Russian & Soviet
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The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia’s forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world’s wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever Engli
- Author: Pinkham, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036680
- Language: English
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Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist
$19.95 Add to cartA wrenching portrait of the Russian sculptor and a tribute to the potential of political art
John Berger explores the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, who, after clashing with Khrushchev, was exclud- Series: The Essential John Berger
- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 180429859X
- Language: English
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Retribution: A Us Marine’s Fight for Justice, from the Russian Gulag to Ukraine’s Front Lines
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Reed, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063428547
- Language: English
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Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War
$21.95 Add to cartA cutting-edge investigation of how Russia makes war.
Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has been described in terms of ‘hybrid’ warfare, an approach characterised by measures short of war,- Series: Russian Strategy and Power
- Author: Monaghan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1526164523
- Language: English
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The Village of Stepanchikovo: And Its Inhabitants: From the Notes of an Unknown
$16.00 Add to cartSummoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam. For as he soon sees, his meek and kind… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140446583
- Language: English
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The God of Freedom
$19.00 Add to cartIn Yuliya Musakovska’s newest poetry collection, The God of Freedom, she reveals, facet by facet, the landscape of a turbulent, contemporary Ukraine. Equal parts intimate and expansive, the poems foll… [more below]
- Author: Musakovska, Yuliya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987924181
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia’s Short-Lived Victory Over Totalitarianism
$32.00 Add to cartFrom “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced” (The New York Times) reporters comes a gripping and urgent exploration of why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incomplete and the Cold War was never ove… [more below]
- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668013908
- Language: English
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Ambivalent Souls: A True Translation of Alexander Pushkin’s ‘Eugene Onegin’
$18.00 Add to cartRobert Tanner has translated Pushkin’s classic novel-in-verse, Eugene Onegin, into strict rhyme and meter, while inserting himself as a character/translator into the blank spaces of the work, much as
- Author: Tanner, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0999073753
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$21.95 Add to cartAn Air Mail Editor’s Pick
“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”–Wall Street Journal “Wise and authoritative…As the best R
A Spectator Book of the Year- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299183
- Language: English
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Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder
$35.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul comes a bold, clear-eyed look at how the autocracies of China and Russia are challenging the current global o
- Author: McFaul, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0358677874
- Language: English
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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
$35.00 Add to cartAcclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.
In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the
- Author: Ioffe, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 006287912X
- Language: English
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Rebel Russia: Dissent and Protest from the Tsars to Navalny
$25.00 Add to cartNavalny. Lenin. Pugachev. The Russian rebel – in his epic battle against the Leviathan of the Russian state – has enthralled readers and writers for decades. The rebel’s story is almost always a sad o… [more below]
- Author: Arutunyan, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1509552294
- Language: English
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El Fin del Homo Sovieticus
$32.95 Read moreWith the sole help of a tape recorder and a pen, Svetlana Aleksievich strives to keep alive the memory of the tragedy that was the USSR, to tell the micro-stories of a great utopia. Communism proposed… [more below]
- Author: Aleksievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 8416011842
- Language: Spanish
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Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the West
$32.50 Add to cart2025 Winner of The Fletcher School’s Best Book on U.S.-Russian Relations One of The Cipher Brief’s “Best National Security Reads for 2024”
A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the- Author: Sullivan, John J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0316571091
- Language: English
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The Shadow of Words
$24.00 Add to cartAna Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her country’s strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the C
- Author: Blandiana, Ana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1780375409
- Language: English
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Russia’s World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West
$28.95 Add to cartRussia’s World Order explores the ideas underlying the undeclared New Cold War between Russia and the West. The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Robinson, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501780018
- Language: English
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Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the Wall Street Journal‘s award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia that transformed into a ruthless game of hostage–ta
- Author: Parkinson, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0063458241
- Language: English
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Short Stories in Russian: New Penguin Parallel Text
$21.00 Add to cartA dual-language edition of Russian stories–many appearing in English for the first time
This new volume of ten short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunit- Series: Penguin Parallel Text
- Author: Baer, Brian James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 014311834X
- Language: English
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The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
$32.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped bo… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593319680
- Language: English
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Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare
$29.99 Add to cart“Extraordinary. . . Essential reading for understanding Russia and modern warfare.”-CHRIS MILLER, New York Times bestselling author of Chip War and Putinomics
“John Lechner is an amazingly bold repor- Author: Lechner, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639733361
- Language: English
