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  • Red Quarter Moon

    A Search for Family in the Shadow of Stalin

    by Anne Konrad ...
    Series series Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
    Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Konrad's ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s. An ethno-religious minority, they became special objects of Soviet persecution. Though her parents fled in 1929, many relatives remained in the USSR.Konrad's search for these ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Border Culture

    Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics

    by Victor Konrad, Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary ...
    Series series Routledge Borderlands Studies
    This book introduces readers to the cultural imaginings of borders: the in-between spaces in which transnationalism collides with geopolitical cooperation and contestation.Recent debates about the "refugee crisis" and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have politicized culture at and of borders like never before. Border culture is no longer culture at the margins but rather culture at the heart ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

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  • At the Highest Levels

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    The landmark story of Bush-Gorbachev diplomacy: "No one has ever given as complete and compelling an account of the higher reaches of foreign policy" ( Time).December 1989. The Berlin Wall had fallen. Millions across the Eastern Bloc were enjoying new freedoms. And the USSR was falling apart. But the peaceful end of the Cold War was far from assured, requiring the leaders of rival superpowers to ... Read more

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  • In the Enemy's House

    The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies

    by Howard Blum ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission and two remarkable agents whose story has been called "the greatest secret of the Cold War."In 1946, ... Read more

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  • Warsaw Pact Ground Forces

    by Gordon L. Rottman ...
    Series Book 10 - Elite
    While much has been published on the armed forces of the USSR during the 1980s, surprisingly little is available on the forces supplied by the other member nations of the Warsaw Pact.Rivalling the size of the United States Army, the combined ground forces of the six non-Soviet Warsaw Pact countries totalled over 775,000 active troops, with almost two million ground forces reserves. This book ... Read more

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  • Ruling Russia

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  • Stalin

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    by 50minutes ...
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  • Before the Modern Russian Revolution

    A Memoir About Traveling in the U.S.S.R. in a Time of Transformation

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  • The Race to Save the Romanovs

    The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family

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    The New York Times –bestselling author investigates various plots to save the murdered Russian Imperial family, why they failed, and who was responsible.An International BestsellerThe murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime, and its anniversary was largely ... Read more

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