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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich 9780399588822
RRP: $42.00$21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399588822Author Svetlana AlexievichFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The World Was Going Our Way by Christopher Andrew 9780465003136
$38.45In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of documents as "the most complete and extensive intelligence... -
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen 9781803510491
RRP: $23.08$15.37'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... -
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler 9781684510030
RRP: $60.88$38.43Putin'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... -
Deception by Edward Lucas
RRP: $23.08$16.32________________________________ 'Putin [and] his friends ... are gangsters on a scale that makes Al Capone or the Corleones seem small-time ... Lucas is right to castigate our folly in treating all this so lightly.' - Max Hastings, Sunday Times ... -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont 9781509845453
RRP: $52.50$45.76A 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... -
Ukraine Diaries by Andrey Kurkov
RRP: $27.28$19.09Acclaimed 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... -
Gorbachev: The Man and His Era by Prof. William Taubman 9781471147951
RRP: $35.68$23.27SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on 30 August 2022.'A phenomenally researched... -
From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia's Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin Yuri Felshtinsky 9781783342501
RRP: $52.50$42.63The 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... -
The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Barenberg 9780197548226
RRP: $18.88$13.55A 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... -
War with Russia?: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate by Stephen F. Cohen 9781510755468
RRP: $27.28$17.18Prescient 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... -
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
RRP: $20.98$13.46The epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most important and dangerous leaders.Former New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Putin since well before the recent... -
Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West by Keir Giles
RRP: $63.00$56.03Apologies 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... -
Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left by Helena Sheehan 9781685900274
RRP: $39.88$32.87Apologies 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)... -
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill
RRP: $52.50$39.77Apologies 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... -
Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent 9781455533008
RRP: $41.98$34.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455533008Author Angela StentFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 208mm... -
State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 9781637525401
RRP: $25.18$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637525401Author Vladimir Ilyich LeninFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Affordable Classics LimitedPublisher Affordable Classics LimitedWeight(grams)... -
A Russian Diary: With a Foreword by Jon Snow by Anna Politkovskaya 9780099523451 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$5.57A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school... -
A Russian Diary: With a Foreword by Jon Snow by Anna Politkovskaya 9780099523451
RRP: $33.58$24.38A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school... -
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia by Joshua Yaffa 9781783783700 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$5.90Between Two Fires chronicles the lives of eight ambitious Russians - from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians - who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system, where astonishingly,... -
Stalin's Russia by Chris Ward 9780340731512
RRP: $115.48$114.93Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict by Nina Jankowicz
RRP: $31.48$24.68Since 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... -
Putin's Master Plan: To Destroy Europe, Divide NATO, and Restore Russian Power and Global Influence by Douglas E. Schoen
RRP: $37.78$25.83Vladimir Putin has a master plan to destroy Europe, divide NATO, reclaim Russian influence in the world, and most of all to marginalize the United States and the West in order to achieve regional hegemony and global power. Putin's unified strategy and... -
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet by Andrei Soldatov
RRP: $31.48$23.00The 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... -
Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West by Maximilian Hess
RRP: $63.00$56.60Vladimir 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... -
Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You by Keir Giles 9781350452602
RRP: $27.28$20.56You 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 Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont
$27.57This 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... -
Marxists against Stalinism by Ernest Mandel 9780902869578
RRP: $31.50$30.14Apologies 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 -
Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia by Samuel Charap
RRP: $35.68$31.96Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country.This Adelphi book argues that the crisis... -
Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938 by John Arch Getty 9780521335706
RRP: $107.08$90.34This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival and published sources, the work describes the events in the Bolshevik Party leading up to the Great Purges of 1937-1938. Professor Getty concludes that the... -
The Return of the Russian Leviathan Sergei Medvedev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) 9781509536054
RRP: $37.78$33.68Winner 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... -
Lenin Walked on the Moon: The Mad History of Russian Cosmism by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: $31.48$20.58How 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,... -
Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: $27.28$25.10What 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... -
Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa
RRP: $33.58$26.17The 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... -
Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent 9781455533022
$63.34How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US... -
The Fourth Man: The Hunt for the KGB's CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin Robert Baer 9781800960398
RRP: $42.00$28.04***'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... -
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord by Philip Snow
RRP: $52.50$43.93A 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... -
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
RRP: $23.08$16.32From 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... -
George Orwell and Russia Masha Karp (Independent Researcher, UK) 9781788317122
RRP: $46.18$38.01For 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... -
American Kompromat: how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery by Craig Unger
RRP: $35.68$24.32THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. American Kompromat unravels the Russian-influenced operations that amassed the dirty little secrets of the richest and most powerful men on earth. American Kompromat is based on extended and exclusive interviews...