Cultural Region/Russian
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The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
$38.00 Read moreNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and it… [more below]
- Author: Davies, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 022638957X
- Language: English
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Rechenka’s Eggs
$18.99 Read moreOld Babushka, known throughout all of Moskva for her beautifully painted eggs, is preparing her eggs for the Easter Festival when she takes in an injured goose. She names the goose Rechenka, and they … [more below]
- Author: Polacco, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 25 1988
- ISBN10: 0399215018
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker
$32.95 Read more“By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth… I managed to prevent Stalin’s dark and murky ambition from taking roo… [more below]
- Author: Rzhevskaya, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1784382817
- Language: English
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Bone Music: Soviet X-Ray Audio
$34.95 Read moreStories of the secret underground Cold War-era Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x-rays.
During the Cold War era, the songs that Soviet citizens could listen to- Author: Coates, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1913689476
- Language: English
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Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR
$26.95 Read moreIn 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were
- Author: Alexander, Rustam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 152616745X
- Language: English
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Fifty-Two Stories
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.
Anton Chekhov l- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0525562389
- Language: English
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Myasishchev M-50 and M-52: The First Soviet Supersonic Strategic Bomber
$50.00 Read moreReborn in 1951, the Myasishchev design bureau made its mark by creating the M-4 strategic bomber. Yet, this subsonic aircraft was soon made obsolescent by supersonic fighter technology–any new strate… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Yefim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366424
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.99 Add to cart‘One of the greatest love stories in world literature’ Vladimir Nabokov
Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story i- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1784871958
- Language: English
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Russia’s War on Everybody: And What It Means for You
$35.00 Read moreYou may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you.
Russia’s 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia- Author: Giles, Keir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1350255084
- Language: English
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What We Live For, What We Die for: Selected Poems
$18.00 Add to cartAn 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- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Zhadan, Serhiy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0300223366
- Language: English
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The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia
$35.00 Read moreThis absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels’ business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as th
- Author: Jangfeldt, Bengt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1350348910
- Language: English
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Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin’s Russia
$28.00 Read moreWhy aren’t ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin’s own historical propaganda narratives, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes complete sense. From its World
- Author: McGlynn, Jade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1350280763
- Language: English
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China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
$37.50 Read moreA compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present
Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respe- Author: Snow, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300166656
- Language: English
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Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union
$31.95 Read moreDisarmament in the Time of Perestroika is the definitive history of the implementation of the INF Treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in all its complexities, and the lengths both sid… [more below]
- Author: Ritter, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1949762610
- Language: English
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To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42
$40.00 Read moreA ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material.
‘[An] excellent account.’ – Richard Ove- Author: Buttar, Prit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856554
- Language: English
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
$21.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year – Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant f
- Author: Hoffman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0345805976
- Language: English
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Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
$16.95 Read moreBefore the United States’ invasion, a million Soviet troops fought a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties–and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. The Sovie
- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051124
- Language: English
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Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$23.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times
From the editor of The New Yorker a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standar… [more below]- Author: Remnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 26 1994
- ISBN10: 0679751254
- Language: English
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Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution
$22.95 Read moreVladimir Lenin lies in a tomb in Moscow’s Red Square. History has not been kind to this Russian leader, his teachings were reviled by modern mainstream politics. But in today’s capitalist society, riv… [more below]
- Author: Le Blanc, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745348343
- Language: English
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Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III
$14.95 Add to cartThis revised and updated edition of the classic Cold War novel Team Yankee reminds us once again might have occurred had the United States and its Allies taken on the Russians in Europe, had cooler ge… [more below]
- Series: Casemate Fiction
- Author: Coyle, Harold
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1612006493
- Language: English
