Cultural Region/Russian
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First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin
$16.00 Read moreWho is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly–overnight and without warning–was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? How… [more below]
- Author: Putin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2000
- ISBN10: 1586480189
- Language: English
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Diary of an Invasion
$25.00 Read moreOne of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.
This journal of th
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052811
- Language: English
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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World’s Greatest Scientific Expedition
$28.00 Add to cartThe story of the world’s largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told
The immense 18th-century scien- Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825198
- Language: English
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No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno
$21.95 Read moreLively, incendiary, and inspiring, No Harmless Power follows the life of Nestor Makhno, who organized a seven-million-strong anarchist polity during the Russian Civil War and developed Platformist ana… [more below]
- Author: Allison, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1629634719
- Language: English
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
$22.00 Add to cartThe true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The Post
In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the- Author: Ellsberg, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0142003425
- Language: English
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The Plays of Anton Chekhov
$18.99 Add to cartThese critically hailed translations of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhov
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0060928751
- Language: English
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Columns
$16.49 Add to cartWhen 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
- Author: Zabolotsky, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1911469150
- Language: English
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
$32.00 Read moreAn “incredibly timely” global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world’s largest empires (Financial Times).
To understand the r- Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646460
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
$40.00 Read moreInitially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen “Best Books of the Year,” Judith Hemschemeyer’s translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the def… [more below]
- Author: Akhmatova, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 948
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0939010275
- Language: English
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Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
$19.00 Add to cartThis “historical page-turner of the highest order” (The Wall Street Journal) tells the chilling, little-known story of an American-born Soviet spy in the atom bomb project during World War II, perfect… [more below]
- Author: Hagedorn, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1501173952
- Language: English
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
$18.99 Add to cartA journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremli- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1610396006
- Language: English
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Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning
$29.95 Read moreWhile exceptionalism is not unique to America, the intensity of this conviction and its global ramifications are. This has led the US to grossly misinterpret–sometimes deliberately–the causative fac… [more below]
- Author: Martyanov, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 249
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0998694754
- Language: English
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
$22.99 Add to cartA masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of t- Author: Bogosian, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0316292109
- Language: English
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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
$21.99 Add to cartSoon to be featured in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust, premiering on PBS September 18th
A New York Times Notable Book – Winner of the National Jewish Book Award – Winner of the Na
- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0063251329
- Language: English
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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
$17.99 Add to cartWith intrigue that rivals the best le Carr novels, Russians Among Us tells the explosive story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West—from the end of the Cold War to th
- Author: Corera, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0062889427
- Language: English
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The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943
$27.99 Add to cartArthur Goodzeit Award
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and t- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Citino, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 16 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623434
- Language: English
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The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
$24.95 Add to cartThe epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction
The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and- Author: Slezkine, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1128
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192723
- Language: English
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Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey
$22.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Feynman and his sidekick fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending
- Author: Leighton, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320693
- Language: English
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy–Winner Take All
“A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil- Author: Maddow, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0525575480
- Language: English
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution, Updated Edition
$29.95 Add to cartA wide-ranging, comprehensive look at Russia and its leader . . . well written, well reported, and well organized.—The New York Times
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself
- Author: Baker, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1597971227
- Language: English
