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The Bear and The Nightingale: (Winternight Trilogy)
A beautiful fairytale full of magic for fans of Naomi Novik, Erin Morgenstern and Philip Pullman _____________________________ Beware the evil in the woods... In a village at the edge of...
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...
The Witch and the Tsar
'A delicate weaving of myth and history, The Witch and the Tsar breathes new life into stories you think you know' Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For...
Lenin on the Train
A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
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,...
Conspirator
Conspirator is the compelling story of Lenin's exile- the years in which he and his political collaborators plotted a revolution that would change 20th-century history. It tells the story of...
My Russia: War or Peace?
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...
Young Philby
Author: Robert Littell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Englishman Harold Adrian Russell Philby, nicknamed Kim, slips onto the Russian freighter Domatova as it quietly sails out of...
Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture
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,...
Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny
'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 Witch and the Tsar
Author: Olesya Salnikova GilmoreFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 280g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'A delicate weaving of myth and history, The Witch and the Tsar breathes new life...
A Short History of Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty
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...
Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality
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...
VNIITE: Discovering Utopia - Lost Archives of Soviet Design
Author: Alexandra SankovaFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 240mm, 640g, 208 pagesPublished: Unit Editions, United Kingdom, 2023Written by the Moscow Design Museum's Alexandra Sankova and Olga Druzhinina, this book tells the previously...
The Soviet Spies
$15.00 AUD
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Russian Gem Dictionary: The world's favourite mini dictionaries
The home of trusted Russian dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy and affordable Russian to English and English to Russian dictionary in a compact, durable and portable format for...
The Alternative in Eastern Europe
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Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
'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...
In Anger: Culture in the Cold War 1945-60
$25.00 AUD
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Dancing on Thin Ice: Travails of a Russian Dissenter
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...
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and
In riveting prose, In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century. Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were...
Alexander Schmorell: Saint of the German Resistance
At the height of World War II, a small band of students in Munich, Germany, formed a clandestine organization called the White Rose, which exposed the Nazi regime's murderous atrocities...
Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking: SHORTLISTED FOR
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'...
Green Beret, Red Star
$30.00 AUD
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The March Wind
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Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg
Frommer's Complete Guides America's #1 bestselling travel series More full-color guides than ever before Foldout maps in annual guides Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and insider tips
Kursk: Film tie-in
The acclaimed and harrowing bestseller that tells the true story of the fate of Russia's most powerful submarine, the Kursk - and soon to be a major motion picture, starring...
St Petersburg City Pick
An exciting and unique popular city break travel series featuring the best-ever writing on favourite World cities. All the sights, sounds and flavours of city life with perfect gems of...
The Other Woman
$12.00 AUD
From Daniel Silva, the No.1 New York Times bestselling author, comes a modern masterpiece of espionage, love, and betrayal. She was his best-kept secret ... In an isolated village in...
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...
The Romanov Brides: A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters
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...
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...
Crimea
A superb, gripping and sweeping piece of writing by a great narrative historian The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men...
The MiG-29: Russia's Legendary Air Superiority, and Multirole Fighter,
This book presents the development and operational use of the Soviet/Russian Mikoyan MiG-29. The MiG-29 was the Soviet response to the new generation of air-superiority fighter aircraft fielded by NATO,...
Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881
[The book] succeeds remarkably in providing a multifaceted, yet interconnected, analysis of this signal era of modern Russian history and it is heartily recommended." -The Historian This volume, the work...
Night Owls
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I...
Defending Rodinu Volume 2: Development and Operational History of the
Having developed a major Air Defense Force (PVO) capable of covering the entire airspace of the USSR, and then fielded interceptors and surface-to-air missiles capable of effectively intercepting even high-flying...
St Petersburg: A History
From its 1703 foundation by Peter the Great in a swampy war zone to its leading role in overthrowing Soviet power and bringing Russia into the twenty-first century, St Petersburg...
The Diamond Horse
A frozen palace and a sparkling secret - an epic Russian adventure awaits! A priceless diamond necklace holds a secret - the stories of two very different Russian girls... Anna...
Putin's Virtual War: Russia's Subversion and Conversion of America,
With his elfin poker face, receding short golden hair, diminutive but muscular body, and stiff clipped gait, Vladimir Putin is among the world's most recognisable leaders. He has tightly ruled...
Cool Restaurants - Moscow
Cool Restaurants Moscow zoom Cool Restaurants Moscow zoom Cool Restaurants Moscow zoom In the thriving Russian capital, there's a cornucopia of culinary destinations where the settings are as stunning as...
Russia and the Russians: A History
From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the...
A Brief History of 1917: Russia's Year of Revolution
'Lenin? Yes, he was a good man -- he ran the whole country -- and he did it on a worker's wages.' The view of a Red Army veteran is...
Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of
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...
Russian Century: A Photojournalistic History of Russia in the
Over 300 photographs of Russia from 1894 to 1994, most of them previously unpublished, and very few seen before in the West, have been culled from dozens of archives, museums,...
St Petersburg: A Traveller's Reader
Featuring a vivid selection from biographies, novels, letters, poems, diaries and memoirs, this volume traces the story of St Petersburg from earliest times. Through these pieces, readers can observe the...