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  • The Real Stalin

    by Yves Delbars ...
    Translated by Bernard Miall ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Stalin
    In this book, originally published in English in 1953, the author, recognized as one of the best-informed experts on Eastern European politics, reconstructed during the course of a decade's work, the real history of Stalin, from his youth in Georgia to the last year of his life. Utilizing an enormous mass of largely unpublsihed documents he reconstructed a living Stalin with all his qualities and ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

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  • Stalingrad To Berlin - The German Defeat In The East [Illustrated Edition]

    by Earl F. Ziemke ...
    Series series The Russian Campaign of World War Two
    Contains 72 illustrations and 42 maps of the Russian Campaign.After the disasters of the Stalingrad Campaign in the Russian winters of 1942-3, the German Wehrmacht was on the defensive under increasing Soviet pressure; this volume sets out to show how did the Russians manage to push the formerly all-conquering German soldiers back from Russian soil to the ruins of Berlin.Save for the introduction ... Read more

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  • The Russian Revolution

    by Richard Pipes ...
    A groundbreaking, inclusive history of the Russian Revolution for "those who want to discover what really happened to Russia" (The New York Times Book Review)A "monumental study" (Wall Street Journal), enthralling in its narrative of a movement whose purpose, in the words of Leon Trotsky, was "to overthrow the world," The Russian Revolution draws conclusions that have aroused great controversy ... Read more

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  • Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

    Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

    by Kate Brown ...
    While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia-the first two cities in the world to produce ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • The New Nobility

    The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB

    by Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan ...
    In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service.While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its ... Read more

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  • The Naked Communist

    by W. Cleon Skousen ...
    This book is designed to bring the far-flung facts about Communism into a single volume. It contains a distillation of more than one hundred books and treatises—many of them written by Communist authors. It attempts to present the Communist in his true native elements, stripped of propaganda and pretense. Hence, the title, The Naked Communist.A panoramic study of Communism might easily degenerate ... Read more

    $9.55 CAD

  • Odessa

    Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

    by Charles King ...
    **Winner of a National Jewish Book Award"Fascinating.…A humane and tragic survey of a great and tragic subject." —Jan Morris, Literary Review**From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of original ... Read more

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  • Mayday

    Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair

    by Michael Beschloss ...
    The "definitive" book on the U-2 episode and its disastrous impact on the future of the Cold War ( Kirkus Reviews).On May Day 1960, Soviet forces downed a CIA spy plane flown deep into Soviet territory by Francis Gary Powers two weeks before a crucial summit. This forced President Dwight Eisenhower to decide whether, in an effort to save the meeting, to admit to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ... Read more

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  • Russia's Steppe Frontier

    The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800

    by Michael Khodarkovsky ...
    Series series Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies
    This study of Russia's colonial expansion across the Eurasian steppe is "a tremendously important contribution to the field of Russian history" (Valerie Kivelson).From the decline of the Mongol Golden Horde to the end of the 18th century, the Russian government expanded its influence and power throughout its southern borderlands. The process of incorporating these lands and peoples into the ... Read more

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  • Russia

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Timothy J. Colton ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Today's Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, is often viewed as less powerful than the Soviet Union of the past. When stacked against other major nations in the present, however, the new Russia is a formidable if flawed player. Russia: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides fundamental information about the origins, evolution, and current affairs of the Russian state and society. The story ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Aleksandur Stamboliiski

    Bulgaria

    by Richard Crampton ...
    Series series Makers of the Modern World
    Aleksandur Stamboliiski was one of the most original politicians of the 20th century. His tragedy was that he came to power at the end of the First World War in which Bulgaria had been defeated. It fell to him, therefore, to accept and apply the peace settlement. This created tensions between him and traditional Bulgarian nationalism, tensions which ended with his murder in 1923. The book will ... Read more

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  • Surviving the Gulag

    A German Woman's Memoir

    by Ilse Johansen ...
    Translated by Hans Rudolf Gahler ...
    One woman's story of her struggle to survive while imprisoned in a Soviet gulag following World War II."The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back."Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years in Russian prison camps ... Read more

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