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  • Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

    The Last Soviet Generation

    by Alexei Yurchak, Alexei Yurchak ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    “[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 of art.”—Slavoj Žižek • “Extraordinary and brilliant.”—Adam Curtis, director of HyperNormalisationA fascinating exploration of “hypernormalization” in a political system that seemed powerful and eternal ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

    The Last Soviet Generation

    by Alexei Yurchak ...
    Series series In-Formation
    Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

    The Last Soviet Generation

    by Alexei Yurchak ...
    Narrated by Bob Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 47 min

    Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    Days of Rage

    America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

    by Bryan Burrough ...
    Narrated by Ray Porter ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 13 min

    From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970sThe Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch of time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Red Plenty

    'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, host of THE REST IS HISTORY

    by Francis Spufford ...
    **'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Thrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph'Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nick Hornby**The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Russian Roulette

    How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution

    by Giles Milton ...
    In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II-a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes-starting with the British Empire.Russian Roulette tells the spectacular ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Rasputin

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Discusses the legends of Rasputin's life and death*Includes pictures of Rasputin and important people and places in his life.*Includes a Table of ContentsA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors Russian Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of Russias ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • No Less Than Mystic

    A History of Lenin and the Russian Revolution for a 21st-Century Left

    by John Medhurst ...
    Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes.Although it offers a full and complete history of Leninism, 1917, the Russian Civil War and its aftermath, the book devotes more time than usual to the policies and actions of the ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • The Putin Interviews

    by Oliver Stone ...
    WITH SUBSTANTIAL MATERIAL NOT INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENTARYAcademy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin.The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span—never before has the Russian leader ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • World War II Soviet Armed Forces (1)

    1939–41

    by Nigel Thomas ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    This book is a detailed analysis of the Soviet Army at the outbreak of World War II, including the Red Army's campaigns against Japan on the Manchurian plains as well as in Finland.It covers the Red Army's first operations during Operation Barbarossa when the Red Army was forced to defend Mother Russia against the German onslaught. It offers a breakdown of all the armed forces including the army, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • When Miss Emmie was in Russia

    English governesses before, during and after the October Revolution

    by Harvey Pitcher ...
    Through the prism of the experiences of five British governesses working in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, Harvey Pitcher paints a rich and intimate portrait of pre Revolutionary Russian society and finds himself with a unique eyewitness perspective on the Russian Revolution and the civil war which swept that society into oblivion. These intrepid women, who achieved an ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goodbye to All That?

    The Story of Europe Since 1945

    by Dan Stone ...
    In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War, based on a broad rejection of the fascist past that had so scarred the continent's recent history. In the East, this new consensus was enforced by Soviet-imposed Communist regimes. In the West, the process was less coercive, amounting more to a consensus of silence. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD