Products tagged with History

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

Russia’s epic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's fascinating history to help us understand its actions today and what the future might hold

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

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?

First published in 1963, this unique and pioneering anthology contains over sixty selections from the finest of Russia’s medieval authors, much of the material published in this anthology has never before been available in English. 

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

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.