1,400円 The overthrow and execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family is a cause célèbre of 20th century history. Andrew Cooks re-investigation of the story finally solves one of the greatest mysteries of world history. The author draws upon new forensic evidence and newly discovered Br...

403円 Kim is a novel by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in book form in October 1901. The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the Third, pro...

4,368円 Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries. Until now. In The People's Artist, Simon Morrison draws on groundbreaking research to illuminate the life of this major composer, deftly analyzing Prokofiev's music in light of new archival ...

890円 The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927. It was the author, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch, who spearheaded the underground Jewish resistance to Stalin’s ideological Final Solution ー and paid for it by brutal incarceration and a ca...

400円 *Discusses the myths and legends surrounding the two rulers. .*Includes passages from Catherine's memoirs and letters she wrote to contemporaries like Voltaire and Diderot.Includes pictures depicting Peter, Catherine and important people, places and events in their lives. Includes a Bibliography ...

3,317円 Shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award: "The book is a gift, as fascinating as it is important."ーRobert Legvold, Foreign Affairs The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and importan...

360円 "Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. While it is intended as an impartial and unbiased historical account, by Reed's own admission, "in the struggle [his] sympathies were not neutral". An imp...

4,967円 As the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 demonstrated in no uncertain terms, Russia has developed into a neo-imperialist power seeking to restore its spheres of dominance, to undermine the emergence of a wider Europe, and to prevent the development of a coherent transatlantic community. ...

1,555円 From the accliamed authority on Russia and the Russian Revolutionーthe final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924 "Offers a penetrating analysis of the making of the Soviet system.... [...

737円 An enlightening look into the once-secret Soviet state and party archives that Western scholars first gained access to in the early 1990s. Paul Gregory breaks down a decades-old wall of secrecy to reveal intriguing new information on such subjects as Stalin's Great Terror, the day-to-day life of ...

460円 « Les œuvres de Pouchkine jouissent d'une célébrité qui a dépassé les limites de l'empire russe. Traduites depuis longtemps en allemand et en anglais, un membre de l'Académie française, d'élégants écrivains n'ont pas d&ea...

5,804円 Berkhoff addresses one of the most neglected questions facing historians of the Second World War: how did the Soviet leadership sell the campaign against the Germans to people on the home front? Motherland in Danger takes us inside the Stalinist state to witness, up close, how the Soviet media re...