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Romanovs: A Captivating Guide to the Romanov Dynasty that Ruled Russia From 1613 Until the Russian Revolution and the Life of Ni
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Romanovs and Nicholas II, then keep reading…
Two captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Romanovs: A Captivating Guide to the Last Imperial Dyn
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 23 2020
- ISBN10: 1647489113
- Language: English
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The Romanovs’ Murder Case: The Myth of the Basement Room Massacre
$14.99 Add to cartEvery fairy tale contains the story of a prince, and once the prince meets his princess, they often live happily ever after. But for Nicholas II, tsar of all the Russias, and his wife, Princess Alexan
- Author: Bolen, T. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: June 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1458221830
- Language: English
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Passage to Ararat
$23.99 Add to cartIn Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exile
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Arlen, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530122
- Language: English
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Chernobyl 01: 23:40: The incredible true story of the world’s worst nuclear disaster
$27.00 Add to cartAt 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thous
- Author: Leatherbarrow, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 099359753X
- Language: English
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The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy
$22.00 Add to cartAndrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks m
- Series: Russian and East European Studies
- Author: Kozyrev, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0822966514
- Language: English
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The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays
$15.00 Add to cartA collection of essays and articles from the Ukranian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno, who fought against encroaching Bolshevik terror during the Russian Revolution. The Struggle Against the State and ot… [more below]
- Author: Makhno, Nestor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1873176783
- Language: English
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
$21.99 Add to cartIn this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia’s most feared power bro… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 1610390709
- Language: English
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The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus
$18.95 Read moreThe astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead one of the first global public health campaigns.
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Short- Author: Ward, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0861545184
- Language: English
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Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
$34.95 Add to cart“A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty.” –Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard Univ… [more below]
- Author: Fuller, William C., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0684863820
- Language: English
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Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny
$24.00 Add to cart*As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered*
“Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review “Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szablowski teaches us with witty persistence that we- Author: Szablowski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0143129740
- Language: English
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Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
$18.99 Add to cartIn this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world–and inc… [more below]
- Author: Stent, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1538741628
- Language: English
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The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreThe Soviet Union at its height occupied one sixth of the world’s land mass, encompassed fifteen republics, and stretched across eleven different time zones. More than twice the size of the United Stat… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lovell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199238480
- Language: English
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
$27.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – An “urgently readable” (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history–from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Roman… [more below]
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 12 1981
- ISBN10: 0345298063
- Language: English
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The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartA vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twe… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Barenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0197548229
- Language: English
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The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
$30.00 Read more*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * One of The East Hampton Star‘s 10 Best Books of the Year*
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind t- Author: Birmingham, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 16, 2021
- ISBN10: 1594206309
- Language: English
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
$41.00 Add to cartFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism.
In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0465098495
- Language: English
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Putin’s Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
$21.99 Add to cartA searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from the bravest of Russian journalists (The New York Times)
Hailed as a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness (New States- Author: Politkovskaya, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082506
- Language: English
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A Short History of Russia: How the World’s Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
$27.99 Read moreA Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch
“Terrific – and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book.” -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roa… [more below]
- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1335145702
- Language: English
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Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: Memories of Soviet Russia
$19.95 Add to cartTold in the dual points of view, Like A Drop of Ink in a Downpour is a clear-eyed look at the reality of life in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, giving us an insider’s perspective on the roots o… [more below]
- Author: Lembersky, Yelena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 164469669X
- Language: English
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
$29.99 Add to cartThe 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 de… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 29 2000
- ISBN10: 0465003125
- Language: English
