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  • Trotsky : A Biography

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    Robert Service

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    Book, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/345052     The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927
  • The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927

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    Robert Service

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    Book, 4th ed, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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    This popular, concise and approachable text discusses the key debates and themes surrounding the Russian Revolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/343509     Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920 : Art, Life & Culture Of The Russian Silver Age
  • Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920 : Art, Life & Culture Of The Russian Silver Age

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    John E. Bowlt

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    Book, Vendome Press, 2008

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    Bowlt?s richly textured volume focuses not only on Russia?s best known artists from this period?Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, Igor Stravinsky, Anna Pavlova and poet Anna Akhmatova?but also on lesser known movements of the period?experimental theater, Nikolai Kalmakov?s innovative painting, and the free dance practiced by followers of Duncan and Dalcroze. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  NX556.A1 B678 2008  NEW BOOK(MAIN)

    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/342874     The Illustrious Dead
  • The Illustrious Dead

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    Stephan Talty

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    Book, 1st ed, Crown Publishers, 2009

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    ?Jack Weatherford,author of the New York Times bestseller Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World In a masterful dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, New York Times bestselling author Stephan Talty tells the story of a mighty ruler and a tiny microbe, antagonists whose struggle would shape the modern world. A tale of two unstoppable forces meeting on the road to Moscow in an epic clash of killer microbe and peerless army, The Illustrious Dead is a historical whodunit in which a million lives hang in the balance. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/342810     Kiviuq : An Inuit Hero And His Siberian Cousins
  • Kiviuq : An Inuit Hero And His Siberian Cousins

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    Kira Van Deusen

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    Book, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009

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    After decades exploring Siberian cultures, Kira Van Deusen turned to the Canadian north to ask many such questions, looking at them through the versions of one of their most respected legends - that of hero/shaman Kiviuq, an Inuit counterpart to Homer's "Odysseus" - told by forty Inuit elders. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  E99.E7 V36 2009  AVAILABLE

    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/341277     The Effects Of Early Social-emotional And Relationship Experience On The Development Of Young Orphanage Children
  • The Effects Of Early Social-emotional And Relationship Experience On The Development Of Young Orphanage Children

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    The St. Petersburg USA Orphanage Research Team ; with commentary by Susan C. Crockenberg ... [et al.]

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    Book, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/340966     Russian Legends, Folk Tales And Fairy Tales
  • Russian Legends, Folk Tales And Fairy Tales

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    edited by Patty Wageman ; Lidia Iovleva ... [et al.]

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    Book, Groninger Museum, 2007

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    Painted in 1880, it evidences the influence that Russian fairytales (in which magic carpets figure heavily) had on Russian painters and illustrators of the time. An engaging survey of an under-explored phenomenon, Russian Legends, Folktales and Fairytales includes more than 80 works by Vasnetsov, Nicholas Roerich, Ivan Bilibin, Vasili Kandinsky, Elena Polenova and Michail Vroebel alongside summaries of the depicted fairytales. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/337204     The Pearl : A True Tale Of Forbidden Love In Catherine The Great’s Russia
  • The Pearl : A True Tale Of Forbidden Love In Catherine The Great's Russia

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    Douglas Smith

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    Book, Yale University Press, 2008

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    The book reconstructs Praskovia’s stage career as “The Pearl” and the heartbreaking details of her romance with Nicholas—years of torment before their secret marriage, the outrage of the aristocracy when news of the marriage emerged, Praskovia’s death only days after delivering a son, and the unyielding despair that followed Nicholas to the end of his life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/338153     Russian Architecture And The West
  • Russian Architecture And The West

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    Dmitry Shvidkovsky ; photographs by Yekaterina Shorban ; translated from the Russian by Antony Wood

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    Book, Yale University Press, 2007

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    This is the first book to show the development of Russian architecture over the past thousand years as a part of the history of Western architecture. The book systematically analyzes Russian buildings in relation to developments in European art, pointing out where familiar European features are expressed in Russian projects. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/336523     Forge Of Empires, 1861-1871 : Three Revolutionary Statesmen And The World They Made
  • Forge Of Empires, 1861-1871 : Three Revolutionary Statesmen And The World They Made

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    Michael Knox Beran

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    Book, 1st Free Press hardcover ed, Free Press, 2007

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    In the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power: Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the American Republic. The three statesmen forged the empires that would dominate the twentieth century through two world wars, the Cold War, and beyond. Michael Knox Beran's Forge of Empires brilliantly entwines the stories of the three epochal transformations and their fateful legacies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/335593     War And Peace
  • War And Peace

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    Leo Tolstoy ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

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    Book, 1st ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007

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    From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy?s master epic. War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon?s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/335201     The Great Upheaval : America And The Birth Of The Modern World, 1788-1800
  • The Great Upheaval : America And The Birth Of The Modern World, 1788-1800

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    Jay Winik

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    Book, 1st ed, HarperCollins, 2007

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    Here is a savage world war, the top-pling of a great dynasty, and an America struggling to survive at home and abroad. And here is the richest cast of characters to walk upon the world stage: Washington and Jefferson, Louis XVI and Robespierre, Catherine the Great, Adams, Napoleon, and Selim III. Exquisitely written and utterly compelling, The Great Upheaval vividly depicts an arc of revolutionary fervor stretching from Philadelphia and Paris to St. Petersburg and Cairo?with fateful results. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/334551     Saints Of Russia
  • Saints Of Russia

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    Constantin de Grunwald ; translated by Roger Capel

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    Book, Macmillan, 1960

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/334070     The Cambridge History Of Russia
  • The Cambridge History Of Russia

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    edited by Maureen Perrie

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    Book, Cambridge University Press, 2006

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    At the core of all three volumes are the Russians, the lands which they have inhabited and the polities that ruled them while other peoples and territories have also been given generous coverage for the periods when they came under Riurikid, Romanov and Soviet rule. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/322285     Turizm : The Russian And East European Tourist Under Capitalism And Socialism
  • Turizm : The Russian And East European Tourist Under Capitalism And Socialism

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    edited by Anne E. Gorsuch, Diane P. Koenker

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    Book, Cornell University Press, 2006

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    Turizm is the first book to examine the history of tourism in Russia and eastern Europe from the tsarist period to the age of Soviet and east European mass tourism in the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors to this volume address topics including the roots of socialist tourism, the role of tourism in the making of nations and maintenance of empire, and ways in which the men and women of the "margins of Europe" understood themselves in relation to "Europe." (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • ]]>     http://library.plymouth.edu/read/311649