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Isaiah Berlin ,
Henry Hardy ,
Aileen Kelly
[Paperback 2008]
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Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia"-the landmark investigation into Russian history and thought Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. "Russian Thinkers" is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers... more
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Robert Kershaw
[Paperback 2008]
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A major component of the tactical air power that gave such magnificent air cover to Allied troops as they battled their way from Normandy to the Rhine and beyond was the medium bomber force of the 9th Air Force. The build-up of the various squadrons, their deployment and operations are... more
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[Paperback 2009]
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For the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin's celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history's most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and elegant package, each volume features a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature and great... more
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Lesley Chamberlain
[Paperback 2008]
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Lesley Chamberlain, novelist, traveller and historian of ideas, has been pondering the enigma of Russia for over thirty years. She finds that during the last two centuries Russian intellectuals have asked two fundamental questions: 'what makes a good man?' and 'what is the right way to live?' Motherland is a... more
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[Paperback 2006]
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This book is a detailed narration of an enormous time-span (19171991) of modern Russian and Soviet History. Encompassing a vast geographical area, the book essentially deals with the economic foundations of the state, the basic politics, institutional details, cultural history and foreign policy. It traces how the feudal shackles of... more
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Edvard Radzinsky
[Paperback 1997]
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From the author of "The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has... more
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
[Paperback 2005]
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Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimesas many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulaghas given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century. But though the... more
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Antony Beevor
[Paperback 2007]
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This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II, conveying the experience of soldiers on both sides as they fought in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. of photos. National radio telephone tour. Historians and reviewers worldwide... more
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Robert Service
[Paperback 2010]
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Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure. Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece together the private as well as the public life, giving the first... more
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Robert Service
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2008]
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In this acclaimed biography, Robert Service brings us closer than ever to an understanding of one of the most notorious figures in world history, drawing on unpublished material, personal testimonies and private papers. Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of... more
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Orlando Figes
[Paperback 2008]
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The award-winning author of "A Peoples Tragedy" and "Natashas Dance" has written this landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression. Adobe EPUB eBook Rights: Copying not allowed. Printing not allowed. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. Drawing... more
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John Reed ,
A J P Taylor ,
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
[Paperback 2010]
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John Reed conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives us a record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally siezed power.... more
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A P Chekhov
[Paperback 2007]
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Overwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904) decided to leave everything behind him and go to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. This book mixes his witty, charming letters back to... more
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Yevgeny Primakov ,
E M Primakov
[Hardcover 2009]
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Part memoir, part history, "Russia and the Arabs" reveals the past half-century in the Middle East from a viewpoint seldom seen by Westerners. Yevgeny Primakov, formerly the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister of Russia, exposes how key political events unfolded through the personal... more
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Bellamy Chris
[Paperback 2008]
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The war between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Drawing on sources newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union, historian and journalist Bellamy gives readers a comprehensive account of the decisive battles on the Eastern Front during World War II. Illustrated. The battle on the Eastern Front between 1941... more
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C J Chivers
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In a tour de force, a prize-winning "New York Times" reporter traces the invention and mass distribution of the assault rifle, and its effects on war. At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin's Soviet Union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. Dubbed the AK-47, it was... more
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Colin Thubron
[Paperback 2001]
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Traveling alone, the author explored the Siberian territory, talking to everyone he met about the state of that country. What he found was a land whose natural resources have been savagely exploited for decades, a terrain tainted by nuclear waste, but filled with citizens who demonstrated hospitality despite their poverty.... more
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Robert C Tucker
[Paperback 1992]
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This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which, "Stalin as Revolutionary", was recently reissued by Norton in the United Kingdom. Robert Tucker shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose revolution cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic... more
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Christopher Andrew ,
Vasili Mitrokhin
[Paperback 2006]
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The second volume of stunning revelations from the archives of the KGB covers the Soviets' vast operations around the world, from the Middle East to Latin America, Africa, and India. In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions... more
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Laurence Rees
[Paperback 2010]
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In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees, winner of the 2006 British Book Award for History, documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict. Drawing on material available only since opening... more
