28 books in History - Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union)
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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $18.95
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes... Read more >
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $18.95
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes... Read more >
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Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
Written by George Nafziger
Format: eBook, 704 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $29.00
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Written by George Nafziger
Format: eBook, 704 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $29.00
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A Russian Diary
A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia
Written by Anna Politkovskaya
Translated by Arch Tait
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2009
Price: $25.95
Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most fearless journalists, was gunned down in a contract killing in Moscow in the fall of 2006. Just before her death, Politkovskaya completed this searing, intimate record of life in Russia from the parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the grim summer of 2005, when the... Read more >
A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia
Written by Anna Politkovskaya
Translated by Arch Tait
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2009
Price: $25.95
Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most fearless journalists, was gunned down in a contract killing in Moscow in the fall of 2006. Just before her death, Politkovskaya completed this searing, intimate record of life in Russia from the parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the grim summer of 2005, when the... Read more >
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Putin's Labyrinth
Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Written by Steve Levine
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $16.00
In Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a gripping account of modern Russia. President Dmitri Medvedev and the country’s real power, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are posing a resolute challenge to the West. In a... Read more >
Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Written by Steve Levine
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $16.00
In Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a gripping account of modern Russia. President Dmitri Medvedev and the country’s real power, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are posing a resolute challenge to the West. In a... Read more >
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Magical Chorus
A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Written by Solomon Volkov
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $16.95
From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia.
In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between... Read more >
A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Written by Solomon Volkov
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $16.95
From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia.
In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between... Read more >
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Faberge's Eggs
The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire
Written by Toby Faber
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $30.00
In Stradivari’s Genius, Toby Faber charted the fascinating course of some of the world’s most prized musical instruments. Now, in this enthralling new book, he tells the story of objects that are, to many, the pinnacle of the jeweler’s art: the Fabergé imperial eggs.
The Easter presents that Russia’s last two czars... Read more >
The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire
Written by Toby Faber
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $30.00
In Stradivari’s Genius, Toby Faber charted the fascinating course of some of the world’s most prized musical instruments. Now, in this enthralling new book, he tells the story of objects that are, to many, the pinnacle of the jeweler’s art: the Fabergé imperial eggs.
The Easter presents that Russia’s last two czars... Read more >
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eBook.
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Faberge's Eggs
The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire
Written by Toby Faber
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $30.00
In Stradivari’s Genius, Toby Faber charted the fascinating course of some of the world’s most prized musical instruments. Now, in this enthralling new book, he tells the story of objects that are, to many, the pinnacle of the jeweler’s art: the Fabergé imperial eggs.
The Easter presents that Russia’s last two czars... Read more >
The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire
Written by Toby Faber
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $30.00
In Stradivari’s Genius, Toby Faber charted the fascinating course of some of the world’s most prized musical instruments. Now, in this enthralling new book, he tells the story of objects that are, to many, the pinnacle of the jeweler’s art: the Fabergé imperial eggs.
The Easter presents that Russia’s last two czars... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Epic Rivalry
The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race
Written by Von Hardesty and Gene Eisman
Foreword by Sergei Krushchev
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $16.95
The extraordinary saga that gripped the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War—galvanized by the Sputnik launch in 1957, and culminated by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969—is chronicled in this uniquely balanced history. With a foreword written by the grandson of Soviet premier... Read more >
The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race
Written by Von Hardesty and Gene Eisman
Foreword by Sergei Krushchev
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $16.95
The extraordinary saga that gripped the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War—galvanized by the Sputnik launch in 1957, and culminated by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969—is chronicled in this uniquely balanced history. With a foreword written by the grandson of Soviet premier... Read more >
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Putin's Labyrinth
Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Written by Steve Levine
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $16.00
The new Russia is marching in an alarming direction. Emboldened by escalating oil wealth and newfound prominence as a world power, Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has veered back toward the authoritarian roots planted in Imperial/Czarist times and firmly established during the Soviet era. Though Russia has a new... Read more >
Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Written by Steve Levine
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $16.00
The new Russia is marching in an alarming direction. Emboldened by escalating oil wealth and newfound prominence as a world power, Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has veered back toward the authoritarian roots planted in Imperial/Czarist times and firmly established during the Soviet era. Though Russia has a new... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $18.95
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes... Read more >
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $18.95
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes... Read more >
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Putin's Labyrinth
Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Written by Steve Levine
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $26.00
The new Russia is marching in an alarming direction. Emboldened by escalating oil wealth and newfound prominence as a world power, Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has veered back toward the authoritarian roots planted in Imperial/Czarist times and firmly established during the Soviet era. Though Russia has a new... Read more >
Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Written by Steve Levine
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $26.00
The new Russia is marching in an alarming direction. Emboldened by escalating oil wealth and newfound prominence as a world power, Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has veered back toward the authoritarian roots planted in Imperial/Czarist times and firmly established during the Soviet era. Though Russia has a new... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Magical Chorus
A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Written by Solomon Volkov
Translated by Antonina Bouis
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $30.00
From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between... Read more >
A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Written by Solomon Volkov
Translated by Antonina Bouis
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $30.00
From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Magical Chorus
Written by Solomon Volkov
Translated by Antonina Bouis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $16.95
From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between... Read more >
Written by Solomon Volkov
Translated by Antonina Bouis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $16.95
From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Chasing the Sea
Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
Written by Tom Bissell
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
In 1960, the Aral Sea was the size of Lake Michigan: a huge body of water in the deserts of Central Asia. By 1996, when Tom Bissell arrived in Uzbekistan as a naïve Peace Corps volunteer, disastrous Soviet irrigation policies had shrunk the sea to a third its size. Bissell lasted... Read more >
Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
Written by Tom Bissell
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
In 1960, the Aral Sea was the size of Lake Michigan: a huge body of water in the deserts of Central Asia. By 1996, when Tom Bissell arrived in Uzbekistan as a naïve Peace Corps volunteer, disastrous Soviet irrigation policies had shrunk the sea to a third its size. Bissell lasted... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Olga's Story
Three Continents, Two World Wars and Revolution--One Woman's Epic Journey Throug h the Twentieth Century
Written by Stephanie Williams
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $26.00
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Three Continents, Two World Wars and Revolution--One Woman's Epic Journey Throug h the Twentieth Century
Written by Stephanie Williams
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $26.00
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The Russia Hand
A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
Written by Strobe Talbott
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia’s fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite another. The challenge... Read more >
A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
Written by Strobe Talbott
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia’s fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite another. The challenge... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Stalin and His Hangmen
The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
Written by Donald Rayfield
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.95
Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and thugs. At the top... Read more >
The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
Written by Donald Rayfield
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.95
Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and thugs. At the top... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Stalin
The Court of the Red Tsar
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: eBook, 848 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $19.95
Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes–as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag–has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century. But though the facts... Read more >
The Court of the Red Tsar
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: eBook, 848 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $19.95
Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes–as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag–has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century. But though the facts... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Song Without Words
The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy
Written by Leah Bendavid-Val
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $35.00
Through never-before-seen photographs and intriguing personal diaries, this beautiful book provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of Countess Sophia Tolstoy and her husband, Leo Tolstoy—one of the greatest authors of all time—set against the grand and terrifying backdrop of aristocratic Russia on the brink of its demise.
Between 1885 and... Read more >
The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy
Written by Leah Bendavid-Val
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $35.00
Through never-before-seen photographs and intriguing personal diaries, this beautiful book provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of Countess Sophia Tolstoy and her husband, Leo Tolstoy—one of the greatest authors of all time—set against the grand and terrifying backdrop of aristocratic Russia on the brink of its demise.
Between 1885 and... Read more >
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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $35.00
This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945. In a period of almost continuous upheaval, society was transformed by two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Combining a... Read more >
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $35.00
This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945. In a period of almost continuous upheaval, society was transformed by two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Combining a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Stalin and His Hangmen
The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
Written by Donald Rayfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: December 13, 2005
Price: $17.95
Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and thugs. At the top... Read more >
The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
Written by Donald Rayfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: December 13, 2005
Price: $17.95
Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and thugs. At the top... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Stalin
The Court of the Red Tsar
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $19.95
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative ?lan, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the everyday details of a monstrous life.
We see Stalin playing... Read more >
The Court of the Red Tsar
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $19.95
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative ?lan, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the everyday details of a monstrous life.
We see Stalin playing... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Chasing the Sea
Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
Written by Tom Bissell
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $14.95
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na•ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation... Read more >
Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
Written by Tom Bissell
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $14.95
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na•ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Main Enemy
The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
Written by Milton Bearden and James Risen
Format: Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $7.99
A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them.
Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts... Read more >
The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
Written by Milton Bearden and James Risen
Format: Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $7.99
A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them.
Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Russia Hand
A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
Written by Strobe Talbott
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $16.95
During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia’s fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite another. The challenge... Read more >
A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
Written by Strobe Talbott
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $16.95
During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia’s fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite another. The challenge... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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