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  • The GH Kaestlin Collection of Imperial Russian and Zemstvo Stamps

    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 ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    A is for Oboe: The Orchestra's Alphabet

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    50 minutos

    This deeply imaginative and entertaining poetry collection details the pleasures of the orchestra, from strong-willed A to satisfied Z.Two widely acclaimed poets--one a composer and classical pianist as well--have come together to create this extraordinary portrait of the orchestra in all of its richness and fascination, using the structure of the alphabet in a way that's entirely new and ... Leer más

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    The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

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  • Catherine the Great

    Love, Sex, and Power

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Communism

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    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

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  • Death of a Dissident

    The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • After Stalingrad

    Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War

    de Adelbert Holl ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

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  • Stalin and the Scientists

    A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905–1953

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  • The Jewish Century, New Edition

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Pulse of Mixed Media

    Secrets and Passions of 100 Artists Revealed

    de Seth Apter ...
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    Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors

    ***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 ... Leer más

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  • The Modern Russian Army 1992–2016

    de Mark Galeotti ...
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    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 ... Leer más

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