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This book chronicles the final two decades in the history of the Soviet Union and presents a story that is often lost in the standard interpretations of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Although there were numerous reasons for the collapse of communism, it did not happen—as it may have seemed to some—overnight. Indeed, says Roman Szporluk, the root causes go back even earlier than 1917. To understand why the USSR broke

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Alex Rider will soon be a star in his very own TV series! 
The final book in the #1 bestselling Alex Rider series with over 6 million copies sold in the U.S. alone!
Alex Rider’s life changed forever with the silent pull of a trigger.
 
When Ian Rider died at the hands of the assassin Yassen Gregorovich, Alex, ready or not, was thrust into the world of international espionage—the...

"A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st-century Russia: into the lives of oligarchs convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, Bohemian theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators, and playboy revolutionaries. This is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, where life is seen as a whirling, glamorous...

An ambitious complex epic that spans three generations of a family from Czarist times in Russia to the fall of Communism. A Graham Green-style thriller that opens up like a sinister Russian doll.

A visionary journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country. In The Future is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy, some of them...

"A highly original narrative history by The Economists Moscow bureau chief that does for modern Russia what Evan Osnos did for China in Age of Ambition,"--Amazon.com.