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Anna of all the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin by Elaine Feinstein
RRP: £12.99£8.60Life of the Russian poet who withstood Stalinism and became an inspiration to millionsAnna Akhmatova is recognised as one of the greatest poets of Russian literature, an iconic figure who gave voice to the suffering of the Russian people during the... -
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... -
The Siege of Leningrad: 900 Days of Terror by David Glantz
RRP: £10.99£7.40The full story of the most terrible siege in history when over a million people perished, illustrated by pictures recently released from Russian archives.Leningrad (now reverted to its pre-1914 name of St Petersburg) was surrounded by German forces in... -
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... -
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... -
Grey is the Colour of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya
RRP: £9.99£6.80If 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... -
The Thin Red Line: An eyewitness history of the Crimean War by Julian Spilsbury
RRP: £12.99£8.60A FORGOTTEN VOICES for Victoria's RedcoatsThe Crimean War was the first 'modern' war for the British forces: journalists reported home via the telegraph, a device that also tempted the government to micro-manage the war from the comfort of Whitehall. It... -
Myasishchev M-4 and 3m: The First Soviet Strategic Jet Bomber by Yefim Gordon
RRP: £45.99£31.52When the Myasishchev design bureau was reborn in 1951, it was immediately tasked with creating a high-speed strategic bomber to balance the threat posed by NATO's heavy bombers, notably the B-52. Designated M-4 and code-named "Bison" by NATO, the new... -
Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War by Peter Conradi
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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 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... -
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'... -
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 -
Russia's Long Twentieth Century: Voices, Memories, Contested Perspectives by Choi Chatterjee
RRP: £39.99£35.06Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia's Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history and encourages students to... -
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... -
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale 9780141032351 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PRIZE 2013HERALD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014The extraordinary story of the Kremlin - from prize-winning author and historian Catherine MerridaleBoth beautiful and profoundly menacing, the Kremlin has dominated Moscow for many centuries... -
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PRIZE 2013HERALD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014The extraordinary story of the Kremlin - from prize-winning author and historian Catherine MerridaleBoth beautiful and profoundly menacing, the Kremlin has dominated Moscow for many centuries... -
The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer's Diary: 2017 by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £14.99£12.55A 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... -
Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank by James Kinnear
RRP: £30.00£21.35A highly illustrated study of the T-54 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold War. The menacing silhouette of the T-54 tank prowling down streets of Eastern European capitals or... -
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... -
The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921 by Eric Lee
RRP: £16.99£15.11For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very... -
A Splendid Little War by Derek Robinson
RRP: £12.99£8.60The 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... -
Myasishchev M-50 and M-52: The First Soviet Supersonic Strategic Bomber by Yefim Gordon Dmitriy Komissarov
RRP: £45.99£30.12Reborn in 1951, the Myasishchev design bureau made its mark by creating the M-4 strategic bomber. Yet, this subsonic aircraft was soon made obsolescent by supersonic fighter technology-any new strategic bomber would need supersonic performance to avoid... -
Armageddon in Stalingrad Volume 2 The Stalingrad Trilogy: September - November 1942 by Colonel David M. Glantz
£75.95The German offensive on Stalingrad was originally intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks, but it stalled dramatically in the face of Stalin's order: ""Not a Step Back!"" The Soviets' resulting tenacious defense of the city led to urban warfare for... -
The German Siege of Leningrad, 1941 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781399064668
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia by Jonathan Schneer
RRP: £31.49£21.94During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they... -
Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the Us Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III by Stephen Lendman 9780986073144
RRP: £15.99£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986073144Author Stephen LendmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *... -
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... -
Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War by Tony Wood
RRP: £10.99£8.94It 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... -
German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad by Nicole Eaton 9781501767364
RRP: £27.99£20.75German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an... -
Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe by Kevin J. McNamara
RRP: £22.99£17.77The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." ,Winston S. ChurchillIn 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by... -
Journeys through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky by William Craft Brumfield
RRP: £39.00£36.52At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was undergoing rapid change due to industrialization and the building of railroads. Between 1903 and 1916 Prokudin-Gorsky, who... -
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes 9780241955901
RRP: £12.99£9.09From Orlando Figes, international bestselling author of A People's Tragedy, Just Send Me Word is the moving true story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's Gulag. Lev and Svetlana, kept apart for fourteen years by the Second World War and... -
Operation Typhoon: The Assault on Moscow 1941 by Philippe Naud 9781612006710
RRP: £19.99£14.28After the initial successes of Operation Barbarossa, at the end of September 1941 Hitler turned his focus to Moscow, with the unshakeable belief that capturing the capital would knock the Soviets out of the war. On the face of it, it was an unequal... -
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism by Victoria Smolkin 9780691174273
RRP: £45.00£35.32When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror-to turn its vision of a Communist world without... -
Avenging Angels: Soviet women snipers on the Eastern front (1941-45) by Lyuba Vinogradova
RRP: £12.99£8.60"Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as teenagers during WW2 took up arms to defend the motherland, her story becomes undeniably poignant and powerful" MARTIN CRUZ SMITH,... -
Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£11.75A 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... -
Collected Works: Volume 3 by V.I. Lenin
£44.25Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to... -
The Cossacks by Shane O'Rourke
RRP: £25.00£17.92This is an exceptional book covering 500 years of the history of the Cossacks - the recklessly brave, wild horsemen or the romantic hero of the steppe or the brutal mounted policemen, as they have been remembered throughout history. Starting with a... -
Russia: A Short History by Abraham Ascher
RRP: £12.99£9.09Distinguished 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... -
From Moscow to Stalingrad: The Eastern Front, 1941-1942 by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006093
RRP: £19.99£14.28The path from Moscow to Stalingrad was littered with successes and losses for both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, with tensions remaining high and culminating in one of the harshest battles of the Second World War. Part of the Casemate Illustrated...