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  • The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera

    by Bertram D. Wolfe ...
    Bertram D. Wolfe's The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera offers an engrossing and intimate portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential and controversial artists. Renowned for his larger-than-life murals and his equally colorful personality, Diego Rivera's life was as dynamic and revolutionary as his art. Wolfe explores Rivera's artistic evolution, from his early years as a prodigious talent ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolution and Reality

    Essays on the Origin and Fate of the Soviet System

    by Bertram D. Wolfe ...
    Disillusioned by communism as a young man, Wolfe devoted his life to the study and writing of Russian history. These essays show how clearly he understood the precious quality of freedom and the durability of despotism as it is experienced under totalitarian governments. His analyses of the contemporary Soviet scene, though often at odds with prevailing opinion, have repeatedly proven to be ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Three Who Made a Revolution

    A Biographical History of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin

    by Bertram D. Wolfe ...
    The lives of three men who made the Russian Revolution possible—Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin—are the focus of this biographical account of the rise of socialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bertram Wolfe, a political scientist and historian of Russia, knew Trotsky and Stalin personally, and here brings his profound insider's knowledge to bear on his subjects. Three Who Made a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Communist Totalitarianism

    Keys to the Soviet System

    by Bertram D. Wolfe ...
    This book provides some of the elements of a general theory of totalitarianism with specific analysis of its manifestations in the various aspects of Soviet life. It will be useful in making clearer the conformation behind the calculated and bewildering changes in the day-to-day Soviet line. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime

    by Richard Pipes ...
    From the accliamed authority on Russia and the Russian Revolution—the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924"Offers a penetrating analysis of the making of the Soviet system.... [It is] a passionate book whose outstanding scholarship is rooted in universal values like truth, honor, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Stalin

    Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

    by Stephen Kotkin ...
    A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Everyday Stalinism

    Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed. With the abolition of the market, shortages of food, clothing, and all kinds of consumer goods ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Lenin

    by Lars T. Lih ...
    Series Book 35 - Critical Lives
    Lenin (1870-1924) was the leader of the communist Bolshevik party and founder of the Soviet Union. A key revolutionary thinker who spent much of his 30-year political career in exile, he went from relative obscurity to world fame in 1917 when the October Revolution made his party responsible for Russia's future.In this book Lars T. Lih presents a striking new interpretation of Lenin's political ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Heart of Europe:The Past in Poland's Present

    The Past in Poland's Present

    by Norman Davies ...
    The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945, he travels back in time to highlight the long-term themes and traditions which have influenced present attitudes.His evocative account reveals ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569�1999

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Meaning of Hitler

    by Sebastian Haffner ...
    The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Ewald Osers; 53,000 words)In this succinct, fact-based, insightful analysis of Hitler and his impact on the world, Sebastian Haffner displays his skills as a first-class journalist and a student of German and modern European history. A keen psychologist, he describes the man, the politician, the ideologue, the military ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Communism

    A History

    by Richard Pipes ...
    Series Book 7 - Modern Library Chronicles
    From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea.With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice.At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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