Russia category: 2582 books
Stalin
Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history
In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over...
Only One Year
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
After the success of her New York Times-bestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva—subject of Rosemary Sullivan’s critically acclaimed biography Stalin’s Daughter—penned this riveting account of her year-long journey to defect from...
The Romanov Sisters
The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A 12-WEEK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses." —People magazine
"The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, but Rappaport captures sections of letters and diary entries to showcase...
Catherine the Great
Love, Sex, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophers—the Empress Catherine II, the Great, was all these things, and more. Her reign, the longest in Russian Imperial history, lasted...
by Robert K. Massie
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
**“Riveting . . . unfolds like a detective story.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review **
In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three...
by Andrew Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
The overthrow and execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family is a cause célèbre of 20th century history. Andrew Cooks re-investigation of the story finally solves one of the greatest mysteries of world history. The author draws upon new forensic evidence and newly discovered British...
by Robert K. Massie
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the...
The Imperial Tea Party
Family, politics and betrayal – the ill-fated British and Russian royal alliance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
The British and Russian royal families had just three full meetings before the Romanovs’ tragic end in 1918. In The Imperial Tea Party, Frances Welch draws back the curtain on those fraught encounters, which had far-reaching consequences for 20th-century Europe and beyond.
Russia and Britain...
by Catherine The Great
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
'Your Majesty may find it extraordinary that I should answer with a shipment of fruit your letter of 6 August, in which you inform me that you are sending the plan for a treaty, and that of the 8 September, in which you are so good as to share with me equally important intelligence. Things big and...
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
A Memoir of Food and Longing
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
**A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations
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Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families...
The Cold War
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world
We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet...
by Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another...
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary...
Stalin
Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world
It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band...