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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singerby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374126313 (0-374-12631-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Days That Shook The Worldby John ReedISBN 1419158724 (1-4191-5872-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Days That Shook The World'Book summary:This was followed by the dispersal of the Soviet at Kaluga. The Bolsheviki, having secured a majority in the Soviet, set free some political prisoners. With the sanction of the Government Commissar the Municipal Duma called in troops from Minsk, and bombarded the Soviet headquarters with artillery. The Bolsheviki yielded, but as they left the building Cossacks attacked them. [via]
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Gulag: A Historyby Anne ApplebaumISBN 1400034094 (1-4000-3409-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulag: A History'Book summary:Gulag: A History, by Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, is a cogent, meticulously researched exposé of the Soviet system of institutionalized terror, repression, and punishment that, over the course of the 20th century, turned the world's largest nation into a vast concentration camp and mass grave. Applebaum investigates the gulag from its origins just after the Russian Revolution through its expansion under Stalin's reign to its collapse during the period of glasnost and the fall of communism. She draws on original research, as well as recently released archival material and memoirs by both "ordinary" survivors and those who would become literary giants, like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Polish novelist Gustav Herling-Grudzinski, who wrote A World Apart based on his experiences in the camps. She describes the categories of prisoner--an estimated 18 million between 1929 and 1953, the year Stalin died--who from "the very earliest days of the new Soviet state&were to be sentenced not for what they had done, but for who they were": old Bolsheviks, deportees from Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II, repatriated Soviet POWs, foreign communists, dissidents, the man, woman or child on the street--political prisoners mixed with common criminals. Anyone who could be perceived as a threat or traitor or simply a needed body was arrested, tortured, and used as slave labor to extract natural resources from remote corners of Siberia, work on absurdly ambitious transportation and energy projects, and build the Soviet economy. The reasons for incarceration; the journeys to the outposts; the strategies for survival of prisoners subjected to cold, starvation, rape; the types of heavy labor; the conditions for women and children; the political structure within the camp--these are just some of the broad themes that Applebaum tackles.
Deftly melding generality with specificity, Applebaum allows the individual to speak for the many and, in the process, paints a horrifying portrait of a nation forged from paranoia and the terror invoked by the arbitrary exercise of power that tore apart families and enslaved, brutalized, and murdered millions. By giving voice to the millions who disappeared into unmarked graves in an eight-decade-long episode in human history that rivaled the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Applebaum makes an invaluable contribution to a growing body of re-evaluative literature that will, hopefully, inspire a thoughtful consideration of our collective past, and a more critical awareness our present. --Diana Kuprel [via]
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Gulag / Gulag: Historia de los Campos de Concentracion Sovieticos / History of the Soviet Concentration Campsby Anne ApplebaumISBN 8497937708 (84-9793-770-8)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Gulag Archipelagoby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 006080503X (0-06-080503-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulag Archipelago'Book summary:The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation. [via]
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Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956ISBN 186046632X (1-86046-632-X)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956:
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Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 an Experiment in Literby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0060139110 (0-06-013911-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060007761 (0-06-000776-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation'Book summary:The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyns attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion during the rule of Stalin from 1924 to 1953. Various sections of the three volumes describe the arrest, interrogation, conviction, transportation, and imprisonment of the Gulags victims by Soviet authorities over four decades. The work mingles historical exposition and Solzhenitsyns own autobiographical accounts with the voluminous personal testimony of other inmates that he collected and committed to memory during his imprisonment.Upon publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn was immediately attacked in the Soviet press. Despite the intense interest in his fate that was shown in the West, he was arrested and charged with treason on February 12, 1974, and was exiled from the Soviet Union the following day.[via]More editions of The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation:
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060921021 (0-06-092102-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0813332893 (0-8133-3289-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0813332907 (0-8133-3290-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 An Experiment in Literary Investigation, V-VII: ISBN 0813332915 (0-8133-3291-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0002712652 (0-00-271265-2)
Hardcover, Collins Harvill - The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956; An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-IV: ISBN 0060139129 (0-06-013912-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060139145 (0-06-013914-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060154748 (0-06-015474-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060007761 (0-06-000776-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: ISBN 0060921021 (0-06-092102-1)
