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The Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
RRP: £26.99£19.99What explains Putin's enduring popularity in Russia? In The Red Mirror, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova uses social identity theory to explain Putin's leadership. The main source of Putin's political influence, she finds, lies in how he articulates the shared... -
A Splendid Little War Derek Robinson 9781780878096
RRP: £12.99£8.83The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a... -
The Battle for Warsaw, 1939-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781526741509
RRP: £14.99£11.11During the Second World War five brutal battles were fought in and around Warsaw. Each proved to be dramatic, decisive and bloody, and in this volume of the Images of War series Anthony Tucker-Jones records them all in graphic detail. The first occurred... -
The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire by Peter Englund
RRP: £25.99£25.40'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar... -
Soviet Partisan vs German Security Soldier by Alexander Hill
RRP: £13.99£10.01The savage partisan war on the Eastern Front during World War II saw a wide variety of forces deployed by both sides. On the Soviet side, civilian partisans fought alongside and in co-operation with Red Army troops and Red Army and NKVD 'special forces'... -
The German Siege of Leningrad, 1941 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781399064668
RRP: £14.99£11.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hell Riders: The Truth About the Charge of the Light Brigade by Terry Brighton 9780141018317
RRP: £16.99£12.28On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and lance, charged straight at the muzzles of Russian... -
Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant by Amy W. Knight
RRP: £35.00£27.95This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in... -
Picturing Russian Empire by Valerie Kivelson 9780197600528
RRP: £48.99£45.89Picturing Russian Empire offers a new way to approach the history of Russia as an empire and as a state located in a world characterized by a churning, dynamic exchange of people, ideas, and practices. It presents readers with a visual tour of the lands... -
Hitler's Spanish Division by Lucas Molina 9781473878877
RRP: £19.99£14.50On 22 June 1941, Hitler s armies launched Operation Barbarossa and swept in to the Soviet Union. On the same day, the Spanish Foreign Minister, Ramon Serrano Suner, contacted the German embassy in Madrid with an extraordinary proposal would the German... -
The Portable Karl Marx by Karl Marx
RRP: £12.99£9.34This book is an outstanding overview of the life and thoughts of Karl Marx. The editor masterfully weaves together Marx's published works and private letters into a rich tapestry of history and ideas. In addition to what you might expect to find in a... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism by S. A. Smith 9780198779414
£35.00The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the... -
Battle for Grozny, Volume 1: Prelude and the First Assault on the Capital of Chechnya, 1994-1995 by Efim Sandler 9781804512142
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512142Author Efim SandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £14.99£13.09Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse-this compact, original,... -
Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know® by Serhy Yekelchyk
RRP: £12.99£9.34Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However, this theory obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic... -
Kursk, 1943: Last German Offensive in the East by Ian Baxter
RRP: £19.99£14.50In the summer of 1943, the German launched Operation Zitadelle (Citadel), aimed at cutting off a large number of Soviet forces in the Kursk salient. This offensive resulted in the battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle of World War II.Kursk quickly... -
Hammer And Tickle: A History Of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes Ben Lewis 9780753825822
RRP: £10.99£7.61The book that immerses the Cold War in the warm bath of nostalgia.Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always 2-ply?A: Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow.Communist jokes are the strangest,... -
Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander
RRP: £17.99£13.16In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a naive... -
A Ride To Khiva by Frederick Burnaby
£26.77'He who once enters Khiva abandons all hope, as surely as one who enters Hell. His prison house is girdled with trackless deserts, whose sole inhabitants are the sellers of human flesh.' In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across... -
With Paulus at Stalingrad by Wilhelm Adam 9781473898981
RRP: £14.99£11.11'Through his daily involvement with them, Wilhelm Adam is able to perfectly describe the characters involved, the tensions and despair amongst them and the pressure Paulus and his staff found themselves under as the Soviet pincers closed around the men... -
The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer's Diary: 2017 by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £14.99£12.75A new anthology of Dostoevsky's remarkable work 'A Writer's Diary'. A voluminous and variegated miscellany in which the celebrated author spoke to his readers about issues concerning Russia, it is a work as eerily prescient of global preoccupations in... -
Russia without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War Tony Wood 9781788731256
