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  • Negotiating the NWT Devolution of Lands & Resources
    Hal J. Gerein / Hal JGerein
    In this story, the author is the GNWT's Chief Negotiator for the devolution of lands and resources from Canada. Devolution means the transfer of authority from a senior level of government to a junior level. Many national governments today areinvolved with devolution as a means to "subsidiarity", the principle that politicalpower should be exercised by the least central or ...
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    44,75 €

  • 'THE TRIPLE WHAMMY' AND OTHER RUSSIAN STORIES
    Louis Menashe
    A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The author’s experiences as a radical in the turbulent 1960s, and his eventual disenchantment offer some precedents and perspectives to all those on the Left, Center or Right interested in the fluctuation...
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    26,31 €

  • Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war vol.17
    Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov / Mark Conrad
    This volume is related to the Russian Army during the zar Alexander I era, and are about the Guard cavalry regiments (part 1). Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology dev...
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    40,78 €

  • Fearful Majesty
    Benson Bobrick
    Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time.This acclaimed biography of one of Russia’s most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also surprisingly timely, revealing how many of the issues Russia faces today hav...
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    19,27 €

  • Jews in Service to the Tsar
    Lev Berdnikov / Nora Favorov
    Benjamin Disraeli advised, “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about th...
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    22,05 €

  • Blowing up Ukraine
    Michael Stanchev / Yuri Felshtinsky
    Blowing up Ukraine is a first history of democracy in Ukraine since 1991 and the lethal methods Russia has used over a quarter of a century to regain Ukraine as a vazal state - culminating in a full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting war crimes. Over twenty years, the Kremlin skilfully manipulated Ukraine’s self-serving politicians and oligarchs, only to be thwarted time...
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    22,13 €

  • The Voyage of the Damned
    James Fitzharris
    The Voyage of the Damned: Russia’s Baltic Fleet and the Road to Tsushima The voyage of the Russian Baltic Fleet to its destruction at Tsushima in 1905 represents one of history’s most catastrophic military disasters-an eight-month nightmare journey from the Baltic to the Pacific that ended in the most complete naval defeat of the modern era. This comprehensive history examines ...
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    25,69 €

  • Russia’s Army
    Roger R. Reese
    With the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s Russia seems to have stepped out of time, reverting to an imperial era of conquest and expansion. But as Roger Reese points out in this comprehensive new history, Russia’s way of war has changed little from one century to the next, one regime to another, from the army of the tsar to the army of today. Russia’s Army reveals how the ...
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    42,80 €

  • The Comintern in Spain before the Civil War
    Gustavo Martín Asensio
    The Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1939, has been written about widely and remains mired in antifascist, anti-communist, and historical memory controversies. A deep dive into the Soviet, British intelligence and other European archives, this new book brings the majority consensus among historians of the Second Republic into question and sheds new light on the scale of Soviet com...
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    51,05 €

  • How the Golden Horde Forged Russia and Transformed Eurasia
    Thomas Blackwood
    How the Golden Horde Forged Russia and Transformed EurasiaThis comprehensive history examines the Golden Horde, the Mongol empire that dominated Russia and the Eurasian steppes for over two centuries and fundamentally shaped the development of modern Russia. Drawing on chronicles, archaeological evidence, and contemporary accounts, the book traces the empire’s dramatic arc from...
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    24,75 €

  • Shamans, Lamas, and Evangelicals
    C R BAWDEN Fba
    First published in 1985, Shamans, Lamas and Evangelicals tells the little known yet fascinating story of a missionary venture to Eastern Siberia in the year 1818. The mission was unusual in its conception and established by the London Missionary Society with the backing of the Tsar, Alexander I. ...
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    56,18 €

  • The Viking Age
    Lewis McLeod
    Step into the world of the Vikings-a civilization of warriors, explorers, and artisans whose influence echoes across centuries. The Viking Age: Life, Death, and the Sea by Lewis McLeod is a comprehensive exploration of Norse culture, traditions, and worldview, offering an unparalleled journey through the daily lives, beliefs, and ambitions of the Northmen.From the rhythm of the...
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    14,31 €

  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    MASTERS OF WAR: GEORGY ZHUKOVThe most comprehensive English-language biography of the Soviet Union’s greatest military commander, the peasant’s son who saved Moscow, orchestrated Stalingrad, and conquered Berlin.Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov rose from abject poverty in a Russian village to become the Marshal who commanded millions and changed the course of history. This meticul...
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    35,16 €

  • Russian Social Thought in the 19th Century
    Russian Social Thought in the 19th Century is a comprehensive introduction to pre-Soviet Russian social theory, tracing its evolution through the works of influential thinkers such as Pyotr Chaadaev, Leo Mechnikov, Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and Pavel Lilienfeld. ...
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    77,81 €

  • Guardians of Living History
    Inge Melchior
    This book interrogates how people engage with their violent past, both within their families and as members of a national community, when living in an extremely complicated society with a short history of independence and a desire to belong to Europe. ...
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    82,14 €

