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Odyssey Guide Moscow, St. Petersburg & The Golden Ring  •  Masha Nordbye  •  Patricia Lanza
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 728 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to the art, culture and history of these two great Russian cities, filled with maps and fine color photographs. It also includes a 50-page chapter on the ancient cities of the Golden Ring around Moscow. Third edition. (RUS78, $26.95)		   Odyssey Guide Moscow, St. Petersburg & The Golden Ring
Russia, A Concise History  •  Ronald Hingley
HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES
A very readable, condensed history of Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to a multi-ethnic empire. Well-known scholar Ronald Hingley summarizes the tragic history of Russia from the invasions of the Tartars, Napoleon and Germans to the collapse of the Soviet Union. He doesn't shy from the abuses of power by autocratic tsars and the totalitarian Communist regime. With 205 well-integrated illustrations and four maps. (RUS04, $19.95)		   Russia, A Concise History
Armageddon Averted, The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000  •  Stephen Kotkin
HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES
An assessment of the decline of the Soviet Empire. (RUS397, $16.95)		   Armageddon Averted, The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
Petrostate, Putin, Power, and the New Russia  •  Marshall I. Goldman
HISTORY •  2010 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
Backed by extensive research (including several interviews with Putin) and narrated with panache, this is the story of Russia's astonishing re-emergence from the post-Soviet ashes to become an economic powerhouse based on oil and gas production. (RUS366, $16.95)		   Petrostate, Putin, Power, and the New Russia



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Moscow Map  •  ITMB    •  A handy, folding map of Moscow. (RUS151, $8.95)
 		  
St. Petersburg Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A detailed, laminated city plan of St. Petersburg, with street index inset. Place names are in transliterated English. (RUS89, $7.95)
 		  
Culture Smart! Russia  •  Anna King   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (RUS361, $9.95)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Moscow  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This outstanding guide covers Moscow's culture, history and attractions with maps, site plans and hundreds of color photographs. (RUS164, $23.00)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With excellent local maps and site plans, this outstanding visual guide introduces the culture, history and attractions of St. Petersburg. (RUS87, $25.00)
 		  
Literary St. Petersburg, A Guide to the City and Its Writers  •  Elaine Blaire   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Blair shows St. Petersburg through the words, museums and haunts of 15 writers, including Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Nabokov. (RUS406, $16.95)
 		  
A History of Modern Russia  •  Robert Service   • HISTORY  •  This lively history covers one hundred years of the triumphs, upheavals and tyrannies of Russia from the earliest days of the revolution to the society and politics of the 21st-century. (RUS334, $26.50)
 		  
Black Earth, A Journey Through Russia After the Fall  •  Andrew Meier   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Meier ventures far outside the Kremlin gates for this account of the lives typical Russians since the collapse of the Soviet Union. A vivid, insightful portrait. (RUS236, $16.95)
 		  
How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism  •  Steven G. Marks   • HISTORY  •  This wide-ranging book focuses on Russian contributions to art, literature, politics and ideas of 19th- and 20th-century Europe and America. (RUS245, $29.95)
 		  
Icon and Devotion, Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia  •  Oleg Tarasov   • RELIGION  •  Tarasov examines making and significance of the icon of Old Russia, touching on not only their religious meanings but also their significance to Russian national consciousness and cultural identity. (RUS332, $40.00)
 		  
Imperium  •  Ryszard Kapuscinski   • HISTORY  •  An account of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, and the challenged faced thereafter by the resulting democracies. (RUS376, $16.00)
 		  
Land of the Firebird, The Beauty of Old Russia  •  Suzanne Massie   • HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  Massie traces both miniscule details and larger movements in pre-revolutionary Russian art, literature and daily life in this affectionate overview of 19th-century palaces, courts and culture. (RUS21, $35.00)
 		  
Lenin's Tomb  •  David Remnick   • HISTORY  •  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, $17.00)
 		  
Moscow, A Cultural History  •  Caroline Brooke   • HISTORY  •  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)
 		  
