Russian & Soviet
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From Zero to Fluency Workbook: Exercises for Russian learners. Learn Russian for beginners
$35.00 Add to cartThe Russian language will be easy with this course. This Russian grammar workbook is created specfically for beginners. You will find a collection of exercises for people who are starting to learn Rus
- Author: Molchanova, Daria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: November 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1087993261
- Language: English
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Reading Chekhov’s Stories in Russian: A Parallel-Text Russian Reader
$19.99 Add to cartNine of Chekhov’s most powerful and thought-provoking short stories are included here, in the original Russian and in a facing English translation, together with all the vocabulary notes and reference
- Series: Reading Russian #1
- Author: Pettus, Mark R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: January 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1087942586
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Time
$15.00 Add to cartThe first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lermontov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140447954
- Language: English
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us
- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 1984856030
- Language: English
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Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
$22.00 Add to cartA New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“[Putin’s People] w
Named a best book of the year by The Economist Financial Times New Statesman The Telegraph- Author: Belton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250787327
- Language: English
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We Shall Outlast Them: Putin’s Global Campaign to Defeat the West
$31.99 Read morePutin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 produced a rupture with the United States and Europe not seen since the Cold War. As a result, Russia refocused its entire state machinery on one purpose: To outlas
- Author: Notte, Hanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 132411701X
- Language: English
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The Brothers Karamazov: Introduction by Malcolm Jones
$32.00 Read moreDostoevsky’s last and greatest novel is, above all, the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. It is a ma
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410031
- Language: English
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Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan
$27.00 Add to cartSilk Mirage is a compelling portrait of Uzbekistan, a country at the heart of the ancient Silk Road and now the centre of a power struggle between reformers and reactionaries for the soul of this stra
- Author: Lillis, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 135029246X
- Language: English
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The Descent: Witnessing Russia’s Spiral Into Madness Under Putin
$30.00 Read moreAn extraordinary first-hand account of Russia’s descent into totalitarianism, paranoia and madness.
Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times, moved to Russia in the chao- Author: Bennetts, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1399421697
- Language: English
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The Nord Stream Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World
$29.99 Read moreA riveting expos? of the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, the largest act of sabotage in modern history, told through unprecedented access and deep investigative reporting–part geopolitical thril
- Author: Pancevski, Bojan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1250410436
- Language: English
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The Moscow Playbook: How Russia Used, Abused, and Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power
$30.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening account of how Russia’s leaders have used sports as a political tool to solidify their global power
“Victories in sport do more to cement the nation than a hundred political slogans.”- Author: Berglund, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1637277482
- Language: English
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What is to be done?: Burning Questions of Our Movement
$15.99 Add to cart“The pamphlet… outlined a broad plan of organisation in which everyone would find a place for himself, become a cog in the revolutionary machine, a cog, which, no matter how small, was vital to the
- Author: Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: July 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1900007924
- Language: English
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Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy
$25.00 Add to cartA surprising look at the big business of owning small businesses and what America’s franchise economy means for its workers.
Walk into a McDonald’s anywhere in the United States, and it will be identi
- Author: Callaci, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0226828700
- Language: English
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Overtakelessness: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartWinner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Alberto R?os
Overtakelessness is a powerful reckoning with war, its ruinous proximity to daily existence and the dissonance of exp- Author: Moysaenko, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1644453835
- Language: English
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The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War
$28.00 Read moreIn the tradition of John Hersey’s Hiroshima, a terse and piercing look at a critical episode in the Ukraine War, from the award-winning author of They Will Have to Die Now.
In March of 2022, three wee- Author: Verini, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1668062208
- Language: English
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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader
$26.00 Add to cartClarence Brown’s marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437573
- Language: English
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A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow
$35.00 Add to cartAn erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city defined by its survival and reinvention, and whose rich history offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics
The city of Moscow stands- Author: Morrison, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0593318455
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$18.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed translation of the best work of the passionate Russian poet
An admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva was a witness to the political turmoil and the so- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Tsvetaeva, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187596
- Language: English
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Volga Blues: A Journey Into the Heart of Russia
$31.99 Add to cartSince the invasion of Ukraine and ban on foreign reporters, Russia seems to have sunk into an even deeper shadow than in the darkest times of the Soviet Union. Only by presenting himself as an histori
- Author: Mian, Marzio G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324111038
- Language: English
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The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia’s forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world’s wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever Engli
- Author: Pinkham, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036680
- Language: English
