Russian & Soviet
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Letters to a Young Poet
$12.00 Add to cartThe ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him,… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394741048
- Language: English
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The State and Revolution
$9.00 Add to cartAmong the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulya… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486848086
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina: Introduction by John Bayley
$35.00 Read moreA beautiful Everyman’s Library Classics hardcover edition of one of the greatest novels in all of world literature, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, with an introduction by John Bayley.
A famou- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1016
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410007
- Language: English
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia, Volume II
$34.95 Add to cartAn essential second installment of the bestselling Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia
Danzig Baldaev’s father was an academic, an ethnologist who found himself imprisoned under Soviet rule as an enem… [more below]
- Author: Baldaev, Danzig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0955006120
- Language: English
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Notes from Underground
$6.99 Add to cart“The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction… [more below]
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553211447
- Language: English
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Forty Stories
$18.00 Add to cartIf any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction f… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 06 1991
- ISBN10: 0679733752
- Language: English
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A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails
$23.00 Add to cart“We act like children with our dead,” Halyna Kruk writes as she struggles to come to terms with the horror unfolding around her: “confused, / as if none of us knew until now/ how easy it is to die.” I
- Author: Kruk, Halyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986340197
- Language: English
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Notes from the Underground and the Gambler
$12.95 Add to cartOne of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movem… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536384
- Language: English
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Kobzar
$37.99 Add to cartMasterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine’s rich cultural heri… [more below]
- Author: Shevchenko, Taras
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: October 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1909156558
- Language: English
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Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War
$30.00 Add to cart“Having saddled the tiger of militarized patriotism, Putin expertly made it trot in the right direction. But the animal required more and more meat; as it grew, it became harder to dismount.”
In this
- Author: Aron, Leon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0844750549
- Language: English
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive
$55.00 Add to cartTattoo drawings and prison portraits from Fuel’s fabled archive of Russian criminal subculture
This volume presents highlights from Fuel’s singular collection of authentic material on this subject. Pre
- Author: Murray, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1739887808
- Language: English
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Study Guide to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$17.95 Add to cartA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, with adaptations in film, radio, theatre, opera, and rock music. As a work of 1869 hist… [more below]
- Series: Bright Notes
- Author: Intelligent Education
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1645423085
- Language: English
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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
$35.00 Add to cartA magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time
Joseph Frank’s award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writ- Author: Frank, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 984
- Publish Date: August 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0691155992
- Language: English
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Russian Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Russian & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
$14.95 Add to cartDo you know what the hardest thing for a Russian learner is?
Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle…which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book
Teachers love giving out tough,
- Series: Easy Russian Stories #1
- Author: Lingo Mastery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1951949005
- Language: English
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Poems of Akhmatova
$16.00 Add to cartWitness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia’s troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Her ge
- Author: Akhmatova, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0395860032
- Language: English
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Poor Folk and Other Stories
$16.00 Add to cartWith their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky’s early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major nove… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: April 04 1989
- ISBN10: 0140445056
- Language: English
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History – Second Edition
$12.95 Add to cart“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin’s maste
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 069115600X
- Language: English
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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
$21.99 Read moreThe brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design.
Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 685
- Publish Date: March 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0060586974
- Language: English
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Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine
$21.99 Read moreWinner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023
*A Telegraph Book of the Year*
A Times Best Book of Summer 2023
*Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*
An astonishing investigation into the
- Author: Matthews, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 0008562784
- Language: English
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Frédéric Chaubin. Cccp. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 40th E
$30.00 Add to cartElected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Fr?d?ric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed explores 90 buildings in
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Chaubin, Frédéric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 3836587793
- Language: English
