Cultural Region/Russian
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Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures
$22.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Guardian (London)
A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia’s most controversial figures This is how E- Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1250074835
- Language: English
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Containing History: How Cold War History Explains Us-Russia Relations
$34.95 Add to cartIn the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with U.S.-Russia relations approaching a breaking point, this book provides a key to understanding how we got here. Specifically, Stephen … [more below]
- Author: Friot, Stephen P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0806191902
- Language: English
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Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartAn “exemplary” (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War II
For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began
- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602617
- Language: English
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Putin
$40.00 Read moreThe first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years
Vladimir Putin is the world’s most dangerous man. Alone among- Author: Short, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1627793666
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
$14.00 Add to cartPoverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining him
- Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1847498833
- Language: English
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A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartOn the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world
It is history on an epic yet human scale. V- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014024364X
- Language: English
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Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherryorchard
$10.00 Add to cartFive masterful dramatic works from one of the world’s best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov’s Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson, and an introduction by Richard Gilman in Penguin Classics.
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0140447334
- Language: English
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia, Volume III
$34.95 Add to cart“A fantastic, mind-blowing photo and graphics book documenting the subculture of tattooing in Russian prisons.” -David Cronenberg
This volume of drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal … [more below]
- Author: Baldaev, Danzig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0955006198
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$12.00 Add to cartThe ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him,… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394741048
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Russia
$35.00 Add to cartAccessible to students, tourists, and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the und… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Bushkovitch, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 518
- Publish Date: December 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0521543231
- Language: English
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Mission to the Volga
$17.00 Add to cartThe earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic
Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #28
- Author: Fa?l?n, A?mad Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1479899895
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook & Dictionary
$9.99 Read moreLonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher
Admirers of Russian literature claim that the ‘Slavic soul’ of writers such as Chekhov or Tolstoy can’t be fully appreciated in translation. Fo
- Series: Phrasebook
- Author: Eldridge, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1786574632
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Eastern Europe
$24.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Eastern Europe is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Walk Dubrovnik’s city walls, discover history in
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Baker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1788683919
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
$18.00 Add to cartThis collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky’s key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in h… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756884
- Language: English
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The Russian Five: A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery and Courage
$16.99 Add to cartWhen the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best place to find world-class players who could help turn things around more
- Author: Gave, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1949709582
- Language: English
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pe… [more below]
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 639
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0345408772
- Language: English
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A Present Past: Titan and Other Chronicles
$17.95 Read more“A tour de force–exquisite and gripping.”–Philippe Sands, author of East West Street
The Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stor
- Author: Lebedev, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1954404182
- Language: English
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Beyond Borscht: Old-World Recipes from Eastern Europe: Ukraine, Russia, Poland & More
$25.00 Read moreAuthentic Recipes for the Hearty, Comforting Foods of Ukraine
Bring the warming, fresh and savory flavors of Ukraine and Eastern Europe into your kitchen. This beautiful and personal collection was bo- Author: Nesteruk, Tatyana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 162414960X
- Language: English
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The War Below
$8.99 Add to cartThis companion novel to Skrypuch’s Making Bombs for Hitler follows a boy who joins the underground Ukrainian resistance in the fight against Hitler.
The Nazis took Luka from his home in Ukraine and for
- Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1338608339
- Language: English
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Russian Made Easy Level 1: An Easy Step-By-Step Approach To Learn Russian for Beginners (Textbook + Workbook Included)
$14.90 Add to cartLooking to learn how to speak Russian like a native?
Your journey begins here.
Often viewed as a tough language spoken with a strong and direct tone, you would be surprised to know that Russian is actua
- Author: Lingo Mastery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: December 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1951949668
- Language: English