  • The History of Russia
    Auke de Haan / Jennifer Joseph / Skriuwer.com
    Russia’s Epic Saga: From Ancient Tribes to Revolutionary Dawn'The History of Russia' invites readers to journey through a vast land where steppe nomads forged empires, tsars wielded absolute power, and revolutionaries reshaped the world, evoking the fierce resilience of a people enduring invasions, reforms, and upheavals. From Kievan Rus’ Christianization to 1917’s seismic shif...
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    13,49 €

  • The Belgica expedition 1897-1899
    Patrick De Deckker
    It is a story of great scientific exploration as well as human endurance as the ship became trapped in the sea ice for nearly 13 months. The scientists and crew were the first to endure the debilitating harshness of the dark, long Antarctic winter and uncertainty of survival. Yet, the entrapment also offered a unique opportunity for the scientists and the crew to collate ground...
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    42,10 €

  • Destinies of Deception
    Dr ant
    Russia has long been a threat to our national security. Shortly after the end of World WarII, tensions began to escalate between the United States and the Soviet Union (which wascentered around Russia, hence we will use the two names interchangeably). The Cold War was adifficult period during which conflicts occurred all over the world, as we and the Russiansinstalled and suppo...
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    24,21 €

  • The Air War in Ukraine
    This book provides a comprehensive account of the use of airpower in the first year of the Ukraine conflict. ...
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    75,94 €

  • Reinterpreting Russia’s Strategic Culture
    Nicolò Fasola
    This book analyses the categories of thought underpinning Russia’s strategic decision-making and military operations, unpacking their nature, development, and interaction. ...
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    76,18 €

  • Once Upon a Russia
    Steven A. Fisher
    Once Upon a Russia: Voices From a Vanished Era gathers over one hundred vivid, personal accounts from foreigners who lived, worked, or wandered through Russia during a time that now feels irretrievably past. Edited by Steven A. Fisher, who shared that journey with the contributors, this anthology captures not only the country’s strange beauty and contradictions, but the emotion...
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    26,81 €

  • Russian Literary Journals, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy in St. Petersburg, 1877
    Linda M. Mayhew
    In 1877, the atmosphere in Russia was highly contentious. Amid war with the Ottoman Empire, the nation was also grappling with intense intellectual and political conflicts. Various groups and individuals were fervently engaged in shaping the country’s future, navigating a landscape marked by strict censorship and deep ideological divides. This game, set in St. Petersburg, immer...
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    39,19 €

  • The August Uprising, 1924
    Eric Lee
    For three years following the Russian Revolution, the small South Caucasian country of Georgia was a democracy, but Stalin later ordered the Red Army to invade and to bring the country back under Russian rule. Communist attacks on political opponents, trade unions, cooperatives, and even the church sparked resistance, and an armed uprising broke out across the nation in 192...
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    57,54 €

  • IN THE STORM
    RHODA POWER
    DECEMBER 2016. A young English woman crosses a North Sea patrolled by German submarines on the first stage of her lengthy journey to the Southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don where she is engaged as a tutor to the teenage daughter of a prosperous industrialist. Within three months the Russian Revolution explodes, and she is caught up in chaotic and bloody months of violence.Rh...
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    22,42 €

  • 'CHOSEN BY GOD'
    Michael C. Paul
    Novgorod was one of medieval Russia’s key political, cultural, economic, and commercial centers. The archbishop of Novgorod was a key figure not only in the church, the preeminent institution in medieval Europe, but also in the political, judicial, social, and economic life of the city and of medieval Russia more broadly. This book provides a historical development not only of ...
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    54,85 €

  • Evacuee Encounters on the Soviet Home Front During the Second World War
    Natalie Belsky
    This study is the first to examine the experiences of the millions of Soviet civilians evacuated to the interior of the country during World War II in the context of their encounters and relations with local communities and populations across Soviet Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, and the Urals. ...
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    76,07 €

  • Warlord Hitler
    Alan Donohue
    This book is a study of Adolf Hitler in his role as military commander and strategist from the beginning of the Second World War until the end of 1942, examining in detail the campaign in southern Russia that year. ...
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    75,09 €

  • South
    Ernest Shackleton
    'By endurance we conquer.' - Sir Ernest ShackletonFirst published in 1919, South is Sir Ernest Shackleton’s own account of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917), one of the greatest survival stories in the history of exploration. This edition contains the original illustrationsShackleton set out to complete the first land crossing of Antarctica, but when his ship...
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    21,07 €

  • How Russia Got That Way
    Griffin Edwards
    The retelling of history is the best way to understand Russia today.Russia fascinates and amazes. It is almost more of a living meme, an ethereal parody-land, than it is a real place with real people living real lives. We are most intimately acquainted with it through James Bond, Call of Duty, and dashcam videos. It is equal parts mirage, fantasy, and archetype.The best way to ...
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    21,78 €

  • Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland
    Alexej Lochmatow
    This book explores the public debates among scholars that took place in Early Cold War Poland. ...
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    75,85 €


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