Products tagged with History

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.

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

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

The Story of a Life beings from Paustovsky’s Ukrainian youth, as his family is destitute, to his time as a World War I paramedic , then a journalist during the Russia revolution, His prose are energetic and lyrical filled with love of the natural world

Michael Khodarkovsky's innovative exploration of Russia's 20th century, through 100 carefully selected vignettes that span the century, offers a fascinating prism through which to view Russian history.

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

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.

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.

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

A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history.

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