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Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler 9781684510030
RRP: $37.40$24.30Putin's Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union explains what Vladimir Putin wants and how he plans to get it. Russia's ruler is following a carefully devised plan to... -
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
RRP: $14.18$10.02From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things... -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont 9781509845453
RRP: $32.25$28.11A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2021This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than... -
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Well-being for all is not a dream.'In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs - beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have... -
Ukraine Diaries by Andrey Kurkov
RRP: $16.76$11.73Acclaimed author Andrey Kurkov gives powerful insight into life in Kyiv following the 2013 protests and before the 2022 Russian invasion.-16 DegreesC, sunlight, silence. I drove the children to school, then went to see the revolution. I walked between... -
Putin & Russia: The Rise of a Dictator by Darryl Cunningham 9781912408917
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408917Author Darryl CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
From Red Terror to Mafia State: Russia's Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin by Yuri Felshtinsky 9781783342501
RRP: $32.25$26.19The history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its centre: Lenin defines its rise, Gorbachev its fall, and Putin its aftermath. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov, however, introduce a new historical axis: the... -
Remembering Leningrad: The Story of a Generation by Mary McAuley 9780299322502
RRP: $51.54$42.09Englishwoman Mary McAuley first arrived in Leningrad in the early 1960s, eager to study labor relations for her thesis. Staying at a hostel, she met a number of Soviet students, many born under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Over the half-century that... -
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen 9781803510491
RRP: $14.18$9.44'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday How did a small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short... -
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill
RRP: $32.25$23.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815726173Author Fiona HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm) 223mm... -
How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict by Nina Jankowicz
RRP: $19.34$15.17Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia, who flood social media with disinformation, and circulate false and misleading information... -
War with Russia?: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate by Stephen F. Cohen 9781510755468
RRP: $16.76$10.55Prescient and even more relevant than when originally released in 2019, this Memorial Edition of War With Russia ? provides keen perspective to help readers understand the current Ukraine crisis. Are we in a new Cold War with Russia? Does Vladimir Putin... -
Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left by Helena Sheehan 9781685900274
RRP: $24.50$19.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900274Author Helena SheehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 357Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West by Keir Giles
RRP: $38.70$34.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815735748Author Keir GilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 223mm... -
The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Barenberg 9780197548226
RRP: $11.60$8.32A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twentieth century, combining the functions of a standard... -
Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You by Keir Giles
RRP: $32.25$26.03You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you. Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the... -
The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front by Aliide Naylor 9781350352896
RRP: $16.76$12.31'An insightful, nuanced account that highlights the present multitude of currents at play in Europe' - Peter Pomerantsev The Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a belligerent Vladimir Putin to their east - plotting his war... -
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord by Philip Snow
RRP: $32.25$26.19A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for... -
Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You by Keir Giles 9781350452602
RRP: $16.76$15.43You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you. Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the... -
Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West by Maximilian Hess
RRP: $38.70$34.09Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalise the Kremlin. The battlelines of this 'war by other means' traversed a series of deep... -
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet by Andrei Soldatov
RRP: $19.34$12.64The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in... -
Marxists against Stalinism by Ernest Mandel 9780902869578
RRP: $19.35$18.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869578Author Ernest MandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont
RRP: $16.76$16.68This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic. Small... -
Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through by V. I. Lenin
RRP: $16.76$10.94Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's true greatness can be better grasped in the very last... -
Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea by Katie Stallard
RRP: $33.53$24.10History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie... -
Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire by Dr. Marlene Laruelle
RRP: $34.19$29.44Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has been marginalized at the edge of a Western-dominated political and economic system. In recent years, however, leading Russian figures, including former president Vladimir Putin, have begun to stress a... -
The Tetris Effect: The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game by Dan Ackerman 9780861547814
RRP: $14.18$10.8721 February 1989. Three men fly into Moscow, representing software giants from Britain, America, and Japan. Each of them is determined to undercut the others in order to secure a technology so powerfully addictive it has brought the government department... -
The Ruble: A Political History by Ekaterina Pravilova
RRP: $39.98$34.53A groundbreaking history of Russia, from empire to the Soviet era, viewed through the lens of its money. Money seems passive, a silent witness to the deeds and misdeeds of its holders, but through its history intimate dramas and grand historical... -
Lenin Walked on the Moon: The Mad History of Russian Cosmism by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: $19.34$14.13How a Soviet cosmic dream is becoming a modern reality Cheating death and raising the dead. Creating life. Freeing the spirit. Colonising space. These projects, of which some have been achieved and some will soon, have a shared Russian history,... -
The Return of the Russian Leviathan by Sergei Medvedev 9781509536054
RRP: $23.21$20.69Winner of the 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize Russia's relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in Eastern Ukraine, used... -
Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: $16.76$15.05What does the head of the Kremlin think about? What are his hopes and aims for the lands bordering Russia, for Europe, and even the world? In January 2014, the Kremlin sent its senior civil servants, governors and party bigwigs a special New Year's... -
The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker
RRP: $21.92$15.84In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel... -
Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa
RRP: $20.63$15.70The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa... -
The Fourth Man: The Race to Reveal the KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA by Robert Baer
RRP: $25.80$17.22***'Reads like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' -James Risen, The Intercept'A compelling account of the ongoing search for the Fourth Man... a gripping and mind-bending read' - Dr. Mark Stout, The Daily Beast For the first time ever, New York Times bestselling... -
Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution by Paul Le Blanc 9780745348346
RRP: $21.92$14.89'Brings out the practical activism, principled politics, and revolutionary patience crucial to organizing the oppressed on a rapidly over-heating planet' - Jodi Dean 'Crackling with intellectual life' - Lars T. Lih Vladimir Lenin lies in a tomb in... -
Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia by Samuel A. Greene
RRP: $16.76$14.78A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin's grip on power is more fragile than we think "Putin v. the People wrestles with perhaps the central conundrum of contemporary Russia: the endurance... -
Fear No Evil by Natan Sharansky
$18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891620027Author Natan SharanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 586gDimensions(mm) 217mm... -
George Orwell and Russia by Masha Karp
RRP: $28.37$23.35For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp – Russian Features Editor at... -
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan by Joanna Lillis 9781350350243
RRP: $45.15$33.82Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia, sandwiched between Vladimir Putin's Russia, its former colonial ruler, and Xi Jinping's China, this vast... -
The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB by Andrei Soldatov
RRP: $18.05$11.87The security services have played a central,and often mysterious,role at key turning points in Russia during the tumultuous years following the Soviet collapse: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theatre siege, to the war in Chechnya and the...