Russia - General
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Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
$35.00 Add to cartFrom one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history’s most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial househo… [more below]
- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217061181
- Language: English
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Putin’s Mercenaries, 2013-24: The Wagner Group and Other Russian Pmcs
$21.00 Add to cartThis illustrated study tells the story of the Russian mercenary force led by business tycoon Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the mutiny it launched against Putin’s government in 2023.
Conceived by the Kremlin- Series: Elite #265
- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 147286624X
- Language: English
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A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow
$35.00 Add to cartAn erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city defined by its survival and reinvention, and whose rich history offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics
The city of Moscow stands- Author: Morrison, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0593318455
- Language: English
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The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia’s forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world’s wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever Engli
- Author: Pinkham, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036680
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia’s Short-Lived Victory Over Totalitarianism
$32.00 Add to cartFrom “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced” (The New York Times) reporters comes a gripping and urgent exploration of why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incomplete and the Cold War was never ove… [more below]
- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668013908
- Language: English
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$24.95 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize A “riveting history” (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and sti- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 069125558X
- Language: English
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Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books
$22.00 Add to cartA compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library
“[A] fascinating new study.”–Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s- Author: Roberts, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281137
- Language: English
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The First Russian Revolution: The Decembrist Revolt of 1825
$30.00 Read moreLooking two hundred years in the past, an enlightening study of the neglected liberal tradition in Russian political thought with resonance for today.
On December 14, 1825, a group of young Russian a- Author: Rabow-Edling, Susanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390211
- Language: English
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Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945
$24.00 Add to cart“A penetrating and compassionate book on the most gigantic military struggle in world history.”–The New York Times Book Review
“An extraordinary tale… Overy’s engrossing book provides extensive det- Author: Overy, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140271694
- Language: English
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The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
$32.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped bo… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593319680
- Language: English
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The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
$35.00 Add to cartThis reader, compiled by renowned Solzhenitsyn scholars Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney in collaboration with the Solzhenitsyn family, provides in one volume a rich and representative se… [more below]
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 679
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1935191551
- Language: English
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The Caucasus: An Introduction
$22.99 Add to cartThis new edition of The Caucasus is a thorough update of an essential guide that has introduced thousands of readers to a complex region. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the break-away territories th… [more below]
- Author: de Waal, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0190683090
- Language: English
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Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation
$30.00 Add to cartTwo of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists tell the story of how the hopes of their generation of optimistic Russians in the 1990s faded to be replaced by autocracy, fear, and betrayal
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- Author: Borogan, Irina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704452
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$21.99 Add to cart“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn’s moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own relea
- Series: Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 #03
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061253731
- Language: English
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Ten Days That Shook the World
$16.00 Add to cartAn impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017
An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Le- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Reed, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0141442123
- Language: English
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The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
$27.95 Add to cartAn encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulen- Author: Schl?gel, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0691237298
- Language: English
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The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?
$17.00 Read moreIn 1917 the working class and peasantry of Russia carried out one of the most deep-going revolutions in history. Yet within ten years a political counterrevolution was under way. Workers and peasants … [more below]
- Author: Trotsky, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0873482263
- Language: English
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The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom
$38.00 Read moreA new history of the Kyivan Rus, a medieval dynastic state in eastern Europe.
Kyivan Rus’ was a state in northeastern Europe from the late ninth to the mid-sixteenth century that encompassed a variet- Series: Dynasties
- Author: Raffensperger, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147158
- Language: English
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We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin
$19.95 Read more“Miller’s terrific book reminds that Russia made moves toward the East five hundred years ago, and explains why ignoring the Russian factor in Asian geopolitics today would be a big mistake.”
–Michael- Author: Miller, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292146
- Language: English
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The Revolution Betrayed
$19.95 Read moreOne of Marxism’s most important texts, The Revolution Betrayed explores the fate of the Russian Revolution after Lenin’s death. Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and pro… [more below]
- Author: Trotsky, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 233
- Publish Date: February 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0486433986
- Language: English
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