Russian & Soviet
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Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War
$30.00 Read moreInitially a victory line where Allies met at the end of World War Two, the Iron Curtain quickly became the front of a new kind of war. It divided Europe from north to south for a staggering forty-five… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199640
- Language: English
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Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts
$16.95 Add to cartAlexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repar
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Hulick, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0231189796
- Language: English
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Kilometer 101
$17.95 Read moreA new collection of short fiction and nonfiction by a Russian master of bittersweet humor, dramatic irony, and poignant insights into contemporary life.
The town of Tarusa lies 101 kilometers outside- Author: Osipov, Maxim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376865
- Language: English
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A Double Life
$16.95 Add to cartAn unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of esca
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Pavlova, Karolina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0231190794
- Language: English
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Rebecca’s Journey: Memoir of a Young Girl Fleeing Antisemitism in Russia
$19.95 Add to cartStep into another world … of yesteryear’s vivid childhood memories, with Rebecca’s Journey.
It is a story of living under Soviet rule in the 1970s – the bread lines, the snitching neighbours, KGB rai
- Author: Gershman, Regina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: March 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1927538831
- Language: English
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Pro Eto – That’s What
$19.99 Add to cartVladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man as to other poets. Part love poem, part political diatribe and t… [more below]
- Series: ARC Classics: New Translations of Great Poetry of the Past
- Author: Mayakovsky, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1904614310
- Language: English
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To the Stars and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartA boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the
- Author: Fusso, Susanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200056
- Language: English
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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1)
$29.95 Add to cartWhen Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov’s friendship w… [more below]
- Author: Pushkin, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181012
- Language: English
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Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times
$18.00 Add to cart“This lively appreciation of one of the most intimidating and massive novels ever written should persuade many hesitant readers to try scaling the heights of War and Peace sooner rather than later” (P… [more below]
- Author: Kaufman, Andrew D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 145164471X
- Language: English
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Necropolis
$19.95 Add to cartNecropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memori
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Khodasevich, Vladislav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 023118705X
- Language: English
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The Master and Margarita: Introduction by Simon Franklin
$32.00 Add to cartThe underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was written during Stalin’s regime and could not be published until many years after its a
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410465
- Language: English
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Red Cavalry
$14.95 Read moreOne of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel’s reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using h
- Author: Babel, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0393324230
- Language: English
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Lectures on Russian Literature
$18.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.
In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on… [more below]
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027763
- Language: English
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The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus
$16.99 Add to cart“The Gospel in Brief lives at the center of Leo Tolstoy’s thinking about the meaning of life. … Beautifully translated by Dustin Condren. … Although little known, this book remains hugely importan
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 006199345X
- Language: English
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The Nose and Other Stories
$17.95 Add to cartNikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius come
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0231190697
- Language: English
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Other Russias
$20.00 Add to cartTranslated from the Russian by Thomas Campbell, Other Russias is the brilliant first collection of graphic journalism by artist and activist Victoria Lomasko. A fixture at Moscow’s protests and politi… [more below]
- Author: Lomasko, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 997031840
- Language: English
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Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians
$22.95 Add to cartThe sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths pres
- Author: Colarusso, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 691169144
- Language: English
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Netochka Nezvanova
$18.00 Add to cartNetochka Nezvanova – a ‘Nameless Nobody’ – tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely draw… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 07 1986
- ISBN10: 0140444556
- Language: English
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Doctor Zhivago: Introdcution by John Bayley
$30.00 Read moreIn the grand tradition of the epic novel, Boris Pasternak’s masterpiece brings to life the drama and immensity of the Russian Revolution through the story of the gifted physician-poet, Zhivago; the r
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Pasternak, Boris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: November 26 1991
- ISBN10: 0679407596
- Language: English
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The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
$39.99 Read moreFinally in paperback, this “monumental collection; gathers all of Babel’s deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to pl… [more below]
- Author: Babel, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: November 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393328244
- Language: English
