Mannerheim: The Finnish Years
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As soldier and statesman, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) occupies a unique place in the history...
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
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Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English...
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The World in 2017
News and Business
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The World in 2017 app contains The Economist’s annual collection of detailed, numerate and...
Aleksandr Askoldov: The Commissar
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Filmed in1966 and '67, but kept from release for twenty years, The Commissar is unquestionably one...
The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy
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As a boy, he spied for Sherlock Holmes. As a man, he must save the Empire. London 1909: The British...
Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919-1939
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This is the history of the black radicals who organised as Communists between the two imperialist...
Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements
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This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their...
Born in Siberia
Tamara Astafieva, Michael Darlow, Debbie Slater and Luba Ioffe
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In 1966 and 1968 Michael Darlow worked in Russia on two major television co-productions between the...
The Eastern Front 1914-1917
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A groundbreaking historical study, Norman Stone's The Eastern Front 1914-1917 was the very first...
The Booles and the Hintons: Two Dynasties That Helped Shape the Modern World
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In 1983 Gerry Kennedy set off on a tour through Russia, China, Japan and the USA to visit others...