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Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
$35.00 Read moreAn original history of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin’s politics and rekindled the Cold War.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped his- Author: Sixsmith, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1399409867
- Language: English
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
$21.99 Add to cartA “powerful revisionist history” (Times UK) illuminating the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution
In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events whic- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675487
- Language: English
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
$22.99 Add to cartA masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of t- Author: Bogosian, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0316292109
- Language: English
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The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
$24.95 Add to cartThe epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction
The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and- Author: Slezkine, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1128
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192723
- Language: English
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
$24.00 Add to cartA 12-WEEK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses.” —People magazine “The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, b- Author: Rappaport, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1250067456
- Language: English
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Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
$20.99 Add to cartFeaturing 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 implic… [more below]
- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0195368630
- Language: English
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A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartOn the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world
It is history on an epic yet human scale. V- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014024364X
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Russia
$35.00 Add to cartAccessible to students, tourists, and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the und… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Bushkovitch, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 518
- Publish Date: December 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0521543231
- Language: English
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German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad
$35.95 Add to cartGerman Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe’s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. Du
- Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
- Author: Eaton, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501767364
- Language: English
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
$21.99 Add to cartA Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe “mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system” in this “vividly empathetic” account of the worst nu… [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 154161707X
- Language: English
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Russian History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartRussia’s sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especially given its harsh climate, vast and vulnerable borders, and the diversity of its people. In this Ver… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hosking, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199580987
- Language: English
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Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
$19.99 Add to cart“A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine’s brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future.”–Financial Times
Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands,
- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603486
- Language: English
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
$25.00 Add to cartA major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union–showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise
“A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”–Rodric Braithwaite, Fin- Author: Zubok, Vladislav M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268173
- Language: English
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Lost Pianos of Siberia
$20.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth-where music reveals the deep humanity and the rich history of Siberia.
- Author: Roberts, Sophy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0802149294
- Language: English
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Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
$38.00 Add to cart“Riveting . . . There is a wealth of new information here that adds considerable texture and nuance to his story and helps to set Russia apart from previous works.”–The Wall Street Journal
An epic ne- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 593493877
- Language: English
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the national bestselling author of Stalin: An “epic history on the grandest scale” (Financial Times) about the most successful dynasty of modern times, a family who c… [more below]
- Author: Montefiore, Simon Sebag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0307280519
- Language: English
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The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
$18.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 B- Author: Gessen, Masha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 2, 2018
- ISBN10: 1594634548
- Language: English
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
$15.95 Add to cartThe New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller that explores the gripping Dyatlov Pass incident that took the lives of nine young Russian hikers in 1959.
What happened that night on- Author: Eichar, Donnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1452140030
- Language: English
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The Story of Russia
$19.99 Add to cart“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West.”
–Anne Applebau- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871395
- Language: English
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartMulti-award-winning author China Mi騅ille captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this “engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century” (Village Voice)
I- Author: Miéville, China
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 22, 2018
- ISBN10: 1784782785
- Language: English
