The Fourth Courier
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It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders...
Thriller Crime Historical Fiction Poland
Russian Revolutionary Posters
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Russian Revolutionary Posters tells the story of the development of the Soviet poster, from the...
Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces
Antony Beevor, Lyuba Vinogradova and Arch Tait
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Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in...
Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy
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It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance, and moves to...
Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953
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Read an extract here LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION. War-torn,...
The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
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This book shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower...
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War
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How has it happened that the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more...
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941: Volume 1: The German Advance, the Encirclement Battle and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941
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At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second...
Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
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Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first significant effort to build a modern...
The Spy Who Came in from the Co-Op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage
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On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article "Revealed: the quiet woman...