Caught in the Revolution - Petrograd, 1917 (Rappaport Helen)(Paperback / softback)

Caught in the Revolution - Petrograd, 1917 (Rappaport Helen)(Paperback / softback)

Between the first revolution in February 1917, and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd was in turmoil. Foreign visitors who filled hotels, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps. Among them were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, governesses

The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg (Rappaport Helen)(Paperback)

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters and Caught in the Revolution, The Last Days of the Romanovs is Helen Rappaport's riveting, moment-by-moment account of the last fourteen days of the Russian Imperial family. 'The brutal 1918 massacre of the Romanov family may be

The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (Rabinowitch Alexander)(Paperback)

A classic work depicting the early months of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction for the Revolution's

Magnificent Obsession - Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy (Rappaport Helen)(Paperback / softback)

Race to Save the Romanovs - The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family (Rappaport Helen)(Paperback / softback)

Man's Fate (Malraux Andre)(Paperback / softback)

Shanghai, 1927, and revolution is in the air. As the city becomes caught up in violence and bloodshed, four people's lives are altered inexorably. Each of these men must try to resolve their personal conflicts amid political turmoil, conspiracy and

Caught In The Light (Goddard Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Smith S. A.)(Paperback)

The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith

The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917 - 1923 (Carr Edward Hallett)(Paperback)

In Volume I, E. H. Carr begins with an analysis of the events in Russian history from 1898 to 1917 that shaped the course of the Revolution. He examines the constitutional structure erected by the new government and then turns to the multifarious problems facing the Bolsheviks as they took

Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution (Gleason Abbott)(Paperback)

In the tumultuous years after the revolution of 1917, the traditional cutlure of Imperial Russia was both destroyed and preserved, as a new Soviet culture began to take shape. This book focuses on the interaction between the emerging political and cultural policies of the Soviet regime and the

Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921 (Engelstein Laura)(Paperback)

October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it

The State and Revolution: Russian-English Edition (Lenin Vladimir)(Paperback)

The State and Revolution (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. It is considered to be Lenin's most

Euphoria (King Lily)(Paperback / softback)

Three young anthropologists in the 1930s are caught in a passionate love triangle

Meg, Mog and Og (Nicoll Helen)(Paperback / softback)

Crom the caveman has caught Og the woolly mammoth for his tea but Meg is a vegetarian! She persuades him to eat her delicious bubble and squeak. Og is rather partial to it too and follows Meg home for another

Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Smith S. A.)(Pevná vazba)

The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith

The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Barker Adele Marie)(Paperback)

Letters recording the reactions of ordinary Russians to the Revolution as events unfolded in 1917, an account of the day-to-day scramble to make a living after the end of the Soviet Union, and excerpts from a sixteenth-century manual instructing elite Muscovites on proper household management-The

The State and Revolution (Lenin Vladimir Ilyich)(Paperback)

In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke Edmund)(Paperback / softback)

State and Revolution (Lenin Vladimir Ilich)(Pevná vazba)

Lenin's original work on class-based revolution. In 1917, in the midst of two revolutions, Vladimir Ilich Lenin fled Russia for fear of persecution by the government. While in exile, he began work on one of his most important works, State and Revolution, an attempt to resurrect the purity of

Russian Revolution - A New History (McMeekin Sean)(Paperback / softback)

Now in paperback, the first major new history of the Russian Revolution in a decade combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on a great turning point of the twentieth

Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932 (Milner John)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of Russian art, design, and filmt, from its proliferation in the aftermath of the 1917 October Revolution to its eventual repression under

Ekaterinburg - The Last Days of the Romanovs (Rappaport Helen)(Paperback / softback)

A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was Yakov Yurovsky, and his prisoners were the

To Free the Romanovs: Royal Kinship and Betrayal in Europe 1917-1919 (Hall Coryne)(Paperback)

When Russia erupted into revolution, almost overnight the pampered lifestyle of the Imperial family vanished. Within months many of them were under arrest and they became 'enemies of the Revolution and the Russian people.' None of them wanted to leave Russia; they expected to be back on their

Outsider (Finlay Alex)(Paperback / softback)

A young Supreme Court law clerk is caught in the crosshairs of a serial killer in this legal thriller from Washington D.C. lawyer and Supreme Court commentator Anthony Franze writing as Alex