Russia
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The Cossacks and Other Stories
$18.00 Add to cartTolstoy’s powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army, part of our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0140449590
- Language: English
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Great Russian Short Stories
$11.00 Add to cartAmong the country’s greatest artistic contributions, twentieth-century Russian literature was revolutionary in its approach to realism, injecting characters with human weaknesses familiar to all. It p
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Negri, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 048642992X
- Language: English
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Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
$22.95 Add to cartAlexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey al
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Reyfman, Irina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 023118591X
- Language: English
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The White Guard: Introduction by Orlando Figes
$28.00 Add to cartBulgakov’s brilliant novel, first published in 1925, portrays his beloved city of Kiev as it is torn apart during a few crucial weeks in 1918, seen through the eyes of a family fleeing the Russian rev… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1101908440
- Language: English
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Blue Lard
$18.95 Add to cartBlue Lard is an act of desecration. Blue Lard is what’s left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebr… [more below]
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378183
- Language: English
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Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
$20.99 Add to cartFeaturing extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue–bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implic… [more below]
- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0195368630
- Language: English
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
$22.00 Add to cartNational Book Award Finalist
TIME Magazine’s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012
Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain De… [more below]- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 140009593X
- Language: English
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Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People
$19.99 Read moreA classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewi… [more below]
- Author: Sharansky, Natan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1541742443
- Language: English
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History of Eastern Europe: A Captivating Guide to a Shortened History of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia
$32.99 Add to cartHow much Eastern European history do you know?
The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and fall of states and empires. The ancient Greek and Roma
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: October 31 2021
- ISBN10: 163716503X
- Language: English
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The People Immortal
$19.95 Add to cartThe first war novel by the author of Life and Fate and a stunningly accurate portrayal of soldierly life written at the beginning of World War II.
Vasily Grossman wrote three novels about the Second W- Author: Grossman, Vasily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376784
- Language: English
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A Russian Journal
$17.00 Add to cartSteinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
A Penguin Classic Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141180196
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A New History
$19.00 Add to cart“Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written.” —The Boston Globe
“Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject.” —The New York T- Author: Gaddis, John Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038273
- Language: English
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Cancer Ward
$25.00 Add to cartThe Russian Nobelist’s semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin’s death
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Cance- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0374534713
- Language: English
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First Love
$11.00 Read moreIsaiah Berlin’s translation of the legendary Russian novella of growing up and heartbreak
When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich’s parents,- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 14 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443355
- Language: English
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The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithu
$18.95 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe.
Imperial, communist or autocratic,- Author: Fatland, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139495
- Language: English
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Containing History: How Cold War History Explains Us-Russia Relations
$34.95 Add to cartIn the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with U.S.-Russia relations approaching a breaking point, this book provides a key to understanding how we got here. Specifically, Stephen … [more below]
- Author: Friot, Stephen P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0806191902
- Language: English
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Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartAn “exemplary” (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War II
For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began
- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602617
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
$14.00 Add to cartPoverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining him
- Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1847498833
- Language: English
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A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartOn the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world
It is history on an epic yet human scale. V- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014024364X
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Russia
$35.00 Add to cartAccessible to students, tourists, and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the und… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Bushkovitch, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 518
- Publish Date: December 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0521543231
- Language: English
