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“katia levintova”

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  • From Peasant to Patriarch

    Account of the Birth, Upbringing, and Life of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

    by Ioann Shusherin ...
    Translated by Kevin Kain, Katia Levintova ...
    Nikon (1605-1681), patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, is best known for imposing the religious reforms that ultimately led to the schism of the Russian Orthodox Church. Yet only the Account of Birth, Life, and Upbringing of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1680s), comes close to immortalizing the vicissitudes of Nikon's entire life. Written by Ioann Shusherin's (d. 1693), ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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  • Russia at War, 1941–1945

    A History

    by Alexander Werth ...
    In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first printed in 1964. At once a history of facts, a collection of interviews, and a document of the human condition, Russia at War is a stunning, modern classic that chronicles the savagery and struggles on ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Winter Is Coming

    Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

    by Garry Kasparov ...
    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.The ascension of Vladimir Putin-a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB-to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years-as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Russia Against Napoleon

    The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814

    by Dominic Lieven ...
    'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag MontefioreWinner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeIn the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Way of a Pilgrim

    And the Pilgrim Continues His Way

    Series Book 8 - Image Classics
    This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly? Through his journeys, and under the tutelage of a spiritual father, he becomes gradually more ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953

    by Geoffrey Roberts ...
    This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin’s leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great world leaders; his ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Socialist Sixties

    Crossing Borders in the Second World

    Edited by Anne E. Gorsuch, Diane P. Koenker ...
    "A very engaging collection of essays that adds much to an evolving literature on the social history of the Soviet Union and broader socialist societies." — ChoiceThe 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935

    by Denise J. Youngblood ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    The golden age of Soviet cinema, in the years following the Russian Revolution, was a time of both achievement and contradiction, as reflected in the films of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Kuleshov. Tensions ran high between creative freedom and institutional constraint, radical and reactionary impulses, popular and intellectual cinema, and film as social propaganda and as personal artistic expression ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • How the Cold War Ended

    by John Prados ...
    The Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy. The reasons for the Cold WarÆs conclusion, and the timing of its ending, are disputed to this day.In this concise ... Read more

    $35.18 CAD

  • Intellectuals and the Communist Idea

    The Search for a New Way in Czech Lands from 1890 to 1938

    by Ladislav Cabada, Zdenek Benedikt ...
    Intellectuals and the Communist Idea describes how the Communist ideology penetrated into Czech culture and politics from the dawn of the twentieth century into the late 1930s, just before the outbreak of WW II in Europe. Based mainly upon the research of contemporary primary sources, the analysis examines the complex issue of personal reasons and individual motivations, appealing slogans, and ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Resettling the Borderlands

    State Relocations and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus

    by Farid Shafiyev ...
    Until the arrival of the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century, the South Caucasus was traditionally contested by two Muslim empires, the Ottomans and the Persians. Over the following two centuries, Orthodox Christian Russia – and later the officially atheist Soviet Union – expanded into the densely populated Muslim towns and villages and began a long process of resettlement, deportation, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Gulag Town, Company Town

    Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

    by Alan Barenberg ...
    Series series The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
    This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous “Gulag Archipelago” by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg’s eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban center with a substantial nonprisoner population where the borders separating camp and city were ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD