Cultural Region/Russian
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Selected Poems
$19.95 Read moreJames McGavran’s new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist’s voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Sovie… [more below]
- Series: Northwestern World Classics
- Author: Mayakovsky, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0810129078
- Language: English
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The Defeat of the Damned: The Destruction of the Dirlewanger Brigade at the Battle of Ipolysag, December 1944
$37.95 Add to cartAn operational history of the notorious Dirlewanger Brigade, culminating in its destruction in Budapest at the hands of the Red Army.
One of the most notorious yet least understood body of troops that … [more below]
- Author: Nash, Douglas E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1636242111
- Language: English
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Pagan Portals – Baba Yaga, Slavic Earth Goddess
$12.95 Add to cart‘I’ve felt for a long time that there must be more in the call to Baba Yaga’s cottage than the fairytales tell us. Natalia Clarke has drawn on her Siberian heritage and personal insights in this power
- Author: Clarke, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1789048788
- Language: English
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
$22.00 Add to cartNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035986
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$18.00 Add to cartRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before hi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0679642323
- Language: English
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Eloise in Moscow
$19.99 Add to cartOdd Couple Invade Russia and Produce Best-seller
When Kay Thompson (with Hilary Knight in tow) swept through Moscow at the height of the Cold War, the Russians didn’t know what hit them. No one could… [more below]- Series: Eloise
- Author: Thompson, Kay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0689832117
- Language: English
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Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War
$24.95 Read more“Nuanced, melancholy, sophisticated and gratifyingly intimate.”
Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world
-Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism- Author: Ishchenko, Volodymyr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 180429554X
- Language: English
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Return to Latvia
$17.95 Read more“A harrowing, culturally rich memoir.”–Kirkus Reviews
Building upon her celebrated autobiography Distant Fathers, Italian author Marina Jarre returns to her native Latvia for the first time since she- Author: Jarre, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1954404107
- Language: English
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Punishment of a Hunter: A Leningrad Confidential
$16.95 Read more“Outstanding… Yakovleva perfectly balances evoking the terror of living in a police state with her whodunit plotline. Fans will hope to see much more of Zaitsev.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review… [more below]
- Series: The Leningrad Confidential
- Author: Yakovleva, Yulia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1782276793
- Language: English
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Here, Right Matters: An American Story
$19.99 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller, now in paperback and with a new afterword
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision
- Author: Vindman, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0063079437
- Language: English
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The Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3
$27.00 Read moreThe startling, vivid debut novel by Alexei Navalny’s press secretary, following a woman who is arrested at an anti-corruption rally in Moscow and sentenced to ten days in a special detention center, w… [more below]
- Author: Yarmysh, Kira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160735
- Language: English
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Lenin’s Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922-23
$17.00 Read moreIn 1922 and 1923, V.I. Lenin, central leader of the world’s first socialist revolution, waged what was to be his last political battle. At stake was whether that revolution, and the international move… [more below]
- Author: Lenin, V. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 379
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1604880279
- Language: English
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Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
$22.00 Read more“His is a voice that must be heard.” –Patti Smith
“A poetic rush to madness. . . a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving.”
–Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown- Author: Kamysh, Markiyan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1662601271
- Language: English
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The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
$19.99 Read moreThe Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon since its hardcover publication, taught in classrooms … [more below]
- Author: Eisner, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328600
- Language: English
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Blowing Up Russia the Secret KGB Plot That Delivered Russia to Putin
$17.95 Read moreNew introduction by Yuri Felshtinsky. Blowing up Russia trace the extraordinary story behind the fake Islamist attacks on Moscow that led to marshal law and triggered Russia’s invasion of Chechnya. Ba… [more below]
- Author: Felshtinsky, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1783342129
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems: 1956-1998
$16.99 Add to cartThis outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert’s entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light, in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpubl
- Author: Herbert, Zbigniew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0060783958
- Language: English
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Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works
$13.95 Add to cartAlexander Pushkin’s dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin’s own unique, condens… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pushkin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554048
- Language: English
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Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia
$39.95 Read moreWith 234 superb color plates, and more than 950 color maps, Birds of East Asia makes it easy to identify all of the region’s species. The first single-volume field guide for eastern Asia, the book cov
- Series: Princeton Field Guides #46
- Author: Brazil, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0691139261
- Language: English
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Port Arthur 1904-05: The First Modern Siege
$25.00 Read moreA gripping, illustrated narrative of the longest and most brutal land battle of the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War.
Growing rivalry between Imperial Russia and Imperial Japan over territorial control in C- Series: Campaign #398
- Author: Forczyk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1472855639
- Language: English
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City of Lions: Portrait of a City in Two Acts: LVIV, Then and Now
$19.95 Read more“A loving, sensuous, but also gently ironic reconstruction of a lost city” — LA Review of Books
A timely reissue of the classic portrayal of the Ukrainian city of Lviv by 2 authors in 2 acts, separat… [more below]- Author: Wittlin, Jozef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1805330012
- Language: English
