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The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923, Revised Edition by Richard Pipes 9780674309517
RRP: £43.95£35.43Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. In this revealing account, Richard Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the... -
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
RRP: £16.99£12.47A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the... -
The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921 by Eric Lee
RRP: £16.99£15.35For 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... -
Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era by Vera Michlin-Shapir
RRP: £44.00£38.64Fluid Russia offers a new framework for understanding Russian national identity by focusing on the impact of globalization on its formation, something which has been largely overlooked. This approach sheds new light on the Russian case, revealing a... -
Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War by Robert Gellately 9780199668045
RRP: £22.99£17.52The Second World War almost destroyed Stalin's Soviet Union. But victory over Nazi Germany provided the dictator with his great opportunity: to expand Soviet power way beyond the borders of the Soviet state. Well before the shooting stopped in 1945,... -
Russias Rulers Under the Old Regime by Dominic Lieven 9780300049374
£24.92Dominic Lieven here probes deeply into the lives and politics of the most important members of Tsar Nicholas II's government-the 215 men appointed by Nicholas to his State Council. His book tells us a great deal about the last ruling elite of Russia,... -
Daily Life in Russia under the Last Tsar by Henri Troyat
RRP: £23.99£21.16This book is a vivid account of life in Moscow, "the most Russian of Russian cities," in the year 1903, a year before Russia's disastrous war with Japan and two years before the momentous Revolution of 1905. Though the undercurrents of social change were... -
The Fate of the Romanovs by Greg King 9780471727972
£21.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471727972Author Greg KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 896gDimensions(mm)... -
Revolution in Danger: Writings from Russia 1919-1921 by Ian Birchall
RRP: £14.99£10.14Upon his arrival in Petrograd in 1919, Victor Serge the great chronicler of the Russian Revolution found a society nearly shattered by civil war. In these essays he sketches a portrait of the darkest hours faced by the fledgling revolution, defending the... -
The Russian Empire: A Multi-ethnic History by Andreas Kappeler 9780582234154
RRP: £54.99£52.88The "national question" and how to impose control over its diverse ethnic identities has long posed a problem for the Russian state. This major survey of Russia as a multi-ethnic empire spans the imperial years from the sixteenth century to 1917, with... -
The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan by Sarah Cameron
RRP: £47.00£41.20The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime: the Kazakh famine of 1930-33. More than 1.5 million people, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, perished. Yet the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from... -
Russia's Chechen Wars 1994-2000: Lessons from the Urban Combat by Olga Oliker 9780833029980
£19.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833029980Author Olga OlikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 161mm * 8mm -
Dispatches From the Revolution: Russia 1916-18 Morgan Philips-Price 9780745312057
RRP: £26.99£17.86As special correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, Price was one of the few Englishmen to witness all phases of the Russian Revolution. His remarkable writings provide a firsthand account of the momentous events, and include his meetings with... -
Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed 9781510716773
RRP: £12.99£9.05"This book is a slice of intensified history history as I saw it." So begins John Reed's first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Much anticipated when it was published in 1919, Reed's narrative remains as riveting today as when the events... -
Women of the Catacombs: Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia by Wallace L. Daniel
RRP: £21.99£19.49The memoirs presented in Women of the Catacombs offer a rare close-up account of the underground Orthodox community and its priests during some of the most difficult years in Russian history. The catacomb church in the Soviet Union came into existence in... -
Lenin's Legacy: A Concise History and Guide to Soviet Collectibles by Martin Goodman 9780764310195
RRP: £54.99£35.61Lenin's Legacy is a comprehensive, illustrated reference combining a concise history of the Soviet Union with a study of its "symbolism", which until now has largely been hidden from the West. With over 900 superb color photographs, the book... -
War and Enlightenment in Russia: Military Culture in the Age of Catherine II by Eugene Miakinkov 9781487503543
RRP: £55.00£48.41War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by... -
Russian Cuisine in Exile by Alexander Genis 9781618117304
RRP: £17.99£16.74Russian Cuisine in Exile brings the essays of Pyotr Vail and Alexander Genis, originally written in the mid-1980s, to an English-speaking audience. A must-read for scholars, students and general readers interested in Russian studies, but also for... -
Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History by Yuri Kostenko 9780674295346
RRP: £24.95£20.20In December 1994, Ukraine gave up the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world and signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, having received assurances that its sovereignty would be respected and secured by Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom... -
Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War by Eva Dillon
RRP: £10.99£10.45Now in paperback, a riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer-the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War In the summer of 1975,... -
Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus by Nicholas B. Breyfogle 9780801477461
