Cultural Region/Russian
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City Folk and Country Folk
$17.95 Add to cartAn unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia’s aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. T
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Khvoshchinskaya, Sofia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0231183038
- Language: English
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Blue Lard
$18.95 Add to cartBlue Lard is an act of desecration. Blue Lard is what’s left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebr… [more below]
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378183
- Language: English
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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
$22.00 Add to cartThis revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms
We live in the age of disi- Author: Rid, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250787408
- Language: English
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Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
$18.99 Add to cartOsip Mandelstam was perhaps the most important Russian poet of the nineteen-hundreds–a crucial instigator of the “revolution of the word” that took place in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg and
- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 27, 2012
- ISBN10: 0062099426
- Language: English
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Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
$20.99 Add to cartFeaturing extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue–bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implic… [more below]
- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0195368630
- Language: English
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
$22.00 Add to cartNational Book Award Finalist
TIME Magazine’s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012
Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain De… [more below]- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 140009593X
- Language: English
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Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People
$19.99 Read moreA classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewi… [more below]
- Author: Sharansky, Natan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1541742443
- Language: English
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History of Eastern Europe: A Captivating Guide to a Shortened History of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia
$32.99 Add to cartHow much Eastern European history do you know?
The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and fall of states and empires. The ancient Greek and Roma
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: October 31 2021
- ISBN10: 163716503X
- Language: English
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The People Immortal
$19.95 Add to cartThe first war novel by the author of Life and Fate and a stunningly accurate portrayal of soldierly life written at the beginning of World War II.
Vasily Grossman wrote three novels about the Second W- Author: Grossman, Vasily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376784
- Language: English
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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
$19.99 Add to cartThe hysterical, clever, and unforgettable sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
He’s back. Even older. Even funnier
- Author: Jonasson, Jonas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062838555
- Language: English
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A Russian Journal
$17.00 Add to cartSteinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
A Penguin Classic Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141180196
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A New History
$19.00 Add to cart“Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written.” —The Boston Globe
“Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject.” —The New York T- Author: Gaddis, John Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038273
- Language: English
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The Madonnas of Leningrad
$17.99 Add to cart“An extraordinary debut, a deeply lovely novel that evokes with uncommon deftness the terrible, heartbreaking beauty that is life in wartime. Like the glorious ghosts of the paintings in the Hermitage
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Dean, Debra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0060825316
- Language: English
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Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis, and the Swiss Banks
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the authors of the bestselling “The Secret War Against the Jews” comes an explosive work that explores the links between the Vatican and the Nazis. Featuring startling new information, “Unholy Tr… [more below]
- Author: Aarons, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 031218199X
- Language: English
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Cancer Ward
$25.00 Add to cartThe Russian Nobelist’s semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin’s death
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Cance- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0374534713
- Language: English
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Notes from a Dead House
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smug
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0307949877
- Language: English
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The Twelve Chairs
$22.95 Add to cartWinner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation
More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petro- Series: Northwestern World Classics
- Author: Ilf, Ilya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 574
- Publish Date: October 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0810127725
- Language: English
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Dead Souls
$17.00 Read moreOne of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of lando- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0140448071
- Language: English
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The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithu
$18.95 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe.
Imperial, communist or autocratic,- Author: Fatland, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139495
- Language: English
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The Greatest Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
$11.99 Add to cartIndulge in the literary brilliance of Anton Chekhov with “The Greatest Short Stories of Anton Chekhov: A Collection of Fifty Stories.” This captivating anthology showcases Chekhov’s unparalleled mast
- Series: Greatest Short Stories
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 12 2019
- ISBN10: 9389717108
- Language: English
