Products tagged with History

William Craft Brumfield explores the architecture and landscape of Imperial Russia through the photography of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky and "restored" realities.

An enthralling, definitive new history of the Bolshoi Ballet, where visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.

Anna Reid combines research and her own experiences to chart Ukraine's tragic past

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.

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Soviet Russian composer DmitriHI Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony

A harrowing account of how one of America's most Iconic television show was exported to Russia in the post-Soviet tumultuous 90s.

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

This vibrant visual history of Western astrology is the first ever compendium of its kind, exploring the symbolic meaning behind more than 400 images -- from Egyptian temples and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary art from across the globe.

An original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams.

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

An unforgettable journey through Central Asia -- one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world.

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.