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Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921 by Alexandre Skirda 9781902593685
£18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593685Author Alexandre SkirdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 569g -
German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad by Nicole Eaton 9781501767364
RRP: £27.99£21.01German 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... -
The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762-1825: Public Role and Subjective Self by Andreas Schonle
RRP: £43.00£37.79This illuminating volume provides a new understanding of the subjective identity and public roles of Russia's Europeanized elite between the years of 1762 and 1825. Through a series of rich case studies, the editors reconstruct the social group's... -
Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus by Gerard Toal 9780190069513
RRP: £25.99£19.56Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad"--newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the... -
Notes of a Russian Sniper by Vassili Zaitsev
RRP: £14.99£14.08'As a sniper, I've killed more than a few Nazis. I have a passion for observing enemy behaviour. You watch a Nazi officer come out of a bunker, acting all high and mighty, ordering his soldiers every which way, and putting on an air of authority. The... -
Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia by Gabriel Gorodetsky 9780300084597
£32.21This important book draws on vital new archival material to unravel the mystery of Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941 and Stalin's enigmatic behavior on the eve of the attack. Gabriel Gorodetsky challenges the currently popular view that Stalin was... -
Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney 9781787636668
RRP: £14.99£13.74An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine. A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events... -
Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag by Nicolas Werth 9780691130835
RRP: £22.00£17.63During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but ten thousand of... -
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
RRP: £8.99£6.39In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the... -
Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination by Ana Siljak 9780312364014
£15.63In the winter of 1878, Vera Zasulich shot the governor of St. Petersburg for his brutal treatment of a political prisoner. Her trial became Russia's first 'trial of the century' as the courtrooms filled with the cream of society. Vera was a celebrated... -
The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304 by J. Fennell
£76.60John Fennell's history of thirteenth-century Russia is the only detailed study in English of the period, and is based on close investigation of the primary sources. His account concentrates on the turbulent politics of northern Russia, which was... -
Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak by Professor Jim Riordan 9780007251155
RRP: £9.99£7.80The true and remarkable story of the English double agent who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow. Like many working class children growing up in the war, the young Jim Riordan would fantasise his way out of his devastated surroundings with... -
Russia's Iron General: The Life of Aleksei A. Brusilov, 1853-1926 by Jamie H. Cockfield 9781498572514
RRP: £113.00£99.02This study provides a comprehensive biography of Russian general Aleksei A. Brusilov (1853-1926), commonly considered Russia's greatest general in World War I.Following in the footsteps of his military family, he entered the cavalry and quickly rose... -
Panzers on the Vistula: Retreat and Rout in East Prussia 1945 Schaufler, Hans 9781526734310
RRP: £19.99£14.50Hans Schaufler fought as the commander of a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945/. Then, as an infantryman, he took part in the doomed defence of Danzig and made a daring escape across the Baltic in... -
Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union by Scott Ritter
RRP: £24.99£20.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762617Author Scott RitterFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm *... -
Kulikovo 1380: The battle that made Russia by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £16.99£12.47The 14th-century Mongol conquest of the Rus' - the principalities of Russia - was devastating and decisive. Cities were lain waste, new dynasties rose and for a hundred years the Russians were under unquestioned foreign rule. However, the Mongols were... -
On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick 9780691145334
RRP: £30.00£24.06Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a... -
Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter by Oliver Smith 9781618118264
RRP: £31.99£31.17While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev's place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book... -
The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays by Nestor Makhno 9781873176788
£9.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176788Author Nestor MakhnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 200g -
The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930s by James Harris 9780198797869
£30.73Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great... -
