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In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

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Author: Jeffrey Tayler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union...
With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps

With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps

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Author: Walter J. Ciszek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of...
Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine

Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine

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 'Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in a chapter. He is unique and irreplaceable' MICK HERRON, author of Slow Horses ARKADY RENKO IS BACK...
The Romanov Brides: A Novel Of The Last Tsarina And Her Sisters

The Romanov Brides: A Novel Of The Last Tsarina And Her Sisters

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From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse-the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia-and her sister, Princess Ella. Their...
The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy

The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy

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Author: Mark Urban Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine...
Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny

Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny

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'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, TelegraphThe gripping sequel...
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet

The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet

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The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in...
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland

High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland

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'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver BulloughOn 1 September 2004, Chechen and Ingush militants took more than a thousand...
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...
Wound

Wound

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A breathtaking novel of grief, love, creativity and a young woman's queer and artistic awakening.In the days after her mother's death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides...
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....
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

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The gripping bestselling account of the largest military campaign ever, by the much-acclaimed WW2 historian Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a...
The Little Man from Archangel

The Little Man from Archangel

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Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The poignant story of an outsider falsely accused of murder from the celebrated author of the Maigret series She...
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

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Author: Paul R. Josephson (Associate Professor of History, Colby College) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the...
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy

Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became

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The Sunday Times and NYT bestseller. A shocking true-life thriller about corruption, dirty politics and murder in Russia by one of Putin's Most Wanted. 'An unburdening, a witness statement and...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian

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'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.'...
The Way of a Pilgrim: Candid Tales of a Wanderer to His Spiritual Father

The Way of a Pilgrim: Candid Tales of a Wanderer to His Spiritual

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A simple peasant seeks spiritual fulfilment in this apparently artless tale of popular piety 'Here, see my belongings- a bag of dry crusts on my back and the Holy Bible...
The Romanov Brides: A Novel Of The Last Tsarina And Her Sisters

The Romanov Brides: A Novel Of The Last Tsarina And Her Sisters

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From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse-the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia-and her sister, Princess Ella. Their...
Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

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Young law student Rodion Raskolnikov lives in poverty in St. Petersburg. Indesperation, he sells the last of his valuables, a watch, to an elderly pawnbroker. Butwhat the pawnbroker doesn't know...
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War

The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War

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'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER 'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN The astonishing story of the ten million...
Russian Thinkers

Russian Thinkers

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This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface Isaiah Berlin witnessed the excesses of the Russian Revolution as a child, and in becoming...
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...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

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'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 face...
My Russia: War or Peace?

My Russia: War or Peace?

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In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

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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...
Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality

Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality

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Smoke and Mirrors is about a world which is no more. There is already no such country on the map - the Soviet Union. On the site where the famous...
Stalin's Wine Cellar

Stalin's Wine Cellar

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The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine. 'A wild, boys-own adventure...
History of the Russian Revolution

History of the Russian Revolution

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'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard

A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard

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It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of...
We: Introduction by Will Self

We: Introduction by Will Self

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The first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World Special futuristic 3D cover edition! Comes with 3D glasses! As relevant today as when it was...
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...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin

The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin

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From the time of the tsars to the waning days of Communist regime, Russian leaders tried to control the flow of ideas by controlling its citizens' movements. They believed strict...
Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture

Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture

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Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author, available in June 2015 The twentieth century in Russia has been a cataclysm of rare proportions, as war, revolution, famine,...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
'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 face...
Central Powers of the Russian Front 1914-1918

Central Powers of the Russian Front 1914-1918

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Arranged in five sections, one for each year of the War, this superbly illustrated book covers the fluid fighting that took place on the Russian Front from August 1914. Each...
Conflict in the Crimea: British Redcoats on Russian Soil

Conflict in the Crimea: British Redcoats on Russian Soil

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The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men and women who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war. As well...
A Short History of Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty

A Short History of Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty

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Upon publication in 2001, Russia's First Civil War by Chester Dunning was greeted by scholars as a "historical tour de force," the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of...
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner

The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner

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THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir...
My Russia: War or Peace?

My Russia: War or Peace?

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In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals

Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals

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'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's history a tender nurture of pasts we overlook, but which...
Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking: SHORTLISTED FOR

Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking: SHORTLISTED FOR

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2024 'Tender and merciless . . . a hallucinatory window into what it means to excavate the past in a world committed to its erasure'...
MIG

MIG

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At the beginning of the Second World War, MiG was founded by two aircraft engineers, Artyom Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. Thus began a unique history. For decades, MiG aircraft have...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Written by a Communist insider, a candid portrait of one of the most dangerous men in history This extraordinarily vivid and unnerving book three meetings held with Stalin during and...
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

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A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY won pretty much every prize for which it was eligible This tremendously attractive, ambitious, dizzying book is in every way a worthy successor to Figes' bestselling A...
Last Stop on the Murder Express

Last Stop on the Murder Express

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'Quirky and colourful' Times Crime Club'The village life, the (mostly awful) food, the appalling hooch and, above all, the loveable eccentricity of Olga, make this a novel to treasure' A....
Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine

Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine

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Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in a chapter. He is unique and irreplaceable' MICK HERRON, author of Slow Horses ARKADY RENKO IS BACK...
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story

Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story

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The award-winning historian returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured...