Russian Revolution books

The life and career of Dimitri Shostakovich, more than any other classical composer of the 20th century, has provided...  Read More >>

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From the award-winning historian and biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, a break-out book about the early years...  Read More >>

""An excellent account of Lenin's formative years as a political exile from tsarist Russia that evokes the desperate...  Read More >>

The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. At the centre of all this...  Read More >>

Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World examines three waves of democratic change that took place...  Read More >>

This book combines social and institutional histories of Russia, focusing on the secret police and their evolving...  Read More >>

Few characters in history are as fascinating or controversial as Nicholas and Alexandra. From their passionate love...  Read More >>

The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time...  Read More >>

Twenty years on from Yeltsin's revolution, this book is a keenly observed, personal account of living and working...  Read More >>

A clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who ""dreamed of justice and then wreaked...  Read More >>

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On 11th April 1919, less than a year after the assassination of the Romanovs, the British battleship HMS Marlborough...  Read More >>

The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is ok, but Lenin? Doesn't...  Read More >>

Provides a study of the religious philosophy of Vasilii Rozanov, one of the most influential and controversial thinkers...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of eleven essays dealing with Lenin's attempt to develop a Bolshevik Party between 1910...  Read More >>

The Russian Civil War (1918-1924) in Asiatic Russia was like the American Wild West as one regime after another...  Read More >>

Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians uses new sources and non-traditional methods of analysis to answer unstudied and...  Read More >>

Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians uses new sources and non-traditional methods of analysis to answer unstudied and...  Read More >>

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The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage of...  Read More >>

What was the true impact of the October Revolution of 1917? In this openly revisionist interpretation by a major...  Read More >>