Russia category: 2582 books
In the Shadow of the Shtetl
Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some 400 returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey...
by Duncan Anderson, Lloyd Clark, Stephen Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The conflict on the Eastern Front in World War II was colossal in both scale and intensity, as the two infamous dictators of the twentieth century Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin vied for supremacy in Eastern Europe. On 22 June 1941 it was Hitler's fateful decision to launch the largest invasion ever...
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 Volume 1. The German Advance The Encirclement Battle and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives 10 July-24 August 1941
The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle, and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
At dawn on 10 July 1941 massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers beginning what Adolf Hitler the Führer of Germany's Third Reich and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march...
Ivan's War
Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources
Of the thirty million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells...
White Fever
A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
No one in their right mind travels across Siberia in the middle of winter in a modified Russian jeep, with only a CD player (which breaks on the first day) for company. But Jacek Hugo-Bader is no ordinary traveler. As a fiftieth birthday present to himself, he sets out to drive from Moscow to Vladivostok,...
When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank
History's Unknown Chapters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
More addictive and mind-blowing true tales from history, told by Giles Milton—one of today’s most entertaining and accessible yet always intelligent and illuminating historians
In When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank, the second installment in his outrageously entertaining...
by William Taubman
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
**A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
“Essential reading for the twenty-first [century].” —Radhika Jones, The New York Times Book Review**
In the first comprehensive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy clambered to the top of a system...
by Francis Spufford
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
"Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London)
Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which...
by Antony Beevor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
In his latest work, Antony Beevor—bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem and one of our most respected historians of World War II—brings us the true, little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece of playwright...
Journey to Chernobyl
Encounters in a Radioactive Zone
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Glenn Cheney arrived in Kiev during those first days when the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Ukraine was reborn. Almost immediately he found himself talking with scientist, journalist, refugees, engineers, top-level government officials, doctors, environmentalists, parents of sick children and people...
The Feud
Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania.
In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States....
A Bearskins Crimea
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Percy VC and his Brother Officers
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Using much previously untapped source material A Bearskin's Crimea is a blow-by-blow account of the Grenadier Guards' experiences in the Crimean War. The principal character, The Honourable Henry Percy, a member of the distiguished and powerful Northumberland family (known as 'The Kings of the North'),...
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by Henry Grady Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Author Henry Grady Weaver was convinced that human liberty is the mainspring of progress, and that government tends always to tyranny. In this book, first published in 1947, Weaver popularizes these themes for the American people.
This is the Revised Edition first published in 1953, containing Weaver’s revisions discussed and agreed prior to his untimely death in 1949.
The Greatest Catastrophe of the 20th Century. Or, How the Soviet Union Disintegrated in 1991.
SHORT STORY # 31. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The Soviet Union disintegration in 1991 was a curse and not a blessing for the USA and the Western Europe. Their economies eventually spiraled down due to rampant laws of a fee market economy, categorized by "expansion in all directions without any restrictions."
The USA is sinking...