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  • The Death of Stalin by

    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 ...

    5+ in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler by

    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 ...

    3 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin by

    An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster

    After decades of the ...

    4 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • The Rebel Romanov by

    '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 ...

    2 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • The Romanovs: The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918 by

    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 ...

    2 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by

    'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5

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    'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HOLLAND

    'This book ...

    due for release Sep 2025
  • Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by

    '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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs by

    A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR

    'Certain to become the definitive work' DOUGLAS SMITH

    'Elegantly written and magisterially researched' ROBERT SERVICE

    'Masterful . . . a chilling ...

    1 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary Abridged Edition by

    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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by

    'A masterpiece of history'

    DAILY TELEGRAPH

    Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many ...

    1 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by

    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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • Stalin's War by

    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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • A Short History of Russia by

    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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by

    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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
  • The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition by

    The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in 2020

    Russia's recent past ...

    1 in stock - ships Fri 04th!
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