Cultural Region/Russian
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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
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Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine
$35.00 Read moreAn exploration into the culinary identity of eastern Europe through stunning food and travel photography, interspersed with stories and memories of tiny buildings called summer kitchens.
In this new c- Author: Hercules, Olia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1681885700
- Language: English
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Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War
$30.00 Add to cart“Having saddled the tiger of militarized patriotism, Putin expertly made it trot in the right direction. But the animal required more and more meat; as it grew, it became harder to dismount.”
In this
- Author: Aron, Leon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0844750549
- Language: English
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive
$55.00 Add to cartTattoo drawings and prison portraits from Fuel’s fabled archive of Russian criminal subculture
This volume presents highlights from Fuel’s singular collection of authentic material on this subject. Pre
- Author: Murray, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1739887808
- Language: English
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In Memory of Memory
$19.95 Read moreWith the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of
- Author: Stepanova, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0811228835
- Language: English
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Dersu the Trapper
$18.00 Add to cartVladimir Klavdievich Arseniev (1872-1930) undertook twelve major scientific expeditions between 1902 and 1930 in the Siberian Far East, and authored some sixty works from the geographical, geological,… [more below]
- Series: Recovered Classics
- Author: Arseniev, V. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 351
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0929701496
- Language: English
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Breaking Stalin’s Nose: (Newbery Honor Book)
$10.99 Add to cartA Newbery Honor Book.
Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:
The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.
A Young Pio- Author: Yelchin, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1250034108
- Language: English
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Notes from the Underground
$12.99 Add to cart“It may seem paradoxical to speak of such insights as liberating, or to find in the Underground Man’s impassioned rejection of rational humanitarianism a call to arms. Yet each age we live through as
- Series: Mint Editions (Philosophical and Theological Work)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1513220543
- Language: English
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
$19.00 Add to cartThe first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago.
In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treas- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0451228146
- Language: English
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Study Guide to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$17.95 Add to cartA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, with adaptations in film, radio, theatre, opera, and rock music. As a work of 1869 hist… [more below]
- Series: Bright Notes
- Author: Intelligent Education
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1645423085
- Language: English
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
$18.99 Add to cart“Stasiland demonstrates that great, original reporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic.” — Claire Tomalin, Guardian “Books of the Year”
Winner of the Samu
- Author: Funder, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0062077325
- Language: English
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The New Rules of War: How America Can Win–Against Russia, China, and Other Threats
$18.99 Add to cart“Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu.” -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO
An Economist Book of the Year 2019
Some of the principles of warfare are ancient, ot
- Author: McFate, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0062843591
- Language: English
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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
$35.00 Add to cartA magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time
Joseph Frank’s award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writ- Author: Frank, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 984
- Publish Date: August 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0691155992
- Language: English
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The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
$24.99 Read more- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0062980173
- Language: English
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The Fur Hat
$11.95 Add to cartIn this satire of Soviet life, an insecure but much-published novelist, Yefim Rakhlin, learns that the Writers’ Union is giving fur hats to its members based on their importance, and that he rates onl… [more below]
- Author: Voinovich, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: March 28 1991
- ISBN10: 0156340305
- Language: English
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Russian Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Russian & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
$14.95 Add to cartDo you know what the hardest thing for a Russian learner is?
Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle…which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book
Teachers love giving out tough,
- Series: Easy Russian Stories #1
- Author: Lingo Mastery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1951949005
- Language: English
