic rush to madness. . . a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving.”
–Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown- Author: Kamysh, Markiyan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1662601271
- Language: English
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City of Lions: Portrait of a City in Two Acts: LVIV, Then and Now
$19.95 Read more“A loving, sensuous, but also gently ironic reconstruction of a lost city” — LA Review of Books
A timely reissue of the classic portrayal of the Ukrainian city of Lviv by 2 authors in 2 acts, separat… [more below]- Author: Wittlin, Jozef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1805330012
- Language: English
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Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-Zone Warfare Opens the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
$23.00 Read moreAn authoritative analysis of how Putin’s Russia conquered the Crimea in 2014 using ‘grey zone’ warfare techniques, blending operations by anonymous special forces with cyber, sabotage, and propaganda.
- Series: Raid #59
- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1472853849
- Language: English
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The Crimean War: A History
$26.99 Read moreFrom “the great storyteller of modern Russian historians” (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age.
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nigh- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250002524
- Language: English
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The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
$38.00 Add to cartNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and it… [more below]
- Author: Davies, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 022638957X
- Language: English
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Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR
$26.95 Read moreIn 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were
- Author: Alexander, Rustam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 152616745X
- Language: English
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The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia
$35.00 Read moreThis absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels’ business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as th
- Author: Jangfeldt, Bengt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1350348910
- Language: English
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Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union
$31.95 Read moreDisarmament in the Time of Perestroika is the definitive history of the implementation of the INF Treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in all its complexities, and the lengths both sid… [more below]
- Author: Ritter, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1949762610
- Language: English
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Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$23.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times
From the editor of The New Yorker a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standar… [more below]- Author: Remnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 26 1994
- ISBN10: 0679751254
- Language: English
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In Search of the Romanovs: A Family’s Quest to Solve One of History’s Most Brutal Crimes
$39.95 Add to cartIn 1918 a famed general of the Russian White Army battled through the Red Army to save Emperor Nicholas II–but he arrived too late. The Romanovs had already been murdered.
In this thrilling true-lif- Author: Sarandinaki, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640121560
- Language: English
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Voces de Chernobil: Cronica del Futuro = Voices of Chernobyl
$12.95 Read moreEl libro en que se inspir la serie de HBO.
PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2015 La escritora bielorrusa da voz a aquellas personas que sobrevivieron al desastre de Chern bil y que fueron silenciadas y olv- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 6073175736
- Language: Spanish
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$39.95 Read moreA gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR–and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia
Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpec- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 691117039
- Language: English
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Stalin’s Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953
$18.99 Add to cartA new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin’s last great conspiracy.
On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had
- Author: Brent, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0060933100
- Language: English
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Russia: Myths and Realities
$27.95 Read moreAn expert historian and former ambassador to Moscow unlocks fact from fiction to reveal what lies at the root of the Russian story.
Churchill remarked that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery insi- Author: Braithwaite, Rodric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362886
- Language: English
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The Shaman’s Coat: A Native History of Siberia
$13.00 Add to cartThe fascinating history of an unknown people
A vivid mixture of history and reporting, The Shaman’s Coat tells the story of some of the world’s least-known peoples-the indigenous tribes of Siberia. Ru… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0802776760
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
$35.00 Add to cartThis book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic ‘Orange Revolution’ … [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0521155118
- Language: English
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The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic
$29.99 Read moreCommunism must kill what it cannot control. So for a century, it has killed artists, writers, musicians, and even dancers. It kills them secretly, using bioweapons and poison to escape accountability…. [more below]
- Author: O’Neill, John E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1684512549
- Language: English
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The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
$32.00 Add to cartIn the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled The History of the Rus’, it became one of the … [more below]
- Series: New Studies in European History
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: July 31 2014
- ISBN10: 1107449030
- Language: English
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Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
$34.95 Add to cartCold War Radio is a fascinating look at how the United States waged the Cold War through the international broadcasting of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Mark G. … [more below]
- Author: Pomar, Mark G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1640125140
- Language: English
