Soviet Era
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Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
$24.00 Add to cartUnmasking 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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Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War
$36.95 Add to cartStep into the covert world of Russian espionage with this revealing insider’s account of how the Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) operate across the globe. Drawing on years of CIA field experience,
- Author: Wiswesser, Sean M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1682476014
- 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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Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
$35.00 Read moreThe riveting story of the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five, who infiltrated the highest levels of the British establishment and helped Stalin cement a half century of Soviet domination over E… [more below]
- Author: Senior, Antonia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 154170438X
- 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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Volga Blues: A Journey Into the Heart of Russia
$31.99 Add to cartSince the invasion of Ukraine and ban on foreign reporters, Russia seems to have sunk into an even deeper shadow than in the darkest times of the Soviet Union. Only by presenting himself as an histori
- Author: Mian, Marzio G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324111038
- 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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Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945
$35.00 Add to cartEnriched by extraordinary first-hand accounts, this is a fascinating history of the dying days of the Third Reich as Stalin sought to consolidate his own empire.
In January 1945, the Red Army launch- Author: Buttar, Prit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1472866991
- Language: English
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World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
$35.00 Add to cartA major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II–tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia
In the We- Author: Hellbeck, Jochen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593657381
- 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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Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism
$35.00 Add to cart“The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written” (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win), revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justi… [more below]
- Author: Isserman, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1541620038
- 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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We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$28.00 Add to cartThis collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997.
Following his ex
- Series: Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 268208581
- Language: English
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My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin
$32.95 Add to cartMy Russia reveals CNN’s Jill Dougherty’s transformative journey from a Cold War-era obsession with Russia to witnessing firsthand the rise of Vladimir Putin and the unraveling of a nation she grew to … [more below]
- Author: Dougherty, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1493087983
- 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
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The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution (2nd Ed)
$29.99 Read moreSuppression of the truth and the rise of propaganda. Refugees, killing squads, and gulags. Intentionally created chaos, destruction, famine, persecution — and mass death. These are the dark fruits of
- Author: Carroll, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution
$22.95 Read moreVladimir Lenin lies in a tomb in Moscow’s Red Square. History has not been kind to this Russian leader, his teachings were reviled by modern mainstream politics. But in today’s capitalist society, riv… [more below]
- Author: Le Blanc, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745348343
- Language: English
