Russia Books


Memoirs of a Revolutionary (Sightline Books) Best Price: $15.97 There is not a better record of the Left Opposition to Stalinism available. A moving, sincere,...	Russia under the Old Regime: Second Edition (Penguin History) Best Price: $8.50 Richard Pipes does a good job at laying out the workings of Russia's Tsarist Regime. What I...	The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.) Best Price: $8.18 This book is a learning experience. It is somewhat difficult reading, but it contains so many...	Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment (Annals of Communism Series) Best Price: $28.19 The Polish people suffered dearly in the Second World War. Three Million Jewish Poles were...	The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service Best Price: $18.94 Filled with dramatic revelations, The Lost Spy may be the most important American spy story to...



Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria Best Price: $5.75 A very good biography on five granddaughters of Queen Victoria who became queens. One of course...	The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932 Best Price: $51.93 In the West, we often forget the Modernist agenda was rapidly adopted throughout the World. ...	The Stanislavsky Technique: Russia: A Workbook for Actors (Applause Acting Series) Best Price: $7.50 I adore this book.It made me understand what our teachers try to explain to us in such unclear...	The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire Best Price: $4.83 This book is far more than a memoir -- it is a page-turning narrative of the wonderful and...	Yakovlev Aces of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces) Best Price: $4.74 The Yakovlev series of fighters was a mainstay of the Russian Air Force in World War II....



The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia Best Price: $6.81 The long and cold journey across the tough, far-flung landscapes of Siberia is most likely one...	Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism Best Price: $15.65 2006 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, honorable mention. In Imagine No Possessions ,...	Origins of Containment Best Price: $35.67	Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943 (Modern War Studies(Paper)) Best Price: $12.87 You will not find a more diffinitive book on the Luftwaffe's activites in operation Blau. I...	Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet Republic Best Price: $25.95 Reading this book while visiting a friend in Azerbaijan, I could not put it down. The...

The Icon and the Axe : An Interpretive History of Russian Culture Best Price: $13.64 _The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture_, first published in 1966 and...	The Kremlin's Nuclear Sword: The Rise and Fall of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces, 1945-2000 Best Price: $45.00 Steve Zaloga does an amazing job discussing a very diverse subject that covers the entire Cold...	A Travel Guide to Jewish Russia & Ukraine Best Price: $18.45 This is a response to an earlier review that contained a major, major Big Lie. Specifically,...	Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars (Modern Art Practices and Debates) Best Price: $25.83	Lenin: A Biography Best Price: $13.64 I'm amazed that anyone could enjoy this biography, regardless of the depth of new information it...

Police Interrogation and American Justice Best Price: $30.95 The book was recommended to me by a friend. I thought the first two thirds of the book were...	The Simple Sounds of Freedom : The True Story of the Only Soldier to Fight for Both America and the Soviet Union in World War II Best Price: $154.78 Several years ago I read parts of Joe Beyrle's memoir, translated into Russian for the gazette...	Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility Who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion Best Price: $24.66 I thought there would be more value in this book than what there was. I would not recommend at...	The Russian Civil War (1) : The Red Army (Men at Arms Series, 293) Best Price: $10.00 A very informative book with great illustrations. I highly recommend this book to someone with...	DSST Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (DANTES series) (Dantes Subject Standardized Tests Passbooks) Best Price: $17.33 Do not take DANTES Rise and Fall of The Soviet Union unless you absolutely have to as it is a...

The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization Best Price: $28.00 This anthology is made up of chapters written by a variety of authors/specialists on either the...	Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 Best Price: $15.27 Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 "It seems, in fact, as though the second...	Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S. Best Price: $4.79 I looked at this book as an academic. I study nuclear weapons development, delivery systems,...	Ibn Fadlan's Journey To Russia Best Price: $26.75 This is the first English translation of the famous risala, letters by the tenth-century...	Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation Best Price: $13.09 With Ukraine - Birth of a modern nation, Serhy Yekelchyk has written an up to date, balanced,...

