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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the crossroads of empire and revolution, Russia: A...

The book titled Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin by the author Dusko Doder. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...

Yogev Ben-Ari has been sent to St Petersburg by the Mossad - ostensibly to set up business links. His life is solitary, ordered and lonely, until he meets Anna. Neither...

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...

The book titled Deadly Illusions: The KGB Orlov Dossier Reveals Stalin's Master Spy by the author John Costello. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Chronicles the life of the Russian Jew and World War II correspondent for the Soviet Army who became a passionate critic of the new regime.

A suspicious device is found inside a suitcase near a nursery in Holon, Tel Aviv. The children are taken to safety; a man is caught fleeing the scene. Then comes...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsThe Man Who Walked Like A Bear plunges readers into the intricate world of Soviet-era Moscow, where...

Author: D. A. Mishani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Soul-shattering and profound detective novel from the international award-winning sensation. WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN NEVER HURT YOU....

Michael Calvey's story starts with a dawn raid on his Moscow apartment by armed FSB agents, following accusations of embezzlement relating to a commercial deal turned sour. In truth, no...

It was one of those days when Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov should have stayed in bed. After braving a ferocious storm, Rostnikov arrives inside the Petrovka headquarters only to find three...

The critically acclaimed author of The Madonnas of Leningrad ("Elegant and poetic, the rare kind of book that you want to keep but you have to share" -Isabel Allende), Debra...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew lives have intersected so dramatically with history as that of W. S. Woytinsky, whose memoir Stormy Passage chronicles five...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodCondition remarks: spine missing from the djAt the height of the Cold War, when the fate of civilisation seemed to hang in the balance...

An epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature One of the most important Russian masterpieces of the 20th century, And...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover. A landmark biography of one of the most celebrated and enigmatic figures...

A major new translation of one of Dostoyevsky's four great novels Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy...

The book titled Dmytryshyn Imperial Russia 3e by the author Basil Dmytryshyn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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. Author: Sergei Mironenko Format: Hardback...

Author: Stuart M. KaminskyBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis gripping mystery, Rostnikov's Corpse, transports readers to the chilling streets of Soviet-era Moscow. It...

One of the most important literary biographies of recent times, this is not only the story of one of the century's greatest writers, but the history of Russia itself. A...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Selected Tales gathers...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: minor tear on dj. Few writers embodied the turbulence of their age as completely as Maxim Gorky —...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Good, minimal wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and intact. A cornerstone of Dostoevsky scholarship, Dostoyevsky: The Novel of Discord presents a...

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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA scholarly work of literary criticism and biography, this study presents a richly detailed portrait of Vsevolod Garshin,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, small tear on back top corner of jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good - no loose pages or broken binding....

The book titled Richard Meinertzhagen: Soldier, Scientist and Spy by the author Mark Cocker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew literary figures of the twentieth century provoke as much fascination and controversy as Mikhail Sholokhov, the Soviet Nobel laureate whose epic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew writers have charted the abyss of the human soul with the relentless precision of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Malcolm V. Jones's Dostoyevsky:...

The book titled Gorbachev by the author Dev Murarka. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedA killer with a taste for matrimony and a talent for vanishing acts meets his match in...

Author: Michael PearceBinding: HardbackPublished: HarperCollinsPublishers., 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Slight tear to spine of DJ.Dmitri And The Milk-Drinkers chronicles a captivating historical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBeneath the rigid ideological surface of Stalinist Russia, a quieter revolution was unfolding — one not of workers...

Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was 'Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization.' Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small stains on block - does not extend internally. A landmark work in theatrical memoir and history, My...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: unclipped; no major tears; light rubbing along the edges. Boards: tight and square. Pages:...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA rich work of literary scholarship, The Quest for Rananim: D. H. Lawrence's Letters to S. S. Koteliansky 1914 to 1930 presents...

Condition remarks: Worn but not faded - jacket still in good condition. In this essential counter-narrative, Vladimir Lakshin offers an intimate and piercing defense of Alexander Tvardovsky, the celebrated editor...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - card covers in good condition with minor shelf wear. Page Condition: Likely yellowed with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact....

Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the story of Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest-serving spy for the British Secret...