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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $72, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXRUS97)		  
Moscow, A Cultural History  •  Caroline Brooke
HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
Caroline Brooke explores the birth and various reinventions of Moscow, from a twelfth-century fortress to invasion by Napoleon in 1812 to the rise and fall of communism. Part of the Cityscapes series. (RUS292, $24.99)		   Moscow, A Cultural History
Lenin's Tomb  •  David Remnick
HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 588 PAGES
A gripping eyewitness tale of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Remnick, the Washington Post reporter on the scene, combines fine historical scholarship with great storytelling. Highly recommended. (RUS07, $17.00)		   Lenin's Tomb
Eyewitness Guide Moscow  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 263 PAGES
An outstanding guide to Moscow, its culture, history and attractions, with excellent local maps, site plans and hundreds of color photographs. It includes a select, annotated listing of recommended hotels, restaurants, cafes and shops. (RUS164, $23.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Moscow
Moscow Map  •  ITMB
MAP
A folded map of Moscow and surrounding neighborhoods at the broad scale of 1:50,000, and featuring a detailed map of the city center at 1:12,500. Two Sides. 38x26 inches. (RUS151, $11.95)		   Moscow Map



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Russia's Heritage Cities  •  International Travel Maps    •  A map of the Golden Ring cities surrounding Moscow, at a scale of 1:500,000. (RUS217, $8.95)
 		  
Berlitz Russian Phrase Book & Dictionary  •  Berlitz Pocket Guides   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A short introduction to common Russian words and phrases, designed for the traveler. Contains more than 1,000 phrases and more than 2,000 words. (RUS107, $8.95)
 		  
Lonely Planet Moscow  •  Mara Vorhees   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical, comprehensive guide in the popular series. (RUS413, $21.99)
 		  
Catherine the Great  •  Robert K. Massie   • HISTORY  •  Eager readers of Massie's Nicholas and Alexandria or the Pulitzer Prize-wining Peter the Great will not be disappointed by this latest, an old-fashioned tale of politics, power and 18th-century Europe, drawing effectively from the ambitious Catherine's own memoirs. (RUS470, $35.00)
 		  
Echoes of a Native Land, Two Centuries of a Russian Village  •  Serge Schmemann   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The author draws on his knowledge of Russia, family photographs, letters and memoirs to tell the story of the czarist past and present realities of his ancestral home outside Moscow. (RUS27, $19.00)
 		  
Getting Russia Right  •  Dmitri V. Trenin   • HISTORY  •  The Deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center sketches developments in Russia's economy, culture and relations with the U.S. and Europe in this brief primer published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (RUS446, $19.95)
 		  
Moscow, December 25, 1991, The Last Day of the Soviet Union  •  Conor O'Clery   • HISTORY  •  Describes the behind-the-scenes political jockeying that took place between Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin in the last days of the Soviet Union. (RUS479, $26.99)
 		  
Russia, A Concise History  •  Ronald Hingley   • HISTORY • BEST SELLER  •  Well-known scholar Hingley sketches Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to a multi-ethnic empire in this highly readable, well-illustrated brief history. (RUS04, $19.95)
 		  
The Cold War  •  Michael Hopkins   • HISTORY  •  Michael Hopkins charts the story of the rise and fall of almost 50 years of global tension in this compact, illustrated history, made tangible with a packet of facsimile documents, including top-secret memos, propaganda and letters. (WAR157, $24.95)
 		  
Moscow Diary  •  Walter Benjamin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A major figure in German literature and criticism spends two winter months in Moscow and records his observations. (RUS41, $27.00)
 		  
Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar  •  Simon Sebag Montefiore   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An enthralling, comprehensive portrait of Joseph Stalin and his court, drawing on archival material and interviews with surviving figures. At 800 pages, there is ample room for personal and anecdotal information about Stalin. (RUS228, $19.95)
 		  
Cover Story  •  Robert Cullen   • MYSTERY  •  This action-packed thriller features derring-do, espionage, politics and a Moscow setting, written by a former Newsweek Moscow Bureau Chief. (RUS362, $14.95)
 		  
Snowdrops  •  A.D. Miller   • LITERATURE  •  Shortlisted for the Booker, this psychological thriller follows the fate of a young British lawyer in casually corrupt contemporary Moscow. (RUS467, $14.95)
 		  
The Winter Queen  •  Boris Akunin  •  Andrew Bromfield   • LITERATURE  •  Akunin sets a suspected murder among the glitterati of late 19th-century Moscow in this first book in the series of clever detective novels starring the rascal Erast Fandorin, wildly popular in Russia. The series continues with: The Turkish Gambit (RUS263), set during the 1877 Russo-Turkish War; Murder on the Leviathan (RUS225), an homage to Christie; and The Death of Achilles (RUS291), back in Moscow. Fandorin is deputy to the governor-general of czarist Moscow in Special Assignments (RUS371), facing a serial murder and a swindler. (RUS210, $15.00)
 		  
 
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