Cultural Region/Russian
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Reading Gogol’s Petersburg Tales in Russian: A Parallel-Text Russian Reader
$19.99 Add to cartA pure delight to read, the four major “Petersburg Tales” of Nikolai Gogol – strange and fantastical, ludicrously absurd, by turns harrowing and hilarious – are among the foundational texts of modern
- Author: Pettus, Mark R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: May 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1087969344
- Language: English
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The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War
$28.99 Add to cartA panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War–a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.
Berlin- Author: Hett, Benjamin Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798760
- Language: English
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The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy
$22.00 Add to cartAndrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks m
- Series: Russian and East European Studies
- Author: Kozyrev, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0822966514
- Language: English
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The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays
$15.00 Add to cartA collection of essays and articles from the Ukranian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno, who fought against encroaching Bolshevik terror during the Russian Revolution. The Struggle Against the State and ot… [more below]
- Author: Makhno, Nestor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1873176783
- Language: English
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Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
$30.00 Add to cartAlexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his f
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Rey, Marie-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0875807550
- Language: English
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
$27.00 Add to cartA “magnificent and intimate” (Harper’s) modern classic of Russian history, the spellbinding story of the love that ended an empire–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, The Roman… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Massie, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0679645616
- Language: English
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Spymaster: My Thirty-Two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West
$24.99 Add to cartOleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. … [more below]
- Author: Kalugin, Oleg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0465014453
- Language: English
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
$31.00 Add to cartIn June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin “the most dangerous place on earth.” He knew what he was talking about.
Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin
- Author: Kempe, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0425245942
- Language: English
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
$16.00 Add to cartA James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations
“Delicious . . . A banquet of ane… [more below]- Author: Von Bremzen, Anya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0307886824
- Language: English
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The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
$19.99 Read moreThe poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews
Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examini- Author: Desbois, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0230617573
- Language: English
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Zelensky: The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World
$16.99 Read moreThe first major profile of Ukraine’s courageous President Volodymyr Zelensky!
Ukraine’s most popular comedic actor was an unlikely president of his country. And now, even more improbably, Volodymyr Ze- Author: Urban, Andrew L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513782
- Language: English
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Pure Soldiers Or Sinister Legion -The Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division
$43.00 Add to cartBETWEEN 1950 AND 1955, thousands of veterans from the notorious German-led, Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division emigrated to North America with the full consent of the respective governments despite imm… [more below]
- Author: Littman, Sol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: July 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1939561337
- Language: English
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The Selected Lyric Poetry Of Maksym Rylsky
$32.99 Add to cartMaksym 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
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
$21.99 Add to cartIn this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia’s most feared power bro… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 1610390709
- Language: English
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The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus
$18.95 Read moreThe astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead one of the first global public health campaigns.
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Short- Author: Ward, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0861545184
- Language: English
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The Seagull
$16.00 Add to cartStoppard’s masterful adaptation of Chekhov’s best-loved play has been lauded by critics for its shining prose as well as its faithfulness. The play opens at a country estate, where a group of friends
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0802127711
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: October 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0786868635
- Language: English
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Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine’s Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
$24.00 Add to cartThrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy’s “silent service”
Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commandi- Author: Sasgen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312605536
- Language: English
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The Lost Heart of Asia
$17.99 Add to cartA land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin’s cruelest deportations. A remote and
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061577677
- Language: English
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Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
$32.00 Read moreA “chilling” and “expertly” written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World War II (Times of London).
For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pe- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0465095380
- Language: English
