History - Europe - Russia & The Former Soviet Union

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Russian History: A Very Short Introdu...

Geoffrey Hosking

Russia'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 Very Short Introduction, Geoffrey Hos...

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Published: Mar 2012

Caught in the Revolution: Witnesses t...

Helen Rappaport

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who s...

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Published: Apr 2018

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story ...

Donnie Eichar

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident— unsettling and unexplained causes of death, a strange final ...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Last Days of the Romanovs: Traged...

Helen Rappaport

The brutal murder of the Russian Imperial family on the night of July 16–17, 1918 has long been a defining moment in world history. This book gives a riveting day-by-day account of the last fourteen days of their lives, as the consp...

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Published: Jan 2010

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the ...

Peter Finn

The Zhivago Affair is the dramatic, never-before-told story—drawing on newly declassified files—of how a forbidden book became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.In May 1956, an Italian publishing ...

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Published: Mar 2015

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Cent...

Michael Farquhar

"Michael Farquhar doesn't write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin's smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it."—Gene Weingarten,...

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Published: Jul 2014

Valentina Michailovna Kopytina: from ...

Glenda M. French Msw

For most of us who would read this, it is beyond belief that a leader of any country would issue orders that would lead to the deliberate starvation of millions of his own people. But that is what Stalin started in the Ukraine in 1929...

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Published: Feb 2019

The Future Is History: How Totalitari...

Masha Gessen

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD  NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIE...

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Published: Oct 2018

History of Russia: A Captivating Guid...

Captivating History

If you want to discover the captivating history of Russia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book:Russian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Russia, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasion, the N...

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Published: May 2019

Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise ...

Ben Mezrich

The New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama of obscene wealth, crime, rivalry, and betrayal from deep inside the world of billionai...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes...

James Carl Nelson

In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5,000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow. We have forgotten. Russia has not. "AN EXCELLENT BOOK." --Wall Street Journal - "INCREDIBLE." -- John U. Bacon -...

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Published: Feb 2020

Borderland: A Journey Through the His...

Anna Reid

Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from the east, and for the next seven centureies, Ukraine was split between w...

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Published: Jun 2015

Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy S...

Gus Russo

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but.In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasi...

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Published: Oct 2019

The New Nobility: The Restoration of ...

Andrei Soldatov

A penetrating investigation into how the KGB rose from the ashes of the Soviet Union and reinvented itself at the heart of the Russian state during Vladimir Putin's rule

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Published: Sep 2011

Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the...

Andrew Wilson

The aftereffects of the February 2014 Uprising in Ukraine are still reverberating around the world. The consequences of the popular rebellion and Russian President Putin's attempt to strangle it remain uncertain. In this book, Andrew ...

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Published: Nov 2014

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes—the consequences of which still resonat...

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Published: Sep 2018

Chernobyl

Serhii Plokhy

A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (The Wall Street Journal)...

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Published: Mar 2020

Lost Pianos of Siberia

From acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth—where music reveals the deep humanity and the rich history of Siberia Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal...

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Published: Aug 2021

Manual for Survival: An Environmental...

Kate Brown

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, international aid organizations sought to help the victims but were stymied by post-Soviet political roadblocks. Efforts to gain access to the site of catastrophic radiation damage were de...

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Published: Mar 2020

K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlu...

Peter Carlson

Khrushchev’s 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted. Khrushchev told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed the coeds in a home ...

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Published: Jul 2010

Lenin Lives!: Reimagining the Russian...

Philip Cunliffe

Of all the tomes published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, none will reckon with a key part of the story: what if the revolutionaries' dreams had come true, instead of being dashed? Yet no tale of the Russian Revolution is...

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Published: Nov 2017

Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?...

Karen Dawisha

The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha's brilliant Putin's Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, ...

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Published: Sep 2015

Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Hi...

Orlando Figes

AN 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 DREAMSIn this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new persp...

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Published: Apr 2015

The Russian Revolution

Sheila Fitzpatrick

The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full pictu...

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Published: Nov 2017

Russia: Putin's Playground: Empire, R...

Flash Guides

Empire, Revolution, and the New TsarIs Russia in the hands of a lunatic?Ever since Vladimir Putin's presidential incarnation, pundits and political analysts have asked this question with increasing frequency. Known for his aggressive ...

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Published: Jul 2015

A Short History of Russia: How the Wo...

Mark Galeotti

A 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 RoadsRussia’s epic st...

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Published: Aug 2022

The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

Mark Galeotti

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and...

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Published: May 2019

Putin Country: A Journey into the Rea...

Anne Garrels

Short-listed for the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeMore than twenty years ago, the NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsk, a gritty military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. The longtime home of t...

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Published: Mar 2017

Near and Distant Neighbors: A New His...

Jonathan Haslam

A uniquely comprehensive and rich account of the Soviet intelligence services, Jonathan Haslam's Near and Distant Neighbors charts the labyrinthine story of Soviet intelligence from the October Revolution to the end of the Cold War.Pr...

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Published: Aug 2016

Ivan the Terrible: A Captivating Guid...

Captivating History

If you want to discover the captivating life of Ivan the Terrible, then keep reading...Considering that he has gone down in history as Ivan the Terrible, the first tsar of Russia could hardly have been a Boy Scout. As his name suggest...

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Published: May 2019
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