Cultural Region/Russian
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Columns
$16.49 Add to cartWhen Columns, a slim volume of poems written by an unknown young Russian poet named Nikolai Zabolotsky, appeared in 1929, it took the literary world of Leningrad [St. Petersburg] by storm. Zabolotsky
- Author: Zabolotsky, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1911469150
- Language: English
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
$32.00 Read moreAn “incredibly timely” global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world’s largest empires (Financial Times).
To understand the r- Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646460
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
$40.00 Add to cartInitially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen “Best Books of the Year,” Judith Hemschemeyer’s translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the def… [more below]
- Author: Akhmatova, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 948
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0939010275
- Language: English
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Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
$19.00 Add to cartThis “historical page-turner of the highest order” (The Wall Street Journal) tells the chilling, little-known story of an American-born Soviet spy in the atom bomb project during World War II, perfect… [more below]
- Author: Hagedorn, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1501173952
- Language: English
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
$18.99 Add to cartA journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremli- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1610396006
- Language: English
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Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning
$29.95 Add to cartWhile exceptionalism is not unique to America, the intensity of this conviction and its global ramifications are. This has led the US to grossly misinterpret–sometimes deliberately–the causative fac… [more below]
- Author: Martyanov, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 249
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0998694754
- Language: English
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
$22.99 Add to cartA masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of t- Author: Bogosian, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0316292109
- Language: English
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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
$21.99 Add to cartSoon to be featured in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust, premiering on PBS September 18th
A New York Times Notable Book – Winner of the National Jewish Book Award – Winner of the Na
- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0063251329
- Language: English
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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
$17.99 Add to cartWith intrigue that rivals the best le Carr novels, Russians Among Us tells the explosive story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West—from the end of the Cold War to th
- Author: Corera, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0062889427
- Language: English
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The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943
$27.99 Add to cartArthur Goodzeit Award
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and t- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Citino, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 16 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623434
- Language: English
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The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
$24.95 Add to cartThe epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction
The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and- Author: Slezkine, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1128
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192723
- Language: English
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Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey
$22.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Feynman and his sidekick fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending
- Author: Leighton, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320693
- Language: English
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy–Winner Take All
“A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil- Author: Maddow, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0525575480
- Language: English
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution, Updated Edition
$29.95 Add to cartA wide-ranging, comprehensive look at Russia and its leader . . . well written, well reported, and well organized.—The New York Times
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself
- Author: Baker, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1597971227
- Language: English
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Open Door: Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer
$17.99 Add to cartDiscover how icons can become part of your own life of prayer.
Encounter twelve of the world’s most significant Orthodox icons with one of today’s best-loved spiritual writers as your guide.
“The Open D
- Author: Mathewes-Green, Frederica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1557255741
- Language: English
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
$24.00 Add to cartA 12-WEEK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses.” —People magazine “The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, b- Author: Rappaport, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1250067456
- Language: English
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
$37.43 Add to cart2021 Cundill History Prize Finalist
“Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjec
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Spectator Best Book of the Year
A Five Books Best Book of the Year- Author: Favereau, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0674244214
- Language: English
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Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
$18.99 Add to cartFloating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home
- Author: Demuth, Bathsheba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358321
- Language: English
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Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War
$30.00 Add to cartInitially a victory line where Allies met at the end of World War Two, the Iron Curtain quickly became the front of a new kind of war. It divided Europe from north to south for a staggering forty-five… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199640
- Language: English
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The Rose of the World
$35.00 Add to cartCompleted in 1959, hidden from the Soviet secret police for twenty years, THE ROSE OF THE WORLD was first made public through excerpts in the magazine Novy Mir in 1989. THE ROSE OF THE WORLD is a uniq… [more below]
- Series: Library of Russian Philosophy
- Author: Andreev, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0940262835
- Language: English
