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    Gorbachev: The Man and His Era by

    This is the definitive biography on one of the most important and controversial figures of the 20th century. Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts ...

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  • Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine 1921-33 by

    The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been ...

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  • The Russian Revolution: A New History by

    At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920 the ...

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  • The Unwomanly Face of War by

    'Extraordinary. . . it would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverBBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ...

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  • Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by

    William Taubman's brilliant biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts - how the boy from a ...

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  • October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by

    The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary ...

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  • The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by

    The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined ...

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  • Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of theTsars to Today by

    On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, dragging one of ...

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  • Nicholas II, The Last Tsar by

    The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant event in Russian history ...

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  • The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE, THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE AND THE LONGMAN HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2017 THE TIMES, BBC HISTORY and TLS ...

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  • Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953 by

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION. War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the ...

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  • Boys in Zinc by

    Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'A masterpiece of reportage' (New York Review of Books) - A ...

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  • Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction by

    What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? Orlando Figes teaches history at Birkbeck, University of ...

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  • The Empress of Art - Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia by

    An art-oriented biography of the mighty Catherine the Great, who rose from seemingly innocuous beginnings to become one of the most powerful people in the ...

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  • Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait by

    Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant figures of the ...

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