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In Defence of Lenin: Volume 2 by Rob Sewell 9781913026967
RRP: £19.99£19.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026967Author Rob SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Wellred BooksPublisher Wellred BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 43mm -
Longman Companion to Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 by David Longley 9780582319905
RRP: £53.99£51.96This is the first book of its kind to draw together information on the major events in Russian history from 1695 to 1917 - covering the eventful period from the accession of Peter the Great to the fall of Nicholas II. Not only is a vast amount of... -
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport 9781447227175 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their... -
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
RRP: £14.99£11.30On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their... -
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland Tom Parfitt 9781472294807
RRP: £12.99£8.83'Outstanding' TIMES'Gripping' ECONOMISTSHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR Emotionally scarred after witnessing the bloody climax of the Beslan school siege in Russia's North Caucasus,... -
Russia Under the Old Regime by Richard Pipes
RRP: £12.99£9.34This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of geographical... -
Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History by Stewart Binns
RRP: £12.99£7.72Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War.On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military invasion in human history was launched - an attack on the... -
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £25.00£19.21The Financial Times - Best books of 2022: Politics 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' The Times A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably... -
Crimea by Orlando Figes
RRP: £18.99£13.61Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia's history, killing nearly a million men and completely redrawing the map of Europe... -
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine Robert Conquest 9781847925671
RRP: £20.00£14.51Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written... -
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service 9781529065824
RRP: £30.00£20.64'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich'This work of a lifetime presents high-octane, high-politcal drama' - GuardianIn Blood on the Snow, Robert Service... -
The Witches of St. Petersburg Imogen Edwards-Jones 9781788544047
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Sumptuous, sexy and haunting. I adored this novel' SANTA MONTEFIORE. Starving men and women stalk the streets of St. Petersburg. Revolution is brewing. Yet in the Imperial court of Nicholas II and the lavish palaces of the aristocracy, there is... -
The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War by Richard Sakwa 9780300255010
RRP: £25.00£20.92The end of the Cold War was an opportunity - our inability to seize it has led to today's renewed era of great power competition 1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace, as harsh ideological divisions and conflicts began to be... -
Hitler's Russian & Cossack Allies 1941-45 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: £12.99£11.17Given the merciless way in which the war on the Eastern Front of World War II was conducted, it is difficult to envisage anyone changing sides during the conflict. Yet after the German invasion of Russia in Operation Barbarossa, well over 400,000 former... -
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven
RRP: £12.99£9.34TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2016 'Magisterial... reveals how much is at stake for world order in Ukraine and Syria.' Rachel Polonsky'As much as anything, World War I... -
The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes by Meredith Hooper 9780719595905 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65Scott's 'Northern Party' played an important role in his iconic last expedition, but how did they survive? Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished and the ship had failed to pick them up as winter approached. Stranded and desperate, the six... -
The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes Meredith Hooper 9780719595905
RRP: £12.99£8.83Scott's 'Northern Party' played an important role in his iconic last expedition, but how did they survive? Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished and the ship had failed to pick them up as winter approached. Stranded and desperate, the six... -
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Masterly ... a book of resounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year'A masterful survey that will set the standard for Cold War... -
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine by Owen Matthews
RRP: £25.00£16.83Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the... -
Russian Roulette: How British Spies Defeated Lenin Giles Milton 9781444737042
RRP: £12.99£8.83'It reads like fiction, but it is, astonishingly, history' THE TIMESIN 1917, AN ECCENTRIC BAND OF BRITISH SPIES IS SMUGGLED INTO NEWLY SOVIET RUSSIA.Their goal is to defeat Lenin's plan to destroy British India and bring down the democracies of the West... -
Russia and the Russians: From Earliest Times to the Present by Geoffrey Hosking
RRP: £18.99£14.22Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. The result of a lifetime's knowledge, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia, tracing its story from the... -
Imperial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege and the Challenge of Modernity by David Christian 9780333662946
£39.51This is an interpretative history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union between 1850 and 1991. During this tumultuous period, the countries of this vast area were transformed from traditional, agrarian societies into modern industrial states. Like... -
My Russia: War or Peace? by Mikhail Shishkin 9781529427813
RRP: £12.99£7.72In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine?In My Russia:... -
Modern Russian Military Aircraft: Fighters, Bombers, Reconnaissance, Helicopters by Ryan Cunningham
RRP: £17.99£12.58The Russian Air Force is the world's second largest military air arm, capable of deploying more than 4,000 military aircraft, including 1,522 helicopters, 497 trainers, 873 fighters, 424 transports, and more. Illustrated throughout with detailed artworks... -
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips 9781783785780
RRP: £10.99£7.54An epic journey across 5,000 kilometres and through eight decades, to tell a new story about the old Cold War faultlines With the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seemed that the old divisions between East and West had been consigned to history. But with... -
Access to History: Russia 1894-1941 for OCR Second Edition Michael Lynch 9781471838316
£26.01Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016This is an OCR endorsed resource.Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth... -
The Story of a Life: ‘A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement’ Telegraph by Konstantin Paustovsky
RRP: £14.99£11.51Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarkable new translation.'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph'One of the great Russian autobiographies, as fresh now as the day it... -
On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: £20.00£16.13Stalin 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... -
The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin
£30.65One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write. In The Soviet Century,... -
Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital by Katherine Zubovich
RRP: £40.00£31.93An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old... -
Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia by Philipp Blom
RRP: £34.95£24.00Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. They include many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these... -
Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship by Andrew Wilson
RRP: £11.99£10.41A comprehensive and revelatory history of modern Belarus-from independence to Lukashenka's contested 2020 re-election"Andrew Wilson has done all students of European politics a great service by making the history of Belarus comprehensible, and by showing... -
Avenging Angels: Soviet women snipers on the Eastern front (1941-45) Lyuba Vinogradova 9780857051998
RRP: £12.99£8.83"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,... -
Barbarossa: The Russian German Conflict by Alan Clark
RRP: £12.99£9.23The classic account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans - the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen.Carefully researched and beautifully written, this book is a classic of military history. Alan Clark vividly... -
The New Politics of Russia: Interpreting Change, Revised and Updated Edition by Andrew Monaghan 9781526155610
RRP: £14.99£11.12This illuminating book explains how and why Russia's relations with the west have deteriorated to the point of initiating a new era of 'great power competition'. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in relations... -
Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: £14.99£11.11Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... -
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Antony Cyril Sutton 9781905570355
RRP: £12.99£9.34Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917-1953 Neil Owen 9781471876134
RRP: £12.50£12.02Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West Luke Harding 9781783352067
RRP: £12.99£8.80**Pre-order INVASION: RUSSIA'S BLOODY WAR AND UKRAINE'S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL now**FROM THE AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF COLLUSION A gripping investigative account of how Russia's spies helped elect Donald Trump,... -
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: £9.99£7.32Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Desperately important and impossible to put down. It is timeless. . . what shines clear from the testimonies is love - love which can make you do the most spectacular things ' Sheena Patel, Observer'- A new...