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1	The Russian Revolution more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist Long a favorite among general readers and students, this is perhaps the most distinguished short history yet written about the Russian Revolution. 45 black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
2	Coming out of the ice : an unexpected life more books like this by Victor Herman add to wishlist see all copies from $19.96! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Russia in war and revolution : Russia 1900-24 more books like this by Josh Brooman add to wishlist Russia in War and Revolution: Russia 1900-24 is part of the series Longman 20th Century History for 14-16 year olds. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.76! \| SVS
4	The fall of eagles more books like this by C. L. Sulzberger add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
5	A lifelong passion : Nicholas and Alexandra : their own story more books like this by Emperor of Russia Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, consort of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, S. V. Mironenko, Andrei Maylunas add to wishlist In the darkest days of the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, when all talk of the Romanovs was punishable at the very least by banishment to Serbia, a group of archivists were exempt. They sorted and filed the thousands of letters and photographs of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra (a granddaughter of Queen Victoria), ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions
6	Deadly Illusions: The KGB Orlov Dossier Reveals Stalin's Master Spy more books like this by John Costello, Oleg Tsarev add to wishlist Alexander Orlov was the most successful spymaster in the history of the Soviet Union. This book--the first ever to be based on the archives of the KGB and coauthored by a former KGB officer and current consultant to the Russian Intelligence Service--reveals details of his career that will make headlines in the U.S. and Europe. 16-page photo insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.88! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Rasputin and the fall of the Romanovs more books like this by Colin Wilson add to wishlist see all copies from $2.43! first editions
8	Anastasia: The Lost Princess more books like this by James Blair Lovell add to wishlist It is one of the greatest riddles of all time: Did Anastasia, youngest daughter of the last Russian Czar, survive the massacre of the royal family in 1917? James Blair Lovell's painstaking research proves, beyond a doubt, that Anna Anderson--who claimed until her death in 1984 she was Anastasia--indeed was. "Reads like a detective novel".- ... see all copies from $2.10! new only from $17.88! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Wars more books like this by Vladimir N. Brovkin add to wishlist In this book distinguished scholars from East and West draw on recently opened archives to challenge the commonly held view that the Bolsheviks enjoyed widespread support and that their early history was simply a march toward inevitable victory. They show instead that during this period Russian society was at war with itself and with the ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $66.65! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Sale of the century : the inside story of the second Russian revolution more books like this by Chrystia Freeland add to wishlist An account of Russia's second revolution - the country's wrenching transition from Communist central planning to a market economy - told by interweaving high politics with glimpses of the revolution's impact on the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a glimpse of the dismal living conditions in the Soviet Union, with its grinding shortages ... see all copies from $13.38! new only from $23.51!
11	Rasputin : the last word more books like this by Edvard Radzinskii add to wishlist CONTENTS NOT TO BE REVEALED UNTIL SIMULTANEOUS WORLD-WIDE RELEASE. see all copies from $4.06! new only from $15.90! \| first editions
12	The last bridge more books like this by Marjorie Knittel, Elvera Ziebart Reuer add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
13	Luboml: The Memorial Book of a Vanished Shtetl more books like this by Berl Kagan add to wishlist "Oh, Libivne! My hometown that lies in ruins! You shall live in my heart forever!" With these words, Chana Achtman some 25 years ago eulogized the Polish-Yiddish shtetl that had been her family's home for generations. By then, the town she knew--Libivne in Yiddish, Luboml in Polish--no longer existed. Its Jewish population of some 4,000, whose ... see all copies from $40.00! signed copies \| first editions
14	Russia/USSR/Russia: The Drive and Drift of a Superstate more books like this by Prof. Moshe Lewin add to wishlist Moshe Lewin's major new book is an original and important work that clarifies the sweeping changes that transformed Russia in the twentieth century from a muzhik country to the urban power we read about today. As in his previous works, Professor Lewin's extraordinary breadth of knowledge and sympathy allow him to deal with the "grand narrative of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.55! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Russian Syndrome more books like this by Helene Carrere D'Encausse, Caroline Higgitt (Translator), Helene Carrere D'encausse add to wishlist Exploring the beliefs, ideology, and political culture of monarchs, dictators, revolutionaries and reformers, this work illuminates the complex and traumatic course of Russian history as it sheds light on the Soviet's future. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.31! \| first editions
16 view cover	Rasputin the Holy Devil more books like this by Renee Fulop-Miller add to wishlist Rasputin was the most mysterious figure of old Russia who swayed men and nations by the power of his eyes. Contents: Rasputin; The Cellar Preacher; Before the High Priests; The Fateful Idyll of Tsarskoe Selo; The Friend; The Penitential Journey of the Great Sinner; In the Holy of Holies; The Revolt Against the Holy Devil; The Murderer with the ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Michael and Natasha : the life and love of the last tsar of Russia more books like this by Rosemary Crawford, Donald Crawford add to wishlist The epic story of Grand Duke Michael, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, a career soldier, who defied the Romanov code to marry a commoner and divercee. Based on the letters and diaries of Michael and Natasha, only now available from former soviet archives. The love story crosses Europe in the golden age before the first world war, including a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.71! \| first editions
18 view cover	Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881 more books like this by Ben Eklof (Editor), Larissa Zakharova (Editor), John Bushnell (Editor) add to wishlist The Great Reforms undertaken during the reign of Alexander I represented a unique attempt by the tsarist government to restructure virtually every aspect of Russian life, beginning with the emancipation of the serfs and continuing through reform of local government, the judiciary, the military, education, the financial system, censorship, and ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $13.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Kievan Russia more books like this by George Vernadsky add to wishlist The account of this little-known chapter of Russian history is based on a formidable mass of Slavic, Byzantine, Germanic, and Oriental sources. Much of this material is new, and thorough utilization of all primary and secondary literature accumulated since Kluchevsky wrote his great history easily makes this volume the definitive study of the ... see all copies from $4.49! new only from $25.66! \| first editions
20	The Russian dagger: cold war in the days of the Czars more books like this by Virginia Cowles add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Anastasia : the life of Anna Anderson more books like this by Peter Kurth add to wishlist On 17 February 1920 a young woman was rescued from a Berlin canal and taken to a local asylum. Her body bore the scars of bullet and bayonet wounds. For a long time she refused to give her name, and was known as Fraulein Unbekannt (Miss Unknown). When she did declare herself - as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of the murdered ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
22	The last days of imperial Russia more books like this by Miriam Kochan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $79.95! \| first editions
23	The decline of imperial Russia 1855-1914. more books like this by Hugh Seton-Watson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Alexandra : a life of the last Tsarina more books like this by Carolly Erickson add to wishlist Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, this biography of Alexandra, the last tsarina, explores: her childhood bereavement; her long struggle to attain her romantic goal of marriage to Nicholas; anguishing pathological shyness; the struggles with her in-laws; a false pregnancy; her increasing eccentricities as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.72!
25	The end of the Russian empire more books like this by Michael T. Florinsky add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.55! \| first editions \| SVS

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