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Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heartbreaking in its human drama, a history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. A story of how a centuries-old elite, famous for its glittering... [ More...]
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"Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century... [ More...]
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The award-winning author of "A Peoples Tragedy" and "Natashas Dance" has written this landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression.
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This multi-award book is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, "A People's Tragedy" offers a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new... [ More...]
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The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this... [ More...]
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A chilling, skillfully delineated account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Stalin's true motives—and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire—during the years in which he seemingly... [ More...]
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"A magnificent book...a nonfiction masterpiece." —"New York Times Book Review"
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I am offering the reader a small book about a large subject-Soviet history and politics from the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 to the present.
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