Products tagged with History

From Sputnik to Gorbachev: an intricately detailed graphic exploration of Russian history that only you can complete

This book presents the results of in-depth research and extensive travels in former Soviet space. Its prime focus is the impact of space exploration on everyday life in its pioneering age between the late 1950s and the 1980s.

Solomon Volkov, a Russian emigre and acclaimed cultural historian, has written the definitive cultural biography of St. Petersburg and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy.

Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country has ski resorts and mineral springs, monuments and an oil pipeline. It also has one of the longest and most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world.

A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country” (Wall Street Journal).

The Romanovs ruled a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?

A tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing.

The 1917 Revolution sent shockwaves throughout the globe, setting a chain of events in motion that would change the entire course of the 20th century. Geoffrey Swain provides an incisive overview of one of the most turbulent periods in modern history.

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union

The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia’s history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it.

The definitive story of a game so great, even the Cold War couldn't stop it

The first history of the epic defeat of Napoleon's empire told from the Russian perspective.