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Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
58.00 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
28.00 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.Putin's ...Show more
Spies and Commissars: Russia and the West in the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
41.00 NZD
42.00 (2% off)
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
The End of the Cold War by Robert Service
35.00 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
50.00 NZD
Category: History
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
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
28.00 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 Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century, Fifth Edition by Robert Service
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Revised and updated with a new introduction and new final chapter.Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change and upheaval.In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2009, Robert Service provides a superb panor ...Show more
Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary t ...Show more
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