shopping cart
Call us: 800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.

Russia

Save up to 70%

Russia

Browse recently arrived used titles in this section

New Arrivals


General Russian History

The Russian Moment in World History
The Russian Moment in World History
by Marshall T Poe

Publisher Comments
Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative and elegantly written short history of Russia, Marshall Poe takes us well beyond the Soviet haze deep into the nation's fascinating — not at all inevitable, and in key respects remarkably successful — past....(read more)
 
Your price $17.95
(New - Hardcover)
check for other copies
Add to Cart
 

Sale Books

Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution
by Peter Baker
Publisher Comments
With 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 successor-Vladimir Putin, a self-described childhood hooligan turned... (read more)
Your Price $18.95
(New - Trade Paper)

Used Books

Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
by Jonathan Brent
Publisher Comments
From the first publisher granted access to Stalin's personal archive, a provocative and insightful portrait of modern Russia—the most compelling since David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb. To most Americans, Russia remains as enigmatic today as it was... (read more)
Your Price $26.00
(Used - Hardcover)

General Russian History

Ivan's War : Life and Death in the Red Army (06 Edition)
by Catherine Merridale
Publisher Comments
A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources. Of the thirty million who fought, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by... (read more)
List Price $16.00
Your Price $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

Travel

A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Powells.com Staff Pick
A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire is a collection of letters that Chekhov wrote while journeying from Moscow to the island Sakhalin at the eastern end of the empire. This is classic Chekhov: insight mixed with humor. You feel at times you are... (read more)
Your Price $10.00
New - Trade Paper

Soviet Union

Long Walk : the True Story of Trek To Freedom (97 Edition)
by Slavomir Rawicz
Publisher Comments
The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners¿ desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.... (read more)
List Price $14.95
Your Price $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

Soviet States Post 1985

Imperium
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher Comments
By "the conjuror extraordinary of modern portage" (John le Carre)--a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire. "When a writer of Mr. Kapuscinski's genius writes of the snows and the steppes of Siberia... (read more)
Your Price $15.00
New - Trade Paper

Picture Books Oversized

Soviet Posters: The Sergo Grigorian Collection
by Maria Lafont
Publisher Comments
Seit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges und dem Fall der Berliner Mauer ist die sowjetische Propaganda-Kunst als faszinierende Inspirationsquelle von Designern und Künstlern entdeckt worden. Die umfangreiche Plakat-Sammlung des russischen Kunstsammlers... (read more)
Your Price $25.00
New - Trade Paper

Russian Revolution

Lenin a Biography
by Robert Service
Publisher Comments
of political oppression and social intimidation that has yet to be expunged.... (read more)
Your Price $21.50
New - Trade Paper

Post Soviet Republics

Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetr
by Peter Demetz
Publisher Comments
A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia’s great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter... (read more)
Your Price $17.50
Used - Hardcover

Romanovs

Nicholas and Alexandra : the Story of the Love That Ended an Empire (00 Edition)
by Robert K. Massie
Publisher Comments
History offers few eras richer in drama than the last years of imperial Russia. Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra, presided over a glittering world of huge palaces, lavish balls, and incomparable luxury. Then their cherished son Alexis was... (read more)
List Price $18.95
Your Price $10.00
Used - Trade Paper

Tsarist Russia

To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Grigori Rasputin
by Andrew Cook
Publisher Comments
Provides the answers to the many mysteries surrounding the murder of Rasputin, a pivotal moment in Russian history.... (read more)
Your Price $16.95
New - Trade Paper

Bestsellers

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Ivan's War
  1. Ivan's War
    by Catherine Merridale
  2. A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  3. Voices from Chernobyl
    by Svetlana Alexievich
  4. A History of the World in Six Glasses
    by Tom Standage
  5. The Long Walk
    by Slavomir Rawicz
Enter to Win! Sign up for email updates from Powell's, and you could win $250 in books! You may unsubscribe at any time.

Powells.com is proud to be the official bookseller of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center. Read about our privacy policy here.

  • back to top
Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.