russia

Using rare Russian archives, the author examines the War of 1812 when Napoleon and his troops invaded Russia and the wars following as Russian armies entered France and brought peace to Europe.

Leo Demidov, an officer of the MGB, the State Security Force in Stalin's Soviet Union, finds himself demoted and on the run for suggesting the presence of a murderer in the insisted idealistic Moscow.

Collects more than one hundred Russian folktales, including stories about animals, heroes, villains, magic, legends, love, and more.

Explores the Russian Revolution, Communism, and the economic, political, and military events surrounding the revolution.

World War II fighter pilot Eric Carter was one of the members of a secret mission code-named "Force Benedict". The men in this mission were dispatched to defend Murmansk, Russia's only port not under Nazi occupation. If Murmansk fell, Soviet resistance against the Nazis would be difficult to sustain and Hitler would then be able to turn all his forces on Britain. Many members of the mission thought they would never survive, but they did, and were threatened with court martial if they talked about where they had been. Seventy years later, Eric Carter tells of his experiences in Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic Circle.

"The ... tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president--of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history. ... This ... narrative elucidates a cool and calculating man with enormous ambition and few scruples. We see Putin, a former KGB agent, come to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes, expanding property rights, bringing a measure of order and eventual prosperity to millions whose only experience of democracy in the early years following the Soviet collapse was instability, poverty, and criminality. But Myers makes clear how Putin then orchestrated a new authoritarianism, consolidating power, reasserting the country's might, brutally crushing revolts, and swiftly dispatching dissenters, even as he retained--and continues to retain--the support of many"--Provided by publisher.