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The Persecutor more books like this

by Kourdakov

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Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel

Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel more books like this

by John Scott

"Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked." -- Ronald Grigor Suny "A genuine grassroots account of Soviet life -- a type of book of which there have been far too few." -- William Henry ...

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A Russian journal

A Russian journal more books like this

by John Steinbeck

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the "New York Herald Tribune". This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A ...

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The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game

The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game more books like this

by J C Hallman

A fascinating exploration of the history and evolution of chess and the obsessive hold that it exerts on its followers. From travelling to the tiny Russian chess-obsessed province of Kalmykia to challenge its eccentric dictator to a match, touring New York's legendary chess district, crashing the Princeton Math department game party, to playing ...

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Rick Steves' Best of Eastern Europe

Rick Steves' Best of Eastern Europe more books like this

by Rick Steves, Cameron Hewitt

Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers where to ride an Austrian mountain luge or visit the 3,000-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti in Berlin? With "Rick Steves' Best of Eastern Europe 2006", travelers can experience Rick's favorite destinations in Eastern Europe, including Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Krakow, Ljubljana, and Dubrovnik - ...

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Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow more books like this

by Joseph Edward Davies

MISSION TO MOSG OW BT JOSEPH E. DAVIES UNITED ST X ES AMBASSADOR TO THE SOVIET UNION FROM 1936 TO 1938 A record of confidential dispatches to the State Department, official and personal correspondence, current diary and journal entries, including notes and comment up to October, 1941 LONDON VICTOR GOLLANCZ LIMITED 1945 TO TWO GREAT WOMEN MY MOTHER ...

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Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland

Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland more books like this

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

The second volume in Fermor's triptych about his journey as a young man from Holland to Istanbul, on foot.

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The Jennifer Project

The Jennifer Project more books like this

by Clyde W. Burleson

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The Big Red Train Ride more books like this

by Eric Newby

Written before the fall of communism, Newby's travelogue exposes the bureaucracy and bad food behind an eight-day journey on the trans-Siberian railroad.

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Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture

Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture more books like this

by James H Billington

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The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War

The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War more books like this

by Asne Seierstad, Nadia Christensen (Translator)

In the early hours of New Years 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict that continues to this day. A foreign correspondent in Moscow at the time, sne Seierstad traveled regularly to Chechnya to report on the war, describing its affects on those trying to live their daily ...

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In Siberia

In Siberia more books like this

by Colin Thubron

Faith, politics, vodka, and an indescribably expansive mass of land are some of the topics that drive Thubron's history-laden travelogue of Siberia, in the same way that his will, curiosity, and the generosity of strangers drive him across the barren land. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.

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Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway more books like this

by Simon Richmond

Part of the Lonely Planet Country Guide Series. Best-selling and inspirationalguide to the Trans-Siberian Railway, covering Russia, Mongolia and China.

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Imperium more books like this

by Ryszard Kapuscinski

During his career as a foreign correspondent, Ryszard Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is an account of the journey he undertook in 1989 across the vast territories of the Soviet Union, on the eve of the collapse of the great Russian Empire. He visited 15 republics, recording the views of hundreds of ordinary Soviet ...

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K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist more books like this

by Peter Carlson

This hilarious account of Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour is also a supremely entertaining evocation of the history and atmosphere of Cold War America

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The Hunter, the Hammer, and Heaven more books like this

by Robert Young Pelton

Pelton's extraordinary journeys have taken him to the most dangerous places in the world. Here he documents three of the most enigmatic and terrifying places he has been.

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Empire of the Czar more books like this

by Marquis De Custine, Daniel J Boorstin (Foreword by), George Frost Kennan (Introduction by)

Astolphe de Custine was a French aristocrat whose writings on Russia, based on journeys he made in the 1830s, are valued for their insights into the Russian people and for their anti-czarist sentiments. Others have criticized them as being based on a romanticized view of the world.

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Explorers Wanted! in the Wilderness more books like this

by Simon Chapman

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Among the Russians more books like this

by Colin Thubron

Thubron learnt Russian and entered the then Soviet Union in an old Morris Marina in which he camped and drove for almost 10,000 miles between the Baltic and Caucasus. This book provides a revealing picture of the many races who inhabit the country and the human side behind state socialism.

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River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny more books like this

by Jeffrey Tayler

One of today's most intrepid writers chronicles a deadly trek through the legendary region that gave birth to the gulag and gave Siberia its outsize reputation for perilous isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, recreating a journey ...

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St. Petersburg more books like this

by Catherine Phillips (Contributions by), Christopher Rice (Contributions by), Melanie Rice (Contributions by)

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Siberian Dawn: A Journey Across the New Russia more books like this

by Jeffrey Tayler

No guidebook existed for my route; no one had ever done it before", writes Tayler. As the first American to visit many of the places he goes, his reports on a country in transition are timely and unforgettable. It is also the account of one man's love for a fragile, desperately troubled country.

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Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe more books like this

by Anne Applebaum

For 1000 years, the geography of Europe's borderlands has dictated their destiny. East of Poland, west of Russia, the region has always been defined by colliding empires. Travelling from Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, from Kalingrad on the Baltic to Odessa on the Black Sea, this book discovers a range of competing cultures, religions and ...

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Long walk more books like this

by Slavomir Rawicz

First published in 1956, an account of a young Polish cavalry officer who was arrested by the Russians, tortured and sentenced to 25 years forced labour. Describes his 3 month journey from Moscow to the prison camp in Siberia, his escape with 6 companions and their journey across the Gobi desert to Tibet and freedom.

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Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall more books like this

by Andrew Meier

Post-Soviet Russia remains a country in limbo, a land of vast potential struggling with an unfinished past. Journeying to Russia's five corners - Moscow, Chechnya, Norilsk, Sakhalin and St. Petersburg - Andrew Meier presents a history of contemporary Russia. In Moscow and St. Petersburg Meier explores Russia's unbridles market and often lethal ...

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