Soviet T-62 Main Battle Tank by James Kinnear
RRP: £30.00£22.29A highly illustrated study of the T-62 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold War. The T-62 is one of the most widespread tanks used by the Soviets during the Cold War. Developed from... -
Rasputin and his Russian Queen: The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra Mickey Mayhew 9781399083676
RRP: £22.00£15.87RASPUTIN'S RELATIONSHIP with Russia's last Tsarina, Alexandra, notorious from the famous Boney M song, has never been adequately addressed; biographies are always for one or the other, or simply Alexandra and her husband Nicholas. In this new work,... -
Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics by Marina Frolova-Walker
RRP: £32.50£27.95Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the best... -
Soviet Cold War Fighters by Alexander Mladenov 9781781554968
RRP: £40.00£31.04Beautifully illustrated with many rare and unpublished photographs, Soviet Cold War Fighters looks at the main development periods of Soviet fighter designs and covers all the important features and developments for each - a total of four generations of... -
From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics by Slava Gerovitch 9780262572255
£35.64In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of... -
Collected Works: Volume 3 by V.I. Lenin
£44.84Among 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... -
Tupolev TU-16: Versatile Cold War Bomber by Yefim Gordon 9780764354182
RRP: £72.99£47.99Developed to meet a Soviet Ministry of Defense requirement for a fast bomber that would counter the threat posed by NATO, the Tu-16 was a ground-breaking project. It was the first Soviet medium bomber to feature swept wings, and it was built around a... -
Russia 1917-1941 by Martin McCauley 9780951576458
RRP: £7.95£6.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951576458Author Martin McCauleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint SempringhamPublisher Sempringham -
Air War on the Eastern Front by Mike Guardia
RRP: £19.99£14.50The 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... -
Russia's Wars in Chechnya 1994-2009 by Mark Galeotti
£16.45In this fully illustrated book an expert on the conflicts traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, and the prolonged guerrilla warfare in the mountainous regions. He assesses... -
My Six Years with Gorbachev by Anatoly C. Chernyaev
RRP: £29.95£27.31Drawing on his own diary as well as secret documents and transcripts of high-level meetings, Anatoly Chernyaev recounts the drama that swept the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1991. As Gorbachev's chief foreign policy aide for most of that period, he... -
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White 9781408707999
RRP: £9.99£7.72'White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way from Orwell to le Carre' Sunday Times, Books of the... -
Flashpoint Russia: Russia'S Air Power: Capabilities and Structure by Piotr Butowski 9780997309270
RRP: £24.99£17.89Russian military aviation has undergone several upheavals in the post-Soviet era. There have been two driving forces behind these changes. First, the Russian experience of air power in conflicts has led to an increasing integration of the various... -
Russian Tactical Aviation: Since 2001 by Dmitriy Komissarov
RRP: £34.95£26.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109527Author Dmitriy KomissarovFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
No Harmless Power by Kevin Matthews
RRP: £20.99£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634715Author Charlie AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution by Richard Stites 9780195055368
RRP: £98.00£79.84This book discusses utopian ideals and experimentation before, during, and after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Richard Stites grounds his study in the larger field of Russia's social, intellectual, and cultural history, examining party programmes,... -
Kursk: Film tie-in Robert Moore 9780857504135
RRP: £9.99£7.32____________________NOW OUT IN CINEMAS, STARRING COLIN FIRTH, MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS AND LEA SEYDOUX 'It takes you through each nail-biting moment . . . heart-breaking, humane and, at times, all too vivid. I've rarely read such a gripping work of... -
The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization by Ray Brandon
RRP: £19.99£17.94On the eve of the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941, Ukraine was home to the largest Jewish community in Europe. Between 1941 and 1944, some 1.4 million Jews were killed there, and one of the most important centers of Jewish life was destroyed. Yet,... -
The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects by Brandon M. Schechter 9781501739798
RRP: £28.99£24.72The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things-from spoons to tanks-to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the... -
Mil Mi-24 Attack Helicopter: In Soviet / Russian and Worldwide Service, 1972 to the Present by ,Michael Normann 9780764358678
RRP: £36.99£23.98A detailed technical and operational history of a deadly and long-serving Soviet/Russian gunship and attack helicopter. The Mil Mi-24 Soviet/Russian gunship and attack helicopter has been in continuous combat service since its first appearance in the...