Russian & Soviet
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War and Peace
$24.95 Add to cartTolstoy’s epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkons… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics Hardback Collection
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1392
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198800541
- Language: English
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Among the Russians
$15.99 Add to cart“There is no travel writer working today in English who possesses such a remarkable combination of the observant and the lyric gifts–the most poetic of us all.” — Jan Morris
The first book in Thubron
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 26, 2000
- ISBN10: 0060959290
- Language: English
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the national bestselling author of Stalin: An “epic history on the grandest scale” (Financial Times) about the most successful dynasty of modern times, a family who c… [more below]
- Author: Montefiore, Simon Sebag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0307280519
- Language: English
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The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
$18.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 B- Author: Gessen, Masha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 2, 2018
- ISBN10: 1594634548
- Language: English
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How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems
$18.00 Read moreA searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan
“Among Ukraine’s most distinguished writers. . . . Zhadan has borne expert witness to Russ- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Zhadan, Serhiy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300272464
- Language: English
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The Story of Russia
$19.99 Add to cart“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West.”
–Anne Applebau- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871395
- Language: English
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Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin
$28.99 Add to cartThis riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin’s rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia and reveals the truth behind the strongman persona he has spent h
- Author: Weiss, Andrew S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250760755
- Language: English
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Putin
$25.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years.
“Anyone wanting to learn more about Putin’s personality, ideas- Author: Short, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1250861543
- Language: English
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Putin’s Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia
$17.00 Read moreThe future of Russia lies outside the country
Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some one million Russians have fled the country and gone into exile. Motivated by opposition to the- Author: Starobin, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartMulti-award-winning author China Mi騅ille captures the drama of the Russian Revolution in this “engaging retelling of the events that rocked the foundations of the twentieth century” (Village Voice)
I- Author: Miéville, China
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 22, 2018
- ISBN10: 1784782785
- Language: English
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Conversational Russian Dialogues: Over 100 Russian Conversations and Short Stories
$14.95 Add to cartIs conversational Russian turning a little too tricky for you? Do you have no idea how to order a meal or book a room at a hotel?
If your answer to any of the previous questions was ‘Yes’, then this
- Series: Conversational Russian Dual Language Books #1
- Author: Lingo Mastery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 16, 2020
- ISBN10: 195194903X
- Language: English
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In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine
$22.00 Add to cartUkraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko’s Kobzar in 1840, poetry has played an outsized role in Ukr… [more below]
- Author: Forché, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: 1-May-23
- ISBN10: 9798986340180
- Language: English
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Dead Souls
$18.00 Add to cartSince its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 25 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776443
- 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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Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence
$32.00 Add to cart“Our Enemies Will Vanish achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. One is reminded of Michael Herr’s Dispatches . . . Frankly, … [more below]
- Author: Trofimov, Yaroslav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 09, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593655184
- Language: English
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The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
$32.99 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
“Shuster crafts an intimate account of the Russian invasion, which vividly captures Zelensky’s transformation from a clean-cut funnyman into a war hero out of central
- Author: Shuster, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063307421
- Language: English
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
$20.00 Add to cartWhen Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself “amazed.” “Here is real gaiety,” he wrote, “honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 29, 1999
- ISBN10: 0375706151
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$37.95 Add to cartA noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.
Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoev- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674971809
- Language: English
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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
$18.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
A remarkable, graceful collection from one of Europe’s most prominent and celebrated poets.
In these 100 poems, Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishin
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0156002167
- Language: English
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
NA- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 21, 2017
- ISBN10: 0399588825
- Language: English
