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  • I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviets

    by Vladimir V. Tchernavin ...
    Translated by Nicholas Oushakoff ...
    "I tell my own story because I believe that only in this way can I discharge the moral obligation which a kindly Fate imposed upon me in helping me to escape from the Soviet Terror the duty to speak for those whose voices cannot be heard.In silence they are sent away as convicts to the concentration camps; in silence they suffer torture and go to meet their death from Soviet bullets.Nothing is ... Read more

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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

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  • My Fellow Prisoners

    by Mikhail Khodorkovsky ...
    The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this "illuminating and brave" prison memoir ( The Washington Post).Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia's most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil company Yukos revived the Russian oil industry, Khodorkovsky began sponsoring programs to encourage civil society and ... Read more

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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

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  • Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror

    Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror

    by Nechama Tec ...
    Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Holocaust and the experience of Jews in wartime Poland, still ran into the same question again and again: Why didn't Jews ... Read more

    $19.99 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

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  • Red at Heart

    How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution

    by Elizabeth McGuire ...
    Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's most crucial alliance. This is the multigenerational history of people who experienced Sino-Soviet affairs most intimately: prominent Chinese revolutionaries who traveled to Russia in their youths to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Death and Redemption

    The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society

    by Steven A. Barnes ...
    Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Shadow Cold War

    The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World

    by Jeremy Friedman ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman’s Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution. When a world of newly independent states emerged from decolonization ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Krystyna's Story

    by Halina Ogonowska-Coates ...
    A piecing together of a Polish child's journey through Europe at war, and a young woman's bewildering encounter with rural New Zealand. 'As a child I loved my mother but she seemed different from other mothers. She didn't know how old she was. She couldn't remember where she was born. I wondered what had happened to her that she could have forgotten such important things. It had something to do ... Read more

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  • The Goodbye Man

    by Chad Barton ...
    As more people filled the packed church, Jack was forced to move down the wall toward the front, until he was very near the altar. From that vantage point, he could see the young mothers face. He found himself staring at her, unable to look away. He didnt know why. Perhaps it was the terrible sadness in her face. He watched her intently as she clutched a little brown teddy bear and a picture of ... Read more

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  • Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941–45

    by Henry Sakaida ...
    Series Book 111 - Elite
    The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union.Over 10 million Soviet soldiers took part in the war and of those about 12,600 earned the Soviet Union's highest military award - the Hero of the Soviet Union - for deeds of great daring and self sacrifice.This book covers the male recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union award during the Great Patriotic War ... Read more

    $14.29 USD