History Books

American Girls in Red Russia recounts the experiences of women who saved starving children from the Russian famine, worked on rural communes in Siberia, wrote for Moscow or New York newspapers, or performed on Soviet stages.

This is the remarkable true story of a family surviving during one of the bleakest periods in Russian history.

A Soviet memoir that is equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditations on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art.

Signed copies exclusive to TMORA. Jonathan C. Slaght is a native Minnesotan, local to the Twin Cities area. Owls of the Eastern Ice is a 2020 National Book Award nominee, was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2020, and also made the Wall Street Jour

The incredible true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, a Black American who made and lost his fortunes in Moscow and Constantinople at the turn of the century.

09.07 a.m. April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile--originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead--and blasts into the

Land of the Firebird is an engaging in-depth cultural analysis of Russian history by award-winning historian Suzanne Massie.

From the Mongol hordes of the 13th century, the autocratic fists of successive tsars, to the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia's re-emergence as a superpower.

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Masha Gessen reveals how Russia, within a generation, has surrendered to a virulent new strain of autocracy.

Revolution 1989 is an authoritative account, by journalist Victor Sebestyen, of the few months, and the few ordinary people, that brought down the Soviet Union, and changed the world forever.

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution comes a classic history of the Soviet era, from 1917 to its fall.

Dotted throughout Siberia are pianos -- telling the story of how music has run through the country like blood since the 18th century. How did they get there?