Cultural Region/Russian
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How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems
$18.00 Read moreA searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan
“Among Ukraine’s most distinguished writers. . . . Zhadan has borne expert witness to Russ- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Zhadan, Serhiy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300272464
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$22.00 Add to cartAntony’s Brigg’s acclaimed translation of Tolstoy’s great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon’s- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1440
- Publish Date: February 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0140447938
- Language: English
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The Story of Russia
$19.99 Add to cart“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West.”
–Anne Applebau- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871395
- Language: English
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Wound
$27.00 Read moreFinalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
For fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman’s journey across Russia to inter her mothe- Author: Vasyakina, Oksana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646221443
- Language: English
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Beginner’s Russian with Interactive Online Workbook, 2nd Edition
$45.00 Add to cartStart speaking Russian today!
Now
in an updated second edition, Beginner’s Russian with Interactive Online
Workbook offers an innovative, easy, and thorough way to speak, and
read Russian confidently. Thi… [more below]- Author: Kudyma, Anna S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: September 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0781814405
- Language: English
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Dacha: The Soviet Country Cottage
$35.95 Read moreAn astonishing photographic record of a form of wooden architecture rapidly vanishing from the post-Soviet landscape
A dacha is a country house, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigo
- Author: Savintsev, Fyodor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1916218490
- Language: English
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Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin
$28.99 Add to cartThis riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin’s rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia and reveals the truth behind the strongman persona he has spent h
- Author: Weiss, Andrew S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250760755
- Language: English
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A Message from Ukraine: Speeches, 2019-2022
$17.00 Read moreAn urgent call to arms from Time‘s Person of the Year, the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courage in the face of the Russian invasion has inspired the world and turned him overnight into a global b… [more below]
- Author: Zelensky, Volodymyr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0593727177
- Language: English
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Putin
$25.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years.
“Anyone wanting to learn more about Putin’s personality, ideas- Author: Short, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1250861543
- Language: English
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Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
$19.99 Read moreBased on a hit podcast series, this book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall–the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired.… [more below]
- Author: Merriman, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1541788834
- Language: English
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Essential Works of Lenin: What Is to Be Done? and Other Writings
$22.95 Add to cartAmong the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulya… [more below]
- Author: Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0486253333
- Language: English
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Smart Meal Prep for Beginners: Recipes and Weekly Plans for Healthy, Ready-to-Go Meals
$19.99 Add to cartEasy recipes and weekly meal plans for nourishing, ready-to-go food
Preparing meals ahead of time means you never have to ask what’s for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. In Smart Meal Prep for Beginners,
- Author: Amidor, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1641521252
- Language: English
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Putin’s Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia
$17.00 Read moreThe future of Russia lies outside the country
Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some one million Russians have fled the country and gone into exile. Motivated by opposition to the- Author: Starobin, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Life and Fate
$29.95 Add to cartA book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and … [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Grossman, Vasily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 1590172019
- Language: English
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Everything Is Illuminated
$18.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Jonathan Safran Foer’s debut–“a funny, moving…deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when tha
- Author: Foer, Jonathan Safran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 14, 2015
- ISBN10: 0544484002
- Language: English
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartMulti-award-winning author China Mi騅ille captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this “engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century” (Village Voice)
I- Author: Miéville, China
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 22, 2018
- ISBN10: 1784782785
- Language: English
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Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
$40.43 Add to cartMuppets in Moscow is the incredible true story of the author’s odyssey to create Sesame Street in Russia. It reveals how–in between bombings and political chaos in 1990s Moscow–a team of Russian and
- Author: Rogoff, Natasha Lance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1538161281
- Language: English
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How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
$18.99 Add to cart“She is a writer and journalist whose voice belongs to the world.” — Gloria Steinem
This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and fe
- Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0060975407
- Language: English
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2020
Longlisted for the National Book Award
Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction
A Finalist fo- Author: Slaght, Jonathan C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 1, 2021
- ISBN10: 125079871X
- Language: English
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The Tears and Prayers of Fools
$39.95 Add to cartThis extraordinary novel is part of Grigory Kanovich’s “Litvak saga,” his tribute to Jewish life before the Holocaust. Set in a small Lithuanian town in the late nineteenth century, the story begins w… [more below]
- Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
- Author: Kanovich, Grigory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0815611595
- Language: English
