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 In SiberiaBest Price: $7.95 Colin Thubron takes you right into Siberia with him. And with him, you can experience the... |  The History of Armenia (Palgrave Essential Histories)Best Price: $11.07 There is a great deal of interest in the history of Armenia since its renewed independence in... |  Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and WarBest Price: $10.99 A selective history, interwoven with personal reminisces by the author, of a great European city... |  Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945Best Price: $10.17 A rare insight in the lives and deaths of the millions who fought with the red Army on the... |  Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet EmpireBest Price: $7.99 I read this book, translated to portuguese, here in Brazil.It's a good book about this... |
 The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War IIBest Price: $3.79 Does this book break any major new ground? No, but what do you expect over 60 years after the... |  Review for the CLEP Social Science and History ExaminationBest Price: $16.88 This book does a great survey of all the tested subject areas. You will not get an 80, but the... |  Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman's Last JourneyBest Price: $5.98 I am a confirmed Feynman fan and even met him a couple of times. I was eager to learn more... |  Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War IIBest Price: $28.21 Highly acclaimed and thoroughly updated, Return to Diversity, Fourth Edition, provides a... |  A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet HeartlandBest Price: $18.00 A Biography of No Place is not really a biography of the borderland region in Ukraine, but... |
 The Winter War: Russia's Invasion of Finland, 1939-40Best Price: $13.44 I haven't finished Mr. Edwards' book. I'm not sure that I will. The writing in this book is... |  Ten Days that Shook the World (Dover Value Editions)Best Price: $5.69 It should be pointed out that since the 1980s new information about Reed has come to light... |  Russia and the Soviet Union: An HistoriBest Price: $37.80 This lucid account of Russian and Soviet history presents major trends and events from ancient... |  One Soldier's WarBest Price: $8.98 Lots of stories about Russians soldiers stealing, scrounging for food and brutalizing each other... |  Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial PartnerBest Price: $10.73 Frequently historians have chosen to focus on the more on the love affairs of Catherine the... |
 Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European CityBest Price: $10.12 This book by Peter Demetz tells a real story of the good and bad in a people who are struggling... |  Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment (Annals of Communism Series)Best Price: $28.13 The Polish people suffered dearly in the Second World War. Three Million Jewish Poles were... |  My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to ArmeniaBest Price: $15.37 This is a great book. The book is easy to read and has all the information on Monte from the day... |  Survivors: An Oral History Of The Armenian GenocideBest Price: $13.81 Very well designed and laid out, the background to this very sad chapter in history is... |  Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and WestBest Price: $18.71 Having been raised in the ideological wasteland of 20th century America, I found this book an... |
 The Companion to Latin American StudiesBest Price: $34.73 This guide gives a brief and accessible overview of the whole of Latin American Studies.... |  The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, MemorializationBest Price: $27.40 This anthology is made up of chapters written by a variety of authors/specialists on either the... |  Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?Best Price: $12.75 As a cartoonist Rall is great, making striking points, with a beautiful line, about the... |  Historical Atlas of Central Europe (History of East Central Europe, Vol. 1, 1)Best Price: $27.35 I was fortunate to pick up this atlas at a discount store, and what a treasure trove of history... |  Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War And Political Chaos in the Post-soviet CaucasusBest Price: $31.15 Knowing little about the country, I was looking for some background reading on a recent visit.... |
 Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of MemoryBest Price: $11.87 I have read scores of books on the Caucasus, but no one describes the region the way Karny does.... |  The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million JewsBest Price: $33.69 In this heart-wrenching book, Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying... |  The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, Second editionBest Price: $8.00 Andrew Wilson's history of Ukraine is unlike any other book written on the subject. It does not... |  Russia, The Soviet Union, and The United States: An Interpretive HistoryBest Price: $12.39 From the capricious reign of Catherine the Great and Alexander I to the provocative leadership... |  Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in UkraineBest Price: $20.83 Lower provides the most complete assessment available of German colonization and the Holocaust... |
 The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections, and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet UnionBest Price: $2.49 When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed two years later, liberal... |  Faust's Gold: Inside The East German Doping MachineBest Price: $19.99 No matter how many times this story is told, it remains so brutal, so very cold. Steven... |  The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special SettlementsBest Price: $17.50 How does a writer write about Stalin's Gulags and not elaborate(to some degree) or respect the... |  Kazakhstan: Coming of AgeBest Price: $33.23 My family is also adopting from Kaz-and we purchased this book as a coffee table book and we... |  Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, And Modernity in the Republic of Georgia (Culture and Society After Socialism)Best Price: $22.94 This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes... |
 Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and DaghestanBest Price: $55.95 This book is a splendid analysis of the Russian conquest of Chechnya and Daghestan between the... |  Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and SurvivalBest Price: $5.95 This account of a harrowing journey is so hard to put down. You will be shocked to see the... |  Kosovo Liberation Army: The Inside Story of an InsurgencyBest Price: $26.40 The military intervention by NATO in Kosovo was portrayed in American media as a necessary step... |  Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 45)Best Price: $22.45 I love this book. Benjamin Nathans really captures the thoughts of an average russian man. I... |  The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the RussiansBest Price: $15.64 A rather thorough history of the Russian annexation and subjugation of Siberia and its peoples. ... |
 Ukraine: Birth of a Modern NationBest Price: $13.09 With Ukraine - Birth of a modern nation, Serhy Yekelchyk has written an up to date, balanced,... |  Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet RepublicBest Price: $25.95 Reading this book while visiting a friend in Azerbaijan, I could not put it down. The... |  A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990Best Price: $34.99 This book may well be the very best history of the native peoples of Siberia and their conquest... |  Estonia and the Estonians (Studies of Nationalities)Best Price: $16.16 In this comprehensive survey of Estonian history, Toivo Raun places recent events into... |  Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Cold War (Historical Atlas)Best Price: $3.98 This book is really not a good book to learn about the cold war. The book is poorly put... |
 Odessa Memories (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)Best Price: $12.75 This is an excellent book on Odessa, filled with hundreds of vintage photos of Odessa, all from... |  The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia (Magic in History Series)Best Price: $22.61 Reading Russian non-fiction hasn't been this entertaining. This book by W.F. Ryan is ultimate... |  A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Vol. 1: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol EmpireBest Price: $46.59 This book is the only book to deal with the lands in question (Inner Asia) so thoroughly. I feel... |  Ukraine: A HistoryBest Price: $37.96 Its full of knowledge and many interesting rarely seen historical photos. I have learned much... |  Faberge EggsBest Price: $13.95 Gratefully this very well written and designed volume 'Faberg? Eggs' by Susanna Pfeffer is back... |
 Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central AsiaBest Price: $26.95 This wonderful insightful and original study tells the story of Communism and its relation with... |  The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in PetrogradBest Price: $21.88 That is, write another engrossing history of the Bolshevik Party in revolution. This volume... | |||
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