Cultural Region/Russian
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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
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Russian Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Russian & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
$14.90 Add to cartAre you trying to learn Russian – but can’t find the right reading material?
Do you find traditional textbooks complicated and need something new?
It’s undeniable: Russian can be quite a challenging lan
- Series: Easy Russian Stories #2
- Author: Lingo Mastery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: May 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1951949331
- Language: English
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Reading Gogol’s Petersburg Tales in Russian: A Parallel-Text Russian Reader
$19.99 Add to cartA pure delight to read, the four major “Petersburg Tales” of Nikolai Gogol – strange and fantastical, ludicrously absurd, by turns harrowing and hilarious – are among the foundational texts of modern
- Author: Pettus, Mark R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: May 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1087969344
- Language: English
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The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War
$28.99 Add to cartA panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War–a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.
Berlin- Author: Hett, Benjamin Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798760
- 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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Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
$30.00 Add to cartAlexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his f
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Rey, Marie-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0875807550
- Language: English
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
$27.00 Add to cartA “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645616
- Language: English
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Spymaster: My Thirty-Two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West
$24.99 Add to cartOleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. … [more below]
- Author: Kalugin, Oleg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0465014453
- Language: English
