Cultural Region/Russian
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Russian History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartRussia’s sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especially given its harsh climate, vast and vulnerable borders, and the diversity of its people. In this Ver… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hosking, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199580987
- Language: English
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The Story of a Life
$24.95 Add to cartOne of the most famous works of Russian literature, a memoir about a writer’s coming of age during World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the rise of the Soviet era. This is the first unabridged tran… [more below]
- Author: Paustovsky, Konstantin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377225
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A World History
$26.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world
We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 154167409X
- Language: English
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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
$27.00 Add to cartA magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world
The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement. Stephen Kotkin offers a biogr- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 13, 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127861
- Language: English
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia
$19.99 Add to cart“[A] superb history…. In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic…; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickr… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Candace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0375867821
- Language: English
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Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus’ Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption
$24.99 Add to cartIn 1987, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ranking defector ever from the Eastern bloc, published RED HORIZONS, his expose of the unchecked power and corruption of Nicolae Ceausecu, then the Roma… [more below]
- Series: Cold War Classics
- Author: Pacepa, Ion Mihai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0895267462
- Language: English
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The Orphanage
$18.00 Add to cartA devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine
Chosen as one of “Six Books to Read for Context on Ukraine” by the New York Times Selected by Publishers W- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Zhadan, Serhiy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0300243014
- Language: English
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One Soldier’s War
$24.00 Add to cartOne Soldier’s War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. … [more below]
- Author: Babchenko, Arkady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144039
- Language: English
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Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
$24.99 Add to cartThe shorter works of one of the world’s greatest writers, including the classics The Gambler and Notes From the Underground.
The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonish
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: July 06, 2004
- ISBN10: 0060726466
- Language: English
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Between Shades of Gray
$20.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for the major motion picture Ashes in the Snow!
“Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both.” —The Washington Post From New York Times and intern- Author: Sepetys, Ruta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0399254129
- Language: English
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A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails
$23.00 Add to cart“We act like children with our dead,” Halyna Kruk writes as she struggles to come to terms with the horror unfolding around her: “confused, / as if none of us knew until now/ how easy it is to die.” I
- Author: Kruk, Halyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986340197
- Language: English
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Lines of Courage
$8.99 Add to cart- Author: Nielsen, Jennifer A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1338620959
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$20.00 Read moreHailed as one of the greatest novels of all time and a classic of world literature, War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic invasion of Russi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: September 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0486816435
- Language: English
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History of the Caucasus: Volume 2: In the Shadow of Great Powers
$50.00 Add to cartIn the Shadow of Great Powers is the second volume of Christoph Baumer’s History of the Caucasus. It covers the period from the Seljuk domination of the Southern Caucasus around 1050 CE to the present
- Author: Baumer, Christoph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0755636287
- Language: English
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Journey Into the Whirlwind
$19.99 Add to cartJourney into the Whirlwind is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg’s courageous memoir of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through the Soviet Union’s prisons and labor camps.
By the late 1930s, Eugenia Semyo… [more below]
- Series: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
- Author: Ginzburg, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027518
- Language: English
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A History of the Island
$26.95 Add to cart“A masterpiece by one of Europe’s finest contemporary novelists.” – Rowan Williams
Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award
Monks devious and devout – and an age-defying royal pair – chronicle the
- Author: Vodolazkin, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1636080685
- Language: English
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The Eighth Life
$28.00 Add to cartAn epic family saga beginning with the Russian Revolution and swirling across a century, encompassing war, loss, love requited and unrequited, ghosts, joy, massacres, tragedy. And hot chocolate.
At th
- Author: Haratischvili, Nino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1950354148
- Language: English
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The Soviet Sixties
$35.00 Read moreThe story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union
Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the “sixties” era in the Soviet Union was ju- Author: Hornsby, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0300250525
- Language: English
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Notes from the Underground and the Gambler
$12.95 Add to cartOne of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movem… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536384
- Language: English
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Kobzar
$37.99 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: Shevchenko, Taras
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: October 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1909156558
- Language: English
