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The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century

By Tom Bower

The Mystery of Olga Chekhova: A Life Torn Apart By Revolution And War

By Beevor, Antony

Josef Stalin

Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

By John T. Alexander (Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas, Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas)

Catherine the Great

By Henri Troyat, Emily Read

Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection

By Pam Ayres

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

Pushkin: The Man and His Age

By Robin Edmonds

Nothing For Tears

By Lali Horstmann

The Spirit-Wrestlers

By Philip Marsden

Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People

By Gil Troy, Natan Sharansky

Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

By Orlando Figes

One Soldier's War in Chechnya

By Arkady Babchenko

The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail

By Moore, Tim

Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars

By Marc Ferro

Marshal Zhukov

By Axell, Albert

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

By Neil Sheehan

The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom

By Gennady Gorelik (Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Research Fellow, Boston University), Antonina W. Bouis (Vice President, Vice President, Andrei Sakharov Foundation)

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

By Peter Pomerantsev

Letters from Russia, 1919

By P. D. Ouspensky

Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798

By Stella Tillyard

My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes

By Imlach, Gary

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Roland Philipps

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

By Dimbleby, Jonathan

Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives

By Alan Bullock

Stalin: A Political Biography (Political Leaders of 20th Century S.)

By Deutscher, Isaac

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

By John A Hall

He Leadeth Me: An Extraordinary Testament of Faith

By Walter J. Ciszek, Daniel L. Flaherty

Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey

By Ralph Leighton

The Emergence of Russian Liberalism: Alexander Kunitsyn in Context, 1783-1840

By J. Berest