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The House By The Dvina
A unique and moving account of life in Russia before, during and immediately after the Revolution, The House by the Dvina is the fascinating story of two families, separated in...
Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial
Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. These are snapshots of a vanished...
Forged in War: A military history of Russia from its beginnings to
A masterful history of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russia's destiny for centuries, including the disastrous invasion of Ukraine. Putin retains his stranglehold on his...
Russian Machine Guns since 1945
Written by a noted authority, this fully illustrated study describes and depicts the machine guns equipping Soviet and Russian troops after 1945. Following the USSR's victory in World War II,...
The Witch's Daughter
'A spellbinding tale of love, lust, magic and betrayal in Imperial Russia... I couldn't put it down' Santa Montefiore A city burning. A revolution raging. A woman on the run....
The Tsar's Last Armada
On 14-15 May 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ships sunk, scattered, or captured by the Japanese. It was among the top...
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold
An 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...
The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917
THE EMPIRE MUST DIE portrays the vivid drama of Russia's brief and exotic experiment with civil society before it was swept away by the despotism of the Communist Revolution. The...
Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya
In Towers of Stone, award-winning Polish reporter Wojciech Jagielski brings into focus the tragedy of Chechnya, its inhabitants, and the war being waged there by a handful of desperate warriors...
Koba The Dread
'Indignant, angry, personal and strangely touching - Koba the Dread carries a punch, artfully delivered' New York Times Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It...
Rasputin: The Last Word
Sensational new biography - using the discovery of long lost contemporary documents - of the Russian peasant mystic whose malign influence helped lead to the downfall of the Romanovs. An...
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the
RUSSIAN ROULETTE is a story of political skullduggery unprecedented in American history. It weaves together tales of international intrigue, cyber espionage, and superpower rivalry. After U.S.-Russia relations soured, as Vladimir...
The Countess of the Revolution
March, 1917 Petrograd is on the eve of revolution. For Countess Sophia Orlova, the city of her childhood - the only home she has ever known - has become her...
The Witch's Daughter
'A spellbinding tale of love, lust, magic and betrayal in Imperial Russia... I couldn't put it down' Santa Montefiore A city burning. A revolution raging. A woman on the run....
To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42
'[An] excellent account.' - Richard Overy, The Telegraph Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2024 A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges....
German Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Stalingrad 1942-43
By the end of the first week of November 1942, the German Sixth Army held about 90 per cent of Stalingrad. Yet the Soviets stubbornly held on to the remaining...
To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42
'[An] excellent account.' - Richard Overy, The Telegraph Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2024 A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges....
Russia in the Modern World: A New Geography
This book presents a geographical analysis of the new Russia which has emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union since 1991.
Russia: Experiement With A People
The first history of modern Russia from 1991 to the present day by one of the leading historians of the 20th century USSR and Russia. In 1991, in a huge...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics 'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the...
After Gorbachev
Dramatic and confusing changes in what used to be the Soviet Union have transformed the world in which we live. Communist rule has given way to multiparty politics; a command...
A Social History of Twentieth Century Russia
Vladimir Andrle's study of Russian history shifts the focus of historical understanding from political leaders and their ideologies to the interactions of the State with the various social strata and...
Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars
Nicholas II, the last tsar of all the Russians, remains a haunting and enigmatic figure, surrounded by myth and speculation. As a young man he dreamed of travel, of seeing...
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to
'A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM , Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine 'A century of Russian history told through the women who lived...
The Age of Anxiety: Security and Politics in Soviet and Post-Soviet
The geography of Russia -- vast, unwieldy, exposed -- and her tragic history of foreign invasion have created an overriding sense of military vulnerability amongst her leaders that, after the...
Selected Letters
It has been Gorky's great misfortune to be remembered mostly for the wrong things - for his apparent support of the Stalin regime; for his direct involvement in the foundation...
The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising
In 1883, the Russian police established the Foreign Agentura in Paris. The bureau's brief: to forewarn Tsardom of terrorist plans and, if possible, to defuse acts of terrorism against high...
Great Russian Musicians: From Rubinstein to Richter
Russian musicians have left an indelible mark on 20th-century music. From composers to musicians, the Russian 'school' is admired universally. This book contains essays on the following great Russian musicians:...
Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg
Rubenstein uncovers the man behind the controversies, the gifted writer whose life embodied all the tragic dilemmas of a Russian Jewish intellectual under totalitarianism. Journalist, novelist, and poet Ilya Ehrenburg...
The Russian Revolution: A Short History
This study deals with the events of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War from 1917-1921. It provides a factual, chronological account of the main political events of the period,...
Memoirs of a Survivor: The Golitsyn Family in Stalin's Russia
When the Revolution broke out in 1917, Sergei Golitsyn was just 8 years old. His memoir of the Revolution and the years that followed constitute one of the most powerful...
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile the Making of a Revolutionary
The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin now seems to have emerged fully formed in the turbulent wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenins character...
Stolen Treasure: The Hunt for the World's Lost Masterpieces
This book by two Russian art historians sets out to reveal how they did this and what happened to these works of art. With the end of the Soviet Union,...
The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you...
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine - Updated Edition
A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A breathtaking history of Ukraine's war against Russia, by The Financial Times' Ukraine correspondent Christopher Miller 'Vivid... Shocking... [Miller] brings a...
Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945
The extraordinary story of Kathleen Harriman, daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, told through her wartime letters Kathleen Harriman was the daughter of American businessman W. Averell Harriman....
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, bohemian theatre...
Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia's Collapse into
The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world's deadliest militia " Putin's Sledgehammer provides an in-depth account of, and essential political and economic background to, the story of...
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service
For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB...
Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors
This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world's most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was...
Stalin's Russia
Stalinism is one of the most contentious political issues of the 20th century. Historical enquiry has in part benefited from, in part suffered from this. Controversy has stimulated research into...
The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligensia
In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. Two...
Yeltsin: a Revolutionary Life
The first freely elected head of state in Russia's 1000-year history, Boris Yeltsin ended Soviet military occupation of Eastern Europe, introduced the free market economy and, most importantly, forged and...
The War That Never Was: Fall of the Soviet Empire, 1985-91
The coup of August 1991 brought an end not only to Gorbachev's political career but to the entire Soviet Union: communism imploded, the Berlin Wall had been dismantled, Germany reunified,...
Stalin's Last Crime: The Doctor's Plot
This is the full story behind Stalin's last, most complex and most puzzling conspiracy unravelled for the first time through access to previously unseen secret Soviet documents. On 13th January...
Stalin
Stalin's monstrous regime was built on the most intricate secrecy and until now, little has been known about the inside workings of his leadership or his personal life. Edvard Radzinsky...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics 'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the...
Stalin
Outstanding figures who have shaped the path of history are profiled in these handsome, inexpensive volumes. These biographies detail the facts known about their subjects and emphasize their childhood, motivation,...