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Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War

By Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

TheGulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr ( Author ) ON Jan-30-2003, Paperback

By Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times

By Anthony DePalma

The Essays (Penguin Classics)

By Bacon, Francis, Pitcher, John

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar

By Edvard Radzinsky, MS Antonina W Bouis (Andrei Sakharov Foundation)

The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia

By Evgenii V. Anisimov, J.T. Alexander

Peter the Great

By Paul Bushkovitch

Chernobyl Strawberries

By Vesna Goldsworthy

Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution

By I. Getzler

Peter the Great

By M.S. Smith

Nicholas and Alexandra

By Robert K. Massie

Yeltsin: A Life

By Timothy Colton

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family

By Helen Rappaport

The Serge Trotsky Papers: Correspondence and Other Writings Between Victor Serge and Leon Trotsky

By David Cotterill

Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov

By Geoffrey Roberts

Nikolai Gogol

By Vladimir Nabokov

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

By Kate Williams

A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

By Vasily Grossman, Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova

Stalin and Stalinism (Seminar Studies in History)

By McCauley, Martin

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By David Remnick

The Prophet Outcast: Leon Trotsky, 1929-40

By Isaac Deutscher

Free Fall: A Sniper's Story from Chechnya

By Nicolai Lilin, Jamie Richards

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

How Football (Nearly) Came Home: Adventures in Putin's World Cup

By Barney Ronay

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By Ben Macintyre

Lenin V3

By Robert Service

From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A pilot's life in the Royal Air Force 1942-1973

By Ken Aedy

Memoirs

By Professor Mikhail Gorbachev