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Life Of Arthur Ransome The biography of one of the century's most enduringly popular children's writers....

In Search of Swallows and Amazons $10.36 Roger Wardale's 40-year search uncovers the secret locations featured in Arthur Ransome's original "Swallows & Amazons" adventures. Containing fully revised text and rare photographs to satisfy even the most avid reader of "Swallows & Amazons", this book aims to give two-fold pleasure - enjoy the original stories, and...discover the farms, rivers, islands, towns and hills that formed their backdro...

Arthur Ransome Under Sail $15.27 Arthur Ransome, author of the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, kept detailed logs of all his voyaging, and it is from these and countless letters to friends, as well as a wealth of anecdotes, that Roger Wardale pieced together this revealing, funny, and moving portrait of the lovable and intrepid old sea-dog, Captain Flint - alias Arthur Ransome himself....

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Biography - Vladimir Putin $24.95 Portrait of the Russian president who was reelected by an overwhelming majority in 2004, but who has been criticized for stifling democratic reforms. Vladimir Putin, who earned a black belt in judo, spent years working as a spy for the feared KGB during the Communist era. After becoming head of the intelligence agency that replaced the KGB once the Soviet Union collapsed, Putin rose to the preside...

Vladimir Putin A&E Biography Documentary on Putins life and rise to power...

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin $11.38 The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world.Handpicked as a successor by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed li...

I, Putin Gosha Golubev is the personal aide of President Vladimir Putin, who has been in power for twelve years in the Russian Federation. As Putin is re-elected for his third term as president, Gosha struggles with his role as boss' shadow. He has watched Putin evolve into the cold, stoic figure he is in 2012. But Gosha remembers the first few months of his first presidency, where an event shook Putin to ...

The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia $10.55 Russia under Vladimir Putin has proved a prickly partner for the West, a far cry from the democratic ally many hoped for when the Soviet Union collapsed. Abroad, Putin has used Russia’s energy strength as a foreign policy weapon, while at home he has cracked down on opponents, adamant that only he has the right vision for his country’s future. Former BBC Moscow correspondent Angus Roxburgh cha...

A Superfluous Instrument
Forty-seven year old Alexei Varlamov is one of the most prominent modern Russian writers. He debuted with short stories in the late 1980s and gained fame in 1995 with his semi-autobiographical novel “Lokh” (roughly translated into English as “Dupe”), to be followed by “Rozhdenie” (“Birth”), which won him the prestigious Anti-Booker award.
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The Films of Sergei Paradjanov (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors/The Color of Pomegranates/The Legend of Suram Fortress/Ashik Kerib) (Four-Disc Edition) $44.48 FILMS OF SERGEI PARADJANOV - DVD Movie...

Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny [VHS] $9.98 Winner of 3 Golden Globes! Based on the true story of one of the most powerful men in Russian history - and one of the most dangerous. In a time of revolution, he has the power to heal an empire or destroy it....

Eisenstein: The Sound Years (Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 & 2 / Alexander Nevsky) (The Criterion Collection) $44.68 A biography of the first czar of Russia was the final movie project of the great Sergei Eisenstein's life. It would be his undoing, as Stalin was not pleased with part II of this epic. But Ivan the Terrible, Part I still stands as a magnificent, rich, and strange achievement. This is a "composed" film to make Hitchcock look slapdash; every frame is arranged with the eye of a painter or choreograph...

Biography - Rasputin: The Mad Monk $6.99 Standard; Soundtrack: English....

Nicholas and Alexandra $10.11 The story of the love that ended an empireIn this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Agai...

Peter the Great [Illustrated] $1.99 PREFACE.There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russian civilization. The celebrity, however, of the great Muscovite sovereign among young persons is due in a great measure to the circumstance of his having repaired personally to Holland, in the course of his efforts to introduce the industrial arts among...

The Rasputin File $5.59 Biography of Rasputin who held extraordinary sway in Tsar Nicholas' court....

