Russia

Nikita Khrushchev Has Long Remained One Of The Most Enigmatic Leaders Of The Twentieth Century; His Motivation And Decision-making Process Have Puzzled Seas...

Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union duri...

The Epic Tale Of The Rise To Power Of Russia's Current President--of His Emergence From Shrouded Obscurity And Deprivation To Become One Of The Most Consequ...

Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to u...

The decades-long Cold War was more than a bipolar conflict between two Superpowers-it had implications for the entire world. In this accessible, comprehensi...

Discusses the brutal Russian Civil War, which, after World War I, claimed more than twenty million lives, involved fourteen other nations, including the Uni...

Born In A Surreal Moscow Communal Apartment Where Eighteen Families Shared One Kitchen, The Author Grew Up Singing Odes To Lenin, Black-marketeering Juicy F...

Revises and expands the collection of basic sources on political, social, economic, and cultural life in medieval Russia, designed for the student, the gene...

This Text Focuses On A Selection Of Case-studies Drawn From Events In The Habsburg, Romanov And Ottoman Empires, As Well As The Nation-states That Arose Fro...

A Painstakingly Researched, Revelatory Portrait Of The Soviet Dictator's Daughter Traces Her Formative Years In The Kremlin, The Losses Of Numerous Loved On...

Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy ...

Presents A Reconstruction Of The Eighteenth-century Empress's Life That Covers Her Efforts To Engage Russia In The Cultural Life Of Europe, Her Creation Of ...

A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia’s art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles me...

Photographed By 100 Of The World's Leading Photojournalists On One Day, May 15, 1987 ; Project Directors, Rick Smolan And David Cohen. Photographers' Biogra...

More Than A Quarter Of A Century After It Was First Published In Hardcover Comes A Never-before-issued Trade Paperback Edition Of The Classic Nicholas And A...

The Author Of The Number-one New York Times Bestseller The Russia Hoax Picks Up Where That Book Ended With This Hard-hitting, Well-reasoned Examination Of T...

In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vis...

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mi...

"Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers."--New York Times A retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case--and reconci...

As the new title reflects, Palmer’s A History of Europe in the Modern World maintains its well-established historical authority, while focusing more speci...

Shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award: "The book is a gift, as fascinating as it is important."—Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs The de...

“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal The Pulitzer Priz...

The devastating accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, occurred on April 26, 1986. On April 29, Alexander ...

This important book draws on vital new archival material to unravel the mystery of Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941 and Stalin's enigmatic behavior on t...

In The Years He Served On And Eventually Chaired The House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform, Chaffetz Gained Crucial Insight Into The Inner Work...

A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Secon...

"An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." --Kirkus Reviews When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on...

The Soviet Union was hardly the first large, continuous, land-based, multinational empire to collapse in modern times. The USSR itself was, ironically, the ...

LIKE NEW-BOOK/VERY GOOD-DUST JACKET, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover nonfiction, fast food, McDonalds. Book is signed by author, George Cohon, and inscribed, "T...

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three ge...

Blind Man's "Bluff meets The Hunt for Red October" in the shocking untold story of an American submarine torpedoed at the height of the Cold War - and the f...

So Highly Coloured Was Catherine's Private Life That It Has Often Distracted Attention From Her Remarkable Professional Statecraft. Dr De Madariaga, The Doy...

A Fine One-volume History That Covers Russian Political, Social, And Cultural History Into The Post-stalin Period. Nicholas V. Riasanovsky. Includes Index. ...

V. 1. From Prehistory To The Eleventh Century -- V. 3. To The Year 1340 -- V. 4. Political Relations In The Fourteenth To Sixteenth Centuries -- V. 6. Econo...

To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom—the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries—is impossible. Still, before...

A Vintage Books Original--copyright Page.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Elections & Political ProcessElections ...

In the long-awaited National Book Award--shortlisted follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize--winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbr...

Napoleon And Russia Tells, For The First Time, The Full Story Of Napoleon And His Crucial Relationship With Russia, From The 1790s And Bonaparte's Rise To P...

Combining In-depth Research With His Personal Experiences As The Bbc Moscow Correspondent For Almost Twenty Years, Sixsmith Tells Russia's Full And Fascinat...

This portrayal of Russians - from ordinary people to politicians and rock stars - in the post-Soviet era by Heidi Hollinger is a photographic tour-de-force....

A 12-week New York Times Bestseller Helen Rappaport Paints A Compelling Portrait Of The Doomed Grand Duchesses. —people Magazine The Public Spoke Of The S...

As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize-winningphysicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond-shaped sta...

The Venona Secrets presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995 the Venona documents secret Soviet cable traffi...

The Stunning Story Of Russia's Slide Back Into A Dictatorship--and How The West Is Now Paying The Price For Allowing It To Happen, --amazon.com. The End Of ...

Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's...

Describes political developments in Europe from the aftermath of World War II to the decline of the Soviet empire. Describes polit...

Rachel Maddow's Blowout Offers A Dark, Serpentine, Riveting Tour Of The Unimaginably Lucrative And Corrupt Oil-and-gas Industry. With Her Trademark Black Hu...

An urgent call to arms from the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courage in the face of the Russian invasion has inspired the world and turned him overnigh...