Russia
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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
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
$28.00 Add to cartIn June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin “the most dangerous place on earth.” He knew what he was talking about.
Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin
- Author: Kempe, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0425245942
- Language: English
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
$16.00 Add to cartA James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations
“Delicious . . . A banquet of ane… [more below]- Author: Von Bremzen, Anya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0307886824
- Language: English
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The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
$19.99 Add to cartThe poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews
Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examini- Author: Desbois, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0230617573
- Language: English
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
$21.99 Add to cartIn this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia’s most feared power bro… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 1610390709
- Language: English
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The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus
$18.95 Read moreThe astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead one of the first global public health campaigns.
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Short- Author: Ward, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0861545184
- Language: English
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Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine’s Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
$24.00 Add to cartThrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy’s “silent service”
Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commandi- Author: Sasgen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312605536
- Language: English
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Lenin on the Train
$25.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin’s fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and fore
- Author: Merridale, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160146
- Language: English
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War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
$20.99 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced young journalists” (The New York Times)–the first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppres- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1668013738
- Language: English
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Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
$34.95 Add to cart“A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty.” –Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard Univ… [more below]
- Author: Fuller, William C., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0684863820
- Language: English
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Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny
$24.00 Add to cart*As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered*
“Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review “Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szablowski teaches us with witty persistence that we- Author: Szablowski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0143129740
- Language: English
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The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat
$28.99 Add to cartWhy is Ukraine losing the war against Russia? How do both sides think and operate? What were the mistakes on both sides? How did the West contribute to the Ukrainian defeat?
To answer these questions … [more below]
- Author: Baud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 2315013062
- Language: English
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Alexander I
$44.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: November 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0875804667
- Language: English
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The Spy Who Knew Too Much: An Ex-CIA Officer’s Quest Through a Legacy of Betrayal
$28.99 Add to cart“Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers.”–New York Times
A retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case–and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married
- Author: Blum, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0063054213
- Language: English
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All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
$21.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs that surround it, and the many moods of modern Russia that reads like a real House of Cards(Lev Lurie).
All th- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1568588178
- Language: English
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Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
$18.99 Add to cartIn this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world–and inc… [more below]
- Author: Stent, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1538741628
- Language: English
