Russian & Soviet

  • The God of Freedom

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    In 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
  • Ambivalent Souls: A True Translation of Alexander Pushkin’s ‘Eugene Onegin’

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    Robert 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

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    • Author: Tanner, Robert E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 198
    • Publish Date: June 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 0999073753
    • Language: English
  • My Only Crime: Poems, Translations, Lives, and Akhmatova’s Requiem

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    My Only Crime: Poems, Translations, Lives, and Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem” is first book of poetry by Richard Lourie, author of The Autobiography Of Joseph Stalin, Zero Gravity, First Loyalty, A Hatre[more below]

    • Author: Lourie, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 148
    • Publish Date: August 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 099907377X
    • Language: English
  • Selected Poems

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    James McGavran’s new translation of Vladimir Maya­kovsky’s poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist’s voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Sovie… [more below]

    • Series: Northwestern World Classics
    • Author: Mayakovsky, Vladimir
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 404
    • Publish Date: June 30 2013
    • ISBN10: 0810129078
    • Language: English
  • What We Live For, What We Die for: Selected Poems

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    An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation

    “This collection of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan’s poems

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  • Holy Winter

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    The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova’s 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor–the world had withdrawn from her, time had “gone numb.”

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    • Author: Stepanova, Maria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: August 13 2024
    • ISBN10: 0811235149
    • Language: English
  • The Selected Lyric Poetry Of Maksym Rylsky

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    Maksym Rylsky is one of the most outstanding Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century and master of the genres of the modern sonnet and the long narrative poem. He was closely associated with the Neoc… [more below]

    • Author: Rylsky, Maksym
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 170
    • Publish Date: May 24 2017
    • ISBN10: 1911414429
    • Language: English
  • Tristia (1922)

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    Osip Mandelstam’s second collection of poems, Tristia, astonished Russian readers in 1922 with its daring verse forms and meditations on revolution, exile, death and rebirth. Thomas de Waal’s new tran

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    • Author: Mandelstam, Osip
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 130
    • Publish Date: March 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 1910345938
    • Language: English
  • Today is a Different War

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    Today is a Different War is Lyudmyla Khersonska’s striking portrayal of life from inside war-torn Ukraine. Masterfully translated into English by Olga Livshin, Andrew Janco, Maya Chhabra, and Lev Frid

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    • Author: Khersonska, Lyudmyla
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 54
    • Publish Date: May 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798986340166
    • Language: English
  • Old Songs: Poems

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    “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

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    • Author: Sedakova, Olga
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 98
    • Publish Date: September 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639821414
    • Language: English
  • Columns

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    When 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

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    • Author: Zabolotsky, Nikolai
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1911469150
    • Language: English
  • Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam

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    Osip 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
  • A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails

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    “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

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    • Author: Kruk, Halyna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: May 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798986340197
    • Language: English
  • How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems

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    A searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan

    “Among Ukraine’s most distinguished writers. . . . Zhadan has borne expert witness to Russ

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