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'TEN, NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN . . .' On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union begins its countdown. From the steppes of Kazakhstan, the first human - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri ...
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A FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING
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From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried to wipe off the map
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A ground-breaking history of the Second World War, told from the Soviet perspective
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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 ...
Joseph Stalin and the Art of Tyranny examines authoritarian rule, revealing how tyrants sustain power through a mix of comfort, terror, love, and fear, often ...
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 ...