RRP: £10.99£9.18It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage. In Russia itself, he is likewise... -
The Russian Army in the Great Northern War 1700-21: Organization, Material, Training and Combat Experience, Uniforms by Boris Megorsky
RRP: £29.95£24.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512882Author Boris MegorskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Letters from Russia by Marquis de Custine
RRP: £12.99£9.34The 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... -
In the Beginning by Irina Ratushinskaya
RRP: £9.99£4.21IN THE BEGINNING goes back to the poet's life before her arrest, interweaving her experiences of growing up in Odessa with those of her childhood friend and future husband Igor Geraschenko. With wit and simplicity Irina describes a biased and turbulent... -
Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes: Stories from a Silver Age by Michael Meylac
RRP: £19.99£18.01The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. In the... -
The Russian Civil War by Evan Mawdsley 9781780274799
RRP: £14.99£10.06The Russian Civil War of 1917-1920, out of which the Soviet Union was born, was one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. The collapse of the Tsarist regime and the failure of the Kerensky Provisional Government nearly led to the... -
Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War by Peter Conradi
RRP: £10.99£7.99'A must read for anyone interested in the future of Europe and the world as a whole.' Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire An essential insight into Russia's relations with Ukraine, the US and beyond Why did Vladimir Putin launch his... -
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 by J. Arch Getty 9780300104073
RRP: £25.00£23.94Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin's purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret... -
Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£11.93A detailed illustrated study of Putin's shadowy security and paramilitary armed forces. While the size of Russia's regular forces has shrunk recently, its security and paramilitary elements have become increasingly powerful. Under the Putin regime... -
Occult Russia: Pagan, Esoteric, and Mystical Traditions by Christopher McIntosh
RRP: £18.99£12.27In this in-depth look at occult and esoteric traditions in Russia, Christopher McIntosh explores the currents of mysticism, myth, magic, and the spiritual to which the Russian soul has always been attuned. The author explains how the search for meaning... -
From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America by Michael McFaul
RRP: £14.99£11.35'A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States' Daniel Beer, The New York Times'Could not be more timely ... crucial reading for anyone interested in what's happening inside Putin's head'... -
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt by Robert Forczyk 9781526781543
RRP: £14.99£11.11The 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... -
Does Putin Have to Die?: The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine by Ilya Ponomarev
RRP: £22.00£14.05The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine. Opposing Putin is a risky proposition; for instance, a fellow Russian Parliament member turned dissident, Denis Voronenkov, was on his way to see Ponomarev when he was shot and killed... -
The Great Bear at War by Chris McNab
RRP: £30.00£22.89A History of the Red Army, Soviet Army and Russian Army in 100 Years of Conflict From the chaos of the civil war to the political manoeuvring of the Cold War, Russia's armed forces have shaped the future not only of Russia but of countless other... -
Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev by Glenn Cronin
RRP: £44.00£38.64Disenchanted Wanderer is the first comprehensive English-language study in over half a century of the life and ideas of Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontiev (1831-1891), one of the most important thinkers in nineteenth-century Russia on political, social, and... -
Armies of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05 by Philip S. Jowett
RRP: £12.99£11.17The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict of the 20th century, as vast armies clashed in Manchuria incurring enormous casualties. Its global significance was immense, as the tactics deployed during this war anticipated the trench warfare of... -
Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire by Joshua A. Sanborn 9780198745686
RRP: £35.49£31.31Imperial Apocalypse describes the collapse of the Russian Empire during World War One. Drawing material from nine different archives and hundreds of published sources, this study ties together state failure, military violence, and decolonization in a... -
T-72 by Steven Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£10.04The Russian T-72 Ural tank is the most widely-deployed main battle tank of the current generation. Used by the armies of the former Warsaw pact and Soviet Union, it has also been exported in large numbers to many of the states in the Middle East. This... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 3: Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, February-May 1945 by Douglas E. Nash Sr.
RRP: £30.00£25.27In the closing months of World War II, with Budapest's fall on 12 February 1945 and the breakout attempt by the IX SS-Gebirgskorps having failed, the only thing the IV. SS-Panzerkorps could do was fall back to a more defensible line and fortify the key...