Russia Books


Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 Best Price: $7.95 Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 by Marie Vassilchikov (New York: Knopf, 1987) This review has been...	Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan Best Price: $31.50 This book has some amazing statistics in the prelude and the individual accounts from russian...	Kursk: The Air Battle, July 1943 Best Price: $32.96 I have always had a great interest in the battle of Kursk which resulted in some of the most...	The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier Best Price: $6.28 After reading a brief biography of Napoleon, I picked this book to get acquainted with the tough...	Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games Best Price: $18.31 This book is exceptionally well-written, and well-organized. Bagley's argument is very...



The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB Best Price: $4.25 To many Americans, the CIA and KGB are things of a James Bond movie. Lots of sex and violence...	A History of Russia: Combined Volume Best Price: $44.76 This is a good book for those who prefer an easy-to-read book on history... or for those who are...	The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus Best Price: $19.62 The author describes the past three centuries of the Caucasus, making sense of the bewildering...	The Venona Secrets, Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors Best Price: $12.21 It saddens me how some people still think The Rosenbergs,Hiss and others were somehow just...	Review for the CLEP Social Science and History Examination Best Price: $16.95 I no longer have the CLEP! Great book great resource helped me to pass. Some CLEP books do not...



Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion Best Price: $0.21 Excellent book. Liked it so much I bought another for my Dad for Father's Day. Great price and...	Saint Petersburg: Museums, Palaces, and Historic Collections: A Guide to the Lesser Known Treasures of St. Petersburg (Museum Guides) Best Price: $7.69 I happened on this wonderful book by reading all the reviews written by one of its reviewers. ...	PANZERSCHLACHT: Armoured Operations on the Hungarian Plains September-November 1944 Best Price: $35.27 The major tank battles on the Hungarian plains fought in late 1944 have been neglected, for some...	The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II Best Price: $3.65 The title is misleading in that its talks about the battle of Moscow. This book is really about...	The Winter War: Russia's Invasion of Finland, 1939-40 Best Price: $12.80 Invasion of Soviet Union - July 22 1941, Battle of Stalingrad - July 17, 1942 - February 2,...

The Oligarchs: Wealth And Power In The New Russia Best Price: $8.98 I'm about a quarter into the book. I am very impressed. It is riveting. I went on a tour of...	Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) Best Price: $7.92 As a detailed examination of communism and a virtual historical "balance sheet" of the...	Leningrad: State of Siege Best Price: $18.45 “All offers of surrender from Leningrad must be rejected,” wrote Adolph...	From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians (Interact Series) Best Price: $13.40 In my opinion an accurate explanation of working with people, from a man experienced in Russia....	The Battle of Kursk Best Price: $10.75 The battle of Kursk is recognized as the "largest tank battle ever fought". This...

Hostile Waters Best Price: $3.22 The Russian nuclear powered, missile carrying (SSBN) submarine K-219 was about 15 years old when...	King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War Best Price: $7.99 Other reviews have pretty much covered the content and general scope of the book -- a very...	Russia ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Russia (Country Abcs) Best Price: $3.93 none	Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order Best Price: $2.72 This book is a masterful analysis of modern geopolitics. It is different from other books on...	Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies) Best Price: $21.82 In 1940, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named...

The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II Best Price: $19.15 The Court of the Last Tsar is a long book of almost 600 oversized pages, elaborately illustrated...	Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings Best Price: $7.80 The Essential Works of Lenin does provide a remarkably concise introduction to Lenin's thought. ...	In Siberia Best Price: $6.21 Colin Thubron takes you right into Siberia with him. And with him, you can experience the...	Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster Best Price: $3.84 The facts of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl trickled out from east to west slowly at first....	The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost Best Price: $10.00 Ah, the great literary prose of Nabakov and Dostoyevsky this is not. Keep in mind this is an...

Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames Best Price: $0.95 He /was/ there. He tells what he saw and did as a KGB hander of American informers Ames and...	Sculpting in Time: Tarkovsky The Great Russian Filmaker Discusses His Art Best Price: $23.00 Tarkovsky's 'Sculpting in Time' offers a fascinating glimpse into this master's theoretical and...	Ella: Princess, Saint and Martyr Best Price: $15.57 Absolutely loved this book. So much has/is written about the immediate royal family and this...	The Power Game: How Washington Works Best Price: $8.75 Hedrick Smith wrote and amazingly in-depth novel about American Politics and Government. So...	Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin, April 1945 Best Price: $56.67 On 16 April 1945 the Soviet Army launched the fourth largest offensive of WWII with the goal to...

The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine Best Price: $13.06 The black earth Was sown with bones And watered with blood For a harvest of sorrow On the...	Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 Best Price: $4.00 What a story! Catherine Merridale has done an excellent job of telling the story of the Russian...	Russia: The Once and Future Empire From Pre-History to Putin Best Price: $8.62 Overview: This is a well-written bird's eye view of the history of the Russian people. It's...	The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB Best Price: $8.00 Christopher Andrew uses a ridiculous amount of information to create a vivid picture of Soviet...	Eastern Approaches Best Price: $17.77 This is an exciting autobiography, which I have read and reread over the years. Of particular...

Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives Best Price: $8.99 For 50 years, few have disputed that Stalin was one of the cruelest men since Vlad the Impaler...	China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia Best Price: $23.08 This book provides an fairly indepth account of dynastic expansion. The Qing retained the...	Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag Best Price: $12.87 The most important thing that I gained by reading Janusz Bardach's book is that the will to...	A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History) Best Price: $17.90 This is an excellent overview of Soviet foreign policy during the Cold War. Judicious and fair,...	Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million Best Price: $8.88 There are a number of good negative reviews already, with which I agree for the most part,...

The Storks' Nest: Life and Love in the Russian Countryside Best Price: $6.75 Love - very rarely does it happen with nothing else happening, as romance novels wrongly lead...	Setting the East Ablaze: Lenins Dream of an Empire in Asia Best Price: $7.95 Peter Hopkirk's third installment of the Great game is as masterful as the first two. Lenin's...	The Russian Revolution Best Price: $12.24 I am enjoying this book immensely. I was looking for a good intermediate source to transition...	The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism Best Price: $26.37 Drawing from engrossing survivors' accounts, many never before published, The Minsk Ghetto...	Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist" (Portraits of Revolution series) Best Price: $15.00 Head of the secret police from 1937 to 1938, N. I. Yezhov was a foremost Soviet leader during...

One Soldier's War Best Price: $12.50 Lots of stories about Russians soldiers stealing, scrounging for food and brutalizing each other...	Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan Best Price: $5.34 I developed quite a dislike for Kaplan as I read this book, but the subject matter was...	Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile Best Price: $31.90 The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American...	Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan Best Price: $12.99 Prompt and Utter Destruction carefully builds arguments in favor of the decision to use the bomb...	Ten days that Shook the World (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.79 An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution An American journalist and...

The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad Best Price: $16.37 Straight up, the Siege of Leningrad lasted either 872 or 880 days, depending on whether you...	A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin Best Price: $13.00 I did not like it at all. It was extraordinarily long, and there was way too much detail on...

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