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Moscow, A Cultural History

Moscow, A Cultural History

by Caroline Brooke

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

Caroline Brooke explores the birth and various stages and reinventions of Moscow, from a twelfth-century fortress to invasion by Napoleon in 1812 to the rise and fall of communism. Part of the Cityscapes series. (RUS292, $24.99)

Lenin's Tomb

Lenin's Tomb

by David Remnick

  • HISTORY
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 588 PAGES

A gripping eyewitness tale of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Remnick, the Washington Post reporter on the scene, combines fine historical scholarship with great storytelling. (RUS07, $18.00)

Eyewitness Guide Moscow

Eyewitness Guide Moscow

by Eyewitness Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2013
  • PAPER
  • 263 PAGES

This outstanding guide covers Moscow's culture, history and attractions with maps, site plans and hundreds of color photographs. (RUS164, $25.00)

Moscow Map

Moscow Map

by ITMB

  • MAP

A handy, folding map of Moscow. (RUS151, $8.95)

 
Russia's Heritage Cities

Russia's Heritage Cities


by International Travel Maps

  • 2002
  • MAP

A map of the Golden Ring cities surrounding Moscow, at a scale of 1:500,000. (RUS217, $8.95)

Berlitz Russian Phrase Book & Dictionary

Berlitz Russian Phrase Book & Dictionary


by Berlitz Pocket Guides

  • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

A short introduction to common Russian words and phrases, designed for the traveler. Contains more than 1,000 phrases and more than 2,000 words. (RUS107, $8.99)

Lonely Planet Moscow

Lonely Planet Moscow


by Mara Vorhees

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

A practical, comprehensive guide in the popular series. (RUS413, $21.99)

Echoes of a Native Land, Two Centuries of a Russian Village

Echoes of a Native Land, Two Centuries of a Russian Village


by Serge Schmemann

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 350 PAGES

The author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist based in Moscow, draws on his knowledge of Russia, family photographs, letters and memoirs to tell the story of the czarist past and present realities of his ancestral home outside Moscow. (RUS27, $19.00)

Getting Russia Right


by Dmitri V. Trenin

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 127 PAGES

The Deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center sketches developments in Russia's economy, culture and relations with the U.S. and Europe in this brief primer published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (RUS446, $19.95)

Moscow, December 25, 1991, The Last Day of the Soviet Union


by Conor O'Clery

  • HISTORY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 316 PAGES

Describes the behind-the-scenes political jockeying that took place between Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin in the last days of the Soviet Union. (RUS479, $26.99)

Mr. Putin, Operative in the Kremlin


by Clifford Gaddy | Fiona Hill

  • HISTORY
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 390 PAGES

Drawing on a range of sources, including their own personal encounters, two fellows at the Brookings Institution describe six of Putin's most essential idetities: the Statist, the History Man, the Survivalist, the Outsider, the Free Marketeer, and the Case Officer. (RUS496, $29.95)

Russia, A Concise History

Russia, A Concise History


by Ronald Hingley

  • HISTORY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

Well-known scholar Hingley sketches Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to a multi-ethnic empire in this highly readable, well-illustrated brief history. (RUS04, $19.95)

The Cold War


by Michael Hopkins

  • HISTORY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 144 PAGES

Michael Hopkins charts the story of the rise and fall of almost 50 years of global tension in this compact, illustrated history, made tangible with a packet of facsimile documents, including top-secret memos, propaganda and letters. (WAR157, $24.95)

Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great


by Robert K. Massie

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 625 PAGES

Eager readers of Massie's Nicholas and Alexandria or the Pulitzer Prize-wining Peter the Great will not be disappointed by this latest, an old-fashioned tale of politics, power and 18th-century Europe, drawing effectively from the ambitious Catherine's own memoirs. Winner of the first-ever Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. (RUS470, $20.00)

Moscow Diary

Moscow Diary


by Walter Benjamin

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1986
  • PAPER
  • 150 PAGES

A major figure in German literature and criticism spends two winter months in Moscow and records his observations. (RUS41, $27.00)

Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar

Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar


by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 848 PAGES

An enthralling, comprehensive portrait of Joseph Stalin and his court, drawing on archival material and interviews with surviving figures. At 800 pages, there is ample room for personal and anecdotal information about Stalin. (RUS228, $21.00)

The Man Without a Face, The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

The Man Without a Face, The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin


by Masha Gessen

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2013
  • PAPER
  • 313 PAGES

A Russian-American journalist living in Moscow, Masha Gessen demolishes the many myths and legends surrounding Vladimir Putin and his transformation from unexceptional KGB bureaucrat to the most powerful man in Russia. No fan of the man, who she calls a "hoodlum turned iron-handed ruler," Gessen is brave -- and optimistic that his time will soon come. (RUS485, $16.00)

Cover Story

Cover Story


by Robert Cullen

  • MYSTERY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 378 PAGES

This action-packed thriller features derring-do, espionage, politics and a Moscow setting, written by a former Newsweek Moscow Bureau Chief. (RUS362, $14.95)

Snowdrops

Snowdrops


by A.D. Miller

  • LITERATURE
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

Shortlisted for the Booker, this psychological thriller follows the fate of a young British lawyer in casually corrupt contemporary Moscow. (RUS467, $14.95)

The Winter Queen

The Winter Queen


by Boris Akunin | Andrew Bromfield

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 249 PAGES

Akunin sets a suspected murder among the glitterati of late 19th-century Moscow in this first book in the series of clever detective novels starring the rascal Erast Fandorin, wildly popular in Russia. (RUS210, $15.00)

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