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Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
$75.00 NZD
Category: History
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered questio ...Show more
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
$57.99 NZD
Category: History
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012. When Mi ...Show more
Kremlin Winter - Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
$27.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012.Putin's ...Show more
Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure. Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece together the private as well as the public ...Show more
Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West by Robert Service
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: 16
In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy introducing in Russia should do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The ...Show more
Spies and Commissars: Russia and the West in the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
From an award-winning historian, this is a break-out book in the tradition of "Agent Zig Zag". In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy ...Show more
Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller ...Show more
The End of the Cold War by Robert Service
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the stand-off between the two superpowers - after decades of struggle over every aspect of security, politics, economics and ideas - would end in their lifetimes. E ...Show more
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The acclaimed account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. ...Show more
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
$29.99 NZD
$49.99 (40% off)
Category: Discounted Non-Fiction (selected titles) at 40% off RRP
In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of that revolution, Robert Service, the eminent historian of Russia, examines Nicholas's reign i ...Show more
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