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The Long Walk, New PB Edition: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz
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"The Long Walk" is 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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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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The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan
by Artyom Borovik
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Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With The Hidden War he provided the world its first glimpse inside the Soviet military machine, capturing the soldiers' terror, helplessness, and despair... ( 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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Imperium (94 Edition)
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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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)
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Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
by Steve Levine
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The new Russia is marching in an alarming direction. Emboldened by escalating oil wealth and newfound prominence as a world power, Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has veered back toward the authoritarian roots planted in Imperial/Czarist... ( read more)
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The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire
by Khassan Baiev
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In "The Oath," a heroic Chechen doctor relates his harrowing experiences in the line of fire to bear witness to this international calamity, and illuminates his remarkable people and their culture.... ( read more)
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Russian Revolution a Very Short Introduction
by S A Smith
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This concise, accessible introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the... ( read more)
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Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
by Edvard Radzinsky
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Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual... ( read more)
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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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The Russian Century: A History of the Last Hundred Years
by Brian Moynahan
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Making extensive use of contemporary accounts, Moynahan traces Russia's turbulent 20th century, from the last days of tsarist rule to the Bolshevik Revolution, two world wars (and one cold one), and to the overthrow of the Communist regime... ( read more)
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
by Christopher Andrew
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The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most... ( read more)
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The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
by Edvard Radzinsky
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Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days. Updated For The... ( 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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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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Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
by Anna Politkovskaya
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A searing portrait of a country in disarray, and of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of journalists" (The New York Times)
Hailed as "a lone voice crying out in a moral wildernes" (New Statesman), Anna Politkovskaya made her name with her... ( read more)
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Stalin: The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
by Edvard Radzinsky
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From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as... ( read more)
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B-Zone: Becoming Europe and Beyond
by Anselm Franke
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Edited by Anselm Franke. Essays by Maurizio Lazzarato, Melita Zajc, Boris Despodow, Stavros Alifragkis and Anna Barseghian.... ( read more)
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Inside the Kremlinus Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev
by Vladislav Zubok
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Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure of Joseph Stalin, who... ( read more)
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