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The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London by Ivan Maisky
RRP: £14.99£13.43Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A... -
The Panjshir Valley 1980-86: The Lion Tames the Bear in Afghanistan Mark Galeotti (New York University, New York, USA) 9781472844736
RRP: £15.99£11.79An 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... -
Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism by Aleksandra Shatskikh 9780300140897
£59.66An in-depth exploration of Malevich's pivotal painting, its context and its significance Kazimir Malevich's painting Black Square is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in world artistic culture... -
The Angel Of Grozny: Life Inside Chechnya - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad 9781844083961
RRP: £10.99£6.67'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... -
The Putin Interviews by Oliver Stone 9781510733428
RRP: £12.99£8.41From Oscar-winner Oliver Stone comes a first-hand look at one of the most important, powerful, and controversial leaders in the world: Vladimir Putin of Russia. The companion to the news-breaking television series, this edition has substantial material... -
Troubled Water: A Journey around the Black Sea by Jens Muhling 9781914982019
RRP: £10.99£7.92Fringing the Black Sea are a kaleidoscope of countries, some centuries old and others emerging only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Through the stories of the people he meets there, Jens Muhling seeks to paint a picture of this cauldron of... -
T-90 Standard Tank: The First Tank of the New Russia by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£11.17A highly illustrated study of the T-90, the backbone of the armoured units of Putin's Russia. In the wake of the T-72 tank's poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin instructed the Russian tank industry to drop the discredited T-72... -
Grey is the Colour of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya
RRP: £9.99£7.00If it ever falls to you, my reader (though God forbid!) to see your name written on a prison wall and followed by the letters 'LYMTL', that will simply mean 'Love You More Than Life'. These letters are no harder to remember than 'KGB'. GREY IS THE COLOUR... -
Chronicle of the Russian Tsars: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russia by David Warnes
RRP: £14.95£10.43Now available in paperback, this Chronicle documents the lives of tsars famous and infamous in a lively series of biographical portraits stretching from the late 15th to the early 20th centuries. With its comprehensive timelines, datafiles, quotations... -
Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930-1936 by Michael Jabara Carley 9781487544416
RRP: £62.00£54.98Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin's Gamble aims to create a historical narrative of the relations of the USSR with Britain, France, the United States, Poland, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Romania during the... -
Spymaster: My Thirty-two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West by Oleg Kalugin 9780465014453
RRP: £21.99£19.73Oleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. In 1990, he went public, exposing the intelligence... -
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis
£57.54The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective, one reflecting Soviet, East European, and Chinese as well as American and West European viewpoints. In a major departure... -
DK Eyewitness St Petersburg by DK Eyewitness
RRP: £13.99£10.01The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this fascinating and cultural city.Explore imperial palaces, visit unique museums and stunning churches or stroll... -
Endurance and Endeavour: Russian History 1812-2001 by J. N. Westwood 9780199246175
RRP: £41.99£38.78In Russia, both rulers and ruled long endeavoured to transform their country, each in their own forcible way. Their efforts never quite seemed to bring the results hoped for, and despite reform and revolution some things changed very little. This book... -
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
RRP: £12.00£8.68The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous... -
Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953 by Simon Ings
RRP: £12.99£8.80LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science. It succeeded through terror, folly and crime - but also through... -
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport 9780312603472
RRP: £17.99£11.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312603472Author Helen RappaportFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
DK Eyewitness Moscow DK Eyewitness 9781409370055
RRP: £12.99£9.74The 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... -
Rooks in Afghanistan: Volume 1 - Sukhoi Su-25 in the Afghanistan War by Andrey Korotkov
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510131Author Andrey KorotkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism by Mark Harrison
RRP: £54.00£47.15The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of... -
The Kremlin's Noose: Vladimir Putin’s Bitter Feud with the Oligarch Who Made Him Ruler of Russia by Amy Knight 9781837732203
RRP: £25.00£16.85In The Kremlin's Noose Amy Knight tells the riveting story of Vladimir Putin and the oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who forged a relationship in the early years of the Yeltsin era. Berezovsky later played a crucial role in Putin's rise to the Russian... -
Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya by Sebastian Smith 9781850439790
RRP: £20.00£17.66Ancient 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... -
A Freeborn People: Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth-Century England by David Underdown 9780198206125
£83.24A Freeborn People is a provocative exploration of the ways in which the political cultures of the elite and of common people intersected during the seventeenth century. David Underdown shows that the two worlds were not as separate as historians have... -
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
RRP: £12.99£8.80Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of... -
The Charge of the Heavy Brigade: Scarlett s 300 in the Crimea by Trow, M J 9781399093002
RRP: £25.00£17.90Glory to each and to all, and the charge that they made! Glory to all three hundred, and all the Brigade!' Everyone has heard of the charge of the Light Brigade, a suicidal cavalry attack caused by confused orders which somehow sums up the Crimean War... -
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History by Edmund Wilson 9780374533458
RRP: £27.00£16.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533458Author Edmund WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Russia: A Short History by Abraham Ascher
RRP: £12.99£9.34Distinguished Professor Abraham Ascher offers an impressive blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this perennially popular introduction to Russia. Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia: A Short History... -
Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Semenova Ginzburg 9780156027519
RRP: £18.99£14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027519Author Evgenia Semenova GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Harvest BooksPublisher Harvest BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Armies of the Great Northern War 1700-1720 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £11.99£8.66The 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... -
The New Russia Mikhail Gorbachev 9781509523610
RRP: £14.99£10.05After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail... -
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg V. Khlevniuk
RRP: £16.99£15.01The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written, winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Biography & Autobiography"Enthralling, brilliant, and groundbreaking, this book confirms Khlevniuk as probably the greatest living... -
The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker 9780190659240
RRP: £24.99£18.06In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides 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... -
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King
RRP: £14.99£11.03From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of... -
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... -
Hitler's Eastern Legions 1942-45 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: £14.99£11.93Between 1941-45, the Germans recruited around 175,000 men from a number of minorities in the USSR, distinguishing between 'Turkomans' (predominantly Muslims) and 'Caucasians' (predominantly Orthodox Christians). Of these, many formed rear-area auxiliary... -
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner by David Herszenhorn 9781538709450
RRP: £25.00£17.20THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival-so despised that the... -
Soviet State Security Services 1917-46 by Douglas A. Drabik
RRP: £14.99£11.11The Bolsheviks' seizure of power in Russia in late 1917 was swiftly followed by the establishment of the Cheka, the secret police of the new Soviet state. The Cheka was central to the Bolsheviks' elimination of political dissent during the Russian Civil... -
The Battle of Halbe, 1945: Eyewitness Accounts from Hell's Cauldron by Baumgart, Eberhard
RRP: £20.00£14.91In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army near the small town of Halbe, south-east of Berlin. Rather than surrender, their orders were to attempt to break out, westward, and join up with the German... -
Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution Paul Le Blanc 9780745348346
RRP: £16.99£11.71'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's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent 9781455533008
RRP: £19.99£16.47Apologies 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...