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Atlas of Jewish Historyby Martin Gilbert, Arthur BanksISBN 0880290188 (0-88029-018-8)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
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Atlas of Russian Historyby Martin GilbertISBN 0880290196 (0-88029-019-6)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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The Beginning of Springby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0881845981 (0-88184-598-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Black Earth City : When Russia Ran Wild (and So Did We)by Charlotte HobsonISBN 0805069321 (0-8050-6932-1)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Chronicle of the Russian Tsars: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russiaby David WarnesISBN 0500050937 (0-500-05093-7)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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The Communist Manifest: Principles of Communism, the Communist Manifesto 150 Years Laterby Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Ellen Meiksins Communist Manifesto One Hundred and Fifty Years WoodISBN 0853459363 (0-85345-936-3)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifest: Principles of Communism, the Communist Manifesto 150 Years Later'Book summary:This definitive edition of the Communist Manifesto, prepared for its 150th anniversary, includes a foreword by Marxist scholar Paul M. Sweezy, co-editor of Monthly Review, the full text of the Communist Manifesto, in a distinctive and pleasing hand-set typeface, the important catechism Principles of Communism, drafted by Engels in 1847 as a basis for the Manifesto, and "The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years," a far-reaching interpretive essay by Ellen Meiksins Wood, co-editor of Monthly Review.
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. Marx, L. M. FindlayISBN 1551113333 (1-55111-333-3)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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- The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 0553214063 (0-553-21406-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 0671678817 (0-671-67881-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 0882860437 (0-88286-043-7)
Softcover, Charles H Kerr Pub Co - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 088295055X (0-88295-055-X)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 0745310338 (0-7453-1033-8)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 0895268647 (0-89526-864-7)
Softcover, Gateway Books - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 0671489437 (0-671-48943-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 1551113333 (1-55111-333-3)
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The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 1420922483 (1-4209-2248-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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Softcover, Canadian Scholars' Press, Incorporated - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 0814715761 (0-8147-1576-1)
Hardcover, New York Univ Pr - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 0671443879 (0-671-44387-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 0853450625 (0-85345-062-5)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 0745310346 (0-7453-1034-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr - The Communist Manifesto: ISBN 1420922483 (1-4209-2248-3)
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The Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels: With the Original Text and Prefacesby Harold Joseph LaskiISBN 0816492522 (0-8164-9252-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russiaby David TullerISBN 0571198902 (0-571-19890-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Czars: Russia's Rulers for More Than One Thousand Yearsby James P. Duffy, Vincent L. RicciISBN 0816028737 (0-8160-2873-7)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Diary of a Madman And Other Storiesby Nikolai GogolISBN 0486452352 (0-486-45235-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of a Madman And Other Stories'Book summary:Opening a door to a bizarre world of broad comedy, fantasy, and social commentary, the title story offers an unforgettable depiction of a lunatic civil servant and his struggles to be noticed by the woman he loves. This excellent introduction to Gogol also features "Nevski Prospect" and "The Portrait."[via]More editions of Diary of a Madman And Other Stories:
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Diary of a Madmanby Priscilla Meyer, Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Andrew Robert MacAndrewISBN 0451529545 (0-451-52954-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of a Madman'Book summary:[via]This 19th-century author created "some of the most colorful and haunting fiction of his century" Kirkus Reviews. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, he paved the way for Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
@StaticBureaucracy Finally got my new threads today. Took it to work, I look Superfly. Im not a gnat on a wall any more, Im Akaky Big Pimpin Akakyevitch.
Seriously, check out pics on my Flickr. This coat is so money, it doesnt even know how money it is.
