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Lenin's Embalmers

Lenin's Embalmers

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In 1924 Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, died and, at Stalin s instigation, his body was mummified and put on display. Ilya Zbarsky s father Boris was one...
Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Schnittke

$19.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
This biography of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (b.1934) presents a fascinating portrait of a man whose musical output is inextricably linked to the strictures of life in the former...
Modernism to Realism on the Soviet Stage: Tairov- Vakhtangov-Okhlopkov

Modernism to Realism on the Soviet Stage: Tairov- Vakhtangov-Okhlopkov

$150.00 AUD$30.00 AUD
This is the first book to deal with the work of three important Soivet theatre directors - Alexander Tairov, Evgeni Vakhtangov and Nikolai OkHlopkov - who, although familiar names in...
Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was...
I Hope

I Hope

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The perestroika years have awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR,...
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War

Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War

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A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian June 1944- In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army...
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and

The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and

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A 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...
The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution

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A groundbreaking, inclusive history of the Russian Revolution for "those who want to discover what really happened to Russia" ( The New York Times Book Review ) A "monumental study"...
Traitor's Odyssey: The Untold Story of Martha Dodd and a Strange Saga

Traitor's Odyssey: The Untold Story of Martha Dodd and a Strange Saga

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'A delicious, gossipy and thoroughly engaging romp ... heartily recommended.' - Tim Tate, author of Hitler's British Traitors and The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold 'A captivating...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women

Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women

$34.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women

Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
Through the Eyes of Children: Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War

Through the Eyes of Children: Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War

$37.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art. What is it like to be a child living...
Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist Under Capitalism and

Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist Under Capitalism and

$70.50 AUD$12.00 AUD
In the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc, the idea of "vacation" was never as uncomplicated as throwing some suitcases in the car and heading for the beach. The emphasis...
A Dog's Heart

A Dog's Heart

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray...
The Sword and the Shield

The Sword and the Shield

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The 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...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women

Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
Dancing on Thin Ice: Travails of a Russian Dissenter

Dancing on Thin Ice: Travails of a Russian Dissenter

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In this memoir, replete with Jewish humor and sardonic Russian irony, exiled Russian journalist and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk (b. 1930) colorfully narrates his evolution as a dissenter and...
A Backpack, A Bear, And Eight Crates Of Vodka, A

A Backpack, A Bear, And Eight Crates Of Vodka, A

$44.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant story of a young boy in the confusing and often chilling final decade of the Soviet Union. It's also the...
Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War

Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War

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A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards Russia is failing--and we'll never fix it until we...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

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"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane...
A Dictator Calls

A Dictator Calls

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The new novel from first winner of International Man Booker, inspired by three minutes in June 1934 when Joseph Stalin allegedly called Boris Pasternak. A fascinating meditation on Soviet Russia,...
Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror

Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of

$26.99 AUD
An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS...
A Short History of Russia

A Short History of Russia

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An essential short history of Russia by acclaimed writer and expert Mark Galeotti, taking us from Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great, to the Russian Revolution, the fall of...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition

The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first

$35.00 AUD$29.75 AUD
The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in 2020 Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror...
Life and Fate: **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**

Life and Fate: **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**

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The greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. Life and Fate is an epic tale of a...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

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Solzhenitsyn's masterwork about those who dared to oppose Stalin and the lives shaped, devastated and wasted by the Soviet regime. Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile....
White Fox

White Fox

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Set during the darkest days of the Cold War, a tautly-told, nail-bitingly atmospheric historical thriller about two competing KGB operatives caught in a race to secure the devastating truth behind...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

$26.99 AUD
The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback Ursula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent....
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

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We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...
The Cold War: A World History

The Cold War: A World History

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A major history of the conflict that shaped every aspect of our world As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

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A powerful history of one the most devastating episodes in the twentieth century, by 'the leading historian of Soviet crimes' (Sunday Times) In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of...
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl

Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl

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A haunting history of the Chernobyl disaster by the winner of the Nobel prize in literature On 26 April 1986 the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occured in Chernobyl...
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II

Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War

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From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the incredible true story of one of the most audacious and little-known operations of WW2 In November 1943, with the outcome of...
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories

Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories

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Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second...
Ten Days That Shook the World

Ten Days That Shook the World

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The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A...
Death of the Red Rider: A Leningrad Confidential

Death of the Red Rider: A Leningrad Confidential

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
On the eve of the Great Purge, a horseman and horse mysteriously collapse in the middle of a race in Leningrad. Weary Detective Zaitsev, still raw from his last brush...
The Other Russian Dolls: Antique Bisque to 1980s Plastic

The Other Russian Dolls: Antique Bisque to 1980s Plastic

$85.00 AUD$68.00 AUD
As interest in Russia increases, increased value and attention are focused on its history-rich ethnic dolls, and this is the only comprehensive resource available. For those who collect, deal in,...
A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

$59.99 AUD$47.99 AUD
A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial Times'A vivid and sparkling account, full of colour and dark drama' Observer'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony...
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag (SIGNED)

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From Orlando Figes, international bestselling author of A People's Tragedy, Just Send Me Word is the moving true story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's Gulag. Lev and...
The Competent Authority

The Competent Authority

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
'Great is the Soviet Union, vast its territories, warm its entrails...' 1959. Whispers of dissidence are spreading in the U.S.S.R. Texts published in the West are circulating in samizdat, tormenting...
Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov

Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of

$49.99 AUD$39.99 AUD
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize...
A Killing Winter: An Inspector Akyl Borubaev Thriller (1)

A Killing Winter: An Inspector Akyl Borubaev Thriller (1)

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'Even better than Child 44. Akyl Borubaev is a terrific creation' Anthony HorowitzWE UNCOVERED THE LAST OF THE BODIES IN THE RED HOUR BEFORE DUSK, AS THE SUN STAINED THE...
The Adventures of Tintin: 8 Title Paperback Boxed Set: The Official Classic Children's Illustrated Mystery Adventure Series

The Adventures of Tintin: 8 Title Paperback Boxed Set: The Official

$160.00 AUD$128.00 AUD
Join Tintin, one of the most iconic characters in children's literature, in eight of his greatest adventures.Celebrating 95 years of Herge's classic comic book creation Tintin, one of the most...
The Competent Authority

The Competent Authority

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'Great is the Soviet Union, vast its territories, warm its entrails...' 1959. Whispers of dissidence are spreading in the U.S.S.R. Texts published in the West are circulating in samizdat, tormenting...
Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen

Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen

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Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in...