Cultural Region/Russian
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What’s Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Editors’ Choice
“Entertaining . . . A heady mix of propaganda and paranoia . . . [Szablowski writes] sensitively . . . not just about food but also its terrible absence.” —The New Yo- Author: Szablowski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137182
- Language: English
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Solaris
$18.99 Add to cart“A fantastic book.” –Steven Soderbergh
When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself confronting a painful memory embodied- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 20, 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027607
- Language: English
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War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023
From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced young journalists” (The New York Times)–the first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppressing- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 166801372X
- Language: English
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Deaf Republic: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award – Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award – Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award – Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Winner of the Anisfiel
- Author: Kaminsky, Ilya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 05, 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978312
- Language: English
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
$23.99 Add to cart“A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — Boston Globe
One of The New York Times Book Review‘s 10 Best Books
- Author: Clark, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0061146668
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$22.99 Add to cart“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn’s entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain fo
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253723
- Language: English
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Demons
$21.00 Add to cartInspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a " novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0679734511
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$9.94 Add to cartOne of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina sets the impossible and destructive triangle of Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky against the marriage of Levin and Kitty, thus il… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 872
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536066
- Language: English
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I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
$30.00 Add to cart* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice *
“A haunting book of rare courage.” –Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent a- Author: Kostyuchenko, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593655265
- Language: English
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Welcome to the Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity
$19.99 Add to cartWelcome to the Orthodox Church–its history, theology, worship, spirituality, and daily life. This friendly guide provides a comprehensive introduction to Orthodoxy, but with a twist: readers learn by
- Author: Mathewes-Green, Frederica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01, 2015
- ISBN10: 1557259216
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$13.95 Add to cartPublished to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy’s death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece captures with unpreceden… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tolstoy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1392
- Publish Date: November 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0199232768
- Language: English
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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
$30.00 Add to cartDespite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war–and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? U
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051191
- Language: English
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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
$34.99 Add to cartForeign Policy Best Book of 2023
The “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our ne
Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023- Author: Walton, Calder
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668000695
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
$8.95 Add to cartDostoyevsky’s epic masterpiece, unabridged, with an afterword by Robin Feuer Miller
One of the world’s greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences–an unparalle- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0451530063
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$22.00 Add to cart“A truly great translation . . . This English version . . . really is better.” –A. N. Wilson, The Spectator
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
This acclai- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107631
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
$8.95 Add to cartOne of Time‘s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime–the mur- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 15, 1996
- ISBN10: 0553211757
- Language: English
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Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
$30.00 Add to cartIn light of Russia’s aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed, from pre-C… [more below]
- Author: Mikanowski, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1524748501
- Language: English
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Into Siberia: George Kennan’s Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
$30.00 Read more“In Wallance’s bracing narrative, Kennan emerges as a cheerful, deeply decent companion, an uncompromising observer whose greatest strength was his ability to change his mind. He’s a welcome change fr
- Author: Wallance, Gregory J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250280052
- Language: English
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Saved: A War Reporter’s Mission to Make It Home
$32.00 Add to cartAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An affecting, singular story…a bracing tale of life on the edge of death.” —Kirkus Reviews
When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the mor
- Author: Hall, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063309661
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$21.00 Add to cartThe must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written
Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: May 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0143035002
- Language: English
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