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'Absolutely fascinating' Andrew Marr 'A brilliant historical investigation that's as gripping as a Le Carré novel' Tom Burgis 'Shaun Walker skilfully shows how Russia's modern-day election meddling is rooted in the subterfuge and trickery of the b...

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A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise ¿ "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times ¿ "[A] masterly analysis."-Joshua R...

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This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only major history in any langu...

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As in many postcommunist states, politics in Ukraine revolves around the issue of national identity. Ukrainian nationalists see themselves as one of the world's oldest and most civilized peoples, as "older brothers" to the younger Russian culture....

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This is the astonishing story of the ten million books that US intelligence smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. From copies of Orwell to Agatha Christie, the Western effort was to undermine the censorship of the Soviet bloc, offe...

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A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics ? A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize ¿ "Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authori...

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Riken uppstår och går under. Nya stater etableras och upplöses efter några år. Den fascinerande historien om några av dessa försvunna länder väcks här till liv. Bjørn Berge tar oss med på en spännande upptäcktsfärd till jordens alla hörn, från dju...

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Riken uppstår och går under. Nya stater etableras och upplöses efter några år. Den fascinerande historien om några av dessa försvunna länder väcks här till liv. Bjørn Berge tar oss med på en spännande upptäcktsfärd till jordens alla hörn, från dju...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY 'An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' Sunday Telegraph 'This is present-minded history at its most urgent. Anyone wa...

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How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems a...

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WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE A "riveting history" (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russia-and beyond "A book about a past time that ...

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Catherine Baker offers an up-to-date, balanced and concise introductory account of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and their aftermath. The volume incorporates the latest research, showing how the state of the field has evolved and guides students ...

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In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did...

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The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessens understanding of ...

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'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Thrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph 'Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nick Hornby The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytal...

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Empires--vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition--have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take ...

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A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its socie...

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'Extraordinary' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'Thrilling . . . a record of an infatuation' TELEGRAPH 'The book of a lifetime' ELIF SHAFAK 'The North Pole proves to be the perfect subject for him' MICHAEL PALIN 'Heart-catching . . . fabulous' OBSERVER 'A beautifu...

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The second volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich. 'This book is like a time machine because McDonough writes so vividly' History of War 'McDonough writes clearly and readably wit...

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Under några år i slutet av 1930-talet reste språkforskaren Matti Mörtberg runt i de nordvärmländska skogarna som ännu var präglade av den skogsfinska invandringen på 1600-talet. Under resorna spelade han in intervjuer och nedtecknade uppgifter, be...

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'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER 'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history' BILL BRYSON 'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOE 'Elledge writ...

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A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current and ongoing peace process, fully updated with a new afterword for the paperback edition. 'An essential book ? closely-r...

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A poignant and deeply researched history of gay oppression in the USSR. In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Red closet recounts the compelling stories of peop...

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The end of the Cold War was an opportunity-our inability to seize it has led to today's renewed era of great power competition ¿ "An eloquent and persuasive argument about how the world squandered the promise of the end of the Cold War."-Maria Lip...

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Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural resources. But Russia's territory has a harsh climate, is cut off from most maritime cont...

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