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East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberiaby Benson BobrickISBN 0805029818 (0-8050-2981-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Education of a Princess A Memoir by Marie, Grand Duchess of Russiaby Grand Duchess of Russia Marie, Russell LordISBN 141793316X (1-4179-3316-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Education of a Princess A Memoir by Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia'Book summary:1930. Translated from the French and Russian under the editorial supervision of Russell Lord. To clarify the confusing Romanov family: this Marie was the granddaughter of Czar Alexander II, the daughter of Grand Duke Paul, and the cousin of Tsar Nicholas. Her brother, Prince Dmitri, was one of the plotters against Rasputin. He was exiled for that, to the Persian frontier, which saved his life when the roundup of the Imperial family began. These are the memoirs of her childhood, a glittering version of solitary confinement, and young adult life. Her father was banished for marrying without the Czar's permission, which left Marie and her brother to be brought up by her uncle, the military governor of Moscow. After her uncle's assassination in 1905, her aunt arranged a marriage with a Swedish prince whom Marie saw a few times before the wedding. The marriage was disastrous, and a divorce was arranged, quickly and quietly. Marie's young son stayed in Sweden. Charity was an acceptable occupation for the women of the aristocracy, but Marie became a qualified nurse and spent much of the early part of WWI in field hospitals. The last part of the book contains her account of the final tense days of the Romanovs, her second marriage, and her escape through the Ukraine. [via]
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The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russiaby Mark Ames, Matt Taibbi, Edward LimonovISBN 0802136524 (0-8021-3652-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Fate of the Romanovsby Greg King, Penny WilsonISBN 0471727970 (0-471-72797-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Talesby Jacqueline Onassis, Boris Vasilevich ZvorykinISBN 0670315443 (0-670-31544-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Grey Is the Color of Hopeby Irina Ratushinskaya, Alyona KojevnikovISBN 0685306828 (0-685-30682-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Havana Bayby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0679426620 (0-679-42662-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Havana Bay'Book summary:In this fourth book in Martin Cruz Smith's splendid series, an amiable Irish American gangster explains to Arkady Renko what he and the other 84 wanted Americans hiding out in Cuba do with themselves. "We try to stay alive. Useful. Tell me, Arkady, what are you doing here?" "The same," says Renko--and it's true. His life as a Russian cop has become so bleak and lonely that he takes any opportunity to shake things up, even spending his own savings to fly to Havana when an old colleague is found dead--floating inside an inner tube after night-fishing in Havana Bay. Renko sets out to make himself useful in this shabby, fascinating, haunted country whose inhabitants look on Russians with the cold disdain of survivors of a nasty divorce.
As he did so well in Gorky Park, Smith again makes Renko very much a classic Russian hero in temperament and tradition, but also the eternal outsider. He is at times close to the edge of despair--but his trip to Havana restores his natural curiosity and life force.
In this hot Havana, ripe with the fruity smell of sex, Renko keeps his Moscow overcoat on--until an equally idealistic and out-of-place young female cop gets him to loosen up. There's an unusually complex plot, even for the sly strand-spinner Smith. He raises baffling questions: Why would a group of military plotters order illegal lobsters in a fancy restaurant and then not eat them? And his descriptions of Cuban life are dead-on, reminding us on every page what a superb stylist he is. --Dick Adler [via]
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A History Of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II To Putinby Robert ServiceISBN 067401801X (0-674-01801-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empireby David ChristianISBN 0631208143 (0-631-20814-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxismby Andrzej WalickiISBN 0804711321 (0-8047-1132-1)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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History of the Russian Revolutionby Leon TrotskyISBN 0873488296 (0-87348-829-6)
Softcover, Pathfinder Pr
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A History of Twentieth-Century Russiaby Robert ServiceISBN 0674403487 (0-674-40348-7)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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Iconby Frederick ForsythISBN 0553574604 (0-553-57460-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Imperial Russia: A Source Book, 1700-1917by Basil DmytryshynISBN 0875692036 (0-87569-203-6)
Hardcover, Academic International Press
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Insight Guide Russiaby Jane HutchingsISBN 0887291759 (0-88729-175-9)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Invitation to a Beheadingby Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri NabokovISBN 0679725318 (0-679-72531-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invitation to a Beheading'Book summary:Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers. an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws. who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed. he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit. [via]
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Ivan the Terribleby Henri TroyatISBN 0525242465 (0-525-24246-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945by Catherine MerridaleISBN 0805074554 (0-8050-7455-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Last Empress : The Life and Times of Alexander Feodorovna, Empress of Russiaby Greg KingISBN 0806517611 (0-8065-1761-1)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russiaby Greg KingISBN 0735101043 (0-7351-0104-3)
