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Lenin: A Biography
Robert Service
"The wonder of this particular account is that Service succeeds in explaining how Lenin came to [his] determined confidence and the complex and ultimately tragic circumstances that led to the triumph of his ambitions...The most significant contribution of this book is the wealth of personal information that makes Lenin a far more accessible, if not appealing, individual...Such details make Lenin all the more human and so all the more vivid and frightening."
‹Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal
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Stalin: A Biography
Robert Service
\Stalin, a sequel to Mr. Service's Lenin: A Biography, presents a richly documented, highly persuasive portrait of the man who transformed the Soviet Union into a modern military-industrial power, terrorized millions and ruled over an empire that would have been the envy of the czars...the architect of a system that still weighs heavy on millions of citizens in the former Soviet Union."
‹William Grimes, New York Times
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A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin
Robert Service
Updating his acclaimed History of Twentieth-Century Russia through 2002, Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars. He shows how seven decades of communist rule, which penetrated every aspect of Soveit life, continue to influence Russia today.
"A remarkable work...It demands to be read."
‹Adam Zamoyski, Spectator
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Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule
Karel C. Berkhoff
"This is an amazing book, a real milestone in the literature. Everyone interested in the history of Ukraine, the Soviet Union, World War II, and the Holocaust will surely want to read it. The description of the purposeful starving of Kiev is especially poignant. By the end, the reader is left with a sense of the hopelessness and terror of the Nazi occupation of Ukraine."
‹Norman M. Naimark, author of Fires of Hatred
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The Revolution of Peter the Great
James Cracraft
"This book represents a distillation of James Cracraft's magisterial work The Petrine Revolution, the three volumes of which cover Russian architecture, imagery and verbal culture. It is firmly rooted in a lifetime of research and a formidable body of sources, but targets the general reader in the form of an accessible, lightly-footnoted interpretative history of the reforms of Russia's most important ruler, who reigned from 1682 to 1725."
‹Lindsey Hughes, Times Literary Supplement
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Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age
Thomas C. Owen
Fedor Chizhov built the first railroad owned entirely by Russian stockholders, created Moscow's first bank and mutual credit society, and launched the first profitable steamship line based in Archangel. In this valuable book, Thomas Owen vividly illuminates the life and world of this seminal figure in early Russian capitalism.
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Russia and the Russians: A History
Geoffrey Hosking
"[A] comprehensive and intelligent survey of Russian history for the general reader...[that follows] the twists and turns of Slavic history from the principalities of Kievan Rus in the late ninth century to the presidency of Boris Yeltsin...[A] most excellent historical survey."
‹The Economist
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Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
Martin Malia
"Russia Under Western Eyes is the most insightful book published in any language to date on Russia's place in European intellectual and political history. It is likely to stand as the definitive treatment of the subject for years to come, a source of pithy questions for those who agree and of propositions to refute for those who don't. But Malia has set a standard of proof that will be exceedingly difficult for his critics to match."
‹Jack F. Matlock, Jr., New York Times Book Review
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