Russia, America and the Cold War, 1949-1991 (2nd Edition) (Seminar Studies in History Series) Best Price: $16.12 This book might merit two stars but certainly not more. There are a couple critical problems: ...	The Russian Century: A History of the Last Hundred Years Best Price: $5.85 Moynahan's journalistic instincts are to the fore in this fast moving account of one of...	Conversations with Stalin Best Price: $5.20 What happens when a young idealist has to deal with the Soviet system in his relations as a...	Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity) Best Price: $15.00 No doubt the deportation policy originated by Stalin's order in the Kremlin, but does that make...	LaGG & Lavochkin Aces of World War 2 Best Price: $3.07 Excellent book with 36 color profiles of LaGG3 series, La5 series and La7 as well as ace roster...

Revolutions in World History (Themes in World History) Best Price: $21.43 Revolutions have been a part of politics for centuries. Their ideologies, their leaders, and...	Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter Best Price: $21.05 Written by prizewinning journalist Igor Kostin, who braved severe radiation to take the only...	Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 Best Price: $12.00 The Crimean war shattered the peace of Europe that had been established since Napoleon and set...	Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe: The Cold War's End and the Soviet Union's Fall Reappraised Best Price: $19.77 "Richard Combs was by training and experience a leading analyst of Soviet doctrine and...	Russia And The Soviet Union: An Historical Introduction From The Kievan State To The Present Best Price: $20.00 Unlike some texts that are artificially updated into new editions simply to gin up sales,...

Confessions of a Spy Best Price: $10.00 This gives the best account of Ames' CIA career, particularly prior to the time he began to work...	Russian Rebels, 1600-1800: Four Great Rebellions Which Shook the Russian State in the Seventeenth (The Norton Library ; N836) Best Price: $15.94 Bolotnikov, Razin, Bulavin and Pugachev are all names lost to history yet these were leaders of...	The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union (Russian Research Center Studies) Best Price: $14.75 I read this for my History, Technology and Science class in college. It is quite intriguing a...	ROAD TO STALINGRAD (Stalin's War with Germany) Best Price: $7.63 The edition I just finished is the original 1975 Harper & Row, apparently not revised since....	Sputnik: The Shock of the Century Best Price: $5.99 In Sputnik, Paul Dickson takes a single historic event and uses it as a spot from which to take...

Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin Best Price: $10.26 The book's a great read regardless of factual content. I've not researched the events to agree...	Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941-1945 (Modern War Studies) Best Price: $24.23 This is essential reading for serious students of intelligence as well as WWII buffs. Dr....	Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change Best Price: $25.00 Strayer's book is more than proposing one particular thesis as to why the USSR is no longer in...	The Russian Theatre After Stalin Best Price: $37.57 Anatoly Smeliansky has told a tale of creative spirit surviving in an intellectual Gulag. The...	Tower of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thriller Best Price: $33.38 Tower of Secrets is a great book. It is written by a former KGB officer who became...

The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 Best Price: $5.00 This book is a good introduction to this conflict for its 96 page length. Not very in-depth but...	Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements Best Price: $15.00 As someone who loves popular science and history, but who is neither a scientist nor a historian...	Few Returned: Twenty-Eight Days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942-1943 Best Price: $13.75 I have always been interested in the Second World War and especially the little known battles...	The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure Best Price: $3.67 After a good start, the authors get hopefulliy lost in trying to maintain some thread of their...	In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (Harvest Book) Best Price: $78.47 P.D. Ospensky as a teenager decided to forgo an academic education and instead to search for or...

III. Pz. Korps at Kursk Best Price: $38.29 This is an excellent book, full of day to day text and photos on IIIPz Korps (6, 7 and 19 Pz...	The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky (Cambridge Companion) Best Price: $18.29 This is an excellent overview of the current state of Vygotsky studies by well-recognised names...

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