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  • Stalin's Scribe

    Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov

    by Brian Boeck ...
    A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in literature in history. As a young man, Sholokhov’s epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented overnight success.Stalin’s Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Imperial Boundaries

    Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great

    by Brian J. Boeck ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    Imperial Boundaries is a study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia's Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great. Brian Boeck connects the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman empires in the northern Black Sea basin to the social history of the Don Cossacks, who were transformed from an open, democratic, multiethnic, male fraternity dedicated to frontier raiding into a ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    Stalin’s Scribe

    Literature, Ambition, and Survival; The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov

    by Brian J. Boeck, Tom Newth ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 27 min

    A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literatureMikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov’s epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented overnight success.Stalin’s Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union’s ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Conquest of New Spain

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  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire

    British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

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    Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on ... Read more

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  • Ambivalent Conquests

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    by Inga Clendinnen ...
    Series Book 61 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
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    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
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  • Francisco Pizarro

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    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
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