330円 In A Short History of Russia Mary Platt Parmele takes the reader on a survey of Russia’s rich past, from the state’s early dramatic beginnings to its struggle to control society, the transformation of the empire into a multi-ethnic empire, and beyond. Includes Russian history image gallery.

1,493円 Hundreds of books, long and short, have been written about the Chernobyl tragedy. Few people are left indifferent once they understand a little about the biggest technological catastrophe in history. Wladimir Tchertkoff’s book “The Crime of Chernobyl - the Nuclear Gulag” occupies a central place ...

993円 ‘The Great Game’ (also referred to as the Tournament of Shadows) is a term used to describe the political and diplomatic confrontation that existed during most of the 19th Century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire centered around Afghanistan and its surrounding regions. The classi...

2,427円 In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp. Ivan Chistyakov was sent to the Gulag in 1935, where he worked at the Baikal-Amur Corrective Labour Camp for over ...

827円 Structure and expressive means of the Kazakh etiquette – the first scientific-popular book from "Etiquette of Kazakh" monograph. The book is written on the base of the literature`s analysis, researches and field materials collected by the author during 20-ty years. In this book there are an ethni...

1,326円 The book contains a lot of coloured illustrations, reflecting the exotic grandeur of the national Kazakh jewellery art of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries from the fund of RK State Museum 0f Arts named after A. Kasteev. It sets out the origins, symbolism and artistic features of jewellery, ...

993円 Antológiánk magyar zsidó történelemről szóló tanulmányok gyűjteménye. Összeállításunk azonban mind témájában, mind módszertanában különbözik az eddig megszokott ábrázolástól. A magyar (azaz a történelmi Magyar Királyság területén élő) zsidóságot a történetírók leginkább a modern eszmékhez lelkese...

3,122円 When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and creating sweeping boulevards and vast, epic housing estates in an emphatic declaration of a noncapitalist idea. The regimes that built them are now dead and long gone, but from Warsaw to ...

5,306円 An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. D...

11,981円 A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor camps Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and journal...

109円 A story of two men, a generation apart, one growing up in the shadow of the other. Peter Jirgens tells the story of his youth as the son of Arnold Jirgens, a Latvian immigrant, who struggled against discrimination to establish his family in Nowra, Australia. He shares the stories his father told ...

2,259円 For millions of his fans, there is only one Yul Brynner, the most mysterious and exotic star in Hollywood history. But in fact four men were given that same name in successive generations, beginning with Yul’s Swiss-born grandfather, Jules, and ending with his son born in New York, Yul Jr., bette...