Cultural Region/Russian
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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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The Kingdom of God Is Within You
$24.99 Add to cartBanned in Russia, Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God Is Within You was deemed a threat to church and state. The culmination of a lifetime’s thought, it espouses a commitment to Jesus’s message of turning th… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Western Philosophy
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451380
- Language: English
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Poor Folk and Other Stories
$16.00 Add to cartWith their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky’s early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major nove… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: April 04 1989
- ISBN10: 0140445056
- Language: English
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History – Second Edition
$12.95 Add to cart“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin’s maste
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 069115600X
- Language: English
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
$21.99 Add to cartIt is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contra
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winik, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: May 06 2016
- ISBN10: 006008314X
- Language: English
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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
$21.99 Read moreThe brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design.
Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 685
- Publish Date: March 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0060586974
- Language: English
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Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine
$21.99 Read moreWinner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023
*A Telegraph Book of the Year*
A Times Best Book of Summer 2023
*Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*
An astonishing investigation into the
- Author: Matthews, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 0008562784
- Language: English
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Stalingrad
$25.00 Add to cartThe Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day a… [more below]
- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140284583
- Language: English
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White Nights/A Gentle Creature/The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
$12.95 Add to cartIn these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555087
- Language: English
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
$25.00 Add to cartA major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union–showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise
“A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”–Rodric Braithwaite, Fin- Author: Zubok, Vladislav M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268173
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$19.99 Read more‘…not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle’
Striking a balance between philosophical discussion and compelling story-telling, War and Peace transcends
– Leo Tolstoy- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1788886526
- Language: English
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Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front
$26.00 Read moreFrom Ukraine’s leading writer-activist comes an intimate account of resistance and survival in the earliest months of the Russian-Ukrainian war
“A vivid, in-the-trenches report from a Ukrainian city- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Zhadan, Serhiy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 300270860
- Language: English
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Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine and Eastern Europe
$35.00 Add to cartA celebration of the food, flavors, and heritage of Eastern Europe–from the Black Sea to Baku, Kiev to Kazakhstan–Mamushka features over 100 recipes for fresh, delicious, and unexpected dishes from … [more below]
- Author: Hercules, Olia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1616289619
- Language: English
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Frédéric Chaubin. Cccp. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 40th E
$35.00 Add to cartElected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Fr?d?ric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed explores 90 buildings in
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Chaubin, Frédéric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 3836587793
- Language: English
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Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin’s number one enem- Author: Browder, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982153288
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Bread
$18.00 Add to cart‘Well-being for all is not a dream.’
In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs – beliefs which surged around the world in- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0141396113
- Language: English
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