Russia - Soviet Era
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Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
$24.00 Read moreUnmasking the Untold Story of World War II
Of the thirty million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and- Author: Merridale, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0312426526
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: Espionage, Scandal, and the Crime of the Century
$32.99 Read moreFrom two of the world’s leading intelligence and espionage historians comes the definitive–and most unsettling–account of the assassination of Leon Trotsky.
Exiled from the Soviet Union and living un… [more below]
- Author: Melton, H. Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1335000666
- Language: English
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
$22.95 Add to cart“[An] extraordinary book.”–Brian Eno – “One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.”–Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir – “Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work o
- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Yurchak, Alexei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0691284482
- Language: English
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Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
$49.99 Read moreTo those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that squelched dissent and oversaw a drab, terrified society. Yet as Cambri
- Author: Smith, Mark B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1631498290
- Language: English
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The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of how one man–a librarian for the KGB–became a traitor to the intelligence agency, stealing the most prized Soviet-era archives and smuggling them to the West.
How do you steal a library- Author: Corera, Gorden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100262
- Language: English
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Forged in War: A Military History of Russia from Its Beginnings to Today
$35.00 Add to cartA masterful history of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russia’s destiny for centuries, including the disastrous invasion of Ukraine.
Putin retains his stranglehold on his- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1472862511
- Language: English
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Former People
$36.00 Add to cartThe riveting and harrowing story of the Russian nobility caught in the upheaval of the Revolution
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Kansas City Star an- Author: Smith, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037794
- Language: English
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Bagration 1944: The Great Soviet Offensive
$35.00 Add to cartA fascinating history of the great summer offensive launched by the Red Army in 1944 which turned the tide of the war.
Throughout the war on the Eastern Front, there were two consistent trends. The Re- Author: Buttar, Prit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1472863518
- Language: English
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Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
$37.99 Add to cartHistory on a grand scale–an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world’s most vibrant civilizations
A People’s Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did “more to help us understand t- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421958
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
$23.99 Read moreAN ORIGINAL READING OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, EXAMINING IT NOT AS A SINGLE EVENT BUT AS A HUNDRED-YEAR CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF UTOPIAN DREAMS
In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Fig- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062624
- Language: English