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Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Parts I-VIIby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060912804 (0-06-091280-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Parts I-VII:
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-IIby Aleksandr Isaevich SolzhenitsynISBN 000262253X (0-00-262253-X)
Hardcover, Collins : Harvill Press
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**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-II:
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The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1by Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0060803320 (0-06-080332-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1'Book summary:The Soviet Union had the largest secret political prison system of its time, scattered into the most remote corners of Eastern Europe and Asia. When Solzhenitsyn came out, he told the stories of shattered lives in a shattered nation. [via]
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A History of Russiaby Nicholas Valentine RiasanovskyISBN 0195021290 (0-19-502129-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Russia'Book summary:The new edition of this work has been updated to the death of Brezhnev and the succession of Andropov, and the section on Russian relations with Poland and Afghanistan has been thoroughly revised. [via]
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Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A History of Russia: ISBN 0195121791 (0-19-512179-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A History of Russia: ISBN 0195021290 (0-19-502129-0)
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- A History of Russia: ISBN 0195033612 (0-19-503361-2)
A History of Russiaby Mark D. Steinberg, Nicholas Valentine RiasanovskyISBN 0195153944 (0-19-515394-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The History of Russia: Since 1855by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. SteinbergISBN 0195153936 (0-19-515393-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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History of the Russian Revolutionby Leon Trotsky, Ahmed ShawkiISBN 1931859450 (1-931859-45-0)
Softcover, Haymarket Books
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Livesby Alan BullockISBN 0679729941 (0-679-72994-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russianby James H. BillingtonISBN 0394708466 (0-394-70846-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Cultureby James H. BillingtonISBN 0844667544 (0-8446-6754-4)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture'Book summary:"A rich and readable introduction to the whole sweep of Russian cultural and intellectual history from Kievan times to the post-Khruschev era." - Library Journal. Illustrations, references, index. [via]
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Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russiaby Suzanne MassieISBN 096441841X (0-9644184-1-X)
Softcover, Heart Tree Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia'Book summary:'Land of the Firebird' is a WONDERFUL and ENGAGING in-depth look of Russian history from 987-1917, spanning the ascension of Vlad and the Orthodox Church to right before the Revolution. With colorful prose Suzanne Massie details the variety of Russian existence--tsars and serfs and merchant-princes and babushkas--no stone is left uncovered as she cross-references nearly a thousands years, writing with equal consideration of art, poetry, country-life, court-life, politics and its myriad games, myths and legends, influence "outside the sphere." [via]
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The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas IIby Edvard Radzinskii, Marian SchwartzISBN 0385469624 (0-385-46962-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II'Book summary:DoubleDay Hardcover 1992 2A Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines  sources never before available to create a  fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a  minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.  Updated For The Paperback Edition.From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
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Lenin: A Biographyby Robert ServiceISBN 0674008286 (0-674-00828-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empireby David RemnickISBN 0679751254 (0-679-75125-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire'Book summary:David Remnick was Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post between 1988 and 1991 and later a staffer at the New Yorker. While with The Post he covered events the emergence of perestroika, the taking of power by democrats, the failed Communist counter-coup of August 1991 and beyond. His gripping personal account of that historic period is filled with vivid sketches of people. He writes with passion of the twofold nature of the crimes of Stalinist communism--"murder and the unending assault against memory." His powerful literary style is suggested in the title, the mausoleum holding Lenin's body being a central image in his book for the construction and maintenance of the dead culture of communism. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. [via]
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russiaby Orlando FigesISBN 0312421958 (0-312-42195-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia'Book summary:History on a grand scale-an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations[via]
A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together.
Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg-a "window on the West"-and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself-its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works-by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall-with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. Figes's characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera's first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner's wife.
Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the spirit of "Russianness" is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory-a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state.More editions of Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia:
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Nicholas and Alexandraby Robert K. MassieISBN 157912433X (1-57912-433-X)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs lives: Nicholass political naïveté, Alexandras obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexiss brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and historythe story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.More editions of Nicholas and Alexandra:
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - Nicholas and Alexandra: ISBN 0440363586 (0-440-36358-6)
Softcover, Dell Publishing - Nicholas and Alexandra: ISBN 0613371623 (0-613-37162-3)
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A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolutionby Orlando FigesISBN 0670859168 (0-670-85916-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924by Orlando FigesISBN 014024364X (0-14-024364-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Peter the Great: His Life and His Worldby Robert K. MassieISBN 0394500326 (0-394-50032-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Peter the Great: His Life and Worldby Robert MassieISBN 0345298063 (0-345-29806-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century. [via]More editions of Peter the Great: His Life and World:
The Prophet Unarmed 1921-1929: Trotskyby Isaac DeutscherISBN 0195010949 (0-19-501094-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Prophet Unarmed--Trotsky, 1921-1929by Isaac DeutscherISBN 1859844464 (1-85984-446-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929'Book summary:This second volume tells of the struggle between Stalin and Trotsky and ends with the latter's banishment from Russia. [via]
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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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The Romanovs: The Final Chapterby Robert K. MassieISBN 0345406400 (0-345-40640-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Russia: A Historyby Gregory FreezeISBN 0198605110 (0-19-860511-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russia: A History'Book summary:In this heavily illustrated volume, English, American, and German (but, strangely, no Russian) scholars gather to discuss the development of Russia from its medieval founding in the face of Mongol invasions to the election of Boris Yeltsin. The authors are not reluctant to discuss unpleasant truths, such as the officially tolerated famine of the 1930s and the rise of totalitarianism. They also offer controversial theories, such as the view that Lenin, had he lived, would not have supported the cult of personality that surrounded him after his death. The authors take a generally positive view of Russia's democratic future, noting that the present specter of decline and stagnation ignores the fact that much of Russia's economy is kept in the shadows, presumably to avoid taxation, and that with more state intervention, not less, the economy will grow as the Russian state rebuilds itself. [via]
Russia and the Russians: A Historyby Geoffrey A. HoskingISBN 0674011147 (0-674-01114-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russia and the Russians: A History'Book summary:From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the history and destiny of Russia have unfolded. In a sweeping narrative, one of the English-speaking world's leading historians of Russia follows this story from the first emergence of the Slavs in the historical record in the sixth century C.E. to the Russians' persistent appearances in today's headlines. Hosking's is a monumental story of competing legacies, of an enormous power uneasily balanced between the ideas and realities of Asian empire, European culture, and Byzantine religion; of a constantly shifting identity, from Kievan Rus to Muscovy to Russian Empire to Soviet Union to Russian Federation, and of Tsars and leaders struggling to articulate that identity over the centuries.
With particular attention to non-Russian regions and ethnic groups and to Russia's relations with neighboring polities, Hosking lays out the links between political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena that have made Russia what it is--a world at once familiar and mysterious to Western observers. In a clear and engaging style, he conducts us through the Mongol invasions, the rise of autocracy, the reigns of Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great, the battle against Napoleon, the emancipation of the serfs, the Crimean War, the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin's reign of terror, the two World Wars, the end of the USSR, to today's war against Chechnya. Hosking's history is shot through with the understanding that becoming an empire has prevented Russia from becoming a nation and has perpetuated archaic personal forms of power. This book is the most penetrating and comprehensive account yet of what such a legacy has meant--to Russia, and to the world.
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The Russian Revolutionby Richard PipesISBN 0679736603 (0-679-73660-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Russian Revolution 1899-1919by Richard PipesISBN 1860463363 (1-86046-336-3)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Russiansby Hedrick SmithISBN 0812905210 (0-8129-0521-0)
Hardcover, Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russians'Book summary:Hedrick Smith has done what we all wish we could do: he has gone to Russia and spoken to the people. Over steaming samovars, in cramped flats, and on dirt-floors, he has spoken to peasants and bureaucrats, artists and officials. He has studied their customs and their governments and shares his fascinating insights and fresh perspectives with us. [via]
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Russkaby Edward RutherfurdISBN 0804109729 (0-8041-0972-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Spanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, poltics, and culture, Edward Rurtherford, author of the phenomenally successful SARUM: THE NOVEL OF ENGLAND, tells a grand saga that is as multifaceted as Russia itself. Here is a story of a great civilization made human, played out through the lives of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of their land.
