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ATH: OCR A Historical Themes: Russia and its rulers 1855-1964
Hodder Education 2010; US$ 21.95Part of the best-selling Access to History series, this endorsed title supports students studying the OCR A Historical Themes Unit. more...
Absolute War
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 23.00In Absolute War , acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history. The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, was the greatest,... more...
Access to History: Stalin's Russia 1924-53
Hodder Education 2008; US$ 17.95Revised and updated for the 2008 AQA and Edexcel AS specifications. more...
Accounting for War
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 46.00A reconstruction and analysis of the Soviet economy's wartime statistical record. more...
Across the Blocs
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 55.95This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history. It makes cross-cultural comparisons of the socio cultural aspects of the Cold War across the East/West block divide, dealing with issues including broadcasting, public opinion, and the production and consumption... more...
Across the Revolutionary Divide
Wiley 2010; US$ 41.95Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia and the USSR 1861-1945 offers a broad interpretive account of Russian history from the emancipation of the serfs to the end of World War II. Provides a coherent overview of Russia's development from 1861 through to 1945 Reflects the latest scholarship by taking a thematic approach to Russian history and bridging... more...
Afgantsy
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 21.99The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. Afghan mujahideen upset their plans, holding on with little more than natural fighting skills, until CIA agents came to the rescue with American arms. Humiliated in battle,... more...
All Hands Down
Simon & Schuster 2008; US$ 8.99Forty years ago, in May 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion sank in mysterious circumstances with a loss of ninety-nine lives. The tragedy occurred during the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and it followed by only weeks the sinking of a Soviet sub near Hawaii. Now in All Hands Down, drawing on hundreds of hours... more...
Alternative Paths
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 144.99Between 1917 and 1920--from the Bolshevik Revolution to the definitive statement of American opposition to Bolshevik Russia--Soviets and Americans searched for ways to effect meaningful interactions between their two nations in the absence of formal diplomatic relations. During these years, wide-ranging discussions occurred on a variety of serious... more...
Among the Russians
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Here is a fresh perspective on the last tumultuous years of the Soviet Union and an exquisitely poetic travelogue.With a keen grasp of Russia's history, a deep appreciation for its architecture and iconography, and an inexhaustible enthusiasm for its people and its culture, Colin Thubron is the perfect guide to a country most of us will never get... more...









