Russian & Soviet
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To the Stars and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartA boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the
- Author: Fusso, Susanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200056
- Language: English
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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1)
$29.95 Add to cartWhen Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov’s friendship w… [more below]
- Author: Pushkin, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181012
- Language: English
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Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times
$18.00 Add to cart“This lively appreciation of one of the most intimidating and massive novels ever written should persuade many hesitant readers to try scaling the heights of War and Peace sooner rather than later” (P… [more below]
- Author: Kaufman, Andrew D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 145164471X
- Language: English
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Necropolis
$19.95 Add to cartNecropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memori
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Khodasevich, Vladislav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 023118705X
- Language: English
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The Master and Margarita: Introduction by Simon Franklin
$32.00 Add to cartThe underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was written during Stalin’s regime and could not be published until many years after its a
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410465
- Language: English
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Red Cavalry
$14.95 Add to cartOne of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel’s reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using h
- Author: Babel, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0393324230
- Language: English
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Lectures on Russian Literature
$18.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.
In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on… [more below]
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027763
- Language: English
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The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus
$16.99 Add to cart“The Gospel in Brief lives at the center of Leo Tolstoy’s thinking about the meaning of life. … Beautifully translated by Dustin Condren. … Although little known, this book remains hugely importan
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 006199345X
- Language: English
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The Nose and Other Stories
$17.95 Add to cartNikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius come
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0231190697
- Language: English
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Other Russias
$20.00 Add to cartTranslated from the Russian by Thomas Campbell, Other Russias is the brilliant first collection of graphic journalism by artist and activist Victoria Lomasko. A fixture at Moscow’s protests and politi… [more below]
- Author: Lomasko, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 997031840
- Language: English
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Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians
$22.95 Add to cartThe sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths pres
- Author: Colarusso, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 691169144
- Language: English
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Netochka Nezvanova
$18.00 Add to cartNetochka Nezvanova – a ‘Nameless Nobody’ – tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely draw… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 07 1986
- ISBN10: 0140444556
- Language: English
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Doctor Zhivago: Introdcution by John Bayley
$30.00 Read moreIn the grand tradition of the epic novel, Boris Pasternak’s masterpiece brings to life the drama and immensity of the Russian Revolution through the story of the gifted physician-poet, Zhivago; the r
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Pasternak, Boris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: November 26 1991
- ISBN10: 0679407596
- Language: English
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The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
$39.99 Add to cartFinally in paperback, this “monumental collection; gathers all of Babel’s deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to pl… [more below]
- Author: Babel, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: November 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393328244
- Language: English
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Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
$18.99 Add to cartOsip Mandelstam was perhaps the most important Russian poet of the nineteen-hundreds–a crucial instigator of the “revolution of the word” that took place in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg and
- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 27, 2012
- ISBN10: 0062099426
- Language: English
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
$19.00 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s 2011 Books of the Year
From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted–Absurdly! Melancholical- Author: Batuman, Elif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 16, 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532184
- Language: English
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Putin
$40.00 Read moreThe first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years
Vladimir Putin is the world’s most dangerous man. Alone among- Author: Short, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1627793666
- Language: English
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A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartOn the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world
It is history on an epic yet human scale. V- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014024364X
- Language: English
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Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherryorchard
$10.00 Add to cartFive masterful dramatic works from one of the world’s best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov’s Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson, and an introduction by Richard Gilman in Penguin Classics.
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0140447334
- Language: English
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia, Volume III
$34.95 Add to cart“A fantastic, mind-blowing photo and graphics book documenting the subculture of tattooing in Russian prisons.” -David Cronenberg
This volume of drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal … [more below]
- Author: Baldaev, Danzig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0955006198
- Language: English
