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Mongolia in the Twentieth Century by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less so in the 20th century. Homeland of the legendary conqueror Chingiz Khan, in modern times Mongolia... -
Uncivil Society by Stephen Kotkin 9780812966794
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812966794Author Stephen KotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher... -
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.70This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be... -
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.11Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term... -
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely... -
Stalin, Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin... -
Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East Stephen Kotkin 9781563245473
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29This work presents a trans-Siberian expedition to rediscover the peoples, cultures and riches of Russia's eastern frontiers. It addresses such questions as: who are the people of the region?; have... -
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Director of Russian Studies Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143132158Author Stephen KotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 1184Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Director of Russian Studies Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £17.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127864Author Stephen KotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Armageddon Averted: Soviet Collapse since 1970 Updated Edition by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £112.50Booksplease Price: £89.47Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term... -
Catherine the Great and Potemkin: Power, Love and the Russian Empire Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614832
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' EconomistIt was... -
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9780297852667 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £4.40The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did... -
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did... -
Beijing's Power and China's Borders: Twenty Neighbors in Asia Bruce Elleman (US Naval War College, USA) 9780765627643
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37China shares borders with 20 other countries. Each of these neighbors has its own national interests, and in some cases, these include territorial and maritime jurisdictional claims in places that... -
Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia by Charles K. Armstrong 9780765616562
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The common images of Korea view the peninsula as a long-standing battleground for outside powers and the Cold War's last divided state. But, Korea's location at the very center of Northeast Asia... -
The Cultural Gradient: The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789D1991 by Catherine Evtuhov 9780742520639
Booksplease Price: £44.76Is there a sharp dividing line that separates Europe into 'East' and 'West'? This volume brings together prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, France, Poland, and Russia to examine the... -
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614818
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the YearLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeThis thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme... -
Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History: An International History Bruce Elleman 9780765625151
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. Before the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway in 1916, the only rail route from the... -
China’s Naval Operations in the South China Sea: Evaluating Legal, Strategic and Military Factors Bruce Elleman 9781041176756
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.69This book provides a history of the South China Sea conflict and lays out the stakes for each of the bordering states and China's interaction with them - namely, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei,... -
War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World by Hal Brands 9781421449845
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84The war in Ukraine has altered the course of global history. These authors explore how.When Vladimir Putin's forces sought to conquer Ukraine in February 2022, they did more than threaten the... -
Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao by Joseph Torigian
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £49.48How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores "Joseph Torigian's stellar research and personal interviews have produced a... -
Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929 by Lewis H. Siegelbaum 9780521369879
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.41This is the first book to analyse the relationship between the Soviet state and society from the October Revolution of 1917 to the revolution under Stalin of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Professor... -
The American Mission and the 'Evil Empire': The Crusade for a 'Free Russia' since 1881 by David S. Foglesong 9780521671835
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.57David Foglesong tells the fascinating story of American efforts to liberate and remake Russia since the 1880s. He analyzes the involvement of journalists, political activists, propagandists,... -
The American Mission and the 'Evil Empire': The Crusade for a 'Free Russia' since 1881 by David S. Foglesong 9780521855907
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £69.62David Foglesong tells the fascinating story of American efforts to liberate and remake Russia since the 1880s. He analyzes the involvement of journalists, political activists, propagandists,... -
Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929 by Lewis H. Siegelbaum 9780521362153
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £106.88This is the first book to analyse the relationship between the Soviet state and society from the October Revolution of 1917 to the revolution under Stalin of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Professor... -
China's Naval Operations in the South China Sea: Evaluating Legal, Strategic and Military Factors by Bruce Elleman
Booksplease Price: £91.85This book provides a history of the South China Sea conflict and lays out the stakes for each of the bordering states and China's interaction with them - namely, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei,... -
The Art of the Bribe: Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953 by James Heinzen 9780300175257
Booksplease Price: £62.09The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill with... -
Understanding the Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections Adam B. Ulam 9780765808851
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.53Understanding the Cold War is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an Olympian assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the... -
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty by Norman M Naimark
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.77A Financial Times Best Book of the YearWinner of the Norris and Carol Hundley AwardWinner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize"The achievement of a lifetime."-Stephen Kotkin, author of... -
Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions by Steven L. Solnick 9780674836808
RRP: £78.95Booksplease Price: £63.95What led to the breakdown of the Soviet Union? Steven Solnick argues, contrary to most current literature, that the Soviet system did not fall victim to stalemate at the top or to a revolution from... -
States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic by Yanni Kotsonis 9781442643543
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.91Beginning in the 1860s, the Russian Empire replaced a poll tax system that originated with Peter the Great with a modern system of income and excise taxes. Russia began a transformation of state... -
States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic by Yanni Kotsonis 9781487521653
Booksplease Price: £41.66Beginning in the 1860s, the Russian Empire replaced a poll tax system that originated with Peter the Great with a modern system of income and excise taxes. Russia began a transformation of state... -
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh Ireland 9781399827294
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68THE PULSE-POUNDING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY'Elegant, unshowy and gripping in the manner of a dependable le Carre' THE TIMES'The page-turning pace of a... -
The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London by Ivan Maisky
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.22Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary... -
The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.43From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic "stagflation," political scandal, and global turmoil. Yet from an international perspective... -
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States by Stephen Mihm
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.87Listen to a short interview with Stephen MihmHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneFew of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet... -
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.79A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite,... -
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.31A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize ... -
The Race between Education and Technology by Claudia Goldin
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.20This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the...