Russian & Soviet
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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
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Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist
$19.95 Add to cartA wrenching portrait of the Russian sculptor and a tribute to the potential of political art
John Berger explores the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, who, after clashing with Khrushchev, was exclud- Series: The Essential John Berger
- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 180429859X
- Language: English
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Retribution: A Us Marine’s Fight for Justice, from the Russian Gulag to Ukraine’s Front Lines
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Reed, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063428547
- Language: English
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Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War
$21.95 Add to cartA cutting-edge investigation of how Russia makes war.
Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has been described in terms of ‘hybrid’ warfare, an approach characterised by measures short of war,- Series: Russian Strategy and Power
- Author: Monaghan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1526164523
- Language: English
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The Village of Stepanchikovo: And Its Inhabitants: From the Notes of an Unknown
$16.00 Add to cartSummoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam. For as he soon sees, his meek and kind… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140446583
- Language: English
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The God of Freedom
$19.00 Add to cartIn Yuliya Musakovska’s newest poetry collection, The God of Freedom, she reveals, facet by facet, the landscape of a turbulent, contemporary Ukraine. Equal parts intimate and expansive, the poems foll… [more below]
- Author: Musakovska, Yuliya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987924181
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia’s Short-Lived Victory Over Totalitarianism
$32.00 Add to cartFrom “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced” (The New York Times) reporters comes a gripping and urgent exploration of why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incomplete and the Cold War was never ove… [more below]
- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668013908
- Language: English
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Ambivalent Souls: A True Translation of Alexander Pushkin’s ‘Eugene Onegin’
$18.00 Add to cartRobert Tanner has translated Pushkin’s classic novel-in-verse, Eugene Onegin, into strict rhyme and meter, while inserting himself as a character/translator into the blank spaces of the work, much as
- Author: Tanner, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0999073753
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$21.95 Add to cartAn Air Mail Editor’s Pick
“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”–Wall Street Journal “Wise and authoritative…As the best R
A Spectator Book of the Year- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299183
- Language: English
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Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder
$35.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul comes a bold, clear-eyed look at how the autocracies of China and Russia are challenging the current global o
- Author: McFaul, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0358677874
- Language: English
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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
$35.00 Add to cartAcclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.
In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the
- Author: Ioffe, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 006287912X
- Language: English
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Rebel Russia: Dissent and Protest from the Tsars to Navalny
$25.00 Add to cartNavalny. Lenin. Pugachev. The Russian rebel – in his epic battle against the Leviathan of the Russian state – has enthralled readers and writers for decades. The rebel’s story is almost always a sad o… [more below]
- Author: Arutunyan, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1509552294
- Language: English
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El Fin del Homo Sovieticus
$32.95 Read moreWith the sole help of a tape recorder and a pen, Svetlana Aleksievich strives to keep alive the memory of the tragedy that was the USSR, to tell the micro-stories of a great utopia. Communism proposed… [more below]
- Author: Aleksievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 8416011842
- Language: Spanish
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Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the West
$32.50 Add to cart2025 Winner of The Fletcher School’s Best Book on U.S.-Russian Relations One of The Cipher Brief’s “Best National Security Reads for 2024”
A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the- Author: Sullivan, John J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0316571091
- Language: English
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The Shadow of Words
$24.00 Add to cartAna Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her country’s strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the C
- Author: Blandiana, Ana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1780375409
- Language: English
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Russia’s World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West
$28.95 Add to cartRussia’s World Order explores the ideas underlying the undeclared New Cold War between Russia and the West. The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Robinson, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501780018
- Language: English
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Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the Wall Street Journal‘s award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia that transformed into a ruthless game of hostage–ta
- Author: Parkinson, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0063458241
- Language: English
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Short Stories in Russian: New Penguin Parallel Text
$21.00 Add to cartA dual-language edition of Russian stories–many appearing in English for the first time
This new volume of ten short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunit- Series: Penguin Parallel Text
- Author: Baer, Brian James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 014311834X
- Language: English
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The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
$32.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped bo… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593319680
- Language: English
