Russia Books


Ukraine: A HistoryUkraine: A History
Best Price: $37.96
Its full of knowledge and many interesting rarely seen historical photos. I have learned much...
Global Studies: Russia, the Eurasian Republics and Central/Eastern Europe (Global Studies Russia, the Eurasian Republics, and Central/Eastern Europe)Global Studies: Russia, the Eurasian Republics and Central/Eastern Europe (Global Studies Russia, the Eurasian Republics, and Central/Eastern Europe)
Best Price: $23.39
This book is terrible. It is so full of bad grammer, run-on sentences, fragment sentences, and...
Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration CampsGulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps
Best Price: $12.56
A historic photographic record of the Soviet Gulag and its legacy. The Gulag was a network...
Georgia: Sovereign Country of the Caucasus (Odyssey Illustrated Guide)Georgia: Sovereign Country of the Caucasus (Odyssey Illustrated Guide)
Best Price: $14.28
My friend's daughter and her husband recently were sent to Georgia as missionery's. Naturally...
A History of Inner AsiaA History of Inner Asia
Best Price: $28.32
This book covers great span of history and geography, it is reasonable intro text to Inner Asian...


Readings in Russian Civilization, Volume 2: Imperial Russia, 1700-1917Readings in Russian Civilization, Volume 2: Imperial Russia, 1700-1917
Best Price: $23.35
"This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of...
Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia (Soviet History, Politics, Society, and Thought)Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia (Soviet History, Politics, Society, and Thought)
Best Price: $17.95
These two novellas, Red Star (RS) and Engineer Menni (EM), capture a fascinating time and frame...
A History of Russian ArchitectureA History of Russian Architecture
Best Price: $34.99
I suppose I was set up for disappointment by the four 5-star reviews, so this is to balance...
Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty: The New York Times's Man in MoscowStalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty: The New York Times's Man in Moscow
Best Price: $39.95
Duranty was not just the "NY Times man in Moscow" but an opinion leader among the...
Soviet Secret Projects: Fighters Since 1945Soviet Secret Projects: Fighters Since 1945
Best Price: $29.67
I enjoyed reading this book; it had a short "blurb" about many development types and...


The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to IndependenceThe Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
Best Price: $24.51
This well-written, confident and elegantly worded book will not be the guidebook to the Baltics...
Behind the Veil at the Russian CourtBehind the Veil at the Russian Court
Best Price: $26.98
The author of this book, Count Paul Vasili, was actually Princess Catherine Radziwill, who knew...
III. Pz. Korps at KurskIII. 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...
Gender And War in Twentieth-century Eastern Europe: Gender And War in 20th Century Eastern Europe (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)Gender And War in Twentieth-century Eastern Europe: Gender And War in 20th Century Eastern Europe (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
Best Price: $22.00
This volume explores the role of gender on both the home and fighting fronts in eastern Europe...
Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939
Best Price: $41.47
I liked this book. Author tried his best to bring to us all important details. However, one...

Soviet Impressionist PaintingSoviet Impressionist Painting
Best Price: $78.74
Bolshevik political ideology held contemporary European art movements such as Cubism and...
Paintings in the HermitagePaintings in the Hermitage
Best Price: $199.99
Context: I'm not an academic or a scholar; I'm a regular guy who likes visiting museums when I...
St. Petersburg: The Hidden InteriorsSt. Petersburg: The Hidden Interiors
Best Price: $30.90
We visited St. Petersburg several years ago and were blown away by the belle epoque portions of...
How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics And Business (Culture and Society After Socialism)How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics And Business (Culture and Society After Socialism)
Best Price: $15.71
During the Soviet era, blat-the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in...
Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard MirDragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir
Best Price: $4.29
In the 1990s, the pride of Russia's space program was its aging space station, Mir. So much had...

A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944
Best Price: $4.20
Of all the countless memiors written by German veterans of the Eastern Front, A STRANGER TO...
A Century of Violence in Soviet RussiaA Century of Violence in Soviet Russia
Best Price: $10.73
How can a century of violence come across like reading some horrible bureaucratic list of names...
Energiya-Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)Energiya-Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
Best Price: $52.19
I've followed the Soviet space program for more than fifty years, and this is the best book ever...
Six Red Months in RussiaSix Red Months in Russia
Best Price: $6.94
Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia, Updated EditionFailed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia, Updated Edition
Best Price: $7.75
I have read some other reviews on this book my obvious Russians and have found their views...

Where Rivers And Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, And Nomadism in Tuva And BeyondWhere Rivers And Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, And Nomadism in Tuva And Beyond
Best Price: $20.85
The book is a great contribution to the study of the unique Central Asian tradition of overtone...
Survivors: An Oral History Of The Armenian GenocideSurvivors: An Oral History Of The Armenian Genocide
Best Price: $13.88
Very well designed and laid out, the background to this very sad chapter in history is...
Putin's Russia (Revised Edition)Putin's Russia (Revised Edition)
Best Price: $12.00
I have not yet read the book in its entirety, its for a class, but I expect the revised version...
Terrorism and Communism (Revolutions)Terrorism and Communism (Revolutions)
Best Price: $8.74
this was Trotsky's bout with one-time Marxist Karl Kautsky, representative of...
Alexander II: The Last Great TsarAlexander II: The Last Great Tsar
Best Price: $4.80
This was a very interesting work by the author.Mr Radzinsky does a phenomenal job in describing...

