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  • The GH Kaestlin Collection of Imperial Russian and Zemstvo Stamps

    by Thomas Lera, Leon Finik ...
    A quiet philatelist, George H. Kaestlin joined the original Rossika Society in 1935 along with the better known Theo B. Lavroff and K. Szymanowski. Whereas Lavroff contributed significantly to Russian philately as an author and researcher and Szymanowski was an avid collector, Kaestlin collected privately. Born in Moscow, circa 1893, Kaestlin arrived in England in 1939. After World War II, When ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

    by Steven Lee Myers ...
    As the world struggles to confront a bolder Russia, the importance of understanding the formidable and ambitious Vladimir Putin has never been greater. This gripping narrative of Putin's rise to power recounts Putin's origins—from his childhood of abject poverty in Leningrad to his ascent through the ranks of the KGB, and his eventual consolidation of rule in the Kremlin.On the one hand, Putin's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Catherine the Great

    Love, Sex, and Power

    by Virginia Rounding ...
    This biography of the longest reigning monarch of Imperial Russia is "a vivid portrait of a sensual and intellectual woman" ( Washington Post ).Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophers—the Empress Catherine II, the Great, was all these things, and more. Her reign ... Read more

    $12.99 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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  • Death of a Dissident

    The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB

    by Alex Goldfarb ...
    The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a "tiny nuclear bomb." Suspicions swirled around Russia's FSB, the successor to the KGB, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • After Stalingrad

    Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War

    by Adelbert Holl ...
    Translated by Tony Le Tissier ...
    This WWII memoir of a Nazi infantryman captured at Stalingrad offers a rare firsthand account of life inside Soviet POW camps.The Battle of Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. But most of these accounts finish at the end of the battle, with columns of tens of thousands of German soldiers ... Read more

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  • Stalin and the Scientists

    A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905–1953

    by Simon Ings ...
    "One of the finest, most gripping surveys of the history of Russian science in the twentieth century." —Douglas Smith, author of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian AristocracyStalin and the Scientists tells the story of the many gifted scientists who worked in Russia from the years leading up to the revolution through the death of the "Great Scientist" himself, Joseph Stalin. It weaves ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Century, New Edition

    by Yuri Slezkine, Yuri Slezkine ...
    This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: “The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century.” The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it drives home Yuri Slezkine’s provocative thesis: Jews have adapted to the modern world so well that they have become models of what it means to be modern. While focusing on the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Pulse of Mixed Media

    Secrets and Passions of 100 Artists Revealed

    by Seth Apter ...
    Listen closely…can you hear it?Can you hear the voices? Thoughts, insights, confessions from the creative community sharing ideas, trading secrets, venting frustrations; asking and answering questions such as, "What color rarely shows up in your work?" or "How do you express vulnerability in you art?" Or "What is one current trend that you wish would go away?" As artists, we are curious by nature ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Venona Secrets

    Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors

    by Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel ...
    ***The Venona Secrets***presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War.In 1995, secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became available to American historians. Now, after spending more than five years researching all the available evidence, espionage experts Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Modern Russian Army 1992–2016

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    Series Book 217 - Elite
    A full and authoritative illustrated history of Russia's army since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, including Air Assault and Navy ground forces.Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's army has undergone a turbulent transformation, from the scattered left-overs of the old Soviet military, through a period of shocking decay and demoralization, to the disciplined force and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Russia in the Shadows (The original unabridged edition)

    by H. G. Wells ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "Russia in the Shadows (The original unabridged edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Russia in the Shadows is the title of the book by H. G. Wells published early in 1921, which includes a series of articles previously printed in The Sunday Express in connection with Wells's second visit to Russia in September and ... Read more

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