"Rutherford's RUSSKA succeeds....[He] can take his place among an elite cadre of chroniclers such as Harold Lamb, Maurice Hindus and Henri Troyat."
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Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsarby Simon Sebag MontefioreISBN 1400076781 (1-4000-7678-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsar'Book summary:Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimesas many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulaghas given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century. But though the facts of Stalins reign are well known, this remarkable biography reveals a Stalin we have never seen before as it illuminates the vast foundationhuman, psychological and physicalthat supported and encouraged him, the men and women who did his bidding, lived in fear of him and, more often than not, were betrayed by him.
In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalins court from the time of his acclamation as leader in 1929, five years after Lenins death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of seventy-three. Through the lens of personalityStalins as well as those of his most notorious henchmen, Molotov, Beria and Yezhov among themthe author sheds new light on the oligarchy that attempted to create a new world by exterminating the old. He gives us the details of their quotidian and monstrous lives: Stalins favorites in music, movies, literature (Hemmingway, The Forsyte Saga and The Last of the Mohicans were at the top of his list), food and history (he took Ivan the Terrible as his role model and swore by Lenins dictum, A revolution without firing squads is meaningless ). We see him among his courtiers, his informal but deadly game of power played out at dinners and parties at Black Sea villas and in the apartments of the Kremlin. We see the debauchery, paranoia and cravenness that ruled the lives of Stalins inner court, and we see how the dictator played them one against the other in order to hone the awful efficiency of his killing machine.
With stunning attention to detail, Montefiore documents the crimes, small and large, of all the members of Stalins court. And he traces the intricate and shifting web of their relationships as the relative warmth of Stalins rule in the early 1930s gives way to the Great Terror of the late 1930s, the upheaval of World War II (there has never been as acute an account of Stalins meeting at Yalta with Churchill and Roosevelt) and the horrific postwar years when he terrorized his closest associates as unrelentingly as he did the rest of his country.
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar gives an unprecedented understanding of Stalins dictatorship, and, as well, a Stalin as human and complicated as he is brutal. It is a galvanizing portrait: razor-sharp, sensitive and unforgiving. [via]More editions of Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsar:
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Stalingradby Anthony BeevorISBN 0140249850 (0-14-024985-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalingrad'Book summary:Hitler made two fundamental and crippling mistakes during the Second World War. The first was his whimsical belief that the United Kingdom would eventually become his ally, which delayed his decision to launch a major invasion of Britain, whose army was unprepared for the force of blitzkrieg warfare. The second was the ill-conceived Operation Barbarossa--an invasion of Russia that was supposed to take the German army to the gates of Moscow. Antony Beevor's thoughtfully researched compendium recalls this epic struggle for Stalingrad. No-one, least of all the Germans, could foretell the deep well of Soviet resolve that would become the foundation of the Red Army; Russia, the Germans believed, would fall as swiftly as France and Poland. The ill-prepared Nazi forces were trapped in a bloody war of attrition against the Russian behemoth, which held them in the pit of Stalingrad for nearly two years. Beevor points out that the Russians were by no means ready for the war either, making their stand even more remarkable; Soviet intelligence spent as much time spying on its own forces--in fear of desertion, treachery and incompetence--as they did on the Nazis. Due attention is also given to the points of view of the soldiers and generals of both forces, from the sickening battles to life in the gulags.
