Cultural Region/Russian
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The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Soviet Union at its height occupied one sixth of the world’s land mass, encompassed fifteen republics, and stretched across eleven different time zones. More than twice the size of the United Stat… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Lovell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199238480
- Language: English
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Mosin-Nagant M1891: Facts and Circumstance in the History and Development of the Mosin-Nagant Rifle
$10.99 Add to cartKNOW YOUR RIFLE!
This essential book is perfect for someone who has always wanted to own a Mosin-Nagan, or, for that matter, a shooter who already does.
Copiously illustrated, its words and pictures tel
- Author: Faust, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0934523495
- Language: English
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Black Cross Red Star Air War Over the Eastern Front: Volume 4, Stalingrad to Kuban 1942-1943
$49.99 Add to cartRegarded as the standard work on the air war over the Eastern Front during World War II, Christer Bergstr m’s unique Black Cross/Red Star series covers the history of the air war on the Eastern Front
- Series: Black Cross Red Star – Air War Over the Eastern Fr #VOL.
- Author: Bergström, Christer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: September 16 2019
- ISBN10: 9188441504
- Language: English
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Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
$27.95 Add to cartThe true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies
In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what- Author: Powers, Francis Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574884220
- Language: English
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Ties That Bind
$30.65 Add to cartThe author and his father and brother attempt the world’s longest train ride, to see if they can stay together as a family unit in a tight train compartment for nine days. Not only did they survive wi
- Author: Antonson, Brent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1774430703
- Language: English
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Marshal of Victory: The WWII Memoirs of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, 1941-1945
$24.95 Read moreThe second volume of Georgy Zhukov’s memoirs begins with the desperate defense of Moscow in the late fall and winter of 1941 and continues through more than three years of war. – Covers Stalingrad, Le… [more below]
- Series: Stackpole Military History #VOLU
- Author: Zhukov, Georgy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 081171554X
- Language: English
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Stories I Stole from Georgia
$18.00 Add to cartFed up with working for Time magazine in London, Wendell Steavenson spent two years in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Stories I Stole captures the exuberance of a fledgling nation of local des… [more below]
- Author: Steavenson, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 277
- Publish Date: February 24 2004
- ISBN10: 080214067X
- Language: English
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The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World: Newly Revealed Secrets from the Mitrokhin Archive
$25.00 Add to cartIn 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of docum… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0465003133
- Language: English
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Kobzar
$29.99 Add to cartMasterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine’s rich cultural heri… [more below]
- Author: Fedynsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: October 11 2013
- ISBN10: 190915654X
- Language: English
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Seward’s Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase
$30.95 Read moreThe Alaska Purchase–denounced at the time as “Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke–is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story.
This book aims to correct that. L… [more below]- Author: Farrow, Lee A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1602233039
- Language: English
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A Concise History of the Baltic States
$35.00 Add to cartThe Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of Europe and its international significance can be obscured by separate treatments of the various Baltic states. With this wide-ranging … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Plakans, Andrejs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 492
- Publish Date: February 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0521541557
- Language: English
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Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
$22.00 Add to cart“[An] unforgettable memoir” (Boston Globe) that provides a window into the wildly divergent nations that once comprised the Soviet Union, from a former NPR reporter
Not with a bang, but with a quiet,- Author: Sheets, Lawrence Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0307395839
- Language: English
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The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions
$16.99 Add to cart“A GRIPPING CLASSIC. Exhaustively researched, The Hunter Killers puts you directly into a Wild Weasel fighter cockpit during the Vietnam War. Dan Hampton lets you feel it for yourself as no one else c
- Author: Hampton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0062375121
- Language: English
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Putin’s Trolls: On the Frontlines of Russia’s Information War Against the World
$18.95 Add to cart“Timely exposé of Russia’s vast disinformation campaign from a Finnish journalist persecuted for her persistent reporting of its brazen abuses…a damning portrait of Putin and his autocratic, manipu
- Author: Aro, Jessikka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1632461293
- Language: English
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Vegan Meal Prep: Ready-To-Go Meals and Snacks for Healthy Plant-Based Eating
$16.99 Add to cartEat healthier every day with this fast, easy vegan cookbook and meal plan.
A little meal prep goes a long way to simplifying the plant-based diet. Vegan Meal Prep makes sure that you always have health
- Author: Fields, Jl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1641522909
- Language: English
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Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
$20.99 Add to cartElena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by.
Elena’s country is no longer the maj- Author: Gorokhova, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1439125686
- Language: English
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The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartA vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twe… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Barenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0197548229
- Language: English
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The Gospel in Tolstoy: Selections from His Short Stories, Spiritual Writings & Novels
$19.95 Add to cartWe know of no better introduction to the spiritual vision of one of the greatest writers of all time, Leo Tolstoy.
This anthology vividly reveals – as none of his novels, novellas, short stories, play
- Series: Gospel in Great Writers
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0874866707
- Language: English
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Antigone
$15.99 Add to cartOedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0195143108
- Language: English
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Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism
$18.99 Add to cartFrom 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, sh… [more below]
- Author: Klebnikov, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0156013304
- Language: English
