Russia category: 2582 books
The Early Slavs
Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The history of the early Slavs is a subject of renewed interest and one which is highly controversial both politically and historically. This pioneering text reviews the latest archaelogical (and other) evidence concerning the first settlers, their cultural identities and their relationship with their...
Dancing Bears
True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
***As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered*
“Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szabłowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.” —Timothy Snyder,...
Poland Betrayed
The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
An in-depth history of the attack that began World War II, and one country’s courageous fight against two unstoppable forces.
Hitler’s military offensive against Poland on September 1, 1939 was the brutal act that triggered the start of World War II, wreaking six years of death and bloodshed...
by Norman M. Naimark
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these...
Women of the Gulag
Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral...
by Nick Shepley
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This is the essential guide to mastering the Russian Revolution that doesn't simply focus on straight facts but guides students through the essential core arguments and debates. In ten chapters it explores everything from the long term causes of the revolution to the power struggle between Trotsky...
Khrushchev's Cold Summer
Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included...
by Mr. Richard Bidlack, Nikita Lomagin, Ms Marian Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941–44 siege of Leningrad, during which close to one million citizens perished....
by J. Arch Getty, Oleg V. Naumov, Benjamin Sher
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
by Paul R. Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
An enlightening look into the once-secret Soviet state and party archives that Western scholars first gained access to in the early 1990s. Paul Gregory breaks down a decades-old wall of secrecy to reveal intriguing new information on such subjects as Stalin's Great Terror, the day-to-day life of Gulag...
The Magic Lantern
The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections -- in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of...
by T. Tchernavin
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
Escape from the Soviets chronicles the Tchernavins leaving the U.S.S.R.
The Bedbug
Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious spy - but he was never licensed to kill. Instead, he was authorised to bemuse and beguile his enemies into revealing their deepest, darkest secrets. From the Russian Revolution to the Cold War, he bluffed and tricked his way into the confidence of everyone...