Russia
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
$41.00 Add to cartFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism.
In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0465098495
- Language: English
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Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines
$49.95 Add to cartSubmarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposi… [more below]
- Author: Polmar, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574885308
- Language: English
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Raven’s Gift
$24.00 Add to cartJon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn, traversed the Northwest Passage and paddled across the Pacific Rim. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the rea
- Author: Turk, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611773
- Language: English
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
$31.99 Add to cartNo other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the … [more below]
- Author: Fursenko, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317900
- Language: English
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The Amur River: Between Russia and China
$19.99 Add to cart“A gripping read with fascinating political insight.” (Sunday Times, London)
“Elegant, elegiac and poignant…Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide… to the river, muc
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063099691
- Language: English
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From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia’s Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin
$26.95 Read moreThe history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its center. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov show, however, that the real driver from early in the Russian R
- Author: Felshtinsky, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1783342447
- Language: English
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Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980
$65.00 Add to cartIn Yugoslavia’s “Third Way” architecture, Brutalism meets the fantastical
Squeezed between the two rival Cold War blocs, Yugoslav architecture consistently adhered to a modernist trajectory. As a found
- Author: Stierli, Martino
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1633450511
- Language: English
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The Navalny case: Conspiracy to serve foreign policy
$21.99 Add to cartWas Navalny deliberately poisoned? Does the evidence we have justify sanctions against Russia? Was the recording with the KGB agent a set-up? Is Navalny really the “main opponent of Vladimir Putin”? D… [more below]
- Author: Baud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 2315011345
- Language: English
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Putin’s Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
$21.99 Add to cartA searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from the bravest of Russian journalists (The New York Times)
Hailed as a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness (New States- Author: Politkovskaya, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082506
- Language: English
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
$23.00 Add to cartA long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia–from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0399588744
- Language: English
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The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World
$29.95 Add to cartA never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy, woven together from lecture excerpts by the renowned Pan-African revolutionary socialist theorist
In- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635305
- Language: English
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East
$35.00 Add to cartOperation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operatio… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Military Histories (Paperback)
- Author: Stahel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: April 21 2011
- ISBN10: 052117015X
- Language: English
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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia
$27.99 Add to cartFar away from the trendy caf?, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.
Midnight in Siberia chronicles David Greene’s journey on the Trans-Siberian
- Author: Greene, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351874
- Language: English
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A Short History of Russia: How the World’s Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
$27.99 Read moreA Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch
“Terrific – and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book.” -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roa… [more below]
- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1335145702
- Language: English
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Fear No Evil
$19.95 Add to cartTemperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us–which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years’ imprisonment in the Orwel… [more below]
- Author: Sharansky, Natan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 27 1998
- ISBN10: 1891620029
- Language: English
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Russia’s War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story
$14.99 Add to cart- Author: Edele, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0522879837
- Language: English
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Spomenik Monument Database
$34.95 Add to cartA guidebook to the wild world of communist minimalism in Tito’s Yugoslavia
Spomenik–the Serbo-Croat/Slovenian word for monument–refers to the memorials built in Tito’s Republic of Yugoslavia from the
- Author: Niebyl, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0995745536
- Language: English
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Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: Memories of Soviet Russia
$19.95 Add to cartTold in the dual points of view, Like A Drop of Ink in a Downpour is a clear-eyed look at the reality of life in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, giving us an insider’s perspective on the roots o… [more below]
- Author: Lembersky, Yelena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 164469669X
- Language: English
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
$19.99 Add to cartA “constantly captivating…well-researched and often moving” (The Wall Street Journal) history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United S… [more below]
- Author: MacGregor, Iain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1982100044
- Language: English
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
$29.99 Add to cartThe Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has de… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 29 2000
- ISBN10: 0465003125
- Language: English
