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The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom Best Price: $1.16 How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet...	Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health and Urban Disaster Best Price: $15.00 John T. Alexander's study dramatically highlights how the Russian people reacted to the...	Shostakovich: A Life Best Price: $13.38 Having read Laurel E Fay's biography "Shostakovich: A Life" (2000) I was surprised...	The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years Best Price: $8.54 THE PEOPLE'S ARTIST is the single most important work to date on the great composer...	Revolutionary Russia: A History in Documents (Pages from History) Best Price: $20.00 Revolutionary Russia: A History in Documents provides a visually stimulating survey of...



Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2006: Book & CD-ROM Pack Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2006 provides a single, well-referenced, and affordable...	Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation (Oxford Oral History Series) Best Price: $17.29 Donald Raleigh's Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the...	Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989 Best Price: $16.04 The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists...	The Russian Empire: A Portrait in Photographs	Dictionary of the Russian Revolution Best Price: $159.95 Dictionary of the Russian Revolution is designed to fill a gap in the reference literature by...



Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791: Reacting to the Past Best Price: $22.25 Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791 plunges students into the intellectual...	Soviet Union Since the Fall of Khrushchev	Social Trends in Contemporary Russia: A Statistical Source-book Drawing on official sources, this book presents new factual information about Russian society...	History & Literature in Contemporary Rus (St Antony's S.) Best Price: $182.40 Since 1985, Russia has experienced a cultural and social revolution. This study encompasses one...	Molotov: A Biography (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society) Best Price: $136.98 Molotov is one of the most interesting diplomats to emerge on the world scene in the 20th...

Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge and Practices Russia shared in a wide European modernity marked by increased overlap and sometimes merger of...	The Stalin Years: A Reader Best Price: $4.00 Christopher Read takes students through the history of the Stalin years, covering the key points...	From Napoleon to Stalin and Other Essays Best Price: $51.60 These essays now reprinted and prefaced by Jonathan Haslam, E.H. Carr's biographer, give the...	Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945 (Modern Wars) Best Price: $18.28 Evan Mawdsley, a Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow is an expert on Soviet...	Russian Thinkers (Pelican books) Best Price: $3.75 The theme that links the essays in this book, written over 30 years, is the phenomenon of the...

Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust Best Price: $131.61 A five star book about a five star hero. The second world war threw-up some gigantic figures but...	A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II Best Price: $8.52 Perhaps the best summary of this book comes from Bertrand Russell himself who wrote an...	Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of as Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia Best Price: $58.81 Once past the Introduction, which is so laden with copious details of the lurid opulence of the...	Russia & the Russians Best Price: $18.52 Well, generally one gets more or less accurate account of the events, though at times with...	A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire (Penguin Great Journeys) Best Price: $4.95 Anton Chekhov traveled to the desolate island of Sakhalin in 1890. It was a place of exile for...

The Secret Society: The Covert Espionage War Behind the Fall of the Soviet Union	Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art (Center of Military History Publication) Best Price: $41.00 CMH Pub 70-89-1. Michael D. Krause and Cody R. Phillips, general editors. Contains an anthology...	The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky: 1921-1929 (Oxford Paperbacks) Best Price: $14.95 This second volume tells of the struggle between Stalin and Trotsky and ends with the...	Ends and Beginnings (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $89.10 This volume is the sequel to Childhood, Youth and Exile . Isaiah Berlin called these memoirs...	Elizaveta

Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire This book is subtitled "the fall of the Sovjet empire"- which may sound a bit...	After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States Best Price: $22.31 In this very readable book, Khazanov argues that the Soviet Union was essentially a continuation...	The Mystifications of a Nation: "The Potato Bug" and Other Essays on Czech Culture Best Price: $20.15 A keen observer of culture, Czech writer Vladimír Macura (1945?99) devoted a lifetime to...	Dictionary of Russian Historical Terms from the Eleventh Century to 1917 Best Price: $238.50	Catherine the Great: A Short History Best Price: $3.28 Catherine is one of history's most complex, intelligent, strong-willed and resourceful...

1920 Diary Best Price: $10.89 The Russian writer Isaac Babel (1894-1940) is acknowledged to be one of the great masters of...	See No Evil: Literary Cover-Ups and Discoveries of the Soviet Camp Experience (Russian Literature and Thought Series) Best Price: $54.97 Believing that human actions could be controlled by a totalitarian government, Stalin and his...	Collapse of the Soviet Military Best Price: $8.98 How could the huge, powerful Soviet Army have vanished so quietly? William Odom, an American...	The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System, Second Edition Best Price: $11.35 Barnett Rubin established himself as America's leading expert on Afghanistan during the...	It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past Best Price: $10.99 Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left...

Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture Best Price: $58.72 What can Russian images and objects?a tsar?s crown, a provincial watercolor album,...	Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games Best Price: $15.00 Bagley's subject actually concerns much more than just the truth about Nosenko's...	The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s Best Price: $20.91 This is a superb work that has been unfortunately as of this writing has an unfortunately and...	The Triumph of Provocation Best Price: $43.61 This work provides countless historical details, a few of which I mention. King Stanislaw August...	World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West Best Price: $3.80 World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Reis is a decent...

Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse Best Price: $13.95 A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and...	Rasputin: Rascal Master Best Price: $10.00 The book was very well executed, with lots of supporting photographs and authentic art to...	Armenian Tragedy: An Eye-Witness Account of Human Conflict and Natural Disaster in Armenia and Azerbaijan Best Price: $49.99	Vodka, Tears, and Lenin's Angel: My Adventures in the Wild and Woolly Former Soviet Union Best Price: $14.98 This book was about the author's journey, or perhaps, adventure in Russia. Instead of...	Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) Best Price: $19.97 This anthology introduces readers to Tsarist Russia's emerging popular and commercial urban...

Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia Fifty years after the end of World War II, this book focuses on a little-known aspect of the...	The Making of the Georgian Nation Best Price: $184.65 I felt motivated to write this review because the number of low scores from critics with an...	A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People (Penn State Series in Lived Religious Experience) Best Price: $81.45 Rarely are we privileged to see the making of a saint, but it is just what this book gives us...	Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars Best Price: $24.99 Orthodox Christianity came to Russia from Byzantium in 988, and in the ensuing centuries it has...	Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964 Best Price: $43.45 what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!" Blaise...

Russian Imperialism: Development and Crisis Best Price: $26.95 The fall of the Soviet Union was one of the most dramatic events of this century. It was also...	A Great Russia: Russia and the Triple Entente, 1905 to 1914 Best Price: $28.49 The Triple Entente of Great Britain, Russia, and France was the foreign policy prong of the...	White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919 Best Price: $105.00 This is the first full length English biography of Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov of...	Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) Best Price: $19.13 The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia (OPE) was a...	Russia 1815-81 (Access to History) Best Price: $20.32 Reaction and reform in nineteenth-century Russia is the focus for this book. Incorporating the...

The Russians Best Price: $30.00 This book does an excellent job of explaining that. Smith discusses how Americans and Russians...	The Romanovs: the Final Chapter Best Price: $6.00 In the early morning hours of July 17, 1918, in Ekaterinburg (formerly Tobolsk), Siberia, the...	Forsaken	An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World Best Price: $14.00 vollmann's afghanistan book is surely his weakest, but it is a useful window on the...	Michael and Natasha: The Life And Love Of Michael ll, The Last Of The Romanov Tsars Best Price: $18.99 What I liked about MICHAEL AND NATASHA is that this biography is chock full of previously...

Moscow (World Cities) Discusses the events and people that have shaped the city of Moscow, its architecture, museums,...	The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) Best Price: $11.88 Burgess and Hall have made a significant contribution to the history of the Soviet/CIS manned...	The Decision to Intervene: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol. 2 Best Price: $20.83 In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending...	The Soviet Union Today: An Interpretive Guide In this highly original book James Cracraft provides a major case study of the cultural...	A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science Best Price: $28.16 Much like Vladimir Lenin, his onetime rival for the leadership of the Bolshevik party during its...

The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927 (Studies in European History) Best Price: $21.63 This popular, concise and approachable text discusses the key debates and themes surrounding the...	Bergson: Planning and Productivity Under Soviet Socialism (Cloth) Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition.	God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795 The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested...	Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism Best Price: $6.24 Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed...	Red Bread: Collectivization in a Russian Village (Midland Book) Best Price: $15.94 First published in 1931 and long out of print, Red Bread is Russian-born journalist Maurice...

Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia Best Price: $10.95 "[The Russian and American contributors] share a very high level of expertise and an...	The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd Best Price: $22.41 I have now finished the trilogy (Prelude to Revolution, Bolsheviks Seize Power and Bolsheviks in...	Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921 Best Price: $64.75 The "Companion" constitutes a landmark in the study of the Russian Revolution and the...	Russia 1815-81 (Access to History) Best Price: $20.32 Reaction and reform in nineteenth-century Russia is the focus for this book. Incorporating the...	The Russians Best Price: $30.00 This book does an excellent job of explaining that. Smith discusses how Americans and Russians...

The Romanovs: the Final Chapter Best Price: $6.00 In the early morning hours of July 17, 1918, in Ekaterinburg (formerly Tobolsk), Siberia, the...	Forsaken	An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World Best Price: $14.00 vollmann's afghanistan book is surely his weakest, but it is a useful window on the...	Michael and Natasha: The Life And Love Of Michael ll, The Last Of The Romanov Tsars Best Price: $18.99 What I liked about MICHAEL AND NATASHA is that this biography is chock full of previously...	Moscow (World Cities) Discusses the events and people that have shaped the city of Moscow, its architecture, museums,...

The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) Best Price: $11.88 Burgess and Hall have made a significant contribution to the history of the Soviet/CIS manned...	The Decision to Intervene: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol. 2 Best Price: $20.83 In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending...	The Gorbachev Factor Best Price: $28.67 Archie Brown has written a thought provoking and sympathetic analysis of the political...	The New Oxford Picture Dictionary CD-ROM (Monolingual Version) Best Price: $51.25 Don't buy it.. It is old and not interesting at all! Buy the Oxford Picture dictionary...	The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917-1967; The George MacAulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, January-March 1967. "this is a brilliant attempt to the Russian revolution in its historical perspective. the...

Russian Revolution of 1917: Contemporary Accounts Best Price: $68.99	The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War Best Price: $34.63 It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in...	Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution Best Price: $55.00 The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology...	Electronic Hearth: Creating an American Television Culture Best Price: $14.82 We all talk about the "tube" or "box," as if television were simply another...	Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrew: A Psycholinguistic Perspective (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) Best Price: $3.98 Tracing the language development in Hebrew-speakers from childhood to adulthood, this study...

The Dream that Failed: Reflections on the Soviet Union Best Price: $3.78 It was a dream that almost from its humble start turned into a bloody nightmare, and it did...	A History of Russia: Volume 2: Since 1855 Best Price: $29.95 One of the things that really frustrated me about this book is the fact that the authors do not...

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