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The definitive story behind ...
A 50th anniversary edition of the book that brought down the Soviet Union - now with an introduction from Solzhenitsyn's widow detailing the dramatic story ...
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James
Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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
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Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many ...
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 ...
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library
"[A] fascinating new study."-Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal
In this engaging life ...
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 ...
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 ...
