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  • Diaghilev : A Life

    by Sjeng Scheijen ...
    Featuring an eight-page gallery of full-color illustrations, here is a major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder and impresario of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionized ballet by bringing together composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, dancers and choreographers such as Nijinsky and Karsavina, Fokine and Balanchine, and artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Bakst, and Goncharova. An ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Russia at War, 1941–1945

    A History

    by Alexander Werth ...
    In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first printed in 1964. At once a history of facts, a collection of interviews, and a document of the human condition, Russia at War is a stunning, modern classic that chronicles the savagery and struggles on ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Alexandra

    The Last Tsarina

    by Carolly Erickson ...
    "Alexandra's story is heartbreaking" and this New York Times–bestselling author "excels in the details" in this biography of the last Russian Empress ( Chicago Tribune).Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, Erickson portrays Alexandra's story as a closely observed, enthrallingly documented, progressive psychological retreat from reality.The lives of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lenin's Tomb

    The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by David Remnick ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeOne of the Best Books of the Year: The New York TimesFrom the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75-year period of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Russian Civil War 1918–22

    by David Bullock ...
    Series Book 69 - Essential Histories
    The Russian Civil War was arguably the most important civil war of the 20th century, changing the lives of over half a billion people and dramatically shaping the geography of Europe and Asia.Over a four-year period 20 countries battled in a crucible that would give birth to Communist revolutions worldwide and the Cold War. David Bullock offers a fresh perspective on this conflict, examining the ... Read more

    $18.39 USD

  • Spymaster

    My Thirty-two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West

    by Oleg Kalugin ...
    Oleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. In 1990, he went public, exposing the intelligence agency's shadowy methods. Revised and updated in the light of the KGB's enduring presence in Russian politics, Spymaster is Kalugin's impressively ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Soviet Mind

    Russian Culture under Communism

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    Series series A Brookings Classic
    With a revised foreword by Brookings President Strobe Talbott and a new introduction by Berlin’s editor, Henry Hardy.George Kennan, the architect of US policy toward the Soviet Union, called Isaiah Berlin the patron saint among the commentators of the Russian scene.” In The Soviet Mind, Berlin proves himself fully worthy of that accolade. Although the essays in this book were originally written to ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Ghost of Freedom

    A History of the Caucasus

    by Charles King ...
    The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly independent countries and sparked the devastating war in Chechnya. Combining riveting storytelling with ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • East of the Sun

    The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia

    by Benson Bobrick ...
    The very word Siberia evokes a history and reputation as awesome as it is enthralling. In this acclaimed book on Russia's conquest of its eastern realms, Benson Bobrick offers a story that is both rich and subtle, broad and deep. From its conquest by Cossacks and its exploration and settlement in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through its terrifying Gulag history, to its modern place in ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Cinematic Cold War

    The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds

    by Tony Shaw, Denise J. Youngblood ...
    The Cold War was as much a battle of ideas as a series of military and diplomatic confrontations, and movies were a prime battleground for this cultural combat. As Tony Shaw and Denise Youngblood show, Hollywood sought to export American ideals in movies like Rambo, and the Soviet film industry fought back by showcasing Communist ideals in a positive light, primarily for their own citizens. The ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Darkness at Dawn

    The Rise of the Russian Criminal State

    by David Satter ...
    "The Russia that Satter depicts in this brave, engaging book cannot be ignored . . . Required reading for anyone interested in the post-Soviet state" ( Newsweek ).Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: A country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Postcommunist Welfare States

    Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe

    by Linda J. Cook ...
    In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social welfare from 1990 to 2004 in the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD