21 books in History - Former Soviet Republics
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Bolt Action: Armies of the Soviet Union
Written by Warlord Games
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $24.95
Stalin's Russian Winter War against Finland, and his World War II campaigns on Nazi Germany's eastern front (around Kiev, Lenningrad, Moscow, Kharkov, Stalingrad, Kursk, Byelorussia, the Balkans, East Prussia, Warsaw, Hungary, and Berlin) constitute the largest land war in world history in terms of the number of troops engaged, and is... Read more >
Written by Warlord Games
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $24.95
Stalin's Russian Winter War against Finland, and his World War II campaigns on Nazi Germany's eastern front (around Kiev, Lenningrad, Moscow, Kharkov, Stalingrad, Kursk, Byelorussia, the Balkans, East Prussia, Warsaw, Hungary, and Berlin) constitute the largest land war in world history in terms of the number of troops engaged, and is... Read more >
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: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $9.99
Of all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air Force had units comprised specifically of women. Initially the Red Air Force maintained an all-male policy among its combat pilots. However, as the apparently invincible German juggernaut sliced through Soviet defenses, the Red Air Force... Read more >
The Real-Life Adventure of Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak, the Highest Scoring Female Air Ace of All Time
Written by Bill Yenne
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $9.99
Of all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air Force had units comprised specifically of women. Initially the Red Air Force maintained an all-male policy among its combat pilots. However, as the apparently invincible German juggernaut sliced through Soviet defenses, the Red Air Force... Read more >
Also available as a
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An Armenian Sketchbook
Written by Vasily Grossman
Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
Introduction by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $14.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Few writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his... Read more >
Written by Vasily Grossman
Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
Introduction by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $14.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Few writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
An Armenian Sketchbook
Written by Vasily Grossman
Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
Introduction by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $14.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Few writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his... Read more >
Written by Vasily Grossman
Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
Introduction by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $14.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Few writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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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
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $27.95
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
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $27.95
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Eight Pieces of Empire
A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Written by Lawrence Scott Sheets
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $16.00
Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day, 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. But in the wake of that one deceptively calm moment, conflict and violence soon followed. Some of the emergent new countries began to shed totalitarianism while other sought to... Read more >
A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Written by Lawrence Scott Sheets
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $16.00
Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day, 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. But in the wake of that one deceptively calm moment, conflict and violence soon followed. Some of the emergent new countries began to shed totalitarianism while other sought to... Read more >
Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941-45
Written by Henry Sakaida
Illustrated by Christa Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $14.95
Osprey's examination of Soviet heroes of the Great Patriotic War portion of World War II (1939-1945). The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Over 10 million Soviet soldiers took part in the war and of those about 12,600 earned the Soviet Union’s highest military award - the... Read more >
Written by Henry Sakaida
Illustrated by Christa Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $14.95
Osprey's examination of Soviet heroes of the Great Patriotic War portion of World War II (1939-1945). The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Over 10 million Soviet soldiers took part in the war and of those about 12,600 earned the Soviet Union’s highest military award - the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941-45
Written by Henry Sakaida
Illustrated by Christa Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $14.95
Osprey's examination of Soviet women who fought in World War II (1939-1945). When the Great Patriotic War began, many women volunteered for the armed forces, but most of them were rejected. They were steered towards nursing or other supportive roles. Many determined women managed to enter combat by first volunteering as field... Read more >
Written by Henry Sakaida
Illustrated by Christa Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $14.95
Osprey's examination of Soviet women who fought in World War II (1939-1945). When the Great Patriotic War began, many women volunteered for the armed forces, but most of them were rejected. They were steered towards nursing or other supportive roles. Many determined women managed to enter combat by first volunteering as field... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Ukrainian Armies 1914-55
Written by Peter Abbott
Illustrated by Oleksiy Rudenko
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $13.95
There can be no region in Europe whose history has been more tortured than Ukraine. During the 20th century Austria, Poland, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania vied for power over parts of this vast and fragmented area; and its divided peoples rose time and again in vain attempts to win... Read more >
Written by Peter Abbott
Illustrated by Oleksiy Rudenko
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $13.95
There can be no region in Europe whose history has been more tortured than Ukraine. During the 20th century Austria, Poland, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania vied for power over parts of this vast and fragmented area; and its divided peoples rose time and again in vain attempts to win... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Eight Pieces of Empire
A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Written by Lawrence Scott Sheets
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $28.00
A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it.
Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. Lawrence Scott Sheets... Read more >
A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Written by Lawrence Scott Sheets
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $28.00
A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it.
Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. Lawrence Scott Sheets... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Eight Pieces of Empire
A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Written by Lawrence Scott Sheets
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $9.99
A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it.
Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. Lawrence Scott Sheets... Read more >
A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Written by Lawrence Scott Sheets
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $9.99
A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it.
Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. Lawrence Scott Sheets... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Down with Big Brother
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Michael Dobbs
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2011
Price: $16.99
"One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary events that led... Read more >
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Michael Dobbs
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2011
Price: $16.99
"One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary events that led... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Overcoming Speechlessness
A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
Written by Alice Walker
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the... Read more >
A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
Written by Alice Walker
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Revolution 1989
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $17.00
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $17.00
Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world.
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...
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Hearts Grown Brutal
Sagas of Sarajevo
Written by Roger Cohen
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2010
Price: $13.99
In this brilliant book, Roger Cohen of The New York Times takes us to the core of one of the twentieth century's most complex stories, weaving together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families.
Hearts Grown Brutal is a... Read more >
Sagas of Sarajevo
Written by Roger Cohen
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2010
Price: $13.99
In this brilliant book, Roger Cohen of The New York Times takes us to the core of one of the twentieth century's most complex stories, weaving together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families.
Hearts Grown Brutal is a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $16.00
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this... Read more >
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $16.00
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Overcoming Speechlessness
A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
Written by Alice Walker
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $9.95
In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the... Read more >
A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
Written by Alice Walker
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $9.95
In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $11.99
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this... Read more >
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $11.99
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Gulag
A History
Written by Anne Applebaum
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag... Read more >
A History
Written by Anne Applebaum
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Moscow 1941
A City and Its People at War
Written by Rodric Braithwaite
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $17.00
In 1941 close to one million Russian soldiers died defending Moscow from German invasion–more causalities than that of the United States and Britain during all of World War II. Many of these soldiers were in fact not soldiers at all, but instead ordinary people who took up arms to defend their... Read more >
A City and Its People at War
Written by Rodric Braithwaite
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $17.00
In 1941 close to one million Russian soldiers died defending Moscow from German invasion–more causalities than that of the United States and Britain during all of World War II. Many of these soldiers were in fact not soldiers at all, but instead ordinary people who took up arms to defend their... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Gulag
A History
Written by Anne Applebaum
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2004
Price: $18.95
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag... Read more >
A History
Written by Anne Applebaum
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2004
Price: $18.95
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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