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The Long Walkby Slavomir RawiczISBN 1558216340 (1-55821-634-0)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Walk'Book summary:Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag along with other captive Poles, Finns, Ukranians, Czechs, Greeks, and even a few English, French, and American unfortunates who had been caught up in the fighting. A year later, he and six comrades from various countries escaped from a labor camp in Yakutsk and made their way, on foot, thousands of miles south to British India, where Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army and fought against the Germans. The Long Walk recounts that adventure, which is surely one of the most curious treks in history. [via]
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Manifesto of the Communist Partyby Karl Marx, Friedrich EngelsISBN 0717802418 (0-7178-0241-8)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manifesto of the Communist Party'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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Medieval Russia, 980-1584by Janet MartinISBN 0521368324 (0-521-36832-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Motherby Maxim GorkyISBN 1406505749 (1-4065-0574-9)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mother'Book summary:Every day the factory whistle bellowed forth its shrill, roaring, trembling noises into the smoke-begrimed and greasy atmosphere of the workingmen's suburb; and obedient to the summons of the power of steam, people poured out of little gray houses into the street. With somber faces they hastened forward like frightened roaches, their muscles stiff from insufficient sleep. In the chill morning twilight they walked through the narrow, unpaved street to the tall stone cage that waited for them with cold assurance, illumining their muddy road with scores of greasy, yellow, square eyes. [via]
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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Lifeby Tom ReissISBN 1400062659 (1-4000-6265-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life'Book summary:A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reisss panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as Essad Bey, became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and Nino as well as an adventurer, a real-life Indiana Jones with a fatal secret. Reiss pursued Levs story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surrealand sometimes as heartbreakingas his subjects life.
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Origins of Totalitarianismby Hannah Arendt, Samantha PowerISBN 0805242252 (0-8052-4225-2)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origins of Totalitarianism'Book summary:The Origins of Totalitarianism is an indispensable book for understanding the frightful barbarity of the twentieth century. Suspicious of the inevitability so often imposed by hindsight, Hannah Arendt was not interested in detailing the causes that produced totalitarianism. Nothing in the nineteenth centuryindeed, nothing in human historycould have prepared us for the idea of political domination achieved by organizing the infinite plurality and differentiation of human beings as if all humanity were just one individual. Arendt believed that such a development marked a grotesque departure from all that had come before.
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt sought to provide an historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism: The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and he rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it. For Arendt, totalitarianism was a form of governance that eliminated the very possibility of political action. Totalitarian leaders attract both mobs and elites, take advantage of the unthinkability of their atrocities, target objective enemies (classes of people who are liquidated simply because of their group membership), use terror to create loyalty, rely on concentration camps, and are obsessive in their pursuit of global primacy. But even more presciently, Arendt understood that totalitarian solutions could well survive the demise of totalitarian regimes.
The Origins of Totalitarianism remains as essential a book for understanding our times as it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. [via]More editions of Origins of Totalitarianism:
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Pale Fireby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679723420 (0-679-72342-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pale Fire'Book summary:Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here's the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus.
In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isn't, of course, a single solution. But Nabokov's best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbote's mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what he'd intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Peter the Greatby Diane StanleyISBN 068816708X (0-688-16708-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter the Great'Book summary:Peter the Great, crowned tsar of Russia at the age of ten, believed that whatever he wanted he should have -- and the sooner the better. What he wanted most was to bring his beloved country into the modem world. He traveled to the West to learn European ways -- the first tsar ever to leave Russia -- disguised as a common soldier.
He explored the West with excitement and curiosity and returned home ready to undertake a series of momentous social reforms. And to satisfy his boyhood dream of a Russian naval port, he began to build, on a freezing swamp, a glittering new capital to be named St. Petersburg.
In this welcome reissue of Diane Stanley's acclaimed picturebook biography, her meticulously researched text and sumptuous illustrations capture the fabulous world of seventeenth -- and eighteenth-century tsarist Russia and the greatness of its larger-than-life leader -- a man of huge stature and tremendous spirit whose impatience and vision, insatiable curiosity and boundless energy transformed half a continent.
