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Another Winter, Another Spring: A Love Remembered

by Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

Swedish-born Louise Flach finds herself in the heart of the Russian Revolution. This is a tale of love and loyalty tested by great hardship and suffering.

The Russian Fur Trade, 1550-1700

by Raymond H. Fisher

An overview of the Russian fur trade during the Muscovite period and its role in Russia's economic development. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org)...

Putin's Russia

by Anna Politkovskaya

A searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from “the bravest of Russian

journalists” (The New York Times)

Hailed as “a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness” (New Statesman),...

For the Soul of Mankind

by Melvyn P. Leffler

To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen?...

The Crimean War

by Orlando Figes

Please note that the maps available in the print edition do not appear in the ebook.

From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that...

Molotov's Magic Lantern

by Rachel Polonsky

When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was the ruthless apparatchik...

Alexandra

by Carolly Erickson

Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, Erickson portrays Alexandra's story as a closely observed, enthrallingly documented, progressive psychological retreat from reality....

The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB

by James Risen & Milton Bearden

A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the...

Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse

by Lawrence Scott Sheets

A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it.

Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute...

The Red Army in Combat 1941-1945

by Bob Carruthers

"We have to ensure that the offensive is not only 100% successful, but 200%!" General Zhukov, Vistula-Oder Offensive, 1945 This fascinating compilation of wartime battlefield reports drawn from Russian and German...

A Hero of Our Time (Illustrated)

by Mikhail Lermontov, Marr Murray & J. H. Wisdom

A Hero of Our Time is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov published in 1840. It tells the story of a young officer, Pechorin, sent to the Caucasus after a duel. This is what the author himself wrote about his idea...

Among the Russians

by Colin Thubron

Here is a fresh perspective on the last tumultuous years of the Soviet Union and an exquisitely poetic travelogue.With a keen grasp of Russia's history, a deep appreciation for its architecture and iconography,...

The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry

by Elie Wiesel

In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach Jews who had...