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Soviet women on the frontline in the Second World War
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Roger D. Markwick |
"More than 800,000 Soviet women fought against Hitler's onslaught during the 'Great Patriotic War,' 1941-45. Female participation in military conflict on such a scale is historically unique. This is … |
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Containing Russia's nuclear firebirds
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Glenn E. Schweitzer |
"In Containing Russia's Nuclear Firebirds, Glenn E. Schweitzer explores the life and legacy of the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow. He makes the case that the center's unique pr… |
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Putinism
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Walter Laqueur |
There is no question that tensions between Russia and America are on the rise. The forced annexation of Crimea, the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, and the Russian government's treatment of h… |
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Caught in the revolution
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Helen Rappaport |
"Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold. Between the… |
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The last days of Stalin
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Joshua Rubenstein |
"Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. … |
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Putin
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Richard Lourie |
"This electrifying and supremely timely book by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie explores Putin's failures, missed opportunities, and probable future moves. Readers discover, for example, where … |
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Curtain of lies
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Melissa Feinberg |
"While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the narratives of both East and West. From the Soviet Union and its sa… |
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Stalin's citizens
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Serhy Yekelchyk |
"The first study of the everydayness of political life under Stalin, this book examines Soviet citizenship through common practices of expressing Soviet identity in the public space. The Stalinist st… |
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Stalin
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Stephen Kotkin |
"A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russ… |
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Empire of extinction
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Ryan Tucker Jones |
"In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and … |
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Neva
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Guillermo Calderon |
"This politically charged, haunting yet humorous meditation on theater and the revolutionary impulse tells the story of three actors, including Anton Chekhov's widow, who gather to rehearse scenes fr… |
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The house of the dead
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Daniel Beer |
"The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolution… |
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Bears in the streets
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Lisa Dickey |
"Lisa Dickey traveled across the whole of Russia three times--in 1995, 2005 and 2015--making friends in eleven different cities, then coming back again and again to see how their lives had changed. L… |
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The Crimean nexus
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Konstantin Pleshakov |
viii, 200 pages ; 22 cm |
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