Cultural Region/Russian
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
$28.00 Add to cartIn June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin “the most dangerous place on earth.” He knew what he was talking about.
Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin
- Author: Kempe, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0425245942
- Language: English
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
$16.00 Add to cartA James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations
“Delicious . . . A banquet of ane… [more below]- Author: Von Bremzen, Anya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0307886824
- Language: English
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The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
$19.99 Add to cartThe poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews
Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examini- Author: Desbois, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0230617573
- Language: English
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Zelensky: The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World
$16.99 Read moreThe first major profile of Ukraine’s courageous President Volodymyr Zelensky!
Ukraine’s most popular comedic actor was an unlikely president of his country. And now, even more improbably, Volodymyr Ze- Author: Urban, Andrew L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513782
- Language: English
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Pure Soldiers Or Sinister Legion -The Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division
$43.00 Add to cartBETWEEN 1950 AND 1955, thousands of veterans from the notorious German-led, Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division emigrated to North America with the full consent of the respective governments despite imm… [more below]
- Author: Littman, Sol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: July 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1939561337
- Language: English
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The Selected Lyric Poetry Of Maksym Rylsky
$32.99 Add to cartMaksym Rylsky is one of the most outstanding Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century and master of the genres of the modern sonnet and the long narrative poem. He was closely associated with the Neoc… [more below]
- Author: Rylsky, Maksym
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: May 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1911414429
- Language: English
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
$21.99 Add to cartIn this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia’s most feared power bro… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 1610390709
- Language: English
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The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus
$18.95 Read moreThe astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead one of the first global public health campaigns.
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Short- Author: Ward, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0861545184
- Language: English
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The Seagull
$16.00 Add to cartStoppard’s masterful adaptation of Chekhov’s best-loved play has been lauded by critics for its shining prose as well as its faithfulness. The play opens at a country estate, where a group of friends
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0802127711
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: October 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0786868635
- Language: English
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Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine’s Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
$24.00 Add to cartThrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy’s “silent service”
Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commandi- Author: Sasgen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312605536
- Language: English
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The Lost Heart of Asia
$17.99 Add to cartA land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin’s cruelest deportations. A remote and
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061577677
- Language: English
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Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
$32.00 Read moreA “chilling” and “expertly” written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World War II (Times of London).
For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pe- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0465095380
- Language: English
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Mi Ucrania / The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story, a Memoir
$21.95 Read moreLa historia de Ucrania contada a trav?s de una apasionante saga familiar, que recuerda el impacto de Unorthodox, Todo est? iluminado o La octava vida
«Me dej? sin respiraci?n. Una de las mejor… [more below]- Author: Bellim, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 8426424139
- Language: Spanish
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Lenin on the Train
$25.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin’s fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and fore
- Author: Merridale, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160146
- Language: English
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Bagby, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063141981
- Language: English
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$22.99 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
$20.99 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced young journalists” (The New York Times)–the first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppres- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1668013738
- Language: English
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With Light Steam
$41.58 Add to cartIn 1996 Bryon MacWilliams left the relative stability of the United States for the chaos of post-Soviet Russia and stayed. Over the course of nearly twelve years he reported on academe and the science
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Macwilliams, Bryon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 875807089
- Language: English
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The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma
$9.95 Add to cartIn 1980, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New Land that described and analyzed the role of the major ethnic groups that have contributed to the histor… [more below]
- Series: Newcomers to a New Land
- Author: Hale, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 080611620X
- Language: English
