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Resurrection
Written by David Remnick
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75023-6 (0-375-75023-1)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick chronicles the new Russia that emerged from the ash heap of the Soviet Union. From the siege of Parliament to the farcically tilted elections of 1996, from the rubble of Grozny to the grandiose wealth and naked corruption of today's Moscow, Remnick chronicles a society so... Read more >
Written by David Remnick
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75023-6 (0-375-75023-1)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick chronicles the new Russia that emerged from the ash heap of the Soviet Union. From the siege of Parliament to the farcically tilted elections of 1996, from the rubble of Grozny to the grandiose wealth and naked corruption of today's Moscow, Remnick chronicles a society so... Read more >
Konin
One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community
Written by Theo Richmond
Format: Trade Paperback, 572 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75823-5 (0-679-75823-2)
In 1939 the Polish town of Konin vanished in the wake of Nazi occupation. Twenty-five years later, Theo Richmond set out to find what he could about that vanished world. He traveled across the United States, Europe, and Israel, tracing survivors and sifting through archives and the stories of those he... Read more >
One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community
Written by Theo Richmond
Format: Trade Paperback, 572 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75823-5 (0-679-75823-2)
In 1939 the Polish town of Konin vanished in the wake of Nazi occupation. Twenty-five years later, Theo Richmond set out to find what he could about that vanished world. He traveled across the United States, Europe, and Israel, tracing survivors and sifting through archives and the stories of those he... Read more >
Stalin's General
The Life of Georgy Zhukov
Written by Geoffrey Roberts
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6692-6 (1-4000-6692-1)
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The Life of Georgy Zhukov
Written by Geoffrey Roberts
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6692-6 (1-4000-6692-1)
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The Haunted Land
Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Written by Tina Rosenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 19, 1996
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74499-3 (0-679-74499-1)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
In The Haunted Land Rosenberg examines how four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe--East Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic--are dealing with the memories of forty years of communism. As these nations struggle to atone for the crimes committed during their... Read more >
Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Written by Tina Rosenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 19, 1996
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74499-3 (0-679-74499-1)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
In The Haunted Land Rosenberg examines how four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe--East Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic--are dealing with the memories of forty years of communism. As these nations struggle to atone for the crimes committed during their... Read more >
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Echoes of a Native Land
Two Centuries of a Russian Village
Written by Serge Schmemann
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75707-8 (0-679-75707-4)
Tracing the lives of his Russian forebears, Serge Schmemann, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, tells a remarkable story that spans the past two hundred years of Russian history.
First, he draws on a family archive rich in pictorial as well as documentary treasure to bring us into the... Read more >
Two Centuries of a Russian Village
Written by Serge Schmemann
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75707-8 (0-679-75707-4)
Tracing the lives of his Russian forebears, Serge Schmemann, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, tells a remarkable story that spans the past two hundred years of Russian history.
First, he draws on a family archive rich in pictorial as well as documentary treasure to bring us into the... Read more >
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Revolution 1989
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38792-9 (0-307-38792-5)
At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By year's end, they had all declared national independence and embarked on the road to democracy. How did it happen so quickly? Victor Sebestyen, who was on the scene as a reporter, draws on his firsthand knowledge of the... Read more >
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38792-9 (0-307-38792-5)
At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By year's end, they had all declared national independence and embarked on the road to democracy. How did it happen so quickly? Victor Sebestyen, who was on the scene as a reporter, draws on his firsthand knowledge of the... Read more >
Twelve Days
The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27795-4 (0-307-27795-X)
Twelve Days is a riveting day-by-day account of the defining moment of the Cold War—the inspiring but brutally crushed Hungarian Uprising.
Victor Sebestyen, a journalist whose own family fled Hungary, gives us a totally fresh account, incorporating newly released official documents, his family's diaries, and eyewitness testimony. We witness the thrilling... Read more >
The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27795-4 (0-307-27795-X)
Twelve Days is a riveting day-by-day account of the defining moment of the Cold War—the inspiring but brutally crushed Hungarian Uprising.
