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Lenin the Dictator Victor Sebestyen 9781474601054
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An enthralling but appalling story' Francis Wheen, author of Karl MarxThe cold, one-dimensional figure... -
The Screen Is Red: Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War by Bernard F. Dick 9781496814937
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The Screen Is Red portrays Hollywood's ambivalence toward the former Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. In the 1930s, communism combated its alter ego, fascism, yet both threatened... -
Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality by Andrew Sobanet 9780253038210
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin's rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played... -
Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust by Miron Dolot 9780393304169
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.13In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations,... -
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Professor Rosemary Sullivan 9780062206121
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062206121Author Professor Rosemary SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 624 -
Stalin's Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism by Tinatin Japaridze 9781793641861
Booksplease Price: £86.43This book examines Joseph Stalin's increasing popularity in the post-Soviet space, and analyzes how his image, and the nostalgia it evokes, is manipulated and exploited for political gain. The author... -
The History of Russia Charles E. Ziegler 9798765136751
Booksplease Price: £60.74Now in its third edition, this new volume of the acclaimed The History of Russia offers a wealth of material on events of the last decade and a half.When first published, Charles Ziegler's The... -
Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History by Derek Sayer
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy-with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorshipPostcards from Absurdistan is a cultural... -
Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History Derek Sayer 9780691264554
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy-with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorshipPostcards from Absurdistan is a cultural... -
Where the World Was by Rosemary Sullivan 9781773102818
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76"As a poet and writer, [Rosemary Sullivan] knows that life is lived not as theory but as practice, that . . . you can understand nothing about a place without listening to individual people and their... -
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the... -
America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror by Jeffrey A. Engel
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it partner with other nations or avoid entangling... -
Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics by Philip G. Roeder
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Why did the Soviet system fail? How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation? What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse? Philip Roeder finds the answer to... -
Allied Convoys to Northern Russia, 1941–1945: Politics, Strategy and Tactics by William Smith 9781399054737
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.47While the experiences of the men and ships who sailed in the Allied convoys to North Russia between August 1941 and May 1945 have been fully documented, the wider political, diplomatic and military... -
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism Steven Levitsky 9780691223582
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the... -
Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries by David Sorkin
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in... -
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam 9780691233765
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and... -
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The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood by Eva Rosen 9780691214986
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.28"A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America's housing crisis."-Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityAn in-depth look at... -
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.95A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and... -
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The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood by Eva Rosen
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87"A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America's housing crisis."-Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityAn in-depth look at... -
The Truth about Neo-Marxism, Cultural Maoism, and Anarchy: Exposing Woke Insanity in an Age of Disinformation by Jerome R Corsi 9781637585214
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.37This book exposes the dark, evil ideology that has descended over America. The arch of the Hegelian dialectic culminates only in negation, with millions annihilated in the nightmare apocalypse of... -
Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution Paul Le Blanc 9780745348346
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.80'Brings out the practical activism, principled politics, and revolutionary patience crucial to organizing the oppressed on a rapidly over-heating planet' - Jodi Dean 'Crackling with intellectual... -
Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries by Professor David Sorkin 9780691205250
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.51The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in... -
Leon Trotsky: An Illustrated Introduction by Tariq Ali 9781608461868
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.94Amusing, well researched, and surprisingly sophisticated, Leon Trotsky: An Illustrated Introduction is the perfect primer on the life and thought of the great leader and chronicler of the Russian... -
From Hitler to Ulbricht: The Communist Reconstruction of East Germany, 1945-1946 by Gregory W. Sandford 9780691613611
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43This book traces the development of the Communists unique approach to postwar German democratization, showing how the Soviet Union approached the German problem primarily as a task of social and... -
From Hitler to Ulbricht: The Communist Reconstruction of East Germany, 1945-1946 by Gregory W. Sandford 9780691629551
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £119.27This book traces the development of the Communists unique approach to postwar German democratization, showing how the Soviet Union approached the German problem primarily as a task of social and... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds Frank Costigliola 9780691270746
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American... -
Offseason: ‘A knockout debut’ Jessica Anthony by Avigayl Sharp 9781399637015
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.44A blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders'Obscenely good and very funny' CATHERINE LACEY'A startling fever dream... -
Offseason: ‘A knockout debut’ Jessica Anthony by Avigayl Sharp 9781399637008
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.63A blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders'Obscenely good and very funny' CATHERINE LACEY'A startling fever dream... -
Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917-1941 by Kendall E. Bailes 9780691605753
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37From the Soviet technical intelligentsia emerged more than three quarters of recent Politburo members, including Brezhnev, Kosygin, and Podgorny. The largest single group of dissenters, including... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds by Frank Costigliola 9780691165400
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American... -
In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe by Doubravka Olsakova
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.36Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of nature." Intended to increase agricultural yields... -
In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe by Doubravka Olsakova 9781785332524
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of nature." Intended to increase agricultural yields... -
Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism by Alex Callinicos
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £47.29In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience. This renaissance is connected to the revival of anti-capitalist contestation since... -
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 9781419756504
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The acclaimed, bestselling translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's masterwork, an undisputed classic of Russian and world literature An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The... -
Primary Source Readers: Changing Geography of the 20th Century by Teacher Created Materials 9781425850739
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.33Learn how 20th century history changed world geography with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students... -
Soviet Policy in Xinjiang: Stalin and the National Movement in Eastern Turkistan by Jamil Hasanli 9781793641267
Booksplease Price: £96.35Using recently declassified Soviet documents, Jamil Hasanli examines Soviet involvement in the anti-China rebellion in East Turkistan during the 1930's and 1940's.About the AuthorJamil Hasanli is... -
World War II in Europe by Kelly Rodgers 9781425850708
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.33Dive deep into your exploration of WWII history with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about European history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students... -
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16When do you think the Second World War ended?If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end... -
Odd Man out: Truman, Stalin, Mao, and the Origins of the Korean War by Richard C. Thornton 9781574883435
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.37Odd Man Out is a novel assessment of the motives and strategies of Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong as they struggled to maneuver their countries into positions of advantage in the postwar...