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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 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 masterpiece of history'
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian
On the morning of 26 April ...
Mesmerizing, haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War collected by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in ...
