Cultural Region/Russian
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust
$32.99 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
“The mass killings of Jews from 1918 to 1921 are a bridge between local pogroms and the extermination of the Holoc- Author: Veidlinger, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250812127
- Language: English
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Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies, and Others: The Complete Plays
$17.00 Read moreThe award-winning translators bring us the complete plays of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era.
Known as the father of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin was celebrated for his- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Pushkin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593467566
- Language: English
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Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde
$70.00 Add to cartAt the intersection of the visual, graphic, and cinematic arts, film posters are a unique and thrilling record of a particular cultural Zeitgeist. This book brings together 250 posters from the Sovie
- Author: Pack, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 26 2021
- ISBN10: 3836589524
- Language: English
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The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
$30.00 Read more*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * One of The East Hampton Star‘s 10 Best Books of the Year*
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind t- Author: Birmingham, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 16, 2021
- ISBN10: 1594206309
- Language: English
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Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
$22.95 Read moreRevised, Expanded Edition
Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce’s biography of the renowned Russian dissident provides profound insight into a towering lite
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: April 11, 2011
- ISBN10: 1586174967
- Language: English
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Eastern Front 1945: Triumph of the Soviet Air Force
$25.00 Read moreA detailed, illustrated account of the air campaign that accompanied the Red Army’s final push towards Berlin, in which massed Soviet air power defeated the Luftwaffe’s high-tech Me 262 jets and Miste
- Series: Air Campaign #42
- Author: Hiestand, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1472857828
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict
$17.95 Add to cartRussia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire
- Author: Benjamin, Medea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682193713
- Language: English
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Tristia (1922)
$14.49 Add to cartOsip Mandelstam’s second collection of poems, Tristia, astonished Russian readers in 1922 with its daring verse forms and meditations on revolution, exile, death and rebirth. Thomas de Waal’s new tran
- Author: Mandelstam, Osip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: March 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1910345938
- Language: English
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The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
$22.99 Add to cartThe Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Lening… [more below]
- Author: Salisbury, Harrison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0306812983
- Language: English
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Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare
$20.00 Read moreIn Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building fighter jets, missiles, and conv
- Author: Jones, Seth G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 132405056X
- Language: English
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Today is a Different War
$18.00 Add to cartToday is a Different War is Lyudmyla Khersonska’s striking portrayal of life from inside war-torn Ukraine. Masterfully translated into English by Olga Livshin, Andrew Janco, Maya Chhabra, and Lev Frid
- Author: Khersonska, Lyudmyla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986340166
- Language: English
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
$41.00 Add to cartFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism.
In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0465098495
- Language: English
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Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines
$49.95 Add to cartSubmarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposi… [more below]
- Author: Polmar, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574885308
- Language: English
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Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Woolf’s Orlando: Two Renderings for the Stage
$18.95 Add to cart“[Ruhl’s Orlando] captures both the intellectual spirit and the literary brilliance of Woolf’s work. . . . Ruhl writes with the imaginative sweep that allows Woolf’s poetry to soar.”–Variety
“Sarah R
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1559364041
- Language: English
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Raven’s Gift
$24.00 Add to cartJon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn, traversed the Northwest Passage and paddled across the Pacific Rim. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the rea
- Author: Turk, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611773
- Language: English
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
$27.95 Read moreFamily and nation formed a reliable bedrock of security for precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi. She was a Young Pioneer, helping to lead her country toward the future of perfect freedom promised by the le
- Author: Ypi, Lea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0393867730
- Language: English
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The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblingsbeing led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Ins
- Author: Duffy, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0060935537
- Language: English
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The Amur River: Between Russia and China
$19.99 Add to cart“A gripping read with fascinating political insight.” (Sunday Times, London)
“Elegant, elegiac and poignant…Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide… to the river, muc
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063099691
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains)
$30.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories.
The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a 2005 hi
- Series: Into the Carpathians #2
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0578705702
- Language: English
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Three Days at the Brink: Fdr’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II
$19.99 Add to cartThe Instant New York Times Bestseller
“I could not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and impeccably researched. This
- Series: Three Days
- Author: Baier, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0062905694
- Language: English
