Russian & Soviet
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Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
$18.99 Add to cartOsip Mandelstam was perhaps the most important Russian poet of the nineteen-hundreds–a crucial instigator of the “revolution of the word” that took place in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg and
- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 27, 2012
- ISBN10: 0062099426
- Language: English
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
$19.00 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s 2011 Books of the Year
From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted–Absurdly! Melancholical- Author: Batuman, Elif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 16, 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532184
- Language: English
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Putin
$40.00 Read moreThe first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years
Vladimir Putin is the world’s most dangerous man. Alone among- Author: Short, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1627793666
- Language: English
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A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartOn the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world
It is history on an epic yet human scale. V- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014024364X
- Language: English
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Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherryorchard
$10.00 Add to cartFive masterful dramatic works from one of the world’s best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov’s Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson, and an introduction by Richard Gilman in Penguin Classics.
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0140447334
- Language: English
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia, Volume III
$34.95 Add to cart“A fantastic, mind-blowing photo and graphics book documenting the subculture of tattooing in Russian prisons.” -David Cronenberg
This volume of drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal … [more below]
- Author: Baldaev, Danzig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0955006198
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$12.00 Add to cartThe ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him,… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394741048
- Language: English
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The State and Revolution
$9.00 Add to cartAmong the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulya… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486848086
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina: Introduction by John Bayley
$35.00 Add to cartA beautiful Everyman’s Library Classics hardcover edition of one of the greatest novels in all of world literature, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, with an introduction by John Bayley.
A famou- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1016
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410007
- Language: English
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia, Volume II
$34.95 Add to cartAn essential second installment of the bestselling Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia
Danzig Baldaev’s father was an academic, an ethnologist who found himself imprisoned under Soviet rule as an enem… [more below]
- Author: Baldaev, Danzig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0955006120
- Language: English
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Notes from Underground
$6.99 Read more“The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction… [more below]
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553211447
- Language: English
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Forty Stories
$18.00 Add to cartIf any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction f… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 06 1991
- ISBN10: 0679733752
- Language: English
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A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails
$23.00 Add to cart“We act like children with our dead,” Halyna Kruk writes as she struggles to come to terms with the horror unfolding around her: “confused, / as if none of us knew until now/ how easy it is to die.” I
- Author: Kruk, Halyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986340197
- Language: English
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Notes from the Underground and the Gambler
$12.95 Add to cartOne of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movem… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536384
- Language: English
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Kobzar
$37.99 Add to cartMasterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine’s rich cultural heri… [more below]
- Author: Shevchenko, Taras
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: October 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1909156558
- Language: English
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Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War
$30.00 Add to cart“Having saddled the tiger of militarized patriotism, Putin expertly made it trot in the right direction. But the animal required more and more meat; as it grew, it became harder to dismount.”
In this
- Author: Aron, Leon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0844750549
- Language: English
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive
$55.00 Add to cartTattoo drawings and prison portraits from Fuel’s fabled archive of Russian criminal subculture
This volume presents highlights from Fuel’s singular collection of authentic material on this subject. Pre
- Author: Murray, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1739887808
- Language: English
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Study Guide to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$17.95 Add to cartA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, with adaptations in film, radio, theatre, opera, and rock music. As a work of 1869 hist… [more below]
- Series: Bright Notes
- Author: Intelligent Education
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1645423085
- Language: English
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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
$35.00 Add to cartA magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time
Joseph Frank’s award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writ- Author: Frank, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 984
- Publish Date: August 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0691155992
- Language: English
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Russian Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Russian & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
$14.95 Add to cartDo you know what the hardest thing for a Russian learner is?
Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle…which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book
Teachers love giving out tough,
- Series: Easy Russian Stories #1
- Author: Lingo Mastery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1951949005
- Language: English
