Russia And Soviet History – all Bücher, Page 3

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen,
Past and Thoughts

Alexander Herzen's Past and Thoughts was the most influential memoir in tsarist Russia. Passionate and insightful, Herzen watched both eagerly and warily as Europeans sought liberation via the modern nati…

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Sonya Vesterholt,
Dog Doing Well

In this poignant and darkly humorous memoir, Sonya Vesterholt recounts her experiences growing up in Leningrad during the Stalin era and the post-Stalin "thaw."This collection of memories, stori…

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Irina Borogan, Andrei Soldatov
Our Dear Friends in Moscow

Two of Russia's most prominent investigative journalists tell the "gripping" (Foreign Policy) story of how the hopes of their generation of optimistic Russians in the 1990s faded to be replaced …

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Peter Pomerantsev
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first-century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show "A gripping and unsettling account." ---Washington PostProfessional killers…

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Antonella Salomoni,
The Secret Protocol

In 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany agreed to a nonaggression treaty known by the names of its signatories, foreign ministers Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Kept hidden from the public w…

lieferbar ab 6.1.2026.

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Filip Slaveski, Yuri Shapoval
Stalin's Liquidation Game

Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalin's Soviet Union during the 1930s and forced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Oleksandr Shums¿kyi, the Ukrainian Marxist revolutionary, was one o…

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Nastassja Martin,
East of Dreams

"After working in Alaska with the Gwich'in people, Nastassja Martin crossed the Bering Strait to begin comparative research in Kamchatka. During the Soviet era, the Even, a nomadic reindeer herding p…

lieferbar ab 12.5.2026.

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Antonia Senior
Stalin's Apostles

The riveting story of the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five, who infiltrated the highest levels of the British establishment and helped Stalin cement a half century of Soviet domination over Easte…

lieferbar ab 26.5.2026.

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Craig W H Luther
Guderian's Panzers

From unstoppable blitzkrieg to brutal defeat---follow Guderian's panzers as they race toward Moscow and collide with disaster.On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the surprise inv…

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Alexander Podrabinek,
Between Prison and Freedom

This thrilling memoir documents the early life of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek as he and other dissidents fearlessly fought against the Soviet Union.Between Prison and…

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N M Borodin
One Man in His Time

An extraordinary rediscovered memoir of one man striving to make a distinguished scientific career--and live an ordinary life--amidst the brutal purges of Stalinist Russia"Remarkable. . . an astonish…

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Stephan Hammel
Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History

Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History makes a convincing case for the relevance, appropriateness, and usefulness of historical materialism to the musicological project.The book interrogates the…

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Mikhail Baitalsky
Notebooks for the Grandchildren

Notebooks for the Grandchildren is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand what went wrong after the great Russian Revolution of 1917.Through the eyes of young Ukrainians like himself, …

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Iain Pears
Parallel Lives

Praise for Iain PearsThe Dream of Scipio"A thrilling journey through history, into the human heart and soul." - Geraldine Brooks, Washington Post"[Iain Pears] invests his complex story with…

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Filip Slaveski, Yuri Shapoval
Stalin's Liquidation Game

Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalin's Soviet Union during the 1930s in different waves of mass repression. Under violent interrogation, many were forced to confess to crimes they did not c…

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Marlene Laruelle
Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime

Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current Russian government, as well as what is happening inside the mind of Vladimir Putin. Refusing pundits' clichés that…

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Tsuyoshi Hasegawa,
Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution

В феврале 1917-го в России пала монархия, а осенью того же года к власти пришли большевики. Ликование от новообретенной свободы быстро сменилось страхом и беспорядками, пришедшими вслед за упразднением по…

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Marlene Laruelle
Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime

Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current Russian government, as well as what is happening inside the mind of Vladimir Putin. Refusing pundits' clichés that…

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Michael David-Fox
Crucibles of Power

The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century's most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their experiences under Stalinist and Nazi rule to unravel the threads of authoritariani…

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Ludmila Ulitskaya,
Just the Plague

Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report to his superiors. Inadvertently, he carries the virus with him from the lab. When his i…

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