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Lenin and Gorky: Letters - Reminiscences - Articles by Vladimir I Lenin 9781410204080
RRP: £20.50£16.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410204080Author Vladimir I LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the... -
Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.87Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-Hungarian commands held high hopes for 1916. After the success of the 1915 Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, which... -
DK Eyewitness Russia DK Eyewitness 9780241209707
RRP: £11.99£9.06The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this epic nation.Travel on the epic Trans-Siberian railway, admire the colourful onion domes of St Basil's Cathedral... -
The Last Man in Russia: And The Struggle To Save A Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Wonderful ... These are the chronicles of a writer who truly knows Russia' New York TimesAward-winning writer Oliver Bullough travels the country from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept village, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man,... -
Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea by Katie Stallard
RRP: £27.49£19.68History 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... -
The Crimean War: A History by Fellow Orlando Figes
RRP: £48.00£33.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805074604Author Fellow Orlando FigesFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Metropolitan BooksPublisher Metropolitan BooksWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm)... -
Leningrad: State of Siege Michael Jones 9780719569425
RRP: £10.99£7.61When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city's civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in. A specialist in battle psychology... -
Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent 9781455533022
£30.63How 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... -
Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front by Serhiy Zhadan 9780300270860
RRP: £14.99£13.03From Ukraine's leading writer-activist comes an intimate account of resistance and survival in the earliest months of the Russian-Ukrainian war "A vivid, in-the-trenches report from a Ukrainian city and its 'injured, yet unbreakable' citizens."-Kirkus... -
Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson
RRP: £27.99£25.19When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed towns and cities across the country, and fifty divisions of the Wehrmacht crossed the border. Yet only two decades... -
Lenin the Dictator Victor Sebestyen 9781474601054
RRP: £14.99£10.05'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An enthralling but appalling story' Francis Wheen, author of Karl MarxThe cold, one-dimensional figure of Lenin the political fanatic is only a partial truth... -
The 3rd Ss Panzer Regiment: 3rd Ss Panzer Division Totenkopf by Pierre Tiquet
RRP: £19.99£14.50The 3rd SS Panzer Regiment was part of the Totenkopf Division-one of the 38 Waffen-SS divisions active during World War II. Notorious for its brutality, most notably a mass execution of British prisoners in the battle of France, "Totenkopf" had a... -
Stalin by Hiroaki Kuromiya 9780582784796
RRP: £43.99£42.26This profile looks at how Stalin, despite being regarded as intellectually inferior by his rivals, managed to rise to power and rule the largest country in the world, achievieving divine-like status as a dictator.Through recently uncovered research... -
Tank Wrecks of the Eastern Front 1941 - 1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
RRP: £14.99£11.11Four years of armoured battle on the Eastern Front in the Second World War littered the battlefields with the wrecks of destroyed and disabled tanks, and Anthony Tucker-JonesOs photographic history is a fascinating guide to them. It provides a graphic... -
Latvia: A Short History by Mara Kalnins
RRP: £22.00£19.82The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe. One branch of these migrants coalesced into a community which evolved a distinctive and remarkably robust... -
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger
RRP: £12.99£9.02A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a... -
The Gunzburgs: A Family Biography Lorraine de Meaux 9781905559992
RRP: £25.00£14.48In 1857 the Gunzburgs arrived in Paris from Russia with their large family, a retinue of business staff and extensive domestic help: personal assistants, secretaries, tutors, wet-nurses and nannies, coachmen, ladies' companions, valets and maids, and... -
Panzer Destroyer - SHORT RUN RE-ISSUE: Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander by Vasiliy Krysov 9781526748485
RRP: £12.99£10.95Eyewitness account of tank warfare on the Eastern FrontBook InformationISBN 9781526748485Author Vasiliy KrysovFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword Books LtdWeight(grams) 156g -
Antonov's Heavy Transports: From the An-22 to An-225, 1965 to the Present by Yefim Gordon
RRP: £54.99£37.01This book charts the development and service history of the Antonov design bureau's heavy transport aircraft. In the late 1950s, the Antonov design bureau began developing the An-22 heavy military transport, intended to carry 50 tons. Powered by four... -
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky 9780743284264
RRP: £20.00£12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743284264Author Edvard RadzinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780007516698 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.65What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others... -
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain by Richard Davenport-Hines
RRP: £16.99£11.47What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others... -
The Torture Camp on Paradise Street by Stanislav Aseyev 9780674291089
RRP: £16.95£14.06In The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner from 2015 to 2017 in a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in... -
Carpathian Rus': A Historical Atlas by Paul Robert Magocsi 9780772751157
RRP: £37.00£33.07Located at the exact geographic center of the European continent, and known by many as "the heart of Europe," Carpathian Rus' is a quintessential borderland, where geographic, political, ethnolinguistic, religious, and socio-climatic borders converge. In... -
Soviets in Space: Russia's Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier by Colin Burgess 9781789146325
RRP: £25.00£17.90A deeply researched, beautifully illustrated chronology of the Soviet Union's extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space exploration.Book InformationISBN 9781789146325Author Colin BurgessFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Reaktion... -
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia by Sheila Miyoshi Jager 9780674983397
RRP: £33.95£28.62A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars.In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, well known, pitted... -
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
RRP: £20.00£17.73The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of... -
The Sino-Soviet Border War: Volume 2: Confrontation at Lake Zhalanashkol, August 1969 by Dimitry Ryabushkin 9781914377051
RRP: £16.95£14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377051Author Dimitry RyabushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia by Wendy Z. Goldman 9780521785532
RRP: £27.99£23.61In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. Even more striking was the critical role of women: in no country of the world did women come to constitute such a significant part of the working class in so... -
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World by Walter Rodney
£19.55Preface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney FoundationIntroduction by Robin D.G. KelleyAfterword by Vijay PrashadIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of the Black Sixties. He... -
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
RRP: £19.99£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476755748Author Bill BrowderFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community 1316-1945 by Masha Greenbaum 9789652291325
RRP: £30.99£18.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652291325Author Masha GreenbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 405Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 808g -
History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918-21 Peter Arshinov 9780900384400
RRP: £9.90£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900384400Author Peter ArshinovFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *... -
Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts Martin Parr 9781786274113
RRP: £12.99£8.83In the 1950s the space race between the USA and the USSR was well and truly on, and was for both a matter of pride and propaganda. But before man ventured into the cosmos, his four-legged friends would pave the way for space exploration. The first... -
Spetsnaz by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£11.11Authoritative illustrated analysis of the history of the military Special Forces units of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation. When the shadowy, notorious Spetsnaz were first formed, they drew on a long Soviet tradition of elite, behind-the-lines... -
The War Behind the Eastern Front: Soviet Partisans in North West Russia 1941-1944 by Alexander Hill 9780415407946
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book is based on Soviet archival sources, most previously untapped by Western and Soviet and post-Soviet Russian historians, in addition to German material from the US National Archives. Using this material the author describes the harsh realities... -
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps by Dan Healey 9780300187137
RRP: £30.00£24.85A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 2: Volume II: the Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps in the Budapest Relief Efforts, December 1944-February 1945 by Sr. Nash
RRP: £30.00£21.69On Christmas Eve 1944, the men of the IV SS-Panzerkorps were preparing to celebrate the occasion as best they could. Taking advantage of the pause in the fighting around Warsaw, they looked forward to partaking in that most German of holidays, including... -
Bone Music by Stephen Coates
RRP: £32.00£20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689476Author Stephen CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1980 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £13.99£10.01Storm-333, the operation to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, was at once a textbook success and the start of a terrible blunder. It heralded the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, an operation intended to be a short, largely...