Russia
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Mission to the Volga
$17.00 Add to cartThe earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic
Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #28
- Author: Fa?l?n, A?mad Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1479899895
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook & Dictionary
$9.99 Read moreLonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher
Admirers of Russian literature claim that the ‘Slavic soul’ of writers such as Chekhov or Tolstoy can’t be fully appreciated in translation. Fo
- Series: Phrasebook
- Author: Eldridge, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1786574632
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Eastern Europe
$24.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Eastern Europe is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Walk Dubrovnik’s city walls, discover history in
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Baker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1788683919
- Language: English
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pe… [more below]
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 639
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0345408772
- Language: English
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How War Begins: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Invasion
$29.99 Add to cart“The collapsing bodies look like marionettes. The clouds of dust captured by drones have a surreal beauty. The crumpling buildings look like houses of cards. Even so, it’s upsetting, panic-inducing. H… [more below]
- Author: Igort
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1683969243
- Language: English
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Russian Made Easy Level 1: An Easy Step-By-Step Approach To Learn Russian for Beginners (Textbook + Workbook Included)
$14.90 Add to cartLooking to learn how to speak Russian like a native?
Your journey begins here.
Often viewed as a tough language spoken with a strong and direct tone, you would be surprised to know that Russian is actua
- Author: Lingo Mastery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: December 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1951949668
- Language: English
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Stalingrad
$29.95 Add to cartNow in English for the first time, the prequel to Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, the War and Peace of the twentieth Century.
In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on- Author: Grossman, Vasily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373270
- Language: English
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German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad
$35.95 Add to cartGerman Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe’s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. Du
- Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
- Author: Eaton, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501767364
- Language: English
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Life and Fate: Introduction by Polly Jones
$36.00 Add to cartThis panoramic novel about a family scattered across the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II is a monument of modern Russian literature by the Ukrainian-born writer hailed as “the Tolstoy of t… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Grossman, Vasily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 952
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 059332126X
- Language: English
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Stalingrad
$32.99 Add to cartThe long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad; an abridged edition of the five volume Stalingrad Trilogy
Praise fo- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Glantz, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0700628797
- Language: English
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Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin
$21.95 Add to cartBorn to great riches, lord of vast feudal estates and many palaces, Felix Youssoupoff led the life of a Grand Lord in the days before the Russian Revolution. Married to a niece of Czar Nicholas II, he
- Author: Youssouppoff, Prince Felix
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: July 31 2014
- ISBN10: 1885983662
- Language: English
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
$21.99 Add to cartA Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe “mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system” in this “vividly empathetic” account of the worst nu… [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 154161707X
- Language: English
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Kidnapped: A Story in Crimes
$16.95 Read moreFrom Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, New York Times bestselling author and Russia’s greatest living absurdist, comes an elaborate family drama, social satire, and burlesque of twists, coincidences, and hijin… [more below]
- Author: Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052048
- Language: English
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The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
$35.00 Add to cartBestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history–the Cuban Missile Crisis–providing a people-focused narrat
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0062980130
- Language: English
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Russian History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartRussia’s sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especially given its harsh climate, vast and vulnerable borders, and the diversity of its people. In this Ver… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hosking, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199580987
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A World History
$26.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world
We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 154167409X
- Language: English
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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
$27.00 Add to cartA magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world
The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement. Stephen Kotkin offers a biogr- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 13, 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127861
- Language: English
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Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus’ Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption
$24.99 Add to cartIn 1987, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ranking defector ever from the Eastern bloc, published RED HORIZONS, his expose of the unchecked power and corruption of Nicolae Ceausecu, then the Roma… [more below]
- Series: Cold War Classics
- Author: Pacepa, Ion Mihai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0895267462
- Language: English
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One Soldier’s War
$24.00 Add to cartOne Soldier’s War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. … [more below]
- Author: Babchenko, Arkady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144039
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$20.00 Read moreHailed as one of the greatest novels of all time and a classic of world literature, War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic invasion of Russi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: September 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0486816435
- Language: English
