Russia category: 2582 books
Operation Barbarossa
The German Invasion of Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
When Hitler ordered the start of Operation Barbarossa, millions of German soldiers flooded into Russia, believing that their rapid blitzkrieg tactics would result in the an easy victory similar to the ones enjoyed by the Wehrmacht over Poland and France. But the huge human resources at the disposal...
Mountain of the Dead
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Dyatlov Pass incident resulted in nine unsolved, mysterious deaths; Keith McCloskey attempts to decipher the bizzare events that led up to that night and the subsequent aftermathIn January 1959, 10 experienced young skiers set out to travel to a mountain named Mount Otorten in the far north...
by Solomon Volkov
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and...
Fear and the Muse Kept Watch
The Russian Masters-from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein-Under Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
In this dazzling exploration of one of the most contradictory periods of literary and artistic achievement in modern history, journalist Andy McSmith evokes the lives of more than a dozen of the most brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. Taking us deep into Stalin’s Russia, Fear...
by Mark Galeotti
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
While the size of Russia's regular forces has shrunk recently, its security and paramilitary elements have become increasingly powerful. Under the Putin regime they have proliferated and importantly seem set to remain Russia's most active armed agencies for the immediate future. In parallel, within...
by Geoffrey Swain
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Supporters of Stalin saw Trotsky as a traitor and renegade. Trotsky’s own supporters saw him as the only true Leninist. In Trotsky and the Russian Revolution, Geoffrey Swain restores Trotsky to his real and central role in the Russian Revolution. In this succinct and comprehensive study, Swain contests...
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel
Growing Up in Communist Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
The prizewinning memoir of one of the world’s great writers, about coming of age as an enemy of the people and finding her voice in Stalinist Russia**
Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol...
Putin's Kleptocracy
Who Owns Russia?
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater...
by Sergei Lebedev
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among...
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by Pitirim A. Sorokin
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The reminiscences of a fiercely anti-Communist Petrograd professor, Pitirim A. Sorokin—from the February Revolution right through to his departure from Russia in September 1922.
This is the enlarged edition published almost 30 years after the first 1924 publication and contains the additional...
The Dilemmas of Lenin
Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The secret life of the man who reshaped Russia
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and...
The Russian Revolution
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The definitive, single-volume history of the Russian Revolution, from an award-winning scholar
In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world. Between 1917 and...
A Child of Christian Blood
Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre.
On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian...
Germany Ascendant
The Eastern Front 1915
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The massive offensives on the Eastern Front during 1915 are often overshadowed by the events in Western Europe, but the scale and ferocity of the clashes between Imperial Germany, Hapsburg Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia were greater than anything seen on the Western Front and ultimately as important...