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HISTORY/ RUSSIA
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-- "Before 1919"
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Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat Of All the Russias, by W. Bruce Lincoln
A very balanced biography of Nicholas I. 424pp Paper
Price: $19.00
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People Born to Slavery (A): Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography, 1476-1748, by Marshall T. Poe
This is the first book devoted to the view in the West that Russia is a despotic country in which people are inclined to accept suffering and oppression. 256pp Cloth
Price: $81.00
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Peter the Great: A Biography, by Lindsey Hughes
Peter the Great (1672-1725), Tsar of Russia for forty-three years, was a dramatic, appealing, and unconventional character. This book provides a vivid sense of the dynamics of his life - both public and private - and his reign. 304pp Paper
Price: $18.00
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Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment: The Memoir of a Priest's Son, by Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov; Translated and Edited by Alexander M. Martin
The memoir of Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov - mathematician, teacher, social critic - offers a rare firsthand view of daily village life in provincial Russia. 279pp Cloth
Price: $42.00
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Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment: The Memoir of a Priest's Son, by Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov; Translated and Edited by Alexander M. Martin
The memoir of Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov - mathematician, teacher, social critic - offers a rare firsthand view of daily village life in provincial Russia. 279pp Paper
Price: $22.00
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Russia Through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia , Edited by Toby W. Clyman and Judith Vowles
Nineteenth-century Russia has been known to the West mainly through the writings of men. Russian women, however, were far from silent and have left vivid testimony about their families, their education, their careers, and their country. This collection presents, for the first time in English, the lives of eleven remarkable Russian women as told in their own words. 408pp Paper
Price: $24.00
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Russia Through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia, Edited by Toby W. Clyman and Judith Vowles
Nineteenth-century Russia has been known to the West mainly through the writings of men. Russian women, however, were far from silent and have left vivid testimony about their families, their education, their careers, and their country. This collection presents, for the first time in English, the lives of eleven remarkable Russian women as told in their own words. 408pp Cloth
Price: $60.00
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Sophia: Regent of Russia 1657-1704, by Lindsey Hughes
This book reassesses and records the extraordinary achievement of an exceptional woman in a society more thoroughly male-dominated than any in seventeenth-century Europe. 368pp Cloth
Price: $65.00
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