Russia
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Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs–A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
$17.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama of obscene wealth, crime, rivalry, and betrayal from … [more below]
- Author: Mezrich, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 1476771901
- Language: English
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Killer in the Kremlin
$28.95 Read moreA gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin’s tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kr… [more below]
- Author: Sweeney, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1787636666
- Language: English
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
$21.00 Add to cartThe recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. A longtime critic of the Russian govern… [more below]
- Author: Politkovskaya, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226674339
- Language: English
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In the Enemy’s House
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America’s history as he chro
- Author: Blum, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0062458264
- Language: English
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Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway
$24.99 Read moreAn illustrated travelogue that brilliantly captures artist and illustrator Emma Fick’s epic train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway–from Beijing through Mongolia to Moscow–including more than 20
- Author: Fick, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0063080362
- Language: English
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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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The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
$32.00 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 Read moreFrom 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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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 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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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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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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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
$18.99 Add to cartDespite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war–and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? U
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078928
- Language: English
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Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel
$18.95 Add to cartThe memoirs of acclaimed Russian cavalry general Pyotr Wrangel. Recounts Wrangel’s service during WWI, experiences during the Russian Revolution, and command of the anti-communist White Army during th
- Author: Wrangel, Pyotr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: February 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1959403206
- Language: English
