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The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, Fifth Edition by Andrew Wilson
RRP: £14.99£13.03As in many postcommunist states, politics in Ukraine revolves around the issue of national identity. Ukrainian nationalists see themselves as one of the world's oldest and most civilized peoples, as "older brothers" to the younger Russian culture.Yet... -
Morozov: The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection by Natalya Semenova
RRP: £25.00£13.96The first English-language account of Ivan Morozov and his ambition to build one of the world's greatest collections of modern art"A century of Russian culture distilled in the story of the life, family and collection of the lavish, lazy, kindly,... -
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
RRP: £18.99£11.25In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell's Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and... -
Letters from Russia by Marquis de Custine
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyrannyIn 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most... -
Stalingrad by David M. Glantz 9780700628797
RRP: £37.95£35.49The long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad; an abridged edition of the five volume Stalingrad TrilogyPraise for The Stalingrad Trilogy:David Glantz has done... -
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky 9780743284264
RRP: £20.00£13.86Apologies 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 *... -
The Last Days of Stalin by Joshua Rubenstein
RRP: £12.99£11.46A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin's death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph... -
The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future by Yevgenia Albats 9780374527389
RRP: £29.00£19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527389Author Yevgenia AlbatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
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... -
Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence by Shoshana Keller 9781487594343
RRP: £42.00£37.81Russia and Central Asia provides an overview of the relationship between two dynamic regions, highlighting the ways in which Russia and Central Asia have influenced and been influenced by Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. This readable synthesis,... -
The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the... -
Fighting in Ukraine: A Photographer at War by David Mitchelhill-Green
RRP: £14.99£11.35The outcome of the Second World War was decided on the Eastern Front. Denied a swift victory over Stalin's Red Army, Hitler's Wehrmacht found itself in a bloody, protracted struggle from late 1941 that it was ill-prepared to fight. Although many... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds by Frank Costigliola 9780691165400
RRP: £35.00£23.03A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy-and one of its most complex. Drawing on... -
The Angel Of Grozny: Life Inside Chechnya by Asne Seierstad
RRP: £10.99£6.47'The best book in English about one of the world's most brutal and under-reported conflicts ... fascinating' Christina Lamb, Sunday TimesIn the early hours of New Year's Eve 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into... -
Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia by Paul Klebnikov 9780156013307
RRP: £18.99£12.58Chronicles the life of the head of one of Moscow's gangster families, who financed the reelection of Boris Yeltsin and became one of his key advisors.Book InformationISBN 9780156013307Author Paul KlebnikovFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Wadsworth... -
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War (Pan Military Classics Series) by Chris Bellamy
RRP: £20.00£14.88Absolute War tells the story of the greatest and most terrible land-air conflict of all time: the war between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. There have been many individual accounts of particular moments in the vicious war between the Nazi regime and... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 10: Russian Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: £22.99£20.51Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has... -
Soviets in Space: Russia's Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier by Colin Burgess 9781789146325
RRP: £25.00£17.62A 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... -
Armies of the Great Northern War 1700-1720 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £11.99£8.43The Great Northern War was a long series of campaigns in which Russia, linked with several other countries in temporary alliances, confronted and eventually replaced Sweden as the predominant power in Northern Europe. While contemporary with the Duke of... -
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 Panjshir Valley 1980-86: The Lion Tames the Bear in Afghanistan by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £15.99£11.61An in-depth look at the struggle between the charismatic rebel commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, 'The Lion of Panjshir', and the Soviet forces who fought to control the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan. When the Soviets rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, they... -
The Jewish Century, New Edition by Yuri Slezkine 9780691192826
RRP: £28.00£21.80This 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... -
DK Eyewitness Moscow by DK Publishing
RRP: £12.99£9.49The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this historic country.Explore Moscow's revolutionary past at the Red Square and Lenin's Mausoleum, marvel at the... -
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
RRP: £19.99£12.89Apologies 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 -
Memoirs Of Catherine The Great by Hilde Hoogenboom
RRP: £13.99£9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969870Author Catherine the GreatFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
Stalag XXA and the Enforced March from Poland by Stephen Wynn 9781526754462
RRP: £19.99£14.28Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for non-commissioned officers located in Nazi occupied Torun, in northern Poland. The camp consisted of fifteen forts, which in September 1939, under the name of Stalag 357, was used to house Polish POWs... -
History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918-21 by Peter Arshinov 9780900384400
RRP: £9.90£9.28Apologies 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 *... -
The Red Army 1922-41: From Civil War to 'Barbarossa' by Philip Jowett
RRP: £11.99£8.43This study explores the organization, history and uniforms of the Soviet Red Army during the 20 years between its victory in the Civil War and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in 1941. The two decades following the Bolshevik victory over the... -
Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1980 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £13.99£9.75Storm-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... -
The Orphanage: A Novel by Serhiy Zhadan
RRP: £14.99£11.21A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine Chosen as one of "Six Books to Read for Context on Ukraine" by the New York Times Selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the "20 Best Books of 2021" ... -
Carpathian Rus': A Historical Atlas by Paul Robert Magocsi 9780772751157
RRP: £39.00£34.52Located 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... -
Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya by Sebastian Smith 9781850439790
RRP: £20.00£17.31Ancient travellers called the Caucasus the mountain of languages. Greeks, Persians, Romans, Goths, Arabs, Mongols and Turks have all passed through the region; poets and artists have been inspired by its rugged beauty and yet its history is a tragic one... -
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt by Robert Forczyk 9781526781543
RRP: £14.99£10.95The German panzer armies that swept into the Soviet Union in 1941 were an undefeated force that had honed their skill in combined arms warfare to a fine edge. The Germans focused their panzers and tactical air support at points on the battlefield defined... -
The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko: To Kill a Mockingbird by Boris Volodarsky
RRP: £25.00£17.62In his famous Moonlight and Vodka, Chris de Burgh got it right: Espionage is a serious business. And like every serious business, it must be taken seriously. Less than two decades after the untimely death of Sasha Litvinenko, poisoned at the heart of... -
Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts by Martin Parr
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 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... -
Bone Music by Stephen Coates
RRP: £32.00£20.61Apologies 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 -
Air War on the Eastern Front by Mike Guardia
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Red Air Force versus the Luftwaffe in the skies over Eastern Europe. June 1941: Having conquered most of Western Europe, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the vast Soviet Union. Disregarding his Non-Aggression Pact with Joseph Stalin, Hitler... -
Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others by Angela Brintlinger 9781350242142
RRP: £12.99£11.60For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of...