Russia
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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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Vladivostok Circus
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Tonight is the opening night. There are birds perched everywhere, on the power lines, the guy ropes, the strings of light that festoon t
- Author: Dusapin, Elisa Shua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1960385127
- Language: English
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
$30.00 Add to cart“Monumental.” —The New York Times Book Review
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0143132156
- Language: English
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Babushka Baba Yaga
$8.99 Add to cartFrom the beloved New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Thank You, Mr. Falker and Pink and Say.
Baba Yaga is a witch famous throughout Russia for eating children, but this Babushka Baba Yaga- Author: Polacco, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 25 1999
- ISBN10: 069811633X
- Language: English
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Hannah’s Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl
$8.99 Add to cartAmerica! Hannah’s small European village buzzes with tales of life in a faraway land free from persecution. Cousin Esther has passage for two aboard a ship bound for New York, and Hannah convinces Mam… [more below]
- Series: Young American Voices
- Author: Moss, Marissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0152163298
- 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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History of the Caucasus: Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires
$40.00 Add to cart“Magnificent [and] wondrous.” The Spectator
“Rich and illuminating.” Literary Review
“Phenomenally accurate.” History Today
“Stunning.” The Morning Star
“Sweeping.” The New European
“A wonderful book.” C- Author: Baumer, Christoph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1788310071
- Language: English
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Soviet Cities: Labour, Life & Leisure
$34.95 Read moreThe Soviet dream of modernist architecture for all, portrayed on the brink of its erasure
In recent years Russian cities have visibly changed. The architectural heritage of the Soviet period has not be
- Author: Kotov, Arseniy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1916218415
- Language: English
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Russian in 10 Minutes a Day: Language Course for Beginning and Advanced Study. Includes Workbook, Flash Cards, Sticky Labels, Menu Guide, Software,
$44.95 Read more“RUSSIAN in 10 minutes a day” is a complete, hands-on language learning experience! Interactive computer Sticky Labels, Flash Cards and special activities add a fun twist and you’ll learn faster than … [more below]
- Series: 10 Minutes a Day
- Author: Kershul, Kristine K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1931873348
- Language: English
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The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia’s Most Brutal Serial Killer
$19.99 Add to cartThe shocking true story of the Russian serial killer who brutally murdered more than fifty victims–and evaded capture for over a decade.
By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial ki- Author: Conradi, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1504040163
- Language: English
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Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
$42.00 Add to cartFrom renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a dissection of how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world — and increased Russia’s status on the global stage.
How did Russia manage to em… [more below]- Author: Stent, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1455533025
- Language: English
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From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union
$21.95 Add to cart2019 Foreword Indies Award, Gold
In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the late twentieth century was a time of unprecedented hope for dem
2020 Independent Book Publishers Awards, Bronze Medal- Author: Cengel, Katya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125728
- 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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Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox
$17.00 Add to cartA Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Scourge provides a definitive account of the dramatic story of smallpox by a leading “expert on biological and chemical weapons” (The New York Times). Jonathan B. … [more below]
- Author: Tucker, Jonathan B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139396
- 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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Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
$30.00 Read moreA revealing and authoritative history that shows how Soviet whalers secretly helped nearly destroy endangered whale populations, while also contributing to the scientific understanding necessary for t… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Ryan Tucker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 30 2022
- ISBN10: 022662885X
- Language: English
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Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary
$34.95 Add to cart“[A] must-read for students of history and historians alike.”—Washington Book Review
Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I,
- Author: Schindler, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1612347657
- Language: English
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Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance
$21.99 Add to cartThe year 1945 was a chaotic one, both for the world, of course, and for Winston Churchill. Communism was on the march and the people of Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Poland all found themselves i… [more below]
- Author: White, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1610392434
- Language: English
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Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
$16.99 Add to cartThe thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko — improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but.
In 1978, CIA maverick J- Author: Russo, Gus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1538761335
- Language: English
