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Stalin and His Hangmen
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 17.95Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin?s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and thugs. At the top of this pyramid of terror sat five indispensable... more...
Stalin and His Hangmen
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableStalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin was not the sole author of Stalinism. What motivated his chiefs of police, Feliks Dzierzynski, Viacheslav... more...
The Dream of Lhasa
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 21.86The great Russian explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-1888) made an indelible contribution to the world's atlases, and its store of zoological and botanical knowledge, as a consequence of his four arduous and dangerous expeditions through the Central Asia of Western Mongolia, Eastern Turkestan and Northern Tibet. Donald Rayfield's biography of... more...
Edge of Empires
Reaktion Books 2013; US$ 55.00Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country of rainforests and swamps, snow and glaciers, and semi-arid plains. It has ski resorts and mineral springs, monuments and an oil pipeline. It also has one of the longest and most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, but no comprehensive, up-to-date... more...
Dead Souls
New York Review Books 2012; US$ 15.95An NYRB Classics Original The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to serfs who, though dead as doornails, are still property... more...
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableThis collection of Chekhov?s finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. ?The Steppe?, which established his reputation, is the unforgettable tale of a boy?s journey to a new school in Kiev, travelling through majestic landscapes towards an unknown destiny. ?Gusev? depicts an ocean voyage, where the sea takes on... more...
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