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Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'An indispensable voice of and for this moment' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Many of us are consumed by news cycles reporting on Trump's latest astonishing policy or declaration, and the... -
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen 9780593332245
Booksplease Price: £8.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593332245Author Masha GessenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher... -
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen 9781594634000
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594634000Author Masha GessenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher... -
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
Booksplease Price: £9.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594634543Author Masha GessenFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher... -
Dead Again: Russian Intelligentsia After Communism by Masha Gessen
Booksplease Price: £17.04Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was "Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization." Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a... -
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen 9781847089342
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Dressed in their trademark brightly... -
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.21**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**'Electrifying.' Anne Applebaum'Mesmerising.' Financial Times'Seductive and terrifying in equal... -
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen 9781803510491
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday How did a small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the... -
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev 9780571308019 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.84"A riveting portrait of the new Russia." (Tina Brown). "Pomerantsev is one of the most brilliant observers of Putin's Russia...an electrifying, terrifying book." (Anne Applebaum). "Unflinching,... -
Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace by Masha Gessen 9780385336055
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Jewish Book Award (Biography/Memoir) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780385336055Author Masha... -
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.20**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Quietly frightening.'... -
Blood Matters: From Brca1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene by Masha Gessen 9780156033312
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156033312Author Masha GessenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
The Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin Lucy Ash 9781837731855
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2025**SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2025**ONE OF HISTORY TODAY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2024**'A TIMELY... -
Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies by Mark Hollingsworth 9780861547999
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74There's no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an... -
Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Haunting, terrifying and hilarious, The Day of the Oprichnik is a dazzling novel and a fierce critique of life in the New RussiaMoscow 2028: Andrei Danilovich Komiaga, oprichnik, member of the czar's... -
The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia's leading contemporary novelistsGarin, a country doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is... -
Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies by Mark Hollingsworth
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.10There's no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an... -
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia by Joshua Yaffa
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING In this penetrating exploration of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa meets a variety of Russians - from politicians and entrepreneurs to... -
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Wilhelm Reich's classic study is a unique contribution to the understanding of one of the crucial phenomena of our times - fascism. Reich firmly repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or... -
Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die 'A timely analysis of how a certain kind... -
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617204
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a twentieth-century icon; the most famous African-American of his time. The son of a former slave, he found worldwide fame as a performer,... -
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire by Jonathan Miles
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of... -
Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Anna Politkovskaya turns her steely gaze on President Putin and his early regime in this explosive book.From Putin's tyrannical grip on ordinary citizens to rampant corruption in highest ranks of the... -
Invasion: Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival by Luke Harding 9781783352777
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful, moving first draft of history written by the award-winning... -
We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West gets him wrong, and how to get him right by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Galeotti sketches a bleak, but convincing picture of the man in the Kremlin and the political system that he dominates' - The TimesMeet the world's most dangerous man. Who is the real Vladimir... -
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics by Naomi Klein
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99**The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller**'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy'As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones'A genuine page turner' Michelle... -
Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution, Updated Edition by Peter Baker 9781597971225
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to Western-style democracy and a market economy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsin's handpicked... -
Motherland: Memoirs of a Russian Soul Julia Ioffe 9780008469665
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.75'A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine 'A century of Russian history told through the women who lived... -
Just the Plague by Polly Gannon 9781783788057
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report to his superiors. Inadvertently, he carries the virus with him from the lab. When... -
Two Women In Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance by Misha Friedman
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.18In the fall of 2017, the internationally acclaimed underground theatre troupe Belarus Free Theatre took New York by storm for a production of their harrowing anti-torture, anti-Putin play Burning... -
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia by Timothy Frye 9780691212463
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually worksMedia and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or... -
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia by Timothy Frye
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.08Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually worksMedia and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or... -
Same River Twice: Putin's War Against Women by Sofi Oksanen 9780063435445
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 MINNA CANTH AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING Blending the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists with the journalistic rigor of Masha... -
The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit 9781328465801
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328465801Author Rebecca SolnitFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher... -
The Right to Have Rights by Stephanie Degooyer 9781784787554
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can... -
How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance by L.A. Kauffman 9780520301528
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02"Explores protesting as an act of faith . . . How to Read a Protest argues that the women's marches of 2017 didn't just help shape and fuel a moment-they actually created one."-Masha Gessen, The New... -
Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman 9780520298866
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £20.72"Martin Duberman is a national treasure."-Masha Gessen, The New Yorker The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United... -
Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman 9780520351349
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.64"Martin Duberman is a national treasure."-Masha Gessen, The New Yorker The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United... -
Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resou rces by A Etkind
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.28This bold and wide-ranging book views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources - how we acquire them, use them, value them, trade them, exploit them. History needs a cast of... -
Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources Alexander Etkind (King's College, Cambridge) 9781509547586
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £43.10This bold and wide-ranging book views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources - how we acquire them, use them, value them, trade them, exploit them. History needs a cast of...