Soviet Union - History
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Daughters of Victory
$28.99 Read moreDecades after defying her aristocratic family to join the Russian revolution, Svetlana Petrova opens her home to her eighteen-year-old granddaughter, Mila, who falls under the spell of the resistance … [more below]
- Author: Saab, Gabriella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0063297051
- Language: English
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The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
$38.00 Read moreNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and it… [more below]
- Author: Davies, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 022638957X
- Language: English
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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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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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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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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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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
$29.99 Add to cartThe Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has de… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 29 2000
- ISBN10: 0465003125
- Language: English
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First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin
$16.00 Add to cartWho is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly–overnight and without warning–was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? How… [more below]
- Author: Putin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2000
- ISBN10: 1586480189
- Language: English
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Daughters of Victory
$17.99 Add to cartDecades after defying her aristocratic family to join the Russian revolution, Svetlana Petrova opens her home to her eighteen-year-old granddaughter, Mila, who falls under the spell of the resistance … [more below]
- Author: Saab, Gabriella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 006324649X
- 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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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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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
$22.99 Add to cartHere, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the sci… [more below]
- Series: Sloan Technology Series
- Author: Rhodes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 6, 1996
- ISBN10: 0684824140
- 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
