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  • Ideologies in Conflict
    Chris Adams
    The author characterizes this book as a 'docu-story'. As such, it is an exceptionally well-researched and skillfully written chronology of the history of Russia, the Soviet Union and the cold War. The work is unusual and unique. It is unusual because unlike most books of an historical nature, it is free-flowing and not tightly structured. It is unique because it is written wit...
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    49,92 €

  • Wings Over the Arctic
    Mikhail Vasil’evich Vodop’ianov / Mikhail Vodopyanov
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    33,26 €

  • Resistance and Rebellion
    Roger D. Petersen / Roger DPetersen
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    133,19 €

  • Power and Politics
    Jerome S. Bernstein / Jerome SBernstein
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    22,44 €

  • The First Crossing of Greenland
    Fridtjof Nansen / Hubert Majendie Gepp
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    23,46 €

  • Battle for the Caucasus
    Andrei Grechko
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    30,13 €

  • The Forgotten
    Christopher Lawrence Zugger
    This remarkable work traces the history of Soviet Catholicism from its rich life in 1914 through its tentative fate in the first sixty years of the USSR. Rev. Zugger tells of the faithful men and women shackled by dictatorship, doomed to deportation, and abandoned by their own church in the west.Soviet Russia was an empire born of atheism with religion viewed as a threat to the...
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    54,61 €

  • In the Lena Delta
    George Melville
    In 1881 George Melville was the engineer aboard the sailing vessel Jeanette when she finally succumbed to the pack ice off the coast of Siberia in 1881. The entire crew escaped onto the ice with three boats and made for the open sea.  They became separated on the water, and only Melville’s boat reached the relative safety of the western shore of the Lena River delta.  He immedi...
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    26,53 €

  • Russia
    Vera Tolz
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    87,30 €

  • Thank You, Comrade Stalin!
    Jeffrey Brooks
    Thank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood.' 'Thank you, dear Marshal [Stalin], for our freedom, for our children’s happiness, for life.' Between the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, Soviet public culture was so dominated by the power of the state that slogans like these appeared routinely in newspapers, on posters, and in government proclamations. In this penetrating his...
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    60,91 €

  • First Crossing of the Polar Sea
    Lincoln Ellsworth / Roald Amundsen
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    30,83 €

  • Shackleton’s Forgotten Men
    Lennard Bickel
    This is a dramatic true story of Antarctic tragedy and survival among the heroic group that was to lay supplies across the Great Ross Ice Shelf in preparation for the Endurance expedition. Launched by Shackleton (and led by Captain Aenaes Mackintosh), this courageous crew completed the longest sledge journey in polar history (199 days) and endured near-unimaginable deprivation....
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    21,12 €

  • America’s Secret War against Bolshevism
    David S. Foglesong / David SFoglesong
    From the Russian revolutions of 1917 to the end of the Civil War in 1920, Woodrow Wilson’s administration sought to oppose the Bolsheviks in a variety of covert ways. Drawing on previously unavailable American and Russian archival material, David Foglesong chronicles both sides of this secret war and reveals a new dimension to the first years of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. ...
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    70,26 €

  • My Attainment of the Pole
    Frederick A Cook / Frederick A. Cook / Frederick Albert Cook
    Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the world, his meetings with eskimos and his hunting of musk ox, plus his subsequent debates with Robert Peary after he had returned to his homeland. ...
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    24,34 €

  • The Russian Labour Market
    Douglas Lippoldt / Vladimir Gimpelson
    Labour markets are a central element of any transition from planned economy to market-oriented system. This groundbreaking book examines the plight of Russian workers and employers during the first decade of post-Soviet reforms, providing the first integrated analysis of such scope and breadth. ...
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    69,62 €

  • Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921
    Cheriaev Vladimir / Edward Acton / William Rosenberg
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    113,77 €

  • The United States Intervention in North Russia - 1918, 1919 the Polar Bear Odyssey
    Roger Crownover
    This volume examines the largely-unknown 'Polar Bear' odyssey - the North Russian Expeditionary Forces (made up mostly of soldiers from Michigan) who, along with some other Allied forces, went on fighting in the Russian arctic - supporting the Russian White Army fighting against the Russian Red Army after the war was over. It examines the panic that the Bolshevik Revolution cau...
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    83,06 €

  • Moscow Farewell
    George Feifer
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    29,68 €

  • The Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War
    Rex Wade
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    79,81 €

  • Peter the Great Through British Eyes
    Anthony Professor Cross
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    115,65 €

  • The South Pole
    Captain Roald Amundsen
    The first explorer to reach the South Pole recounts the rigors of his expedition. ...
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    22,90 €

  • Our Lost Explorers
    George W. De Long / George WDe Long
    Lieutenant George Washington De Long was an American explorer whose disastrous Arctic expedition in July of 1879 he set sail from San Francisco taking the Jeannette through the Bering Strait and heading for Wrangel Island, off the northeast coast of Siberia.On September 5th, the ship became trapped in the pack ice near Herald Island (now Gerald Island), east of Wrangel. With cr...
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    28,69 €

  • The Russian Diaspora
    Boris Raymond / David R Jones / David R. Jones / David RJones
    The Russian Diaspora:1917-1941 is a complete reference work to be used as an overview of the mass exodus from the Russian Empire after the revolutions and civil war (1917-1921). This book provides Russian Studies scholars, as well as students of world culture, with an accessible guide and overview of the emigres own lives, as well as of their contributions to the literature, mu...
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    126,18 €

  • What Happened to the Soviet Union?
    Chrisopher I. Xenakis / Chrisopher IXenakis
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    121,63 €

  • The Newly Independent States of Eurasia
    Stephen K. Batalden / Stephen KBatalden
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    95,66 €

  • The Human Tradition in Modern Russia
    By integrating the human dimension into Russian history, The Human Tradition in Modern Russia introduces Russian social history to readers in a provocative and interesting new way. The essays in this unique collection are based largely on previously classified Russian archival information available only since 1991. This is a study of Russian history since 1861 from the perspect...
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    52,96 €

  • A New, Peculiar State
    Andrea Graziosi
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    121,61 €

  • The Race
    James Schefter
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    14,66 €

  • Central and Southeastern Europe in Transition
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    121,90 €

  • Yugoslavia as History
    John R. Lampe / John RLampe
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    190,94 €