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Life and Fate: **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**
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)
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
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
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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
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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,...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
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...
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): **AS HEARD ON BBC
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The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history The great Russian 20th-century novel...
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
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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
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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...
The Unwomanly Face of War
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The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Why, having stood up for and held their...
Death of the Red Rider: A Leningrad Confidential
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
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,...
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag (SIGNED)
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
'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
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)
'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
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
'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
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...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border
Author: Timothy PhillipsFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 695g, 480 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2022The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as...
Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain
Author: David HlynskyFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 860g, 208 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Communist shop windows may long have passed from history into irony, but their distinctive...