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The personal and the political collide in this masterful account of the death of a dictator.
When Joseph Stalin died in 1953, he had been ...
From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried to wipe off the map
Built by slave labour in the early ...
'What a wonderful book! The storytelling, the research, the deep love of her subject -- this must be the climax of Rappaport's long and illustrious ...
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich
In Blood on ...
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise
"A deeply informed account of how ...
A ground-breaking history of the Second World War, told from the Soviet perspective
In this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift ...
An essential short history of Russia by acclaimed writer and expert Mark Galeotti, taking us from Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great, to the ...
The story of an empire made and an empire undone - and what emerged from the ashes - by one of the world's leading authorities on ...
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined ...
From its 1703 foundation by Peter the Great in a swampy war zone to its leading role in overthrowing Soviet power and bringing Russia into ...
Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into ...
When the Tsar's eighteen-year-old niece Princess Irina Romanov announced her marriage to Prince Felix Youssoupov, heir to the richest fortune in Russia, the Imperial ...
A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of ...
The fascinating true story behind HBO's Catherine the Great starring Dame Helen Mirren as Catherine the Great.
Born into a minor noble family, Catherine ...
