Russia - History
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Russia: Myths and Realities
$27.95 Read moreAn expert historian and former ambassador to Moscow unlocks fact from fiction to reveal what lies at the root of the Russian story.
Churchill remarked that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery insi- Author: Braithwaite, Rodric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362886
- Language: English
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
$41.00 Add to cartFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism.
In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0465098495
- Language: English
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A Short History of Russia: How the World’s Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
$27.99 Read moreA Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch
“Terrific – and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book.” -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roa… [more below]
- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1335145702
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Time
$15.00 Add to cartThe first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lermontov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140447954
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Russia
$35.00 Add to cartAccessible to students, tourists, and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the und… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Bushkovitch, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 518
- Publish Date: December 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0521543231
- Language: English
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Russka: The Novel of Russia
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Impressive . . . Rutherford has indeed embraced all of Russia.”–The Washington Post Book World
Here, Edward Rutherfurd turns his remarkable talents to a vast canvas: Russ- Author: Rutherfurd, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0345479351
- Language: English
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Russian History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartRussia’s sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especially given its harsh climate, vast and vulnerable borders, and the diversity of its people. In this Ver… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hosking, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199580987
- Language: English
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The Story of Russia
$19.99 Add to cart“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West.”
–Anne Applebau- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871395
- Language: English
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What’s Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Editors’ Choice
“Entertaining . . . A heady mix of propaganda and paranoia . . . [Szablowski writes] sensitively . . . not just about food but also its terrible absence.” —The New Yo- Author: Szablowski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137182
- Language: English