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Shostakovich Against Stalin $15.81 Though he saw value in how Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 could rally his people against the Nazis, dictator Joseph Stalin was equally displeased at having his own barbaric rule attacked by the composer's very next symphony. This documentary sheds light on how Russian master Dmitri Shostakovich employed "protest music" as a means of subtly speaking out against his government when verbal dissent car...

Stalin [VHS] $19.98 "Stalin's rise from obscure revolutionary to feared leader of Russis is documented in vivid detail in this outstanding, critically acclaimed docudrama". Approximately 2 hours 57 minutes....

Video Library of Biography of Winston Churchill & Joseph Stalin Narrated by Mike Wallace. From the cover: Winston Churchill (1874-1965) The most beloved British statesman of modern times and a true giant of history. Throughout his long and colorful career as a military officer, politician, and historian. Churchill steered England through crucial periods of history -- World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. He was a symbol of Imperial Britain... Under hi...

Biography - Joseph Stalin [VHS] $14.95 "He held absolute power over the Soviet Union for 29 years. His legacy arguably surpasses even Hitler's he sent over 20 million of his own countrymen to their deaths! Josef Stalin is one of the greatest tyrants of all time. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the extent of his atrocities have been revealed to a stunned world, and he has taken his place alongside Hitler as one of the most...

Biography - Joseph Stalin: Red Terror (A&E DVD Archives) $12.39 He held absolute power over the Soviet Union for 29 years. His legacy arguably surpasses even Hitler's he sent over 20 million of his own countrymen to their deaths! Josef Stalin is one of the greatest tyrants of all time. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the extent of his atrocities have been revealed to a stunned world, and he has taken his place alongside Hitler as one of the most revile...

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar $7.15 This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative ?lan, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the everyday details of a monstrous life.We see Stalin playing his deadly game of power and paranoia at ...

Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secr $19.00 From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin was a man for whom power was all, terror a us...

Young Stalin (Vintage) $7.55 Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin....

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World War 1 in Color $24.98 With all the incredible World War II documentaries out there, it is pretty amazing how few World War I documentaries there are, let alone quality ones. Part may be from the minimal amount of archival footage, much of which is really rough, and the fact that most of the veterans died before having the chance to tell their stories on color film. But as Ken Burns has taught us, none of these elements...

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Nicholas and Alexandra $10.11 The story of the love that ended an empireIn this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Agai...

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I $19.00 In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent cont...

Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina $29.99 The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the  events that engulfed them.There are few characters in history about whom opinion has been more divided than the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his ...

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Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny [VHS] $9.98 Winner of 3 Golden Globes! Based on the true story of one of the most powerful men in Russian history - and one of the most dangerous. In a time of revolution, he has the power to heal an empire or destroy it....

Biography - Rasputin: The Mad Monk $24.95 He was an uneducated peasant who gained a reputation as a faith healer. His strange behavior and remarkable influence over the imperial family brought him notoriety and his death made him a legend.The mysterious monk favored by the Russian Czar, Grigori Rasputin was rumored to be a holy devil who preached the word of God, but practiced corruption. His presence weakened the already tenuous status o...

The Rasputin File $5.59 Biography of Rasputin who held extraordinary sway in Tsar Nicholas' court....

Rasputin: Rascal Master $9.72 This is a hardback book with dust jacket....

Rasputin and the Russian revolution INTRODUCTIONThis expose, based on facts which have come to my knowledge, though probably far from being complete, aims at depicting the recent state of things in Russia, and thus to explain how the great changes which have taken place in my country have been rendered possible. A lot of exaggerated tales have been put into circulation concerning the Empress Alexandra, the part she has played in the...

Tsar Nicholas II biography?

Tsar Nicholas II biography

I enjoyed Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K Massie
The Last Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky is also good. Amazon has several copies of both, new and used.

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World War 1 in Color $24.98 WORLD WAR 1 IN COLOR...

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Nicholas and Alexandra $10.11 The story of the love that ended an empireIn this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Agai...

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I $19.00 In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent cont...

Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina $29.99 The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the  events that engulfed them.There are few characters in history about whom opinion has been more divided than the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his ...