Victor Sebestyen, a journalist whose own family fled Hungary, gives us a totally fresh account, incorporating newly released official documents, his family's diaries, and eyewitness testimony. We witness the thrilling... Read more >
Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Written by Victor Serge
Edited by Richard Greeman
Translated by Peter Sedgwick and George Paizis
Foreword by Adam Hochschild
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-451-7 (1-59017-451-8)
Victor Serge is one of the great men of the twentieth century: anarchist, revolutionary, agitator, theoretician, historian of his times, and a fearless truth-teller. Here Serge describes his upbringing in Belgium, the child of a family of exiled Russian revolutionary intellectuals, his early life as an activist, his time in a... Read more >
Written by Victor Serge
Edited by Richard Greeman
Translated by Peter Sedgwick and George Paizis
Foreword by Adam Hochschild
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-451-7 (1-59017-451-8)
Victor Serge is one of the great men of the twentieth century: anarchist, revolutionary, agitator, theoretician, historian of his times, and a fearless truth-teller. Here Serge describes his upbringing in Belgium, the child of a family of exiled Russian revolutionary intellectuals, his early life as an activist, his time in a... Read more >
Marzi
Written by Marzena Sowa
Illustrated by Sylvain Savoia
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-2959-7 (1-4012-2959-X)
“I am Marzi, born in 1979, ten years before the end of communism in Poland. My father works at a factory, my mother at a dairy. Social problems are at their height. Empty stores are our daily bread. I’m scared of spiders and the world of adults doesn’t seem like a... Read more >
Written by Marzena Sowa
Illustrated by Sylvain Savoia
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-2959-7 (1-4012-2959-X)
“I am Marzi, born in 1979, ten years before the end of communism in Poland. My father works at a factory, my mother at a dairy. Social problems are at their height. Empty stores are our daily bread. I’m scared of spiders and the world of adults doesn’t seem like a... Read more >
Hitler and the Holocaust
Written by Robert S. Wistrich
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6863-7 (0-8129-6863-8)
Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry.
Robert S. Wistrich begins by reckoning with Europe’s long history of violence against the Jews, and how that tradition manifested itself in Germany and Austria... Read more >
Written by Robert S. Wistrich
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6863-7 (0-8129-6863-8)
Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry.
Robert S. Wistrich begins by reckoning with Europe’s long history of violence against the Jews, and how that tradition manifested itself in Germany and Austria... Read more >
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The White Rose of Stalingrad
The Real-Life Adventure of Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak, the Highest Scoring Female Air Ace of All Time
Written by Bill Yenne
Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-84908-810-7 (1-84908-810-1)
During World War II, most of the air forces of the nations engaged in combat had women in their ranks, but only in the Soviet Union did women fly regular, routine missions in live-fire combat. Of all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air... Read more >
The Real-Life Adventure of Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak, the Highest Scoring Female Air Ace of All Time
Written by Bill Yenne
Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-84908-810-7 (1-84908-810-1)
During World War II, most of the air forces of the nations engaged in combat had women in their ranks, but only in the Soviet Union did women fly regular, routine missions in live-fire combat. Of all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air... Read more >
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Russia 2010
And What It Means for the World
Written by Daniel Yergin and Thane Gustafson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 1995
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75922-5 (0-679-75922-0)
Yergin and Gustafson present a vision of Russia's future as it makes the transition to capitalism and democracy--and how events there will affect the rest of the world. Based on a report by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consulting firm which advises major corporations around the world on investment in Russia... Read more >
And What It Means for the World
Written by Daniel Yergin and Thane Gustafson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 1995
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75922-5 (0-679-75922-0)
Yergin and Gustafson present a vision of Russia's future as it makes the transition to capitalism and democracy--and how events there will affect the rest of the world. Based on a report by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consulting firm which advises major corporations around the world on investment in Russia... Read more >
The Kremlin's Nuclear Sword
The Rise and Fall of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces 1945-2000
Written by Steven J. Zaloga
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: February 17, 2002
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-007-8 (1-58834-007-4)
The prevailing Western view of Russia’s Cold War strategic nuclear weapons policy is that it resulted from a two-part interplay between the leaders of the Communist Party and the military. Steven J. Zaloga has found that a third contributor–the Russian defense industry–also played a vital role.
Drawing from elusive Russian source material... Read more >
The Rise and Fall of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces 1945-2000
Written by Steven J. Zaloga
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: February 17, 2002
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-007-8 (1-58834-007-4)
The prevailing Western view of Russia’s Cold War strategic nuclear weapons policy is that it resulted from a two-part interplay between the leaders of the Communist Party and the military. Steven J. Zaloga has found that a third contributor–the Russian defense industry–also played a vital role.
Drawing from elusive Russian source material... Read more >
