Beer, Daniel
Summary: "The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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Summary: "An exposé of the Wagner Group, Russia’s notorious and secretive mercenary army. This book exposes the history and future of the Wagner Group, Russia’s notorious and secretive mercenary army, revealing details of their operations never documented before. Jack Margolin traces the Wagner Group from its roots as a battlefield rumour to a private military enterprise tens of thousands strong. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reaktion Books
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Summary: "There have been many thrilling and memorable sports rivalries. But none has ever combined such drama and excitement over such an extended period of time and against such a gripping background as the Cold War hockey rivalry between Canada and Russia"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Publishing, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.962 FRAGaleotti, Mark
Summary: "Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine itself. But it also looks more broadly at Putin's recreation of Russian military power and its expansion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2022
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Summary: "A high-spirited, eye-opening, appetite-whetting culinary travel adventure that tells the story of the last hundred years of Russian power and propaganda through food"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2023
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Summary: An expert historian and former ambassador to Moscow unlocks fact from fiction to reveal what lies at the root of the Russian story. Churchill remarked that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. That has become an excuse for intellectual laziness. Russia is not all that different from anywhere else. But you have to disentangle the facts from the myths created both by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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Summary: Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" by the Wall Street Journal, award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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Summary: "In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance? In Accidental Czar, Andrew S. Weiss, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "A chilling account of Russian information warfare, Putin's Trolls exposes the individuals and organizations behind the Kremlin's coordinated, military-style social media operations against the West. In this courageous and unflinching book, award-winning journalist Jessikka Aro interweaves her own dramatic story as a target of Russian social media propaganda with accounts from many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ig Publishing 2022
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Summary: A harrowing account of Russia's occupation of the Chernobyl and Zaporizhia nuclear power plants, and the dangers of nuclear power colliding with warfare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "A highly original narrative history by The Economist’s Moscow bureau chief that does for modern Russia what Evan Osnos did for China in Age of Ambition,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 OSTWeiner, Tim
Summary: "With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with thehelp of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 WEIFiges, Orlando
Summary: "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. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 FIGZygarʹ, Mikhail
Summary: "Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin's Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy. This is the story of the political battles that have taken place in the court of Vladimir Putin since his rise to power, and a chronicle of friendship and hatred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 SAKContents: From Kiev to Muscovy: the beginnings to 1450 / Janet Martin -- Muscovite Russia, 1450-1598 / Nancy Shields Kollmann -- From Muscovy towards St. Petersburg, 1598-1689 / Hans-Joachim Torke -- The Petrine era and after, 1682-1740 / John T. Alexander -- The age of enlightenment, 1740-1801 / Gary Marker -- Pre-reform Russia, 1801-1855 / David L. Ransel -- Reform and counter-reform, 1855-1890 /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 RUSSlezkine, Yuri
Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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Summary: "In his time as a journalist, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players--from politicians to oligarchs. As an expert on Putin's moods and behavior, he has spent years studying the Kremlin's plan regarding Ukraine, and here, in clear, chronological order he explains how we got here. In 1996 to 2004,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 ZYGWolmar, Christian.
Summary: Details the history of the Trans-Siberian railway, which stretches 6,000 miles across the scarcely populated frozen wasteland of northern Russia and led to the rapid urbanization of Siberia while helping fuel the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Revolution and the Nazi resistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: A dramatic account of the ill-fated 19th-century naval expedition to the North Pole cites the contributions of German cartographer August Peterman, New York Herald owner James Gordon Bennett and famed naval officer George Washington De Long in the team's efforts to survive brutal environmental conditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival SidesParkin, Simon
Summary: "In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad-now St. Petersburg-and began the longest blockade in recorded history, one that would ultimately claim the lives of nearly three-quarters of a million people. At the center of the besieged city stood a converted palace that housed the world's largest collection of seeds-more than 250,000 samples hand-collected over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 957 RASOlivier, Daria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.07 OLIWeir, Gary E.
Contents: 1. Stalins grand plan -- 2. Cruises and troubles -- 3. "Underway on nuclear power" -- 4. The Cuban Missile Crisis -- 5. An uncertain nuclear beginning -- 6. Death in the depths -- 7. A variety of intelligence gathering methods -- 8. Improving the breed -- 9. An insider's view of the mystery of the Kursk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2003