Cultural Region/Russian
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The Mother
$14.00 Read moreInspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova – the mother of the title – and her son Pavel, Gorky’s masterpiece describes the brutal life of ordinary Russian factory workers
- Author: Gorky, Maxim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1847498531
- Language: English
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How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict
$20.95 Read moreSince the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able
- Author: Jankowicz, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0755642082
- Language: English
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The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind
$35.00 Read moreA major new history of the Cold War that explores the conflict through the minds of the people who lived through it.
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the hum- Author: Sixsmith, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361812
- Language: English
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A Symphony of Whales
$9.99 Add to cartGlashka can . . . but with that mysterious power comes great responsibility. When she discovers thousands of whales trapped in a rapidly freezing inlet, she knows it is up to her to gather the people … [more below]
- Author: Schuch, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0152165487
- Language: English
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Under Western Eyes
$11.95 Add to cartUnder Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552371
- Language: English
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Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov
$21.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the award-winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes “an elegantly nuanced portrait of [Vladimir Nabokov’s]… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0375755349
- Language: English
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Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
$30.00 Add to cartOn the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues t- Author: Smith, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141265
- Language: English
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Orden de Embargo: Una Historia Real de Lavado de Dinero, Asesinatos Y Resistenci a Frente a Vladimir PutÃn / Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Lau
$25.95 Read moreDespués de Notificación roja, su explosivo bestseller del New York Times, Bill Browder regresa con otro emocionante thriller narrando cómo se convirtió en el enemigo número uno de Vladimir Putin … [more below]
- Author: Browder, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 8419283142
- Language: Spanish
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Aces at Kursk: The Battle for Aerial Supremacy on the Eastern Front, 1943
$42.95 Read moreThe Battle of Kursk in July 1943 is known for being the largest tank battle in history. A Russian victory, it marked the decisive end of the German offensive capability on the Eastern Front and set th… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, Christopher A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1399081438
- Language: English
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Alindarka’s Children: Things Will Be Bad
$19.95 Read moreIt’s not Avi’s fault, it’s those sourish, mind-bending little berries that are to blame, those tiny wee spheres. Bilberries, bletherberries that befuddle the mind, babbleberries that give you a kick. … [more below]
- Author: Bacharevic, Alhierd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231968
- Language: English
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Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
$37.99 Add to cartHistory on a grand scale–an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world’s most vibrant civilizations
A People’s Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did “more to help us understand t- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421958
- Language: English
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
$30.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Rule… [more below]
- Author: Taubman, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 871
- Publish Date: April 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393324842
- Language: English
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Trotsky: A Biography
$30.00 Read moreRobert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing an- Author: Service, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: October 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674062256
- Language: English
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Risked
$8.99 Add to cartJonah and Katherine journey to 1918 with the Romanov children in the sixth book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series, which Kirkus Reviews calls “plenty of fun and great for history te… [more below]
- Series: Missing #6
- Author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1416989854
- Language: English
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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941: Volume 4 – Atlas
$99.95 Read moreAt dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center’s Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the F… [more below]
- Author: Glantz, David M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1909982830
- Language: English
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The Portable Karl Marx
$25.00 Read moreIncludes the complete Communist Manifesto and substantial extracts from On the Jewish Question, the German Ideology, Grundrisse, and Capital, a broad representation of his letters, and lesser-known wo… [more below]
- Series: Portable Library
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: March 31 1983
- ISBN10: 014015096X
- Language: English
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Egg and Spoon
$12.99 Read more“A beautiful reminder that fairy tales are at their best when they illuminate the precarious balance between lighthearted childhood and the darkness and danger of adulthood.” — School Library Journal… [more below]
- Author: Maguire, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0763680168
- Language: English
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The Gospel in Dostoyevsky: Selections from His Works
$19.95 Add to cartDostoyevsky’s deepest, most compelling passages in one volume
The Gospel in Dostoyevsky vividly reveals – as none of his novels can on their own – the common thread of the great God-haunted Russian’s q
- Series: Gospel in Great Writers
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: June 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0874866340
- Language: English
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The Looking Glass and Other Stories: New Translation of This Unique Edition of Thirty-Four Other Short Stories by Chekhov, Some of Them Never Translat
$12.00 Read moreIt is New Year’s Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as th
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1847499015
- Language: English
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The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom
$38.00 Read moreA new history of the Kyivan Rus, a medieval dynastic state in eastern Europe.
Kyivan Rus’ was a state in northeastern Europe from the late ninth to the mid-sixteenth century that encompassed a variet- Series: Dynasties
- Author: Raffensperger, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147158
- Language: English
