Russia
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
$18.00 Add to cartA fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translation
Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far north,… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Ibn Fadlan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0140455078
- Language: English
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
$25.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of the Marxist leader and R… [more below]
- Author: Montefiore, Simon Sebag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 1400076781
- Language: English
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Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
$35.00 Read moreAn original history of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin’s politics and rekindled the Cold War.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped his- Author: Sixsmith, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1399409867
- Language: English
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After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
$25.00 Add to cartFrom Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and ref
- Author: Rappaport, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1250777208
- Language: English
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Kennan: A Life Between Worlds
$66.58 Add to cartA definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. Kennan
The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American- Author: Costigliola, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0691165408
- Language: English
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Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in World War II
$27.99 Add to cartChoice Outstanding Academic Title
A groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, the original version of this book, Red Phoenix, was hailed by the Washington Post as both “brilliant- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Hardesty, Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 070063293X
- Language: English
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
$21.99 Add to cartA “powerful revisionist history” (Times UK) illuminating the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution
In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events whic- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675487
- Language: English
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First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin
$16.00 Add to cartWho is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly–overnight and without warning–was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? How… [more below]
- Author: Putin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2000
- ISBN10: 1586480189
- Language: English
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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World’s Greatest Scientific Expedition
$28.00 Add to cartThe story of the world’s largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told
The immense 18th-century scien- Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825198
- Language: English
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
$18.99 Add to cartA journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremli- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1610396006
- Language: English
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
$22.99 Add to cartA masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of t- Author: Bogosian, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0316292109
- Language: English
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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
$17.99 Add to cartWith intrigue that rivals the best le Carr novels, Russians Among Us tells the explosive story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West—from the end of the Cold War to th
- Author: Corera, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0062889427
- Language: English
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The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
$24.95 Add to cartThe epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction
The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and- Author: Slezkine, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1128
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192723
- Language: English
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution, Updated Edition
$29.95 Add to cartA wide-ranging, comprehensive look at Russia and its leader . . . well written, well reported, and well organized.—The New York Times
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself
- Author: Baker, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1597971227
- Language: English
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
$24.00 Add to cartA 12-WEEK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses.” —People magazine “The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, b- Author: Rappaport, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1250067456
- Language: English
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Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War
$30.00 Add to cartInitially a victory line where Allies met at the end of World War Two, the Iron Curtain quickly became the front of a new kind of war. It divided Europe from north to south for a staggering forty-five… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199640
- Language: English
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Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
$44.92 Add to cartThe automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an engine of Communist progress, in part be
- Author: Siegelbaum, Lewis H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 801477212
- Language: English
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The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule
$30.00 Add to cartWritten and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, Igort’s The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks is a collection of two harrowing works of graphic nonfict… [more below]
- Author: Igort
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1451678878
- Language: English
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Eastwick Letters
$79.99 Add to cartEASTWICK LETTERS transcribes and illustrates 117 individual sheets written 1844-51 by Andrew McCalla Eastwick, his wife Lydia, their children, and business associates as the family set up works, and h… [more below]
- Author: Knapp, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: January 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1039179134
- Language: English
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August 1914: A Novel: The Red Wheel I
$35.00 Add to cartThe Russian Nobelist’s major work, back in print for the centenary of World War I and the Russian Revolution
In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russia
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534691
- Language: English
