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The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin by Irina Borogan
RRP: £16.99£9.82The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country--be it antagonistic or far too chummy.The history of Russian espionage is soaked in... -
Catherine the Great: Selected Letters by Catherine The Great
RRP: £13.99£9.01'Your Majesty may find it extraordinary that I should answer with a shipment of fruit your letter of 6 August, in which you inform me that you are sending the plan for a treaty, and that of the 8 September, in which you are so good as to share with me... -
Where the Iron Crosses Grow by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £10.99£7.99When the Soviets fortified Sevastopol in 1941 it heralded the beginning of a period of intense fighting over the Crimea. In this remarkable work, acclaimed author Robert Forcyzk assembles new research to investigate the intense and barbaric fighting for... -
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900: A Sourcebook by Valerie A. Kivelson 9781501750656
RRP: £27.99£25.52This sourcebook provides the first systematic overview of witchcraft laws and trials in Russia and Ukraine from medieval times to the late nineteenth century. Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900 weaves scholarly commentary with... -
Tchaikovsky: The Man and his Music by David Brown
RRP: £16.99£11.58This volume uniquely combines a lively biography of one of the best-loved composers of the nineteenth century with a detailed chronological guide to much of his oeuvre, from the most popular - Swan Lake or the 1812 Overture - to the lesser known pieces... -
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine 9780691176949
RRP: £35.00£29.55On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the... -
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer 9780241957523 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.53WINNER OF THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017, THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2017 AND THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2017THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, BBC HISTORY and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Masterful, ... -
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer
RRP: £12.99£9.34WINNER OF THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017, THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2017 AND THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2017THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, BBC HISTORY and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Masterful, ... -
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon, Prospect A riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl,... -
Heinemann Advanced History: The Modernisation of Russia 1856-1985 by John Laver
£26.87This book is directed at students studying the economic and social development of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the nature of Russian government and its impact on the Russian people in this period at AS/A-level. It forms part of the new... -
Churchill's Arctic Convoys: Strength Triumphs Over Adversity by Smith, William 9781399072298
RRP: £25.00£17.90The threat of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's surprise invasion of Russia in June 1941, succeeding prompted Churchill to decide to send vital military supplies to Britain's new ally. The early sailings to Northern Russia via the Arctic Ocean between... -
The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science by Pey-Yi Chu
RRP: £52.00£45.10In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost. Contemporary scientists define permafrost as ground that maintains a negative temperature for at least two years. But where did this... -
Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century by Sergei Kostin 9781611090260
RRP: £8.99£6.721981. Ronald Reagan and Francois Mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the Unites States and France, respectively. The tension due to Mitterrand's French Communist support, however, is immediately defused when he gives Reagan the Farewell Dossier, a... -
The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn
RRP: £9.99£6.90The Russian Interpreter is a story about Raya, a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an interpreter; which is how... -
Smolensk 1943 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £16.99£12.47With the German defeat at Kursk, the Soviet Stavka (high command) ordered the Western and Kalinin Fronts to launch Operation Suvorov in order to liberate the city of Smolensk. The Germans had held this city for two years and Heeresgruppe Mitte's (Army... -
Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921 by Laura Engelstein
RRP: £30.49£22.82October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over... -
The White Birch: A Russian Reflection by Tom Jeffreys 9781472155672 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.65'It has been hand-planted by Tsarinas and felled by foresters. It has been celebrated by peasants, worshipped by pagans and painted by artists. It has self-seeded across mountains and rivers and train tracks and steppe and right through the ruined... -
The White Birch: A Russian Reflection Tom Jeffreys 9781472155672
RRP: £16.99£9.82'It has been hand-planted by Tsarinas and felled by foresters. It has been celebrated by peasants, worshipped by pagans and painted by artists. It has self-seeded across mountains and rivers and train tracks and steppe and right through the ruined... -
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... -
The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service by Kevin P. Riehle 9781647124090
