The Soviet Century, Paperback

A young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbour who saved his life. One of the first twe...

In the tradition of their Haunting of the Presidents, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes write The Haunting of America:...

Reducere. A legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek "is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic-...

Reducere. Considered by some to be the greatest general of World War II, General Georgi Zhukov served as the Chief of Staff of the Soviet High Command, leadi...

Reducere. The six stories in Andrew Boden's debut collection comprise a reinvented history of the town of Cranbrook, British Columbia, from its birth in the ...

Reducere. A true story told through the memoirs of Victor Kramchaninova and his family, these memoirs are a 20th Century Ukrainian odyssey that spans both Wo...

Reducere. Life is not easy in the Soviet Union at mid-20th century, especially for a factory worker who becomes an unwed mother. But Antonina is lucky to get...

Reducere. Nicholas Alexandrovich Berdyaev (1874-1948) was a Russian philosopher and activist who changed the philosophical, aesthetic and religious landscape...

Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, cu...

The veritable tsunami of anxieties that are affecting individual lives, the increasingly dysfunctional nature of society and the potential catastro...

Reducere. Sakhalin Island or Karafuto as it is known in Japan changed hands a number of times during the course of its history. Each change had a far-reachin...

Reducere. D-503 is a mathematician and citizen of One State, a totalitarian society whose inhabitants live passionless lives under the all-powerful 'Benefact...

Reducere. Here is an essential collection of essays and speeches from 1889 to 1933, long unavailable in the United States, on women's equality, labor, peace ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading " T]he Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic. It...

"The Gimmicks is a gorgeous epic that astounds with its scope and beauty. With empathy and humor, McCormick unravels the ties between brotherhood a...

Reducere. Since the last full life of G. I. Gurdjieff appeared in 1991, a number of books have corrected received facts and disclosed new information on sele...

The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in pos...

Using a box of her father's tape recordings, Annette Libeskind Berkovits weaves together an unforgettable story of a Jewish family before, during, ...

Reducere. HUMOR AND DANGER MELD PERFECTLY... "A multifaceted story...plenty of surprises...And what an ending!" - New York Journal of Books Interior Decorato...

Reducere. Many know of Shambhala, the Tibetan Buddhist legendary land of spiritual bliss popularized by the film, Shangri-La. But few may know of the role Sh...

The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was supposed to bring about the "end of history" with capitalism and liberal democ...

Reducere. For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way ima...

Reducere. Plague is a terrifying mystery. In the Middle Ages, it wiped out 40 million people -- 40 percent of the total population in Europe. Seven hundred y...

For Westerners, the modern state of Azerbaijan may be hard to pinpoint. This small, oil-rich country in the southern Caucasus, on the southwestern ...

Reducere. On October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pound...

Reducere. Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adve...

Provides a window for understanding the disintegrative forces that stymied Gorbachev's reforms and eventually defeated him, undermining the country...

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Russia and th...

Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page turning, epic family saga centering on three generations of wo...

Reducere. Ron Ridenour's book, The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert, a true historical page-turner, is destined to endure and inform future readers, w...

Reducere. From acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth--where music reveals the deep humanity and the r...

The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Anni...

Reducere. The Clever Teens' Guide to the Cold War: The perfect guide for background reading or revision. From the end of World War Two to the collapse of the...

Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intell...

A study of Communism and a history of the myth of Communism as perpetuated by its admirers. This book illuminates how the support for Communism and...

Reducere. Virtually the entire Soviet effort on the Eastern Front of World War II bears the stamp of Georgy Zhukov, chief of staff of the Red Army and deputy...

Reducere. Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more p...

"A fresh and fast-paced study of one of the most important crimes of the twentieth century" (The Washington Post), The Brother now discloses new in...

The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Publi...

Reducere. Through the centuries, the intricacies of fluid mechanics -- the study of the laws of motion and fluids in motion -- have occupied many of history'...

Reducere. Soviet Women in Combat explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young women's en masse volunteering for World War II combat in 19...

Reducere. In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. En...

DescriptionRiga may be over 800 years old as a city, but its status as capital of an independent Latvia is only a century old, with half of that ti...

DescriptionIn January 2006, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's David...

Reducere. Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military, and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human hi...

Reducere. In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often syno...

Reducere. The Holy Mountain of Athos is a self-governing monastic republic on a peninsula in Northern Greece. Standing on the shores of the Aegean Sea is one...

Reducere. Last Western Empire A History of U.S. Foreign Policy by Anthony Gronowicz. The United States, founded as an extension of the British Empire, never ...

Reducere. As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own traditions and those of t...

Reducere. The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, C...

To the surprise of many, the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991, and out of its ruins arose an independent Ukraine. This was a remarkable achieve...

Reducere. September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this tr...

Cafferty covers the career of the brilliantly aggressive and stunningly speculative Soviet Grandmaster Boris Spassky through where he conquers Petr...

Reducere. Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after...

Reducere. The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promi...

Reducere. Played on frozen ponds in cold northern lands, hockey seemed an especially unlikely game to gain a global following. But from its beginnings in the...

Reducere. A fantastic cornucopia of print propaganda by Soviet Russia's avant-garde artists and writersHoused in a printed slipcase, Avant-garde and Propagan...

Reducere. Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim world. But fol...

Reducere. A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle--not over land but over human subject...

Reducere. The late 1920s... Convicted of murdering his father, Artiom Goriainov is serving a sentence of several years on the Solovki Archipelago. Artiom is ...

Reducere. For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why...

Reducere. Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongol...

Abundant, newly discovered sources shatter long-held beliefs The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 revealed, among many other things, a hidden w...

Reducere. A gifted writer for the anarchist movement, Alexander Berkman left Russia for the United States in 1888 when he was eighteen. Thirty-one years late...

Reducere. Bears in the Caviar is a hilarious and insightful memoir by a diplomat who was "present at the creation" of US-Soviet relations. Charles Thayer hea...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

Reducere. Working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful figures in ...

Reducere. DescriptionA classic novel arising from the Soviet Union in the thirties, How the Steel Was Tempered is a fictionalized account of author Nikolai O...

Reducere. What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century? Standard narratives focus on Soviet-American rivalry ...

In the Soviet Union of the sixties, Katya is given a piano which she will treasure across life. In twenty-first century California, Clara has to mo...