The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten WarThe Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War
Best Price: $17.13
In the early hours of New Year’s 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of...
Afghanistan The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a SuperpowerAfghanistan The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower
Best Price: $87.50
This is a Pakistani account of operations supporting the Mujahideen during the Soviet occupation...
Soldiers of DestructionSoldiers of Destruction
Best Price: $19.00
A classic, thorough study of one of the elite divisions of the ``Waffen-SS" (armed SS). ...
The History of Russia: Seventh Revised Edition (Meridian)The History of Russia: Seventh Revised Edition (Meridian)
Best Price: $3.98
Up to the death of Peter the Great in 1725, John Lawrence's "A History of Russia" is a...
The Afghanistan WarsThe Afghanistan Wars
Best Price: $27.37
This is an excellent review of the many wars suffered by Afghanistan and the reasons these wars...

Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space RaceEpic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race
Best Price: $6.80
In a snapshot world with nano attention spans, Epic Rivalry manages to grab and hold on. The...
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
Best Price: $6.95
Phenomenal! McDougall covers the full breadth of the most influential factors, giving insight to...
Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian RevolutionRevolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
Best Price: $39.74
It's hard to fully describe a book like this, except by saying that the author has really...
The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections, and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet UnionThe New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections, and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union
Best Price: $2.50
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed two years later, liberal...
Peter the Great and the Emergence of RussiaPeter the Great and the Emergence of Russia

Autopsy For An Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet RegimeAutopsy For An Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime
Best Price: $21.41
This is an excellent book, but, of course, only those will enjoy it and find it fascinating who...
Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy AssassinationProgrammed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination
Best Price: $5.00
I have read a great deal about the Kenendy assassination, but I have never seen anything with...
Family of SpiesFamily of Spies
Best Price: $39.12
This book provides a detailed account of the Walker family history, based on public documents...
A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the PresentA Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present
Best Price: $16.49
A well written and nicely illustrated book on the history of Easter Europe's Jews, from their...
Eastern Europe, 1939-2000 (Brief Histories)Eastern Europe, 1939-2000 (Brief Histories)
Best Price: $19.60
This book examines the post-war history of Eastern Europe from the perspective of social...

MAIN BATTLE TANK T-80 (Russian Armour)MAIN BATTLE TANK T-80 (Russian Armour)
Best Price: $15.53
Mikhail Baryatinskiy does a great job of covering the development and operation of this...
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty MillionKoba 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,...
Memoirs (George F. Kennan Memoirs)Memoirs (George F. Kennan Memoirs)
The first half was just amazingly well written, and surprisingly interesting--because the title...
A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 - The Space Race BeginsA Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 - The Space Race Begins
Best Price: $4.49
I was in 9th grade for Vanguard and Explorer, but I would later come to work on Gemini and...
Enemy at the Gates: Movie Tie-InEnemy at the Gates: Movie Tie-In
Best Price: $2.00
First, let's be clear on what this book is not. It is not a detailed, operational history of the...

The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europ)The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europ)
Best Price: $34.80
More often than not, when I read a book on the last rulers of Russia, the Romanovs, there's a...
Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored VersionBabi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored Version
Best Price: $19.90
I have only read the version of Babi Yar by Anatoly Kuznetzov. I'm not sure it is the same book...
Andrei Tarkovsky (Pocket Essential series)Andrei Tarkovsky (Pocket Essential series)
Best Price: $4.62
This is great summary of the life and works of Tarkovsky. His life, thoughts about film, and...
The World and Its People, Western Hemisphere, Europe, and Russia, Student EditionThe World and Its People, Western Hemisphere, Europe, and Russia, Student Edition
Best Price: $10.00
World geography, world cultures…a world students can understand The World and Its...
The IS Tanks (IS-1, IS-2, IS-3)The IS Tanks (IS-1, IS-2, IS-3)
Best Price: $15.51
World War 2 on the Eastern Front was one dominated, to a lesser or greater extent, by the power...

The Romanovs & Mr Gibbes: The Story of the Englishman Who Taught the Children of the Last TsarThe Romanovs & Mr Gibbes: The Story of the Englishman Who Taught the Children of the Last Tsar
Best Price: $7.37
Was greatly anticipating this read...here it is, an up-close look at someone who spent...
History of the Balkans, Vol. 1: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (The Joint Committee on Eastern Europe Publication Series, No. 12)History of the Balkans, Vol. 1: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (The Joint Committee on Eastern Europe Publication Series, No. 12)
Best Price: $6.00
Jelavich clearly knows her stuff, and this (and its successor volume) serve as an excellent...
   
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