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Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1 [VHS] $19.95 A biography of the first czar of Russia was the final movie project of the great Sergei Eisenstein's life. It would be his undoing, as Stalin was not pleased with part II of this epic. But Ivan the Terrible, Part I still stands as a magnificent, rich, and strange achievement. This is a "composed" film to make Hitchcock look slapdash; every frame is arranged with the eye of a painter or choreograph...

Ivan the Terrible-Part 1 [VHS] $9.89 A biography of the first czar of Russia was the final movie project of the great Sergei Eisenstein's life. It would be his undoing, as Stalin was not pleased with part II of this epic. But Ivan the Terrible, Part I still stands as a magnificent, rich, and strange achievement. This is a "composed" film to make Hitchcock look slapdash; every frame is arranged with the eye of a painter or choreograph...

Ivan the Terrible-Part 2 [VHS] $19.98 Sergei Eisenstein's saga of Czar Ivan IV continues with the struggle for power and the use of secret police, a controversial segment that caused the film to be banned by Stalin in 1946 (the film was not released until 1958). The predominantly black-and-white film features a banquet dance sequence in color. Obviously the two parts must be viewed as a whole to be fully appreciated. Many film histor...

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors $3.49 In this innovative memoir, Bernice Eisenstein combines her skills as a writer and illustrator to distill her memories of growing up in the 1950s in the shadow of the Holocaust. Drawing on the harrowing experiences of her parents-both of them Holocaust survivors-and the fragmented stories of other family members lost in the war, she explores the impact of their legacy on her own life. A groundbreak...

Eisenstein at 100: A Reconsideration $3.98 ...

Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict $11.81 The first full-scale biography of the brilliant filmmaker and cinema theorist. 36 photos....

Eisenstein: The Sound Years (Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 & 2 / Alexander Nevsky) (The Criterion Collection) $44.68 Two historical epics of Russian history directed by Sergei Eisenstein.Genre: Foreign Film - RussianRating: UNRelease Date: 24-APR-2001Media Type: DVD...

Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1 $24.98 IVAN THE TERRIBLE PART 1 - DVD Movie...

Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 2 $12.49 The concluding chapter in Eisenstein's film biography follows Ivan's battle against enemies inside the Russia he has tenuously brought together. Includes the lavish banquet sequence, filmed in color. 85 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Russian Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English. In Russian with English subtitles....

Man With A Movie Camera (Enhanced Edition) 1929 $1.99 ...

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Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film (Kino : the Russian Cinema) $21.97 Pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cinéma vérite, Dziga Vertov has exerted a decisive influence on directors from Eisenstein to Godard. Yet his reputation long rested upon a lone masterpiece, Man with a Movie Camera. Recently, however Vertov has begun to be recognised as the creator of a body of innovative and distinct films and, as Jeremy Hicks argues, documentary as we know it to...

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Stravinsky – Etudes, Op. 7 – Jon Nakamatsu

Stravinsky: Once at a Border / Tony Palmer $13.77 ONCE AT A BORDER - DVD Movie...

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Famous Composers. Igor Stravinsky (DVD NTSC) These informative programs are a concise overview of the composer's life and times, filmed on location in the cities and places that influenced their works. Also included in a detailed list of each composer's most significant musical compositions....

An Autobiography This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery....

Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi $4.04 Howard Gardner changed the way we think about intelligence. In his classic work Frames of Mind, he undermined the common notion that intelligence is a single capacity that every human being possesses to a greater or lesser extent. Now building on the framework he developed for understanding intelligence, Gardner gives us a path breaking view of creativity, along with riveting portraits of seven fi...

Igor Stravinsky (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) $3.38 Author/illustrator Mike Venezia lends his creative talents to this fun and informative series, featuring world-famous composers. Historical photos, tongue-in-cheek cartoon illustrations, and factual biographical text combine to present the composers as they really were. This is the story of Igor Stravinsky. Publisher: Children s Press 1996Author: Mike Venezia Ages: 8-9Format: 32 pages, paperback I...