The tragic, compelling story of the last Tsar and his family

Presents an account of the Russian Revolution. This book has won the Wolfson History Prize, the W H Smith Literary Award, and the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award.

Offers a panorama of Russia's mighty culture.

The remarkable untold story of the men and women who sustained Stalin in power in the Soviet Union for nearly 30 years - a Sunday Times bestseller.

Reveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the system of Soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions. This work presents history of the camp: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost.

Presents an account of the Russian revolution. This book describes the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power.

Analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s. It describes the patrimonial state, and analyzes the failure of the peasantry, nobility, middle-class and clergy to stand up to the increasing absolutism of the tsar.

As a result of the blow struck at the peasantry of the USSR between 1929 and 1932 by the Soviet Communist Party, there followed a terror-famine . This is an account of the deprivations and starvation state-inflicted upon millions of collectivised workers in the Ukraine and certain other regions.

The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. This book is the extraordinary story of tactical genius, civilian bravery, obsession, carnage and the nature of war itself. Stalingrad will act as a testament to the vital role of the soviet war effort.

Describing family life set against the backdrop of war, this novel follows the fortunes of the Bolkonsky and Rostov families as Napoleon's armies sweep through Europe, invade Russia and end in Napoleon's defeat. It captures national events, private experiences of individuals, and the triangle of affection that binds the central characters.

A novel, which brings together serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal the mysterious land...Russia.

This study explores the role of empire in world history, addressing questions such as: what does it mean to be an empire?, how does one empire differ from another?, why does an empire rise and why fall, and why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others?

Presents the history of the momentous years between 1934 and 1939, when millions of people died in Stalin's purges. This title confirms the Terror as one of the tragic and far-reaching human and political issues.

'Magisterial and authoritative' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Published for the 90th anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution, this edition of Trotsky's masterpiece, with a new foreword by Ahmed Shawki, tells the epic story of the remarkable events that transformed Russian- and world-history forever.

This volume offers an account of Russian history across six tumultuous centuries. What emerges is a powerful sense of national destiny - of repeated themes, unchanging conditions, and cycles of circumstance.

Traces Russia's history from the settlement of Kiev through to the present day. The author argues that two nation-building movements have clashed since the rise of Tsarism and that these two nascent identities offer a chance to compare and trace continuities in Tsarist and Soviet Russia.