Russian & Soviet
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A Short History of Russia: How the World’s Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
$27.99 Read moreA Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch
“Terrific – and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book.” -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roa… [more below]
- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1335145702
- Language: English
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Russia’s War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story
$14.99 Add to cart- Author: Edele, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0522879837
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Oksana Zabuzhko
$20.00 Add to cartClytemnestra plotting her husband’s murder, Ophelia criticizing her creator, and a report from Chernobyl all offer the poet occasions for reflections marked by a sophisticated wit and a philosophical
- Author: Zabuzhko, Oksana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: February 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1734641630
- Language: English
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Old Songs: Poems
$17.00 Add to cart“Olga Sedakova is a writer of global significance. . .the publishing of this collection is a welcome stage in the reception of her exceptional genius in the West.” So writes Rowan Williams in his fore
- Author: Sedakova, Olga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821414
- Language: English
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Diary of an Invasion
$25.00 Read moreOne of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.
This journal of th
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052811
- Language: English
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The Plays of Anton Chekhov
$18.99 Add to cartThese critically hailed translations of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhov
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0060928751
- Language: English
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Columns
$16.49 Add to cartWhen Columns, a slim volume of poems written by an unknown young Russian poet named Nikolai Zabolotsky, appeared in 1929, it took the literary world of Leningrad [St. Petersburg] by storm. Zabolotsky
- Author: Zabolotsky, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1911469150
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
$40.00 Add to cartInitially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen “Best Books of the Year,” Judith Hemschemeyer’s translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the def… [more below]
- Author: Akhmatova, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 948
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0939010275
- Language: English
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
$18.99 Add to cartA journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremli- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1610396006
- Language: English
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Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning
$29.95 Add to cartWhile exceptionalism is not unique to America, the intensity of this conviction and its global ramifications are. This has led the US to grossly misinterpret–sometimes deliberately–the causative fac… [more below]
- Author: Martyanov, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 249
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0998694754
- Language: English
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy–Winner Take All
“A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil- Author: Maddow, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0525575480
- Language: English
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution, Updated Edition
$29.95 Add to cartA wide-ranging, comprehensive look at Russia and its leader . . . well written, well reported, and well organized.—The New York Times
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself
- Author: Baker, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1597971227
- Language: English
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Open Door: Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer
$17.99 Add to cartDiscover how icons can become part of your own life of prayer.
Encounter twelve of the world’s most significant Orthodox icons with one of today’s best-loved spiritual writers as your guide.
“The Open D
- Author: Mathewes-Green, Frederica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1557255741
- Language: English
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Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War
$30.00 Add to cartInitially a victory line where Allies met at the end of World War Two, the Iron Curtain quickly became the front of a new kind of war. It divided Europe from north to south for a staggering forty-five… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199640
- Language: English
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Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts
$16.95 Add to cartAlexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repar
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Hulick, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0231189796
- Language: English
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Kilometer 101
$17.95 Read moreA new collection of short fiction and nonfiction by a Russian master of bittersweet humor, dramatic irony, and poignant insights into contemporary life.
The town of Tarusa lies 101 kilometers outside- Author: Osipov, Maxim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376865
- Language: English
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A Double Life
$16.95 Add to cartAn unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of esca
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Pavlova, Karolina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0231190794
- Language: English
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Rebecca’s Journey: Memoir of a Young Girl Fleeing Antisemitism in Russia
$19.95 Add to cartStep into another world … of yesteryear’s vivid childhood memories, with Rebecca’s Journey.
It is a story of living under Soviet rule in the 1970s – the bread lines, the snitching neighbours, KGB rai
- Author: Gershman, Regina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: March 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1927538831
- Language: English
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Pro Eto – That’s What
$19.99 Add to cartVladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man as to other poets. Part love poem, part political diatribe and t… [more below]
- Series: ARC Classics: New Translations of Great Poetry of the Past
- Author: Mayakovsky, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1904614310
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Time
$15.00 Add to cartThe first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lermontov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140447954
- Language: English
