Cultural Region/Russian
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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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Spymaster’s Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression
$26.95 Add to cartSpymaster’s Prism is a prescient study of our unending struggle with Russia and its intelligence agencies’ relentless effort to undermine our national security. Replete with the most salient spy stori… [more below]
- Author: Devine, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640126015
- Language: English
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The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
$49.58 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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Soviet Metro Stations
$34.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Soviet Bus Stops, an underground trip through the Soviet Metro
“For us,” said Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, “there was something supernatural about the Metro.” Visi
- Author: Sorrell, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0995745560
- Language: English
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Burning Lights
$19.00 Add to cartThis charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in… [more below]
- Author: Chagall, Bella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: March 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0805208631
- Language: English
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The Gun
$20.99 Add to cartIn a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through … [more below]
- Author: Chivers, C. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0743271734
- Language: English
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Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America
$18.99 Read moreWith a new introduction about the crisis in Ukraine.
Putin’s Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union explains what Vla- Author: Koffler, Rebekah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 168451374X
- 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
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Battle for Sitka,1802 -1804, Alaskan Tlingits, Russians and Native Allies in Russian America
$33.95 Add to cartBattle for Sitka is an English translation of a Russian historian’s and chief curator’s well considered views on the 1802 Russian loss of their fort and allies in the Sitka area to the Tlingit Indians… [more below]
- Author: Zorin, Alexander V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: December 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1977223397
- Language: English
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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 Way of a Pilgrim: The Jesus Prayer Journey–Annotated & Explained
$19.99 Add to cartThe timeless account of an anonymous wanderer who set out on a journey across nineteenth-century Russia with nothing but a backpack, some bread, and a Bible, with a burning desire to learn the true me… [more below]
- Series: SkyLight Illuminations
- Author: Pokrovsky, Gleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1893361314
- 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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Trotsky
$27.99 Add to cartTrotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure set up a world conflict that lasted through the twent
- Author: Geary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0809095084
- Language: English
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Tolstoy: A Biography
$35.99 Add to cartIn this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the drama of the writer’s life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his litera
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0393321223
- Language: English
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
$76.99 Add to cartRemembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Compl… [more below]
- Author: Taubman, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: November 18 2010
- ISBN10: 0393051447
- 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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Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
$20.99 Add to cartA former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become th
- Author: Watts, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062795996
- Language: English
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To a Mountain in Tibet
$17.99 Add to cart“A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted.” –Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books
“Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0061768278
- Language: English
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The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier
$20.00 Add to cartBiographer and historian Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the “Glass Wall” between Europe and Asia in this riveting historical account.
Few countries have suffered more- Author: Egremont, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250863163
- 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
