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Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism rejects the simplistic treatment of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian government that tightly controlled its citizens.
Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Family
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
£10.99
He was rich, secretive and - through his friendship with a famous Russian singer - implicated in the abduction of a white Russian general in Paris in 1937.Motty Eitingon was a New York fur dealer whose connections with the Soviet Union made him the largest trader in the world.
Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs
Paperback,
01/03/2009,
£8.99
A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives. Thirteen days later, at Yurovsky's command, and on direct orders from Moscow, the family was gunned down in a blaze of bullets in a basement room.
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Paperback,
01/03/2010,
£10.99
Conspirator is the compelling story of Lenin's exile: the years in which he and his political collaborators plotted a revolution that would change 20th century history.
Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus
Paperback,
03/03/2011,
£14.99
The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia's attempts to add them to its empire. Travelling from remote village to refugee camp, rocky mountain gorge to forgotten massacre site, the author discovers exiles, fighters, defiant survivors - and an unbreakable spirit.
Last Man in Russia: And The Struggle To Save A Dying Nation
Paperback,
14/02/2005,
£9.99
The author travels across Russia, from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept villages, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man, the dissident Orthodox priest Father Dmitry. In this book, he tells the story of a nation: famine, war, the frozen wastes of the Gulag, the collapse of communism and now, a people seeking oblivion.
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia
Paperback,
21/09/2017,
£9.99
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, bohemian theatre directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators and oligarch revolutionaries.
Lost Pianos of Siberia: In search of Russia's remarkable survivors
Hardback,
06/02/2020,
£18.99
'An extraordinary, cadenced journey into music, exile and landscape.' EDMUND DE WAAL'An elegant and nuanced journey through literature, through history, through music, murder and incarceration and revolution, through snow and ice and remoteness, to discover the human face of Siberia.
Stalin: The Georgian student priest who became one of the 20th century's most notorious mass murderers
Paperback,
25/10/2018,
£9.99
Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Paperback,
02/06/2016,
£9.99
The timely and gripping story of Russia since the collapse of Communism, by The Economist's Moscow bureau chief.
Romanovs: 1613-1918
Paperback,
01/02/2017,
£12.99
The internationally bestselling epic history of Russia's imperial dynasty
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917
Paperback,
09/02/2017,
£9.99
Between the first revolution in February 1917, and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd was in turmoil. Foreign visitors who filled hotels, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps. Among them were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, governesses and volunteer nurses.
Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
Hardback,
26/01/2017,
£25.00
A panoramic account of the Russian empire from the last years of the nineteenth century, through revolution and civil war, to the brutal collectivization and crash industrialization under Stalin in the late 1920s
Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future
Paperback,
21/04/2016,
£9.99
On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. While officials tried to hush up the accident, the author spent years collecting testimonies from survivors. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, this book shows what it is like to remember in a world that wants you to forget.
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia
Paperback,
31/03/2016,
£10.99
Based on a study in Russian and many other foreign archives, this title explains why this suicidal decision was made and explores the world of the men who made it, thereby consigning their entire class to death or exile and making their country the victim of a uniquely terrible political experiment under Lenin and Stalin.
Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
Paperback,
21/02/2002,
£7.99
Provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. This very short introduction examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole - on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, and youth.
Russia
Paperback,
02/04/2009,
£14.99
The author crosses eight time zones and covers 10,000 miles in an attempt to get to the beating heart of the Russia. This is a personal odyssey and a mesmerizing account of a country undergoing economic, cultural and political change.
Postcards from the Russian Revolution
Hardback,
01/04/2008,
£8.99
The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was one of the most important events of the 20th century. It has been studied from many angles, but never before from the visual perspective of postcards. This is a unique visual record capturing the fading splendour of monarchy and the mood of revolution which swept through the country.
From Tsar to Soviets: Russian People and Their Revolution, 1917-21
Paperback,
29/01/1996,
£31.99
Written from the perspective of the factory worker and peasant at the ground level, this study of Russia during the Revolution 1917-21 aims to shed light on the realities of living through and participating in these tumultuous events.
Stalin Vol 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Paperback,
29/10/2015,
£16.99
In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and industry across the entire Soviet Union. This book offers an explanation yet of Stalin's power.
Origins of the Russian Revolution, 1861-1917 3ed
Paperback,
26/06/2003,
£20.99
A concise introduction to the Russian Revolution and its origins dating back to the emancipation of the Russian peasant serfs in 1861.
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