Cultural Region/Russian
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Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine
$35.00 Add to cartAn 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 Add to cartWith 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)
$8.99 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 Read moreThe 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 Add to cart- 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
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Poems of Akhmatova
$16.00 Add to cartWitness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia’s troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Her ge
- Author: Akhmatova, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0395860032
- Language: English
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Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
$19.99 Add to cart“A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine’s brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future.”–Financial Times
Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands,
- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603486
- Language: English
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First Love and Other Stories
$9.94 Add to cartBringing together six of Turgenev’s best known stories in volume, this collection includes “First Love,” “Asya,” “Mumu,” “The Diary of a Superfluous Man,” “Song of Triumphant Love,” and “King Lear of … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540403
- Language: English
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The Idiot: Introduction by Richard Pevear [With Ribbon Book Mark]
$34.00 Read moreRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dosto… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0375413928
- Language: English
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Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall
$14.93 Add to cartOne of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate p… [more below]
- Series: Plays for Performance
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1566632110
- Language: English
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