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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich
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Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of what happened on April 26, 1986, when the worst nuclear reactor accident in history contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Svetlana Alexievich--a journalist who now... ( read more)
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Long Walk : the True Story of Trek To Freedom (97 Edition)
by Slavomir Rawicz
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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)
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Peter the Great
by Robert K Massie
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"Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review<BR>The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT.<BR>Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth... ( read more)
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Natasha's Dance : a Cultural History of Russia (02 Edition)
by Orlando Figes
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Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg and culminating with the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny... ( read more)
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Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality
by Lilia Shevtsova
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In this comprehensive assessment of what has happened in Russia since 1991--what has been accomplished and what so has so far failed--the author argues that the new situation in Russia cannot be defined simply in terms of either authoritarianism or... ( read more)
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Krushchev the Man & His Era
by William Taubman
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An assessment of one of the giants of twentieth-century history: former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.... ( read more)
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In Siberia
by Colin Thubron
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Chapter One Hauntings The ice-fields are crossed for ever by a man in chains. In the farther distance, perhaps, a herd of reindeer drifts, or a hunter makes a shadow on the snow. But that is all. Siberia: it fills one twelfth of the land-mass of the... ( read more)
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Russian Revolution 2ND Edition
by Sheila Fitzpatrick
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This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution as successive stages in a single process. Focusing on the Russian Revolution in its widest sense, Fitzpatrick covers not only the events of 1917 and what... ( read more)
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Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum
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The Gulag — the vast array of Soviet concentration camps — was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust. The Gulag entered the world's historical... ( read more)
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Tomorrow You Go Home: One Man's Harrowing Imprisonment in a Modern-Day Russian Gulag
by Tig Hague
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The haunting true story of a hardworking British businessman who became mired in the deadly, corruption-laden nightmare of Russia's current prison system — and lived to tell about it, thanks to a love affair that kept his hope alive and the efforts... ( read more)
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Journey Into the Whirlwind
by Eugenia Ginzburg
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Both witness to and victim of Stalin's reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia's prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book<BR>... ( read more)
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick
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In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving... ( read more)
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Russia Under the Old Regime: Second Edition
by Richard Pipes
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Harvard Professor of Russian History Richard Pipes traces the evolution of the Russian state from the ninth century to the 1800s. Pipes analyzes the political behavior of the principal social groupingspeasantry, nobility, middle class, and clergyand... ( read more)
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Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
by Jonathan Brent
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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)
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Chernobyl, the forbidden truth
by Alla Yaroshinska
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In this impassioned, shocking, and deeply personal story, Alla Yaroshinskaya, then a journalist from Zhitomir, Ukraine, near the Chernobyl power station, describes the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the bureaucratic and scientific corruption surrounding it.... ( read more)
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Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism
by Paul Klebnikov
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From nuclear superpower to impoverished nation, post-communist Russia has become one of the most corrupt regimes in the world. Paul Klebnikov pieces together the previous decade in Russian history, showing that a major piece of "the decline of Russia... ( read more)
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Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia
by Marc Raeff
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Marc Raeff investigates the early development of the Russian intelligentsia, a unique social and political force that was instrumental in westernizing its country and fermenting the revolutionary movement.... ( read more)
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Moscow: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)
by Caroline Brooke
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Caroline Brooke explores the way in which Moscow has reinvented itself over the years and the fascination it has exerted over the many writers, artists, and composers who made the city their home.... ( read more)
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Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization
by Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Drawing on newly-opened Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint and petition with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, Stalin's Peasants analyzes peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the... ( read more)
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Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
by Alex Goldfarb
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The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay... ( read more)
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