 | Russia - Land of the Tsars
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 | Nicholas and Alexandra
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 | Enemy at the Gates
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 | Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture by Joanna Hubbs
Buy used from: $14.50 Every journalist and political scientist should read this(and you too, CIA!) to understand not just the history, but roots of the Russian soul.
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 | Russia : A Concise History by Ronald Hingley
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.29 This is a great basic history to learn the who's who.
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 | Lenin: A New Biography by Dmitri Volkogonov
Buy new: $48.71 / Used from: $3.40 A biography by a Russian general who took a critical view of the first leader of the Soviet Union.
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 | The Soviet Colossus: History And Aftermath by Michael Kort
Buy new: $28.04 / Used from: $12.50 How and why Russia skipped capitalism and tried to create a workers utopia. Great history and not boring at all.
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 | Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia, Updated Edition by Stephen F. Cohen
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $0.01 What went wrong with the "reforms" of the 1990's? Why is Russia the state it's in after communism? -All laid out here beautifully, and tragically.
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| The Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions During the Cold War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by William C. Wohlforth
Pricey, yes, but a good hstory of the Cold War
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| The History of Russia by Joel Carmichael
Buy used from: $0.01 Good basic history. Add it to your bookshelf.
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 | A Documentary History of Communism in Russia: From Lenin to Gorbachev
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 | Russia's Heroes, 1941-1945 by Albert Axell
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 | Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
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 | Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War (Vintage) by Rodric Braithwaite
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| Heroes, Monsters and Other Worlds from Russian Mythology (Mythology series) by Elizabeth Warner
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| Beginning Russian by Richard L. Leed
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $8.97 My first Russian college textbook. Good but not great. The following in the series are really good and worth getting.
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| Intermediate Russian: The Twelve Chairs (Russian Edition) by Slava Paperno
Buy new: $59.95 / Used from: $40.47 A must if your want to continue with the language and enter literature in Russian. My favorite language book, ever.
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| Advanced Russian by Alexander D. Nakhimovsky
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| Beginning Russian (v. 1) by Richard L. Leed
Buy used from: $2.49 Out of print, but worth finding. Superceded by the 2nd edition in one volume, but this has a storyline that goes through vol 1 and 2. Find it by ISBN.
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| Beginning Russian (v. 2) by Richard L. Leed
Buy used from: $13.00 Out of print, but worth finding. Superceded by the 2nd edition in one volume, but this has a storyline that goes through vol 1 and 2. Find it by ISBN.
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 | Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book
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 | Reading Real Russian (2nd Edition) by Irene Thompson
Buy new: $48.67 / Used from: $15.97 A must if you are going to travel to russia. Builds skill quickly to read newspapers, ads, signs, etc.
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