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  • The Summer Capitals of Europe, 1814-1919

    by Marina Soroka ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    "This is an original work, meticulously researched, rich in detail, and written in a clear and – here and there – refreshingly pungent style. (...) I regard it as a first-rate contribution to the diplomatic methods of the 100 years before the First World War."- G.R. Berridge, Emeritus Professor of International Politics, University of Leicester"Marina Soroka has made exceptional use of Russian ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Britain, Russia and the Road to the First World War

    The Fateful Embassy of Count Aleksandr Benckendorff (1903–16)

    by Marina Soroka ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in First World War History
    For much of the later nineteenth-century Britain regarded Russia as its main international rival, particularly as regarded the security of its colonial possessions in India. Yet, by 1907 Russia's political revolution, financial collapse and military defeat by Japan, transformed the situation, resulting in an Anglo-Russian rapprochement. As this book makes clear, whilst international affairs lay at ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873)

    by Marina Soroka, Charles A. Ruud ...
    The Russian Great Reforms of the 1860s were the last major modernizing effort by the Romanov dynasty. From 1855 to 1861, Grand Duchess Elena, born Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (1807-1873), acted as the spokeswoman for the reform-minded circles of Russian society, bringing before her nephew Emperor Alexander II a group of civic-minded experts who formed the core of the committee that prepared ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • My Life for the Book

    The Memoirs of a Russian Publisher

    by Ivan D. Sytin, Charles Ruud, Marina E. Soroka ...
    Available at long last, this volume is the posthumous memoir of a peasant from the depths of old Russia who rose to great wealth and influence as his country's most successful publisher. Though never fully literate, Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (1851-1934) was a shrewd businessman who made millions by publishing books for all manner of readers. My Life for the Book makes available the full text of Sytin ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

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  • The Race to Save the Romanovs

    The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family

    by Helen Rappaport ...
    The New York Times –bestselling author investigates various plots to save the murdered Russian Imperial family, why they failed, and who was responsible.An International BestsellerThe murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime, and its anniversary was largely ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Europe's Last Summer

    Who Started the Great War in 1914?

    by David Fromkin ...
    When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded it was unavoidable.In Europe’s Last Summer, David Fromkin provides a different answer: hostilities were commenced ... Read more

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  • The Last of the Tsars

    Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

    by Robert Service ...
    A masterful and forensic study of the last year of Nicholas II’s reign, from a world-leading scholar of Russian history.‘Outstanding . . . essential reading’ – Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Mail on SundayIn March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Robert Service examines ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The War That Ended Peace

    The Road To 1914

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress, and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict that killed millions, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe’s dominance of the world. It was a war that could have been avoided up to the last ... Read more

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  • Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

    by Robert K. Massie ...
    “[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street JournalThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating ... Read more

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  • Paris 1919

    Six Months That Changed the World

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still.Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize • Winner of the PEN Hessell ... Read more

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  • Nicholas and Alexandra

    The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

    by Robert K. Massie ...
    **A “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great“A moving, rich book . . . [This] revealing, densely documented account of the last Romanovs focuses not on the great events . . . but on the royal family and their evil ... Read more

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  • The Sleepwalkers

    How Europe Went to War in 1914

    by Christopher Clark ...
    “A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — Boston GlobeOne of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)Historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.Drawing on new schol... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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