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  • Magda Nachman

    An Artist in Exile

    by Lina Bernstein ...
    Series series Modern Biographies
    The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Léon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and participation in the dynamic symbolist/modernist artistic ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Stalin: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was immune. Yet, following his death in 1953, Stalin was deeply mourned. He had ‘received the country with a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • The Real Stalin

    by Andrew Curry ...
    Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a combination of political savvy and cold-blooded brutality. He crushed the spirit of his own people while conquering half of Europe. What made the greatest murderer of the twentieth century tick? ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Europe's Shadow

    Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    **“Sweeping and replete with alluring detail . . . [a] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania.”—Alison Smale, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Alice's Piano

    The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

    by Melissa Müller, Reinhard Piechocki ...
    The story of Holocaust survivor and pianist Alice Herz-Sommer: "A miraculous journey of mother and son for whom music provided strength and nourishment." — Kirkus ReviewsAlice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. A talented pianist from a very early age, she became famous throughout Europe. But as the Nazis rose to power, her world crumbled. In 1942, her mother was deported to the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Soviet Century

    Archaeology of a Lost World

    by Karl Schlögel ...
    Translated by Rodney Livingstone ...
    An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Soviet Union, ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • The Diary Keepers

    World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

    by Nina Siegal ...
    A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary timesBased on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Only One Year

    How Joseph Stalin's Daughter Broke Through the Iron Curtain, A Memoir

    by Svetlana Alliluyeva ...
    "Among the great Russian autobiographical works: Herzen, Kropotkin, Tolstoy's Confession." —Edmund Wilson, The New YorkerAfter the success of her New York Times bestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva—subject of Rosemary Sullivan's critically acclaimed biography Stalin's Daughter—penned this riveting account of her year-long journey to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prisoners of History

    What Monuments to World War II Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves

    by Keith Lowe ...
    "Fascinating insights into the ways different nations have remembered or denied issues around national identity and the glory and horrors of war." ― The SpectatorKeith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on WWII, saw monuments around the world taken down in political protest and began to wonder what monuments built to commemorate WWII say about us today. Focusing on these monuments, Prisoners ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Moscow, 1937

    by Karl Schlögel ...
    Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin’s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence.In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which 1 ½ million human beings lost their lives ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Red Star Over the Third World

    by Vijay Prashad ...
    From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia. The Revolution proved that the masses could not only overthrow autocratic governments, but also form an opposing government in their own image. The new idea that the working class and the peasantry could be allied, combined with the clear strength and necessity of a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitler's Mentor: Dietrich Eckart, His Life, Times, & Milieu

    by Joseph Howard Tyson ...
    Early associates such as Rudolf Hess, Ernst Hanfstaengl, and Hermann Esser all claimed that Hitler revered alcoholic playwright Dietrich Eckart more than any other colleague. Eminent German historians Karl Dietrich Bracher, Werner Maser, Georg Franz-Willig, and Ernst Nolte have confirmed this assessment. Hitler not only dedicated Mein Kampf to Eckart, he hung his portrait in Munich's Brown House, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD