Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Architect of Soviet victory in World War II Architect of Soviet victory in World War II Richard W. Harrison "This book draws from analysis of Isserson's works, his arrest file in the KGB archives, and interviews with his family. The bulk of this narrative deals with the flowering of his intellectual talent… OL15092170W
Время сэконд хэнд Время сэконд хэнд Светлана Алексиевич "From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the … OL16813790W
Between two revolutions Between two revolutions Peter Waldron "Why was Russia's tsarist regime ill-prepared to face the 1917 Revolution? Peter Waldron examines the crucial period between the success of the autocracy in retaining power in the 1905 Revolution and… OL2728345W
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin David Downing Follows the life of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, who became the first head of the Soviet state. OL3500922W
In the land of white death In the land of white death Valerian Albanov,Linda Dubosson,Valerian Ivanovich Alʹbanov In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prov… OL4182186W