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  • The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia

    Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power

    by Andrew Sloin ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    A Dorothy Rosenberg Prize–winner: "A remarkable social history that investigates the process of Sovietization among Jews in Belorussia" (Jeffrey Veidlinger, author of In the Shadow of the Shtetl).This insightful history demonstrates how Jewish life in Belorussia fundamentally changed when Jews started joining the Bolshevik movement and populating the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Haunted Land

    Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Tina Rosenberg ...
    **The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe“The definitive account of what the transition away from communism in Eastern Europe has meant in moral terms. Brilliant and impassioned.” —LA Times Book Review**In four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe, communism’s former victims and jailers are struggling to make sense of their history—and sometimes ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Moscow 1941

    A City & Its People at War

    by Sir Rodric Braithwaite ...
    The story of the invasion of Moscow, told through its people.Fought over a territory the size of France, the Battle of Moscow in 1941 cost the Russians as many casualties as the British lost in WW1. It marked the first strategic defeat of the Wehrmacht and halted their seemingly unstoppable advance across Europe. This is the story of that battle - and the ordinary men and women who fought it.Based ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Forgotten Land

    Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia

    by Max Egremont ...
    Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the border between Russia and Lithuania in the east and south, and through Poland in the west. In ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • A Little War That Shook the World

    Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West

    by Ronald D. Asmus, Strobe Talbott ...
    The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of a broader strategy to send a message to the United States: that Russia is going to flex its muscle in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Operation Barbarossa

    The German Invasion of Soviet Russia

    by Robert Kirchubel ...
    A detailed and comprehensive examination of the Barbarossa campaign of June to December 1941.When Hitler ordered the start of Operation Barbarossa, millions of German soldiers flooded into Russia, believing that their rapid blitzkrieg tactics would result in an easy victory similar to the ones enjoyed by the Wehrmacht over Poland and France.But the huge human resources at the disposal of the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Gulag Boss

    A Soviet Memoir

    by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky, Deborah Kaple ...
    The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • A Death in the Forest: The U.S. Congress Investigates the Murder of 22,000 Polish Prisoners of War in the Katyn Massacres of 1940 - Was Stalin or Hitler Guilty?

    by Daniel Ford ...
    In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and occupied the republic of Poland, dividing the country between them. Some two hundred thousand Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in Russian camps, which were often converted monasteries. In March 1940, Joseph Stalin approved a plan to murder twenty-two thousand officers, sergeants, and civilian intellectuals, the better to deprive ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Ukrainian Armies 1914–55

    by Peter Abbott, Eugene Pinak ...
    Series Book 412 - Men-at-Arms
    A detailed, illustrated study of the Ukrainian armed forces, their weapons, dress and equipment from the First to the Second World War and beyond.There can be no region in Europe whose history has been more tortured than Ukraine. During the 20th century Austria, Poland, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania vied for power over parts of this vast and fragmented area; and its divided ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Second World War on the Eastern Front

    by Lee Baker ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Russia's engagement with Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II was ferocious, unprecedented and bloody, costing millions of civilian and military lives. In this challenging new book, Lee Baker distinguishes myth from reality and deflates the idea that this war, while gargantuan in scale, was in essence a war like any other. ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Resurrection

    The Struggle for a New Russia

    by David Remnick ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb now presents the crucial second act--the attempt to form a Russian state from the ruins of the U.S.S.R. and the chaotic election of 1996. As before, readers will turn to Remnick for the essential story, the flesh-and-blood account of one of history's great turning points. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Poland's Daughter: How I Met Basia, Hitchhiked to Italy, and Learned About Love, War, and Exile

    by Daniel Ford ...
    The Second World War -- the worst thing that ever happened! For Poland, the War began in September 1939 when Germany invaded from the west, and Russia from the east. Among their victims was a five-year-old named Basia Deszberg, whose father and brother were shot in the Katyn Forest massacres. Meanwhile she, her sister, and their mother were loaded into a cattle car for a horrific three-week ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD