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  The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II

  by Edvard Radzinsky, Marian Schwartz

  An in-depth account of the life, reign, and final days of the last Russian tsar draws on Nicholas II's personal diaries, firsthand accounts of the murder of the royal family, and other sources. Reprint. 90,000 first printing. $90,000 ad/promo. NYT. K.
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  Romanovs

  by Robert K. Massie

  "MASTERFUL." --The Washington Post Book World "RIVETING . . . UNFOLDS LIKE A DETECTIVE STORY." --Los Angeles Times Book Review In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their... (more)
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  The Oxford Companion to Military History

  by Hew Strachan

  From the Trojan War to World War II and beyond, The Oxford Companion to Military History brings together an international team of more than 150 experts who illuminate war's bloody past. Ranging from the Alamo and Amphibious Operations to Marshal Zhukov and the Zulu War, here are 1,300 alphabetically arranged entries that provide a wealth of information on warfare from the classical period to the present day,... (more)
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  The Russian Revolution: From Lenin to Stalin (1917-1929)

  by Edward Hallett Carr

  E.H. Carr is the acknowledged authority on Soviet Russia. In The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin 1917 - 1929 , he provides the student and general reader alike with insights and knowledge of a lifetime's work. This book, now available in a brand new edition, is, without doubt, the standard short history of the Russian Revolution and now contains a new introduction by R.W. Davies.
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  John Reed: Witness to Revolution

  by Tamara Hovey

  A biography of the "father of modern journalism" whose coverage of the turbulent events of his times earned him a world-wide reputation.
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  Dr. Zhivago

  by Boris Pasternak

  n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.
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  The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921

  by Isaac Deutscher

  Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience, yet there was a danger that his name would disappear from history. Originally published in 1954, Deutscher's magisterial three-volume biography was the first major publication to... (more)
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  Nicholas and Alexandra

  by Robert K. Massie

  Massie offers a moving, tragic, and unforgettable account of the extraordinary Imperial dynasty of Tsar Nicholas II, his doomed empire, and a revolution that would inexorably change the world forever. "A larger than life drama."--Saturday Review. Photo insert.
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  The Accomplice (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)

  by Elizabeth Ironside

  Jean Loftus has lived at Asshe House for more than 40 years. Its tidy contours, the soft colors of the garden, speak to an orderly, gracious life, a supremely English life. But when workmen unearth a skeleton from that garden, the skeletons from Jean's past begin rising, similarly, to the surface. And the life they speak to - a childhood in Revolutionary Russia, chaotic years as a refugee between the two... (more)
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  The Life of Lenin

  by Louis Fischer

  Lenin was a revolution. He lived and breathed and died for it. Born in 1870, in the sleepy Volga town of Simbirsk, he died in 1924 at the age of 53 having changed the course of history throughout the world. What was the genius that enabled Lenin to create and sustain a revolution that constantly hovered on the brink of utter chaos? It was his incredible strength of will and personality, his fantastic... (more)
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  Memoirs of a Revolutionist

  by Peter Kropotkin

  Autobiography of this Russian geologist/geographer by training, social revolutionist by action. Born in 1842 in Moscow; experiencing the death of his mother at the age of 3 1/2 from consumption. Self described as a revolutionist, "seldom have there been revolutionists as humane and as mild as he is." Kropotkin explored Siberia and Manchuria.
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  The history of the Russian revolution

  by Leon Trotsky

  Published for the ninetieth anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, this edition of Leon Trotsky's masterpiece, with a new foreword by Ahmed Shawki, tells the epic story of the remarkable events that transformed the history of Russia-and the world-forever. Leon Trotsky was a leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and is author of My Life and The Revolution Betrayed. Ahmed Shawki ... (more)
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  Black Night, White Snow ; Russia's Revolutions, 1905-1917 (A Da Capo Paperback)

  by Harrison E. Salisbury

  The destruction of the Czars which brought about the reign of revolutions from 1905–1917 in Russia looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honored institutions repudiated. How did it happen? How could Nicholas and Alexandra, the nobility, middle class anarchists—even Lenin himself—not foresee the catastrophic changes... (more)
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  Ten Days That Shook The World.

  by John Reed.

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  Concise History Of The Russian Revolution, A

  by Richard Pipes

  The author of the classic two-volume study, The Russian Revolution and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime, now distills those works into an authoritative new chronicle of Russia between 1900 and the death of Lenin. "A deep and eloquent condemnation."--The New York Times.