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  • 1990

    Russians Remember a Turning Point

    by Irina Prokhorova, Dr Arch Tait ...
    Translated by Dr Arch Tait ...
    Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party's monopoly on political power. This fascinating collection of documentary evidence crystalises the aspirations of the Russian people in the days before Communism finally fell.It charts - among many other social developments - ... Read more

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  • The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

    by Robert K. Massie ...
    A “masterful” (The Washington Post Book World) account of the quest to solve one of the great mysteries in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Catherine the Great“Riveting . . . unfolds like a detective story.”—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIn July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, ... Read more

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  • The Murder of the Romanovs

    by Andrew Cook ...
    The overthrow and execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family is a cause célèbre of 20th century history. Andrew Cooks re-investigation of the story finally solves one of the greatest mysteries of world history. The author draws upon new forensic evidence and newly discovered British and Russian Secret Service records reveal the truth about the familys murder, the proposed ... Read more

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  • Lenin's Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution

    by Philip Pomper ...
    The gripping untold story of a terrorist leader whose death would catapult his brother—Lenin—to revolution.In 1886, Alexander Ulyanov, a brilliant biology student, joined a small group of students at St. Petersburg University to plot the assassination of Russia’s tsar. Known as “Second First March” for the date of their action, this group failed disastrously in their mission, and its leaders, ... Read more

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  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989

    Edited by Jeffrey A. Engel ...
    The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world. It was, quite literally, a world-changing event. Now, more than two decades after the Wall's collapse, this book brings together leading authorities who offer a fresh look at how leaders in four vital centers of world politics--the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and China--viewed the world in the aftermath of this momentous ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Magical Chorus

    by Solomon Volkov ...
    Translated by Antonina Bouis ...
    From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between Russian rulers and Russian artists, cultural historian Solomon ... Read more

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  • Russia in the Twentieth Century

    The quest for stability

    by David R. Marples ...
    The history of Russia, as the natural successor to the Soviet Union, is of crucial importance to understanding why communism ultimately lost out to Western democracy and the free market system. David Marples presents a balanced overview of 20th century Russian history and shows that although contemporary Russia has retained many of the practices and memories of the Soviet period, it is not about ... Read more

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  • The Early Slavs

    Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus

    by Pavel Dolukhanov ...
    The history of the early Slavs is a subject of renewed interest and one which is highly controversial both politically and historically. This pioneering text reviews the latest archaelogical (and other) evidence concerning the first settlers, their cultural identities and their relationship with their modern successors. Dr Dolukhanov explores the various historiographical debates before offering ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Shtetl

    Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine

    by Jeffrey Veidlinger ...
    A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary.The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four ... Read more

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  • Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943

    by Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes ...
    Translated by Lynn Visson ...
    Series series Annals of Communism Series
    Drawing on secret and therefore candid coded telegraphs exchanged between Communist Party leaders around the world and their overseers at the Communist International (Comintern) headquarters in Moscow, this book uncovers key aspects of the history of the Comintern and its significant role in the Stalinist ruling system during the years 1933 to 1943. New information on aspects of the People’s Front ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Russian Constitutionalism

    Historical and Contemporary Development

    by Andrei Medushevsky ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    Medushevsky examines constitutionalism in Russia from Tsarist times to the present. He traces the different attitudes to constitutionalism in political thought, and in practice, at different periods, showing how the balance between authoritarianism and liberalism has shifted. In addition, he discusses the importance of constitutional developments for societies in transition, and concludes that ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Russia Under Soviet Role

    Twenty Years of Bolshevik Experiment

    by N. de Basily ...
    Series series RLE: Early Western Responses to Soviet Russia
    The author of this book was in a position which allowed him to become thoroughly conversant with the working of the Government machinery in Russia, and in this volume, originally published in 1938, he presents the situation in Soviet Russia as it developed since the Revolution of 1917 and discusses the events which led up to it. Based mainly on information drawn from Soviet sources, which the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD