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Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary
Together with Lenin, Trotsky was the most charismatic and dominating figure of the Russian revolution. A dynamic public speaker, a brilliant organizer and theorist, he was largely responsible for advocating...
Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs
When Gorbachev came to power in 1985, the globe was still divided into two armed camps - one for each superpower - as it had been ever since 1945. The...
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
This biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts. What emerges is a picture of a man constantly torn between benevolence and...
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world,...
Endling: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN
* LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 * * WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE ATWOOD...
Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study."-Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned...
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate
The Cold War had been over for two decades when, in 2010, ten Russian agents were arrested in the United States after a decade-long FBI operation. Among the spies were...
A History of Soviet Civilization
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The book titled A History of Soviet Civilization by the author Andrei Sinyavsky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and
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A major new history of the Russian conflict immortalized by Tolstoy in "War and Peace" Russia's expulsion of Napoleon's Grande Armee in 1812 is considered one of the most dramatic...
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite,...
Stalin as Warlord
The Second World War was the defining moment in the history of the Soviet Union. With Stalin at the helm, it emerged victorious at a huge economic and human cost....
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps
A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin's Gulag-showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited...
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world,...
The Other Russian Dolls: Antique Bisque to 1980s Plastic
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,...
The Circassian Genocide
Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea. For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the Russians...
Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian
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Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's...
Biological Espionage
In the wake of 9/11 the threat of biological terrorism and sabotage has been thrust to the forefront of public consciousness. However, this is far from being a new phenomenon....
Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War
From the Wall Street Journal 's award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia that transformed into a ruthless game of...
The Second Russian Revolution
The book titled The Second Russian Revolution by the author Angus Roxburgh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
One Billion Years to the End of the World
A darkly funny satire from the most acclaimed and popular Russian science-fiction writers. Astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov is on the precipice of a major discovery - a Nobel Prize-worthy break though....
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate
The Cold War had been over for two decades when, in 2010, ten Russian agents were arrested in the United States after a decade-long FBI operation. Among the spies were...
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of...
The Gates of Europe (Revised Edition): A History of Ukraine
A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is "an exemplary account of Europe's least-known large country" ( Wall Street Journal). As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing...
The New Realities
While this book is not futuristic it does attempt to define the concerns, the issues and the controversies that will be realities in years to come. The author contends that...
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Hugely enjoyable' The Spectator 'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER,...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
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In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag , acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and...
From Splendour to Revolution
The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. During that time the country underwent a massive transformation, taking it from days of grandeur...
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
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From the author of A People's Tragedy , an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in...
Lenin
The author destroys the myth of benevolent "Grandfather Lenin", showing how political violence and diplomatic double-dealing were part and parcel of the Soviet system from its outset in 1917. The...
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review 'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HOLLAND 'This book might read...
Soviet Foreign Policy Today: Gorbachev and the New Political Thinking
"Soviet Foreign Policy Today" focuses on the highly personal nature of Gorbachev's leadership and the links between his domestic and foreign policy. To place Gorbachev's radical alternatives to Soviet policy...
The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man - Vasili Mitrokhin - turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the...
Modernism to Realism on the Soviet Stage: Tairov- Vakhtangov-Okhlopkov
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
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
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
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...
Through the Eyes of Children: Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War
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...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women
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
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
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
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...
Rebuilding Russia
Breaking the silence that marked his 16-year exile, the voice of Alexander Solzhenitsyn has again been heard in the Soviet Union. Initially at the urging of the editors of "Komsomolskaya...
Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History
Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War. On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military...
Next Stop Execution
Oleg Gordievsky was the highest-ranking KGB officer working in Britain in the heart of the Soviet system. His escape, meticulously planned and executed with the help of the British, is...
Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War
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...