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  • Midwives of the Revolution

    Female Bolsheviks and Women Workers in 1917

    by Jane McDermid, Anna Hillyar ...
    The Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and the ensuing communist regime have often been portrayed as a man's revolution, with women as bystanders or even victims. Midwives of the Revolution examines the powerful contribution made by women to the overthrow of tsarism in 1917 and their importance in the formative years of communism in Russia. Focusing on the masses as well as the high-ranking ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930

    A Study in Continuity Through Change

    by Jane Mcdermid, Anna Hillyar ...
    Series series Women And Men In History
    This study considers the impact of industrialisation, revolution and world war on women's working lives in Russia. Unlike existing studies this new text looks at women from all social classes. In the process the authors reveal how the stereotypical portrayal of Russian women's work as a struggle of endurance and sacrifice distorts and oversimplifies the reality of their experience between 1880 and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Russian Album

    by Michael Ignatieff ...
    Winner of the Royal Society of Literature AwardIn The Russian Album, Michael Ignatieff chronicles five generations of his Russian family, beginning in 1815. Drawing on family diaries, on the contemplation of intriguing photographs in an old family album, and on stories passed down from father to son, he comes to terms with the meaning of his family's memories and histories. Focusing on his ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Stalin

    The Court of the Red Tsar

    by Simon Sebag Montefiore ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of the Marxist leader and Russian tsar. • From thebestselling author of The Romanovs.“The first intimate portrait of a man who had more lives on his conscience than Hitler.... Disturbing and perplexing.” —The New York Times ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Germany Ascendant

    The Eastern Front 1915

    by Prit Buttar ...
    A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele.The massive offensives on the Eastern Front during 1915 are too often overshadowed by the events in Western Europe, but the scale and ferocity of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The House of the Dead

    Siberian Exile Under the Tsars

    by Daniel Beer ...
    Winner of the Cundill History PrizeThe House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east. Here Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The German Campaign in Russia: 1940-1942

    WWII: Strategic & Operational Planning: From Directive Barbarossa to the Battle for Stalingrad

    by U.S. Department of Defense ...
    U.S. Department of Defense's book 'The German Campaign in Russia: 1940-1942' provides a comprehensive analysis of the pivotal years of World War II when Germany turned its attention towards the Eastern Front. The book meticulously details the military strategies, battles, and key events during this tumultuous period. Written in a straightforward and factual style, the book offers a wealth of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terror in Chechnya

    Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War

    by Emma Gilligan ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    A riveting history of Russia's crimes in ChechnyaTerror in Chechnya is the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides a comprehensive history of the second Chechen conflict of 1999 to 2005, revealing one of the most appalling human rights catastrophes of the modern era—one that has yet to be fully acknowledged by the international community. Drawing upon ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    Series Book 197 - Elite
    A detailed illustrated study of Putin's shadowy security and paramilitary armed forces.While the size of Russia's regular forces has shrunk recently, its security and paramilitary elements have become increasingly powerful. Under the Putin regime they have proliferated and importantly seem set to remain Russia's most active armed agencies for the immediate future.In parallel, within the murky ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Feud

    Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship

    by Alex Beam ...
    The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania.In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning him book reviews ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Russian Idea

    by Nikolai Berdyaev ...
    Translated by R. M. French ...
    Series series Library of Russian Philosophy
    In this powerful, moving book, first published in 1946, Berdyaev is not so interested in the empirical details of Russian history as he is in "the thought of the Creator about Russia." The "Russian idea" is thus a mystical notion. Religion and philosophy--not economics or politics--determine history and society.Berdyaev begins his story in the nineteenth century, tracing the lineage of such ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Taming the Wild Field

    Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe

    by Willard Sunderland ...
    Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD