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  • The Troika

    A Story of Three Families, Friendship, and the Cold War

    by Markus Wolf ...
    How Cold War geopolitics challenged the bonds of lifelong friendsThis now-legendary memoir written by a leader of East Germany's notorious Stasi secret police follows three expatriate families whose boys create childhood bonds in Moscow—only to find the events of the 20th century casting them in different directions and testing not only their ties but their political beliefs.Author Markus Wolf, ... Read more

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  • Bloodlands

    Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

    The definitive history of Hitler and Stalin's politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century, from the author of the international bestseller, On Tyranny**.**Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens, and kept killing them during and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Gulag (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    A History

    **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.“A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” —The New York Times**A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyThe ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Black Earth

    The Holocaust as History and Warning

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”—The New RepublicA “gripping [and] disturbingly vivid” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of the defining tragedy of our time, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of On TyrannyONE OF THE... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Here Where We Live Is Our Country

    The Story of the Jewish Bund

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.“Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible, lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice.”—Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of No Logo and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Iron Curtain

    The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

    In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Stalin

    New Biography of a Dictator

    An engrossing biography of the notorious Russian dictator by an author whose knowledge of Soviet-era archives far surpasses all others.Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were ... Read more

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  • Stalin

    Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

    **“Monumental.” —The New York Times Book ReviewPulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history**In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Last Days of Stalin

    A gripping account of the months before and after Joseph Stalin's death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history.Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force, and was also ... Read more

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  • The Real Stalin

    by Andrew Curry ...
    Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a combination of political savvy and cold-blooded brutality. He crushed the spirit of his own people while conquering half of Europe. What made the greatest murderer of the twentieth century tick? ... Read more

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  • Europe Against the Jews, 1880–1945

    by Götz Aly ...
    From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole.The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousands of helpers in other countries: state officials, police, and civilians who eagerly supported the genocide. If we are to fully ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Hunt for the Jews

    Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland

    by Jan Grabowski ...
    A revealing account of Polish cooperation with Nazis in WWII—a "grim, compelling [and] significant scholarly study" ( Kirkus Reviews).Between 1942 and 1943, thousands of Jews escaped the fate of German death camps in Poland. As they sought refuge in the Polish countryside, the Nazi death machine organized what they called Judenjagd, meaning hunt for the Jews. As a result of the Judenjagd, few of ... Read more

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