Russia category: 2582 books
Savage Shorthand
The Life and Death of Isaac Babel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Hailed as the first great Soviet writer, Isaac Babel was at once a product and a victim of violent revolution. In tales of Cossack marauders and flashy Odessa gangsters, he perfectly captured the raw, edgy mood of the first years of the Russian Revolution. Masked, reckless, impassioned, charismatic,...
Conspirator
Lenin in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin now seems to have emerged fully formed in the turbulent wake ofWorldWar I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenin's character was in fact forged much earlier, over the course of years spent in exile, constantly on the move, and in disguise.
In...
Deathride
Hitler vs. Stalin - The Eastern Front, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, began a war that lasted nearly four years and created by far the bloodiest theater in World War II. In the conventional narrative of this war, Hitler was defeated by Stalin because, like Napoleon, he underestimated the size and resources of...
Russian Roulette
How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II-a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all...
Between East and West
Across the Borderlands of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
In the summer and fall of 1991, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain, took a three month road trip through the freshly independent borderlands of Eastern Europe. She deftly weaves the harrowing history of the region and captures the effects of political upheaval...
Stalin, the Five Year Plans and the Gulags
Slavery and Terror 1929-53
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
From the personal accounts of those devoured by the great darkness of Stalin's Russia, the Explaining History series details the explosive growth of Stalin's vast industrial revolution, and the explosive growth of his terror and the slave camps that held his victims.The lives of workers, peasants, Poles...
by Rane Willerslev
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
If I had let myself be ruled by reason alone, I would surely be lying dead somewhere or another in the Siberian frost. The Siberian taiga: a massive forest region of roughly 4.5 million square miles, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Bering Sea, breathtakingly beautiful and the coldest inhabited...
The Red Wake
A Hybrid of Travel, History and Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
A hybrid of history, travel and journalism.
Kurt has long been captivated by 'the communists' from his immigrant grandparents' past, transfixed by stories of the Soviet Union, the place where history happened. In the West, the Soviet universe has long been consigned to the dustbin of history,...
Lenin
The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man.
Brought...
A Brief History of Communism
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This book is the story of the men who believed they knew how to create an ideal world, and in its name did not hesitate to sacrifice millions of innocent lives.
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 1917, it is important to understand how a small band of Communists was able...
by Alexei Ivanov, Philip Jowett
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria was the first 20th century conflict fought between the regular armies of major powers, employing the most modern means – machine guns, trench warfare, minefields and telephone communications; and the battle of Mukden in March 1905 was the largest clash of armies...
by Nigel Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
This book is a detailed analysis of the Soviet Army at the outbreak of World War II, including the Red Army's campaigns against Japan on the Manchurian plains as well as in Finland. It covers the Red Army's first operations during Operation Barbarossa when the Red Army was forced to defend Mother...
Death and Redemption
The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but...
Russian and Soviet History
From the Time of Troubles to the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
An original and thought-provoking text, Russian and Soviet History uses noteworthy themes and important events from Russian history to spark classroom discussion. Consisting of twenty essays written by experts in each area, the book does not simply repeat the conventional themes found in nearly all...