Cultural Region/Russian
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$22.99 Add to cart“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn’s chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureauc
- Series: Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 #01
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253715
- Language: English
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Gulag: A History
$24.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, … [more below]
- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1400034094
- Language: English
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The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
$42.00 Read moreAn encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulen- Author: Schl?gel, Karl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0691183740
- Language: English
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
$20.00 Add to cartWhen Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself “amazed.” “Here is real gaiety,” he wrote, “honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 29, 1999
- ISBN10: 0375706151
- Language: English
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The Brothers Karamazov
$15.00 Add to cartCompleted only a few months before the author’s death, The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoyevsky’s largest, most expansive, most life-embracing work. Filled with human passions ― lust, greed, love, … [more below]
- Series: Dover Giant Thrift Editions
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0486437914
- Language: English
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Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia [A Graphic Novel History]
$18.00 Read morePowerful graphic journalism that highlights the contrasting realities of a Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist grappling with their own individual experiences of Russia’s war on Ukraine–collect… [more below]
- Author: Krug, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 198486243X
- Language: English
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A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into the Russian Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive history of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship between Russia and the West
Overlapping with and overshadowed- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619668
- Language: English
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Heart of a Dog
$18.00 Add to cartI first read Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite an
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: January 21, 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150594
- Language: English
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Mother Doll
$28.00 Read more* A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 Selected By * The Millions * Chicago Review of Books * Hey Alma * Stylecaster * And Many More! *
Prize-winning author Katya Apekina’s Mother Doll is a sharp and vis… [more below]- Author: Apekina, Katya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1419770950
- Language: English
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Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union
$22.95 Add to cart“A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and the campaign to introduce capitalism from above. Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny have given u
- Author: Keeran, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 15, 2010
- ISBN10: 1450241719
- Language: English
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle.
Now an M- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0804136653
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$37.95 Add to cartA noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.
Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoev- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674971809
- Language: English
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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
$18.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
A remarkable, graceful collection from one of Europe’s most prominent and celebrated poets.
In these 100 poems, Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishin
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0156002167
- Language: English
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The Idiot
$7.95 Add to cartA classic by a Russian master
Prince Myshkin, the idiot, is an almost comically innocent Christ figure in a land of sinners, one whose faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of his society’s.Au
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531523
- Language: English
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Vita Nostra
$19.99 Add to cart“Vita Nostra” — a cross between Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians” and Elizabeth Kostova’s “The Historian” …] is the anti-Harry Potter you didn’t know you wanted.” — The Washington Post
“Vita Nostra h
- Series: Vita Nostra #1
- Author: Dyachenko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0063054159
- Language: English
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Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard
$8.94 Add to cartChekhov’s worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536694
- Language: English
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Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia [A Graphic Novel History]
$24.99 Add to cartPowerful graphic journalism that highlights the contrasting realities of a Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist grappling with their own individual experiences of Russia’s war on Ukraine–collect… [more below]
- Author: Krug, Nora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1984862448
- Language: English
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The Master and Margarita
$16.00 Add to cartA masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th century
Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgak- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 0141180145
- Language: English
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
$19.00 Add to cartRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring the
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 31, 2000
- ISBN10: 0553381008
- Language: English
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
$29.00 Read moreAn account of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history from the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident contaminated as much as three
- Series: Lannan Selection
- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 28, 2005
- ISBN10: 1564784010
- Language: English
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