Product Description: "A book to astonish readers: never before has Stalin's Gulag been the setting for a love affair. This powerful narrative by a distinguished historian will take its place not just in history but in literature.""--"Robert K. Massie, author of "Catherine the Great"""""Author of "Natasha's Dance" and "The Crimean War"""""In 1946, after five years as a prisoner--first as a Soviet Union POW in Nazi concentration camps, then as a deportee (falsely accused of treason) in Russia's Arctic Gulag--twenty-nine-year-old Lev Mishchenko unexpectedly received a letter from Sveta, the sweetheart he had hardly dared hope was still alive...read more

Provides a portrait of everyday Russian life during the repression of the Stalin years, analyzing the regime's effect on people's personal lives as they struggled to survive in the midst of the fear, mistrust, betrayal, and compromise of the world in which they lived.

Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war.

The author of A People's Tragedy turns his attention to the culture of Russia, using the lives of writers, artists, and musicians to show how Russia has struggled to define its own soul in the twentieth century. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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Native Russians speak out to discuss the history of their troubled homeland from its beginnings to the momentous upheaval of the Revolution in 1917, covering such topics as the Slavic people, serfdom, the nomadic Cossacks, and the Orthodox Church. (view table of contents)

A definitive, award-winning reassessment of the Russian Rvolution encompasses Russian history from the end of the nineteenth century to the death of Lenin and explores how Russian pre-revolutionary forces were violently erased and replaced. Reprint. (view table of contents)

A comprehensive, one-volume account of the Russian Revolution covers every moment, from the end of the nineteenth century to the death of Lenin, and explores how Russian pre-revolution social forces were violently erased and replaced. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is the first non-Soviet history of the Volga countryside during the Russian revolution and civil war of 1917-1921. The product of extensive study of numerous archival sources--many of them from central government archives, and previously considered highly secret--it reconstructs the revolutionary experience of the peasantry in the crucial Volga region, situated immediately behind the military fronts between the Reds and the Whites...read more