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The Diamond Eye
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The Diamond Eye

By Kate Quinn ,

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The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War
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The International Brigades

By Giles Tremlett ,

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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
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Agent Sonya

By Ben Macintyre ,

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A Shadow in Moscow: A Cold War Novel
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A Shadow in Moscow

By Katherine Reay ,

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Kairos
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Kairos

By Jenny Erpenbeck , Michael Hofmann (translator) ,

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Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II
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Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg

By Francine Hirsch ,

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The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
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The Genius Under the Table

By Eugene Yelchin ,

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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
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Putin's People

By Catherine Belton ,

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The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink
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The Peacemaker

By William Inboden ,

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Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
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Sleeper Agent

By Ann Hagedorn ,

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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
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Spies

By Calder Walton ,

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The Half Life of Valery K
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The Half Life of Valery K

By Natasha Pulley ,

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The Wizard of the Kremlin
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The Wizard of the Kremlin

By Giuliano da Empoli , Willard Wood (translator) ,

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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning
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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union

By Alex Halberstadt ,

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A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union
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A Full-Value Ruble

By Kristy Ironside ,

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Chance: Escape from the Holocaust: Memories of a Refugee Childhood
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Chance

By Uri Shulevitz ,

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The Silent Guns of Two Octobers: Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game
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The Silent Guns of Two Octobers

By Theodore Voorhees ,

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Traitor: A Novel of World War II
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Traitor

By Amanda McCrina ,

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The Spy Who Was Left Out In The Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski
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The Spy Who Was Left Out In The Cold

By Tim Tate ,

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The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
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The Long Game

By Rush Doshi ,

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The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40: Stalin's Hollow Victory
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The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40

By David P. Murphy , Johnny Shumate (illustrator) ,

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Open Fire
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Open Fire

By Amber Lough ,

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The Russian's Pride
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The Russian's Pride

By Cap Daniels ,

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Cleanness
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Cleanness

By Garth Greenwell ,

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The Russian Economy: A Very Short Introduction
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The Russian Economy

By Richard Connolly ,

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The Orchard
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The Orchard

By Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry ,

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We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin
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We Shall Be Masters

By Chris Miller ,

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Economics
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Economics

By Thomas J. DiLorenzo ,

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Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships: Volume I (1920-1937)
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Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships

By Sergey Voronkov ,

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Soviet Outcast
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Soviet Outcast

By Grigory Levenfish ,

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Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships: Volume III (1948-1953)
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Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships

By Sergey Voronkov ,

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The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine
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The Lost Year

By Katherine Marsh ,

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Torch
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Torch

By Lyn Miller-Lachmann ,

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Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice
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Gleaning for Communism

By Xenia A. Cherkaev ,

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This Rebel Heart
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This Rebel Heart

By Katherine Locke ,

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America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
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America's Cold War

By Campbell Craig , Fredrik Logevall ,

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Ice War Diplomat: Hockey Meets Cold War Politics at the 1972 Summit Series
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Ice War Diplomat

By Gary J. Smith ,

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Lost Believers
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Lost Believers

By Irina Zhorov ,

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Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Nuclear Folly

By Serhii Plokhy ,

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Grandmaster of Avant-Garde: The Chess Art of Galina Satonina
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Grandmaster of Avant-Garde

By Vladimir Kudryavtsev ,

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Tabula Rasa
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Tabula Rasa

By John McPhee ,

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Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
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Barbarossa

By Jonathan Dimbleby ,

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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad

By Daniel Finkelstein ,

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All-Night Pharmacy
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All-Night Pharmacy

By Ruth Madievsky ,

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Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order
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Amidst the Debris

By Juliano Fiori (editor) , Fernando Espada (editor) , Andrea Rigon (editor) , Bertrand Taithe (editor) , Rafia Zakaria (editor)

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The Ever-Dying People?: Canada's Jews in Comparative Perspective
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The Ever-Dying People?

By Robert Brym (editor) , Randal F. Schnoor (editor) ,

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White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia
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White Russians, Red Peril

By Sheila Fitzpatrick ,

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Russia And The Russians
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Russia And The Russians

By Edward Crankshaw ,

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Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution
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Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution

By Anne O'Donnell ,

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Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital
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Moscow Monumental

By Katherine Zubovich ,

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Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR
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Cigarettes and Soviets

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The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia
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The Things of Life

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Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland
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Comics and Nation

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Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb
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Atomic Steppe

By Togzhan Kassenova ,

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Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip
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Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists

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German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Koenigsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad
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German Blood, Slavic Soil

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The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction
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The Gulag

By Alan Barenberg ,

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My Father's Letters: Correspondence from the Soviet Gulag
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My Father's Letters

By Memorial , Georgia Thomson (translator) ,

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Blue Masquerade
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Blue Masquerade

By T.K. Blackwood ,

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The Wrong Stuff
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The Wrong Stuff

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The Asset
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The Asset

By Saul Herzog ,

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Flowers Through Concrete
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Flowers Through Concrete

By Juliane Fürst ,

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Grief
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Grief

By David Shneer ,

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Finding Katya: How I Quit Everything to Backpack the Former Soviet States
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Finding Katya

By Katie R. Aune ,

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Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict
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Possible

By William Ury ,

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To Overthrow the World
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To Overthrow the World

By Sean McMeekin ,

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