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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Readerby Clarence BrownISBN 0670805319 (0-670-80531-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinnedby Brian MoynahanISBN 0679419306 (0-679-41930-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned'Book summary:British journalist and historian Brian Moynahan does not spare details of the lechery and drunkenness that Rasputin brought with him on his journey from the squalor of rural Siberia to St. Petersburg, where he captivated the tsar and tsarina with his mysterious ability to ease their hemophiliac son's hemorrhages. Yet Moynahan also credits "the mad monk" with intelligence, generosity, even a weird spirituality. In elegant prose, he retells with panache the saga of an illiterate peasant's rise to a position of fearsome power in the waning days of the Russian monarchy. [via]
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Romanov Autumn: Stories from the Last Century of Imperial Russiaby Charlotte ZeepvatISBN 0750927399 (0-7509-2739-9)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Russia Under the Bolshevik Regimeby Richard PipesISBN 0679761845 (0-679-76184-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime'Book summary:Pipes is a widely recognized authority on Russia and is currently Baird professor of History at Harvard University. This is the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924. [via]
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The Russian Albumby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0670810576 (0-670-81057-6)
Hardcover, Viking
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Russian Stories Pycckne Paccka3Bl: A Dual-Language Bookby Gleb StruveISBN 0486262448 (0-486-26244-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russian Stories Pycckne Paccka3Bl: A Dual-Language Book'Book summary:Twelve superb tales by Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Bunin, other masters. Excellent word-for-word English translations on facing pages. Also teaching and practice aids, Russian-English vocabulary, biographical/critical introductions to each selection, study questions, more. Especially helpful are the stress accents in the Russian text, usually found only in primers.[via]More editions of Russian Stories Pycckne Paccka3Bl: A Dual-Language Book:
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Sebastopolby Leo Tolstoy, Frank D. MilletISBN 1417918667 (1-4179-1866-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sebastopol'Book summary:1887. With introduction by W.D. Howells. With portrait. Tolstoy is considered one of the greatest of all novelists. Tolstoy's major works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The three sketches in this volume are Tolstoy's accounts of his personal experience and observations at Sevastopol. His use of the devices of fiction-setting, detailed description, dialogue, and character development provides them with as much plot as one finds in most of his short stories. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
The Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944: 900 Days of Terrorby David M. GlantzISBN 0760309418 (0-7603-0941-8)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog: A Novelby Boris Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 0812975138 (0-8129-7513-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Stalin: A Biographyby Robert ServiceISBN 0674022580 (0-674-02258-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Storiesby Richard Pevear, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0553381008 (0-553-38100-8)
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Tales of Sevastopolby Leo TolstoyISBN 1410201686 (1-4102-0168-6)
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The Time of Troubles: A Historical Study of the Internal Crises and Social Struggle in Sixteenth-And Seventeenth-Century Muscovyby S. F. LatonoyISBN 0700600620 (0-7006-0062-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asiaby Karl Meyer, Sharleen Blair BrysacISBN 0465045766 (0-465-04576-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asia'Book summary:Throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, the Russian and British Empires played out a chess game of diplomacy, espionage, and military thrusts into Central Asia to protect their expanding interests. When play began, the frontiers of their empires lay 2,000 miles apart, across vast deserts and almost impassable mountain ranges; by the end, they were separated by only 20 miles. Karl E. Meyer of The New York Times and Shareen Blair Brysac, documentary filmmaker for CBS, update and significantly expand earlier studies of the imperial rivalry, notably Peter Hopkirk's pioneering The Great Game. Tournament of Shadows reads like a racy adventure story, yet there is no need for the authors to embellish their well-researched facts. The region attracted a host of bizarre characters, each with his own idiosyncratic goals. The authors begin with the journey to Bokhara of an ambitious horse doctor, hired by the East India Company in 1806 to improve its breeding stock, and end with the CIA's assistance to anti-Chinese guerrillas in Tibet during the cold war. American participants in the opening of Central Asia have not previously received much attention, but Tournament of Shadows introduces adventurers such as William Rockhill, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution in the 1880s to explore Tibet, and William McGovern, who, to the chagrin of the British, reached Lhasa in 1923. The wealth and instability of Central Asia continue to keep the region in the headlines, motivating the Soviet Union's disastrous 10-year intervention in Afghanistan and fueling an international race for resources--especially oil--today. --John Stevenson [via]
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Uncle Vanyaby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 1406832642 (1-4068-3264-2)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Uncle Vanyaby David Mamet, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Vlada ChernomordikISBN 0802131514 (0-8021-3151-4)
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Uncle Vanyaby Jean Claude Van ItallieISBN 082221587X (0-8222-1587-X)
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History of the Russian Revolutionby Leon TrotskyISBN 0873488024 (0-87348-802-4)
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