Cultural Region/Russian
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Stories I Stole from Georgia
$18.00 Add to cartFed up with working for Time magazine in London, Wendell Steavenson spent two years in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Stories I Stole captures the exuberance of a fledgling nation of local des… [more below]
- Author: Steavenson, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 277
- Publish Date: February 24 2004
- ISBN10: 080214067X
- Language: English
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The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World: Newly Revealed Secrets from the Mitrokhin Archive
$25.00 Add to cartIn 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of docum… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0465003133
- Language: English
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Kobzar
$29.99 Add to cartMasterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine’s rich cultural heri… [more below]
- Author: Fedynsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: October 11 2013
- ISBN10: 190915654X
- Language: English
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Seward’s Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase
$28.95 Read moreThe Alaska Purchase–denounced at the time as “Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke–is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story.
This book aims to correct that. L… [more below]- Author: Farrow, Lee A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1602233039
- Language: English
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A Concise History of the Baltic States
$35.00 Add to cartThe Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of Europe and its international significance can be obscured by separate treatments of the various Baltic states. With this wide-ranging … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Plakans, Andrejs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 492
- Publish Date: February 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0521541557
- Language: English
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Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
$22.00 Add to cart“[An] unforgettable memoir” (Boston Globe) that provides a window into the wildly divergent nations that once comprised the Soviet Union, from a former NPR reporter
Not with a bang, but with a quiet,- Author: Sheets, Lawrence Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0307395839
- Language: English
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The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions
$16.99 Add to cart“A GRIPPING CLASSIC. Exhaustively researched, The Hunter Killers puts you directly into a Wild Weasel fighter cockpit during the Vietnam War. Dan Hampton lets you feel it for yourself as no one else c
- Author: Hampton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0062375121
- Language: English
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Putin’s Trolls: On the Frontlines of Russia’s Information War Against the World
$18.95 Add to cart“Timely exposé of Russia’s vast disinformation campaign from a Finnish journalist persecuted for her persistent reporting of its brazen abuses…a damning portrait of Putin and his autocratic, manipu
- Author: Aro, Jessikka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1632461293
- Language: English
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Vegan Meal Prep: Ready-To-Go Meals and Snacks for Healthy Plant-Based Eating
$16.99 Add to cartEat healthier every day with this fast, easy vegan cookbook and meal plan.
A little meal prep goes a long way to simplifying the plant-based diet. Vegan Meal Prep makes sure that you always have health
- Author: Fields, Jl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1641522909
- Language: English
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Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
$20.99 Add to cartElena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by.
Elena’s country is no longer the maj- Author: Gorokhova, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1439125686
- Language: English
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The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartA vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twe… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Barenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0197548229
- Language: English
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The Gospel in Tolstoy: Selections from His Short Stories, Spiritual Writings & Novels
$19.95 Add to cartWe know of no better introduction to the spiritual vision of one of the greatest writers of all time, Leo Tolstoy.
This anthology vividly reveals – as none of his novels, novellas, short stories, play
- Series: Gospel in Great Writers
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0874866707
- Language: English
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Antigone
$13.99 Add to cartOedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0195143108
- Language: English
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Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism
$18.99 Add to cartFrom nuclear superpower to impoverished nation, post-communist Russia has become one of the most corrupt regimes in the world. Paul Klebnikov pieces together the previous decade in Russian history, sh… [more below]
- Author: Klebnikov, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0156013304
- Language: English
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The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy’s Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
$19.00 Add to cartThe thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow–before more American assets are rounded up and killed.
Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former D- Author: Haseltine, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 125078137X
- Language: English
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Nestor Makhno–Anarchy’s Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921
$24.95 Add to cartAvailable for the first time in English, here’s the gripping story of Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno. With his usual wit and engaging style, Skirda chronicles the life of a legend and the insurgent
- Author: Skirda, Alexandre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1902593685
- Language: English
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Up in Arms: How Military Aid Stabilizes–And Destabilizes–Foreign Autocrats
$32.00 Read moreAn “extraordinary…must-read” (Steven Levitsky, New York Times-bestselling coauthor of How Democracies Die) look at how support from foreign superpowers propped up–and pulled down–authoritarian reg… [more below]
- Author: Casey, Adam E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604016
- Language: English
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Collected Poems in English
$26.00 Add to cartThe poems of the legendary Nobel Laureate, in one volume at last
One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned- Author: Brodsky, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0374528381
- Language: English
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Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the most exhilarating true adventures in history, the race into space was marked by courage, duplicity, political paranoia, astonishing technological feats, and unbelievable triumphs in the fac
- Author: Cadbury, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0061176281
- Language: English
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Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads
$19.95 Add to cartThe first English translation of a Kalmyk epic nearly lost to history.
This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis Kh- Series: World Literature in Translation
- Author: Bougdaeva, Saglar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0520344723
- Language: English