Many believe Stalingrad to be the turning point of the war. The Nazi war machine proved to be fallible as it spread itself too thin for a cause that was born more from arrogance than practicality. The Germans never recovered, and its weakened defences were no match for the Allied invasion of 1944. We know little of what took place in Stalingrad or its overall significance, leading Beevor to humbly admit that "[t]he Battle of Stalingrad remains such an ideologically charged and symbolically important subject that the last word will not be heard for many years". This is true. But this gripping account should become the standard work against which all others should measure themselves. --Jeremy Storey [via]
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943by Antony BeevorISBN 0140284583 (0-14-028458-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943'Book summary:Hitler made two fundamental and crippling mistakes during the Second World War. The first was his whimsical belief that the United Kingdom would eventually become his ally, which delayed his decision to launch a major invasion of Britain, whose army was unprepared for the force of blitzkrieg warfare. The second was the ill-conceived Operation Barbarossa--an invasion of Russia that was supposed to take the German army to the gates of Moscow. Antony Beevor's thoughtfully researched compendium recalls this epic struggle for Stalingrad. No one, least of all the Germans, could foretell the deep well of Soviet resolve that would become the foundation of the Red Army; Russia, the Germans believed, would fall as swiftly as France and Poland. The ill-prepared Nazi forces were trapped in a bloody war of attrition against the Russian behemoth, which held them in the pit of Stalingrad for nearly two years. Beevor points out that the Russians were by no means ready for the war either, making their stand even more remarkable; Soviet intelligence spent as much time spying on its own forces--in fear of desertion, treachery and incompetence--as they did on the Nazis. Due attention is also given to the points of view of the soldiers and generals of both forces, from the sickening battles to life in the gulags.
Many believe Stalingrad to be the turning point of the war. The Nazi war machine proved to be fallible as it spread itself too thin for a cause that was born more from arrogance than practicality. The Germans never recovered, and its weakened defences were no match for the Allied invasion of 1944. We know little of what took place in Stalingrad or its overall significance, leading Beevor to humbly admit that "[t]he Battle of Stalingrad remains such an ideologically charged and symbolically important subject that the last word will not be heard for many years". This is true. But this gripping account should become the standard work against which all others should measure themselves. --Jeremy Storey [via]
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Ten Days That Shook the Worldby John ReedISBN 1404333924 (1-4043-3392-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Days That Shook the World'Book summary:The situation in St. Petersburg was growing more and more tense. The People's Revolution had begun by overthrowing the corrupt Tsarist regime in March 1917, but the workers and the peasants felt the revolution had much farther to go. Tired of fighting a war that meant little to them, the soldiers also grew restless: "When the land belongs to the peasants, and the factories to the workers, and the power to the Soviets, then we'll know we have something to fight for, and we'll fight for it!"
Lenin pressed the Bolsheviks to seize power. On the night of October 24, an organized mass of workers, soldiers, peasants, and sailors stormed the Winter Palace. On the following day, at the opening of the second Congress of Soviets, Trotsky announced the overthrow of the provisional government. Counterrevolutionary forces marched on the capital, but the Revolutionary Army triumphed. After all, "[t]his was their battle, for their world; the officers in command were elected by them. For the moment that incoherent multiple will was one will."
In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed tells the story of Red October and the Russian revolution from a unique, firsthand perspective. Reed, an American journalist, was on assignment in Russia for The Masses--then the principal radical journal in the United States--and spent his days walking the streets, reading and collecting handbills, newspapers, and posters, and talking to people. As a result, Ten Days crackles with energetic immediacy. At its best moments it reads like a novel: Reed recounts conversations and arguments, details political machinations, and speculates on personal motives. Though this is no mere piece of propaganda, Reed's enthusiasm for the revolution infuses the text (some readers may be put off by Reed's florid prose), casting each counterrevolutionary act in a negative light. Helpful notes flesh out the background for those less familiar with the preceding events and render this a solid work of history. Ten Days That Shook the World is a stirring account of a stirring event. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Archipiélago Gulag : 1918-1956: Ensayo de Investigación Literariaby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Enrique Fernández Vernet, Josep Ma GüellISBN 8483100460 (84-8310-046-0)
Hardcover, Tusquets Editores
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Gulag / Gulag: Historia de los Campos de Concentracion Sovieticos / History of the Soviet Concentration Campsby Anne Applebaum, Magdalena ChocanoISBN 8483065789 (84-8306-578-9)
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Stalingradoby Anthony BeevorISBN 8484321290 (84-8432-129-0)
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History of the Russian Revolutionby Leon TrotskyISBN 0873488024 (0-87348-802-4)
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