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  • Negotiating the NWT Devolution of Lands & Resources
    Hal J. Gerein / Hal JGerein
    In this story, the author is the GNWT's Chief Negotiator for the devolution of lands and resources from Canada. Devolution means the transfer of authority from a senior level of government to a junior level. Many national governments today areinvolved with devolution as a means to "subsidiarity", the principle that politicalpower should be exercised by the least central or ...
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    44,75 €

  • 'THE TRIPLE WHAMMY' AND OTHER RUSSIAN STORIES
    Louis Menashe
    A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The author’s experiences as a radical in the turbulent 1960s, and his eventual disenchantment offer some precedents and perspectives to all those on the Left, Center or Right interested in the fluctuation...
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    26,31 €

  • Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war vol.17
    Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov / Mark Conrad
    This volume is related to the Russian Army during the zar Alexander I era, and are about the Guard cavalry regiments (part 1). Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology dev...
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    40,78 €

  • Fearful Majesty
    Benson Bobrick
    Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time.This acclaimed biography of one of Russia’s most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also surprisingly timely, revealing how many of the issues Russia faces today hav...
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    19,27 €

  • Jews in Service to the Tsar
    Lev Berdnikov / Nora Favorov
    Benjamin Disraeli advised, “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about th...
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    22,05 €

  • The Last White Army
    Ricard Burke
    In the winter of 1922, a White Russian general named Anatoly Pepelyayev led seven hundred volunteer soldiers from Vladivostok into the subarctic interior of Yakutia - the last armed expedition against Soviet authority on Russian soil. His target was a province in revolt. The Sakha people, driven to rebellion by the brutal grain requisitions of War Communism, had appealed to the...
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    30,41 €

  • The Red Steppe
    Peadar Ryan
    In the winter of 1920, a small group of conspirators gathered in a border town on the edge of the Mongolian steppe, with a revolution hidden in a riding whip’s handle and odds that should have been prohibitive. One year later, they had liberated their country from Chinese occupation, expelled a White Army mystic who believed himself a god of war, and created the world’s second ...
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    27,31 €

  • The Volkhov River Drownings
    Winston Maddox
    Can a church bought with silver truly save a human soul?In the wintered heart of 14th-century Rus, the towers of Novgorod and Pskov echoed not with the quiet peace of prayer, but with the clinking of coins on sanctuary tables. Ecclesiastical offices were bought and sold to the highest bidder. Bishops lived like princes, and the price of receiving the sacraments was extracted fr...
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    22,62 €

  • The Not-So-Cold War
    Ioan Baranga
    The Not-So-Cold WarThe Cold War was supposed to be a battle of wits between two superpowers.Instead, it was forty-four years of spy cats, weaponized psychics, accidental nuclear disasters, absurd military schemes, diplomatic musical chairs, and governments spending billions of dollars on ideas that occasionally sounded like they had been invented after lunch.The Cold War is usu...
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    23,20 €

  • The Werewolf’s Shadow
    David G. Stone
    For 20 years, the citizens of Angarsk trusted him to keep them safe.Police officer Mikhail Popkov patrolled the frozen streets of this Siberian city, a respected member of the community with a wife, children, and an impeccable service record. But when darkness fell, the 'Werewolf' emerged-hunting, killing, and claiming at least 83 victims in what would become one of history’s m...
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    19,81 €

  • Andrei Chikatilo
    David G. Stone
    He killed in the shadows of communism-and almost got away with it.Andrei Chikatilo: The Soviet Monster tells the horrifying true story of the most prolific serial killer in Soviet history. Over 12 years, Chikatilo lured and murdered at least 52 victims-most of them women and children-while the state denied that such evil could exist under socialism.Through chilling details and ...
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    18,70 €

  • The Pitchfork Uprising of 1920 and the Peasants Who Forced the New Economic Policy
    Elizabeth Ballynahinch
    In February 1920, in the snow-buried villages of the Volga-Ural borderland, a community calculated that resistance could not be more dangerous than submission. The result was the Pitchfork Uprising - one of the largest rural insurrections in Russian history, mobilising between twenty-six thousand and fifty thousand fighters across a hundred thousand square kilometres of eastern...
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    25,15 €

  • Ucrania y Rusia
    Agustin V. Startari
    El conflicto en Ucrania y el equilibrio de intereses y poderes de las principales potencias en torno a él tienen connotaciones no solo regionales, sino también globales. Una de las hipótesis que se examinará es que la contención de Rusia ha mantenido un lugar relevante en la política exterior de Estados Unidos y ha contado, con matices y divergencias, con el respaldo de numeros...
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    22,77 €

  • A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700-1918
    Alexander Semyonov / Ilya V. Gerasimov / Marina B. Mogilner
    A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700-1918proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces, societies, and institutions that existed on the territory of today’s Northern Eurasia, until recently part of the USSR. Traditional concepts and genealogies that frame human experience have to be avoided or reframed: this is not the story of a certain presen...
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    49,88 €

  • КОНТРКОММУНИЗМ
    Gunnar J. Haga
    Что, если Советский Союз никогда по-настоящему не был коммунистическим?Чтобы понять политические и исторические процессы, происходившие в России с середины XIX века до распада Советского Союза в 1991 году, необходимо сначала разобраться в глубинных явлениях, которые определяли этот исторический путь.Коммунизм часто связывают с идеологией Советского Союза. Однако, как показывает...
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    27,07 €

  • Contra Communism
    Gunnar J. Haga
    What if the Soviet Union was never truly communist?Contra Communism challenges the conventional narrative and unveils the political and historical realities behind Russia’s transformation from imperial rule to totalitarian absolutism. A powerful read for anyone seeking to understand the ideology, illusion, and legacy of Soviet power.To understand the political and historical pr...
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    23,75 €

