Cultural Region/Russian
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Raven’s Gift
$24.00 Add to cartJon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn, traversed the Northwest Passage and paddled across the Pacific Rim. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the rea
- Author: Turk, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611773
- Language: English
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
$27.95 Add to cartFamily and nation formed a reliable bedrock of security for precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi. She was a Young Pioneer, helping to lead her country toward the future of perfect freedom promised by the le
- Author: Ypi, Lea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0393867730
- Language: English
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The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblingsbeing led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Ins
- Author: Duffy, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0060935537
- Language: English
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The Amur River: Between Russia and China
$19.99 Add to cart“A gripping read with fascinating political insight.” (Sunday Times, London)
“Elegant, elegiac and poignant…Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide… to the river, muc
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063099691
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains)
$30.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories.
The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a 2005 hi
- Series: Into the Carpathians #2
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0578705702
- Language: English
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Three Days at the Brink: Fdr’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II
$19.99 Add to cartThe Instant New York Times Bestseller
“I could not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and impeccably researched. This
- Series: Three Days
- Author: Baier, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0062905694
- Language: English
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From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia’s Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin
$26.95 Read moreThe history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its center. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov show, however, that the real driver from early in the Russian R
- Author: Felshtinsky, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1783342447
- Language: English
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Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
$20.00 Add to cartThe raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to powe… [more below]
- Author: Dawisha, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1476795207
- Language: English
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Motherfield: Poems & Belarusian Protest Diary
$18.95 Add to cartA poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet’s insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus.
Julia Cimafiejeva was born in
- Author: Cimafiejeva, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1646052250
- Language: English
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Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980
$65.00 Add to cartIn Yugoslavia’s “Third Way” architecture, Brutalism meets the fantastical
Squeezed between the two rival Cold War blocs, Yugoslav architecture consistently adhered to a modernist trajectory. As a found
- Author: Stierli, Martino
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1633450511
- Language: English
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The Navalny case: Conspiracy to serve foreign policy
$21.99 Add to cartWas Navalny deliberately poisoned? Does the evidence we have justify sanctions against Russia? Was the recording with the KGB agent a set-up? Is Navalny really the “main opponent of Vladimir Putin”? D… [more below]
- Author: Baud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 2315011345
- Language: English
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Putin’s Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
$21.99 Add to cartA searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from the bravest of Russian journalists (The New York Times)
Hailed as a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness (New States- Author: Politkovskaya, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082506
- Language: English
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The New Ukrainian Cookbook
$24.95 Read moreWinner of the 2012 Gourmand Cookbook Award for Best Eastern European Cookbook! Now available in paperback, this popular Hippocrene cookbook introduces readers to the fresh foods, exquisite tastes, hos… [more below]
- Author: Corona, Annette Ogrodnik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0781814111
- Language: English
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
$23.00 Add to cartA long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia–from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0399588744
- Language: English
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The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World
$29.95 Add to cartA never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy, woven together from lecture excerpts by the renowned Pan-African revolutionary socialist theorist
In- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635305
- Language: English
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East
$39.00 Add to cartOperation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operatio… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Military Histories (Paperback)
- Author: Stahel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: April 21 2011
- ISBN10: 052117015X
- Language: English
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The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia
$33.68 Add to cart“Every Georgian dish is a poem.”–Alexander Pushkin
According to Georgian legend, God took a supper break while creating the world. He became so involved with his meal that he inadvertently tripped o- Author: Goldstein, Darra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 520300262
- Language: English
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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia
$27.99 Add to cartFar away from the trendy caf?, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.
Midnight in Siberia chronicles David Greene’s journey on the Trans-Siberian
- Author: Greene, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351874
- Language: English
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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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Fear No Evil
$19.95 Add to cartTemperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us–which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years’ imprisonment in the Orwel… [more below]
- Author: Sharansky, Natan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 27 1998
- ISBN10: 1891620029
- Language: English
