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  • Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus

    Alternative Visions of the Conflict between Imam Shamil and the Russians, 1830-1859

    by Gary Hamburg, Thomas Sanders, Ernest Tucker ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the mountain war between the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus and the imperial Russian army from 1830 to 1859. The authors offer a complete commentary on the various intellectual and religious contexts that shaped the two ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    by Thomas Seltzer ...
    12 illustrations. This collection includes: THE QUEEN OF SPADES by Pushkin, THE CLOAK (AKA The Overcoat) by Gogol, THE DISTRICT DOCTOR by Turgenev, THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING by Dostoyevsky, GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS by Tolstoy, HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS by Saltykov, THE SHADES, A PHANTASY by Korolenko, THE SIGNAL by V.N. Garshin, THE DARLING by Chekhov, THE BET by Chekhov, VANKA ... Read more

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  • Adventures of a British Master Spy

    The Memoirs of Sidney Reilly

    by Sidney Reilly ...
    A real-life James Bond, alleged to have spied for at least four nations and executed on the direct orders of Stalin himself, Sidney Reilly left a trail of false identities that made him precisely the type of person the secret intelligence service needed as an agent. Hero, conman, master spy, womaniser - who really was the 'Ace of Spies'? In September 1925, Sidney Reilly journeyed across the ... Read more

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  • Ministering Angels

    A History of Nursing from The Crimea to The Blitz

    by Stella Bingham ...
    In the eighteenth century professional nurses were often written off as drunk, slovenly, or cruel. In the Crimea, under Florence Nightingale's direction, they had become known as 'Ministering Angels'. By the Second World War they wore battledress and worked on the front lines, on Hospital ships and in the bombed streets of London. They were universally regarded as a fundamental, dedicated, ... Read more

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  • No Less Than Mystic

    A History of Lenin and the Russian Revolution for a 21st-Century Left

    by John Medhurst ...
    Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes.Although it offers a full and complete history of Leninism, 1917, the Russian Civil War and its aftermath, the book devotes more time than usual to the policies and actions of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Russian Army in the Great War

    The Eastern Front, 1914-1917

    by David R. Stone ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front, as David R. Stone does in this masterly work, fundamentally alters—and clarifies—that picture. A thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of the Russian front during the First World War, this book corrects widespread ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • A HISTORY OF BELARUS: A NON-LITERARY ESSAY THAT EXPLAINS THE ETHNOGENESIS OF THE BELARUSIANS

    by Lubov Bazan ...
    Rare materials on Belarus are a potential treasure trove for the English language reader. A blank spot on the map for many, Belarus is an undiscovered mystery in the heart of Europe – undiscovered, because little has been published on the country’s history and current affairs, and the origin of the ethnic group that calls itself ‘Belarusians’. Author Lubov Bazan attempts to uplift the veil of ... Read more

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  • Trotsky in New York, 1917

    A Radical on the Eve of Revolution

    by Kenneth D. Ackerman ...
    Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co–leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-39, Updated and Abridged Edition

    by J. Arch Getty, Oleg V. Naumov, Benjamin Sher ...

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  • For The Motherland! For Stalin!

    A Red Army Officer's Memoir of the Eastern Front

    by Boris Bogachev, Professor Geoffrey Roberts, Maria Bogacheva ...
    Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 makes for a fascinating read. The son of a Soviet military commissar, Bogachev volunteered to fight as soon as reached the age of seventeen. Life in the Red Army was harsh, with food shortages, inadequate equipment and fear - not only of the well-armed enemy ahead, but also of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Formations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema

    Labyrinthian Men

    by György Kalmár ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the formations of masculinity in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism and explores some of the cultural phenomena of the years following the 1989 regime change. The films explored offer a unique perspective encompassing two entirely different worlds: state socialism and neoliberal capitalism. The films suggest that Eastern Europe is somehow different than its western ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Russia's Security Policy under Putin

    A critical perspective

    by Aglaya Snetkov ...
    Series series CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
    This book examines the evolution of Russia’s security policy under Putin in the 21st century, using a critical security studies approach.Drawing on critical approaches to security the book investigates the interrelationship between the internal-external nexus and the politics of (in)security and regime-building in Putin’s Russia. In so doing, it evaluates the way that this evolving relationship ... Read more

    $62.99 USD