Russian & Soviet
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Tristia (1922)
$14.49 Add to cartOsip Mandelstam’s second collection of poems, Tristia, astonished Russian readers in 1922 with its daring verse forms and meditations on revolution, exile, death and rebirth. Thomas de Waal’s new tran
- Author: Mandelstam, Osip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: March 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1910345938
- Language: English
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Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare
$20.00 Read moreIn Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building fighter jets, missiles, and conv
- Author: Jones, Seth G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 132405056X
- Language: English
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Today is a Different War
$18.00 Add to cartToday is a Different War is Lyudmyla Khersonska’s striking portrayal of life from inside war-torn Ukraine. Masterfully translated into English by Olga Livshin, Andrew Janco, Maya Chhabra, and Lev Frid
- Author: Khersonska, Lyudmyla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986340166
- Language: English
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From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia’s Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin
$26.95 Read moreThe history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its center. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov show, however, that the real driver from early in the Russian R
- Author: Felshtinsky, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1783342447
- Language: English
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Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
$20.00 Add to cartThe raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to powe… [more below]
- Author: Dawisha, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1476795207
- Language: English
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Motherfield: Poems & Belarusian Protest Diary
$18.95 Add to cartA poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet’s insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus.
Julia Cimafiejeva was born in
- Author: Cimafiejeva, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1646052250
- Language: English
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The Navalny case: Conspiracy to serve foreign policy
$21.99 Add to cartWas Navalny deliberately poisoned? Does the evidence we have justify sanctions against Russia? Was the recording with the KGB agent a set-up? Is Navalny really the “main opponent of Vladimir Putin”? D… [more below]
- Author: Baud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 2315011345
- Language: English
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A Short History of Russia: How the World’s Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
$27.99 Read moreA Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch
“Terrific – and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book.” -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roa… [more below]
- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1335145702
- Language: English
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Russia’s War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story
$14.99 Add to cart- Author: Edele, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0522879837
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Oksana Zabuzhko
$20.00 Add to cartClytemnestra plotting her husband’s murder, Ophelia criticizing her creator, and a report from Chernobyl all offer the poet occasions for reflections marked by a sophisticated wit and a philosophical
- Author: Zabuzhko, Oksana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: February 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1734641630
- Language: English
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Old Songs: Poems
$17.00 Add to cart“Olga Sedakova is a writer of global significance. . .the publishing of this collection is a welcome stage in the reception of her exceptional genius in the West.” So writes Rowan Williams in his fore
- Author: Sedakova, Olga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821414
- 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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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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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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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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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
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Open Door: Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer
$17.99 Add to cartDiscover how icons can become part of your own life of prayer.
Encounter twelve of the world’s most significant Orthodox icons with one of today’s best-loved spiritual writers as your guide.
“The Open D
- Author: Mathewes-Green, Frederica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1557255741
- Language: English
