Russian & Soviet
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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
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The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Shuster, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063307448
- Language: English
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Hubris: The American Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
$29.95 Add to cartA leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine–and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since
- Author: Haslam, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299078
- Language: English
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The Golovlyov Family: Shchedrin
$22.95 Add to cartSearingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Shchedrin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322579
- Language: English
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The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
$35.00 Add to cartThis reader, compiled by renowned Solzhenitsyn scholars Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney in collaboration with the Solzhenitsyn family, provides in one volume a rich and representative se… [more below]
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 679
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1935191551
- Language: English
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War Diary
$16.95 Read moreThe young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Putin’s “special military operation” against Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022. With the shelling of Ky… [more below]
- Author: Belorusets, Yevgenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0811234800
- Language: English
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The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine – Updated Illustrated Edition
$19.99 Read moreNow updated in paperback with a new foreword and never-before-seen photographs, The War Came to Us is Christopher Miller’s journalist breathtaking exploration of Ukraine’s past, present, and future, a
- Author: Miller, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1399406787
- Language: English
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Top Secret KGB Training Manual Communication With Agents
$20.99 Add to cartUncover the secrets of Soviet espionage covert communications tradecraft with this never-declassified, Top Secret KGB Training Manual “Communicating With Agents”. Delve into the covert world of Cold W
- Author: Kgb, First Main Directorate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1925907546
- Language: English
