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  • The World After Ukraine

    A Return to Values and the Building of a New Moral Order

    Russian dissident, former world chess champion and human rights activist Garry Kasparov argues that the invasion of Ukraine marks a turning point in world history: a chance to finally restore the moral values that keep autocracy in check.When Garry Kasparov's 2015 book Winter is Coming predicted that Vladimir Putin would invade Ukraine, its warnings were largely ignored. But seven years later, his ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Putin's Sledgehammer

    The Wagner Group and Russia's Collapse into Mercenary Chaos

    The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world’s deadliest militia.In July 2023, the Wagner Group assembled an armed convoy that included tanks and rocket launchers and set out on what seemed like a journey to take control of Moscow. The last person to attempt such a venture was Adolf Hitler.Wagner’s power began from patronage, then grew from international theft and extortion, until ... Read more

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  • Motherland

    A Feminist History of Modern Russia,from Revolution to Autocracy

    by Julia Ioffe ...
    Award-winning journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just how much Russian society had changed while she had been living in America. The Soviet women she had known ... Read more

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  • Intent to Destroy

    Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine

    by Eugene Finkel ...
    The full story of how and why Russia has tried to violently subjugate Ukraine across the centuries, and how Ukrainians have resistedRussia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet, to Ukrainians, this attack was painfully familiar, the latest episode in a centuries-long Russian campaign to divide and oppress Ukraine.In Intent to Destroy, political scientist Eugene ... Read more

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  • The Forbidden Garden

    The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice

    by Simon Parkin ...
    From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who faced an impossible choice during the Siege of Leningrad: eat the collection to prevent starvation, or protect their life’s work to help end world hunger?In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad—now St. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Hero City

    Leningrad 1943–44

    by Prit Buttar ...
    One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front.At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against bombing, shelling, and starvation. Prit Buttar tells the story of how the siege was finally broken. The Red Army had suffered multiple setbacks in the preceding two years but achieved a ... Read more

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  • Midnight in Moscow

    A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West

    A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.For weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, John J. Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, was warning that it would happen. When ... Read more

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  • Panzer III vs T-34

    Eastern Front 1941

    Series Book 136 - Duel
    This illustrated study pits Germany's PzKpfw III against the Soviet Union's T-34 in the wake of Hitler's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union.This book evaluates the PzKpfw III and T-34 medium tanks fielded by Germany and the Soviet Union during 1941. Both designs were intended to be the primary medium tanks of their respective armies, but owing to manufacturing difficulties, neither was available in ... Read more

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  • Stalin's Falcons

    Exposing the Myth of Soviet Aerial Superiority over the Luftwaffe in WW2

    by Dmitry Zubov ...
    In this stunning exposé, Dmitry Zubov reveals the dark truth of the terrible losses suffered by Soviet flyers, the inferiority of the Russian aircraft on World War II's Eastern Front, and the almost slave-like conditions in which those aircraft were made.The Soviet history of the Second World War, written under the conditions of a totalitarian regime, reflected all its features, with the result ... Read more

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  • The Comintern in Spain before the Civil War

    Red Tide Rising

    The Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1939, has been written about widely and remains mired in antifascist, anti-communist, and historical memory controversies. A deep dive into the Soviet, British intelligence and other European archives, this new book brings the majority consensus among historians of the Second Republic into question and sheds new light on the scale of Soviet communist activity in ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Bone Music

    Soviet X-Ray Audio

    Edited by Stephen Coates ...
    Stories of the secret underground Cold War–era Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x-rays.During the Cold War era, the songs that Soviet citizens could listen to were ruthlessly controlled by the state. But a secret underground subculture of music lovers and bootleggers defied the censors, building recording machines and making their own records of forbidden ... Read more

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  • The Nansen Factor

    Refugee Stories

    A bold debut collection of stories that follow the lives of those displaced by the Bolshevik Revolution and their descendants, shining a light on the lasting impact of displacement and the resiliency of the human spirit.Norwegian diplomat Fridtjof Nansen created a passport for stateless persons used by refugees as a valid travel document from 1922-1937. The world is all too aware of what has ... Read more