  • Kontra Kommunismus
    Gunnar J. Haga
    Was, wenn die Sowjetunion nie wirklich kommunistisch war?Kontra Kommunismus stellt die herkömmliche Erzählung in Frage und enthüllt die politischen und historischen Realitäten hinter Russlands Wandel vom Zarenreich zum totalitären Absolutismus. Ein aufschlussreiches Buch für alle, die das wahre Wesen, die Ideologie und das Erbe der sowjetischen Macht verstehen wollen.Um die pol...
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    21,22 €

  • The Miracle on the Vistula
    Elton Martyn
    On August 13, 1920, Soviet scouts reached the outskirts of Warsaw. Government ministries were packing their archives. Diplomatic legations were preparing to flee. The Red Army - fresh from the most rapid advance in modern European military history - stood within artillery range of the Polish capital, and Lenin had already appointed the revolutionary committee that would govern ...
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    25,17 €

  • The Blood of Hetmans
    Patrick Tulira
    In the spring of 1918, as the Russian Empire collapsed and the Ukrainian revolution consumed itself in factional violence, a former imperial general descended from the last Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host seized power in a single dramatic day - proclaimed before six thousand delegates at the Kyiv Circus, anointed in the thousand-year-old Cathedral of Saint Sophia, and installed ...
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    26,18 €

  • Frozen Mandate
    Leopold Phelan
    In August 1918, eight thousand American soldiers arrived at the Russian port of Vladivostok with orders that simultaneously authorised their deployment and prohibited almost everything a soldier normally does. They were there to guard a railway, protect some supplies, and assist a Czech army that had already rescued itself. They were not to take sides in the Russian civil war r...
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    28,30 €

  • An Army Without a Country
    Anton Deakin
    In August 1914, a group of Czech and Slovak men volunteered to fight for a country that did not yet exist. They called one another bratr - brother. They greeted each other with a single word: Nazdar. To the goal.Over the next six years, these men - assembled from diaspora communities in Paris and Chicago, from prisoner-of-war camps on the Siberian steppe, from the ranks of the ...
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  • In the Midst of Slaughter
    Conrad Brennan
    Between 1918 and 1921, a wave of mass violence swept through the Jewish communities of Ukraine that the world has largely forgotten. In 1,500 pogroms across more than 1,300 localities, somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000 Jews were killed - not as a by-product of revolution but as its recurring, systematic accompaniment. Every armed force fighting in the Ukrainian Civil War bor...
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    26,25 €

  • The Anatomy of the White Terror
    Denny Barry
    Between 1917 and 1923, the anti-Bolshevik White movement waged a counter-revolutionary war across the ruins of the Russian Empire - and committed mass atrocities on a scale that history has never fully reckoned with. The Anatomy of the White Terror is the definitive narrative account of organized political violence conducted by the White armies: the filtration executions and de...
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    28,25 €

  • The Black Baron
    Michael Mac Diarmada
    In November 1920, Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel stood on the bridge of the cruiser General Kornilov as the last ship departed Sevastopol harbour, watching the Crimean coast disappear into the darkness. Behind him lay the wreckage of three years of civil war. Ahead lay Constantinople, exile, and the question of what could be built from what remained.The Black Baron is the def...
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    25,23 €

  • A Crusade Against Communism - The Life of Pyotr Krasnov, from Don Ataman to Nazi Collaborator
    Leopold Phelan
    In June 1941, a seventy-one-year-old Russian general sitting in a Berlin apartment issued a proclamation calling on Cossacks everywhere to join the German Wehrmacht - framing the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union as a crusade against communism and Jewry. The man who issued that proclamation, Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov, had spent twenty years in exile engineering exactly this mo...
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    43,85 €

  • Ice and Iron - The Life and Death of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, Supreme Ruler of Russia
    Cathal Lacy
    In 1900, a young Russian naval lieutenant sailed into the Arctic ice to chart seas no one had adequately mapped. He endured three years of polar darkness, crossed open ocean in an open boat to rescue a dead man’s notebooks, and returned to Saint Petersburg with a scientific monograph that would remain foundational to Arctic research for decades. His name was Alexander Kolchak. ...
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    36,61 €

  • The War That Made Estonia
    Casey Norgrove
    In November 1918, Soviet forces crossed Estonia’s eastern border and advanced to within thirty-four kilometers of the capital. The state they were attacking had existed for less than a year. Its army was schoolboys with rifles. Its government had spent the previous nine months meeting in secret apartments under German occupation. The odds were catastrophic.What followed was one...
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    32,61 €

  • The Red Tempest
    E.B Cohen
    In the space of a single year, the largest country on Earth tore up three centuries of monarchy, briefly became the freest nation in the world, and then fell to a party of revolutionaries who promised bread, peace, and land - and delivered a civil war, a secret police, and a new kind of state that would shadow the entire twentieth century. This is the story of the Russian Revol...
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    25,58 €

  • Мимоходом (In Passing)
    Irina Roskina
    'Мимоходом' ('In Passing') is Irina Roskina’s account of a life lived at the edges of Soviet literary Moscow - not a conventional memoir, but a deliberately unsystematic gathering of what she happens to remember. Roskina, a longtime simultaneous interpreter for foreign films and one of the last living witnesses to the literary circles around Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and...
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    28,68 €

  • The November Night
    Casey Norgrove
    On the night of November 29, 1830, a group of Polish cadets burned a Warsaw brewery, stormed a palace, and lit a fire that would burn for nine months. The November Uprising - the largest armed liberation struggle in partitioned Poland - pitted an improvised constitutional state against the full military weight of the Russian Empire. The outcome was never in doubt by conventiona...
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    22,87 €


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