RRP: £27.99£22.41In Heretics and Colonizers, Nicholas B. Breyfogle explores the dynamic intersection of Russian borderland colonization and popular religious culture. He reconstructs the story of the religious sectarians (Dukhobors, Molokans, and Subbotniks) who settled,... -
The Russian Anarchists by Paul Avrich 9781904859482
£13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859482Author Paul AvrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 442g -
Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941 by David L. Hoffmann
RRP: £25.99£22.84Soviet official culture underwent a dramatic shift in the mid-1930s, when Stalin and his fellow leaders began to promote conventional norms, patriarchal families, tsarist heroes, and Russian literary classics. For Leon Trotsky-and many later... -
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Volume 3: Statesman, 1953-1964 by Sergei Khrushchev 9780271058580
RRP: £31.95£30.21This is the third and last volume of the only complete and fully reliable English-language version of the memoirs of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. In the first two volumes, published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2005 and 2006,... -
Twilight of Empire: The Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917-1918 by Borislav Chernev 9781487524494
RRP: £27.99£24.52Twilight of Empire is the first book in English to examine the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference during the later stages of World War I with the use of extensive archival sources. Two separate peace treaties were signed at Brest-Litovsk - the first between... -
The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History, 1794-1881 by Steven J. Zipperstein
RRP: £23.99£21.16Founded in 1794 as a frontier city on the Black Sea, Odessa soon grew to be one of Russia's busiest seaports. Settlers of all nationalities went there to seek their fortune, among them Jews who came to form one of the largest, wealthiest, and most... -
Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling by Ryan Tucker Jones
RRP: £24.00£20.78A revealing and authoritative history that shows how Soviet whalers secretly helped nearly destroy endangered whale populations, while also contributing to the scientific understanding necessary for these creatures' salvation. The Soviet Union... -
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within, Second Enlarged Edition by Geoffrey Hosking 9780674304437
£37.12The First Socialist Society is the compelling and often tragic history of what Soviet citizens lived through from 1917 to 1993, told with great sympathy and perception. Tracing the evolution of the Soviet political system from its origins in 1917,... -
Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police by Alexander Vatlin 9780299310844
RRP: £19.95£18.61In the Great Terror of 1937 38 more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they didn't commit. What kind of people carried out this violent purge, and what motivated them? This book opens up the world of the Soviet... -
Ivan the Terrible: A Captivating Guide to the First Tsar of Russia and His Impact on Russian History by Captivating History 9781950922017
RRP: £19.97£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922017Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Russian Revolution and the Soviet State 1917-1921: Documents by Martin McCauley 9780333257982
RRP: £44.99£44.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333257982Author Martin McCauleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 317Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 449g -
The Soviet Army High Commands in War and Peace, 1941-1992 by Richard W. Harrison
£35.04The war on the Eastern Front during 1941-45 was an immense struggle, running from the Barents Sea to the Caucasus Mountains. The vast distances involved forced the Soviet political-military leadership to resort to new organizational expedients in order... -
Iron Lazar: A Political Biography of Lazar Kaganovich by E. A. Rees 9781783080571
RRP: £25.00£24.18The first English-language biography of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin's leading deputies, 'Iron Lazar' investigates the life of a man of key importance to the shaping of the Stalinist state. With its insight into the political and personal relations of... -
The Truth of the Russian Revolution: The Memoirs of the Tsar's Chief of Security and His Wife by Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev 9781438464626
RRP: £24.78£22.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438464626Author Konstantin Ivanovich GlobachevFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New... -
Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile by Lewis H. Siegelbaum 9780801477218
RRP: £20.99£17.82The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an engine of Communist progress, in part because it posed an awkward challenge to some basic... -
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905 by Timothy Snyder 9780190846084
RRP: £42.99£35.09Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. During... -
Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union by David Satter 9780300087055
£32.21The first state in history to be based explicitly on atheism, the Soviet Union endowed itself with the attributes of God. In this book, David Satter shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea,... -
Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia by Anne Garrels 9781250118110
RRP: £12.99£11.72More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart the... -
Bandits, Gangsters and the Mafia: Russia, the Baltic States and the CIS since 1991 by Martin McCauley 9780582357648
RRP: £39.99£39.54During the 1990s, the "roving bandits", big business or the oligarchs, stole Russia. They gained influence over President Yeltsin and his government, and gradually shaped policy in their own interests. In this first comprehensive account to explain why... -
Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil's Political Cartoons by John Etty 9781496821089
£32.86After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new economic growth. In this new atmosphere of freedom, Russia's satirical magazine Krokodil (The Crocodile) became rejuvenated...