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  • The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa

    Czechoslovakia, UNESCO and Development Aid from the 1960s and Beyond

    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds during the three “development decades.”Starting in the early 1960s, Czechoslovakia sent abroad hundreds of experts hoping to stimulate the development of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Documenting Communism

    The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives

    In late 1991, the Soviet Union was officially dissolved. Over the next 12 years, the Hoover Institution microfilmed and published the newly opened records of the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet State. Among the 10 million pages were records of the central organs of the Communist Party; the NKVD, which regulated the ordinary lives of the Russian people; the GULAG, the secret police department ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Stalin's Usable Past

    A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR

    Series series Stanford–Hoover Series on Authoritarianism
    At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on the history of the USSR. Published shortly thereafter, the Short History of the USSR amounted to an ideological sea change. Stalin had literally rewritten Russo-Soviet History, breaking with two decades of Bolshevik propaganda that styled the 1917 Revolution as the start of a new era. In ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Spies for the Sultan

    Ottoman Intelligence in the Great Rivalry with Spain

    Translated into English for the first time, this is a fascinating history of intelligence practices and their impact on great power rivalries in the early modern eraIn the sixteenth century, an intense rivalry between the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Habsburg Empire and its allies spurred the creation of early modern intelligence. Translated into English for the first time, Emrah Safa Gürkan's ... Read more

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  • Специальный отчет №4

    Уникальный документ, подготовленный журналистами Иржи Ганзелкой и Мирославом Зикмундом после их поездки в СССР в 1963-1964 гг., впервые публикуется на русском языке в полном объеме. Специальный отчет предназначался для руководства ЦК КПСС, однако партийные чиновники посчитали, что он «носит открыто недружественный и клеветнический характер по отношению к нашему строю и советским людям». Книга ... Read more

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  • As the Dust of the Earth

    The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.Brilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs, newspaper articles, and ... Read more

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  • Soviet Cruisers 1917–45

    From the October Revolution to World War II

    Series Book 326 - New Vanguard
    A history of the Soviet Navy's cruisers, from the opening shots of the October Revolution through to the combat they saw during World War II.The Soviet Navy of World War II boasted a cruiser fleet that was among the most eclectic to see service. In this book, noted military historian and Soviet specialist Alexander Hill explains the role of cruisers in the Soviet Navy from the dramatic days of the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400

    This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’ – individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of medieval Europe and the modern period that followed.Based on primary source materials and the latest historical research, these literary accounts of otherwise unsourced or under-sourced individuals are written by leading scholars in the field ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Gulag Doctors

    Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps

    by Dan Healey ...
    A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditionsA byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for better rations in shocking conditions. From 1930 to 1953, eighteen million people passed through this penal-industrial empire. Many inmates, not ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • ALEXEI NAVALNY BIOGRAPHY

    Alexei Navalny,The Unwavering Reformer: His Search for Justice

    "The Relentless Reformer" chronicles the remarkable journey of Alexei Navalny, a fearless activist and politician who has become one of Russia's most prominent voices for democracy and accountability. From his early days as a whistleblower exposing corruption to his bold presidential campaigns and relentless advocacy for political reform, Navalny has defied oppression and inspired millions with ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Stalin’s Failed Alliance

    The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936–1939

    In the spring of 1936, the Soviet effort to build an anti-Nazi alliance was failing. Stalin continued nevertheless to support diplomatic efforts to stop Nazi aggression in Europe. In Stalin’s Failed Alliance, the sequel to Stalin’s Gamble, Michael Jabara Carley continues his re-evaluation of European diplomacy during the critical events between May 1936 and August 1939.This narrative history ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Red Tape

    Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969

    Series series Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
    In socialist Eastern Europe, radio simultaneously produced state power and created the conditions for it to be challenged. As the dominant form of media in Czechoslovakia from 1945 until 1969, radio constituted a site of negotiation between Communist officials, broadcast journalists, and audiences. Listeners' feedback, captured in thousands of pieces of fan mail, shows how a non-democratic society ... Read more

    $28.99 USD