Products tagged with History

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.

Nearly thirty years after the fall of the USSR, the word "Soviet" should be meaningless. Strangely, though, it endures, former Soviet environs define themselves for or against it. Does that experience mean anything today? This book attempts to find out.

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

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

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.

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.