RRP: £20.00£16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647124090Author Kevin P. RiehleFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Georgetown University PressPublisher Georgetown University Press -
Soviet Machine Guns of World War II by Chris McNab
RRP: £14.99£11.11This study looks at how the Soviet armed forces developed and deployed a range of machine guns that fitted with their offensive and defensive infantry tactics across six years of total war. In 1939, three machine guns dominated the Red Army's... -
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev by Vladislav Zubok 9780674455320
RRP: £29.95£24.43Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure... -
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg 9780142003428
RRP: £22.00£13.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780142003428Author Daniel EllsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
American Diplomacy by George F. Kennan
RRP: £21.00£20.31For more than fifty years, George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an... -
Gebirgsjager vs Soviet Sailor: Arctic Circle 1942-44 by David Greentree
RRP: £12.99£10.04In 1941-44, Nazi Germany's Gebirgsjager - elite mountain troops - clashed repeatedly with land-based units of the Soviet Navy during the mighty struggle on World War II's Eastern Front. Formed into naval infantry and naval rifle brigades, some 350,000 of... -
Combat Vehicles of Russia's Special Forces by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £11.99£8.66An illustrated study of both the combat vehicles of Russia's legendary Spetsnaz special forces and the whole range of unique and modified vehicles that Russia's elite units use, from combat snowmobiles to the world's biggest water-cannon. Elite forces... -
The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt by David Reynolds
RRP: £16.99£15.01A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three" Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this... -
A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness by Marina Mogilner 9780674270725
RRP: £41.95£33.60The forgotten story of a surprising anti-imperial, nationalist project at the turn of the twentieth century: a grassroots movement of Russian Jews to racialize themselves.In the rapidly nationalizing Russian Empire of the late nineteenth century, Russian... -
Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution by Vera Shevzov 9780195154658
RRP: £112.50£89.18Vera Shevzov has spent ten years researching Orthodoxy as it was lived in the years before the 1917 Revolution. In Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution, she draws on a rich variety of previously untapped archival sources and published works... -
A History of Russia: New, Revised Edition by George Vernadsky 9780300002478
£50.87"Scholarly, intellectually stimulating, and readable. It is not only a very good guide through the record of Russian development, but it makes one go deeper by the way it raises interesting questions."—Frederick C. Barghoorn Generally recognized as the... -
The Orphanage: A Novel by Serhiy Zhadan
RRP: £14.99£11.35A 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" ... -
Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia by Samuel A. Greene
RRP: £12.99£11.46A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin's grip on power is more fragile than we think "Putin v. the People wrestles with perhaps the central conundrum of contemporary Russia: the endurance... -
The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom by Gennady E. Gorelik 9780195156201
RRP: £31.49£21.34How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his later years, Sakharov noted in his diary that he was... -
Medieval Russian Armies, 838-1252 by David Nicolle 9781855328488
RRP: £12.99£11.83In the centuries following the first expeditions down the great rivers of northern Russia by Viking traders and adventurers, the foundations for a new state were laid. Many influences combined in this colourful culture which grew up first around the... -
The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in fin-de-Siecle Russia by Laura Engelstein
RRP: £33.00£30.62The revolution of 1905 challenged not only the social and political structures of imperial Russia but the sexual order as well. Throughout the decade that followed-in the salons of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde, on the pages of popular... -
Soviet Cruise Missile Submarines of the Cold War Dr Edward Hampshire (Author) 9781472824998
RRP: £11.99£8.66The Soviet Union's cruise missile submarines from the modified Whiskey, to the Oscar II classes were among the most formidable vessels of the Cold War. They were initially designed to carry land attack nuclear-tipped cruise missiles designed to strike... -
The Moscow Kremlin: Russia's Fortified Heart by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£11.11An illustrated study of the history of the Moscow Kremlin, a metaphor for Russia, a symbol for its government and an enduring icon of the country. A fortified complex covering 70 acres at the heart of Moscow, behind walls up to 18m high and watched... -
Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia by Benjamin Tromly 9780198880691
RRP: £26.99£24.25At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA committed to supporting Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World... -
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes 9780241955901
RRP: £12.99£9.34From 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... -
Lenin's Tomb: the Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
RRP: £22.00£14.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679751250Author David RemnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...