Natasha's Dance, A Cultural History of Russia  •  Orlando Figes   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In this lively cultural history, Figes looks at both the great works by Russian masters and longstanding folk traditions. The title is drawn from a scene of Tolstoy's War and Peace in which a European-educated countess performs a peasant dance. (RUS180, $23.00)
 		  
Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia  •  W. Bruce Lincoln   • HISTORY  •  A wonderfully written, informative portrait of St. Petersburg, focusing on the city's development in the 18th and 19th centuries as Russia's "window on the West." Highly recommended for travelers with an interest in the character and significance of the city and its monuments. (RUS128, $19.95)
 		  
The 900 Days, The Siege of Leningrad  •  Harrison Salisbury   • HISTORY  •  Salisbury's detailed account of the three-year-long Nazi blockade of Leningrad (now St Petersburg). (RUS235, $27.00)
 		  
The Icon and the Axe, An Interpretive History of Russian Culture  •  James H. Billington   • HISTORY  •  This cultural and artistic history, written by the Librarian of Congress, maps the spiritual and ideological forces that led to the development of Russia. (RUS09, $24.00)
 		  
The New Cold War, Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West  •  Edward Lucas   • HISTORY  •  Lucas, former Moscow Bureau Chief for The Economist, shows the coersion, abuse and hostility of contemporary Russia in this sobering assessment. (RUS407, $16.95)
 		  
The Routledge Atlas of Russian History  •  Martin Gilbert   • HISTORY  •  A fantastically interesting, useful survey of the history of Russia in maps. This revised edition follows the fate of Russia since the demise of the Soviet Union, with 161 maps covering rebellion, famine, expansion, trade, the military, communism's collapse and myriad other topics. (RUS176, $29.95)
 		  
On Russian Music  •  Richard Taruskin   • MUSIC  •  This volume gathers thirty-six essays on Russian composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between. (RUS442, $55.00)
 		  
Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, A Biography of the Works Through Mavra  •  Richard Taruskin   • MUSIC  •  Taruskin draws on newly accessible archives and a wealth of Russian documents to define Stravinsky's relationship to the musical and artistic traditions of his native land, giving us a dramatically new picture of one of the major figures of music history. (RUS443, $215.00)
 		  
The People's Artist, Prokofiev's Soviet Years  •  Simon Morrison   • MUSIC  •  A look at the tumultuous and creative life of this celebrated 20th century composer through an examination of his early years in Russia during the Revolution, his move to Paris and the recently discovered scores and speeches. (RUS441, $29.95)
 		  
Galina, A Russian Story  •  Galina Vishnevskaya   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Born in St. Petersburg, the great Soprano (and wife of Mstislav Rostropovich) recounts her extraordinary life in this bestseller (turned into an opera in 1996). (RUS312, $26.00)
 		  
Peter the Great, His Life and World  •  Robert Massie   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Massie portrays the giant of history who transformed Russia from backwater tsardom into a major empire. (RUS48, $21.00)
 		  
Shostakovich, A Life Remembered  •  Elizabeth Wilson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An engaging biography of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, drawing heavily on the accounts of his contemporaries. (RUS94, $30.95)
 		  
Speak, Memory  •  Vladimir Nabokov   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Nabokov's richly imagined memoir wonderfully evokes cultural life among the well-to-do in turn-of-the-century St. Petersburg. (RUS28, $16.00)
 		  
Crime and Punishment  •  Fyodor Dostoevsky  •  David McDuff   • LITERATURE  •  Dostoevsky's thriller of murder and redemption is redolent of St. Petersburg's atmosphere. A cornerstone of Russian literature, and one of the greatest detective stories ever told. (RUS18, $15.00)
 		  
Life and Fate  •  Vasily Grossman   • LITERATURE  •  Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time of both unimaginable horror and even stranger hope. (RUS299, $24.95)
 		  
Petersburg  •  David McDuff  •  Andrei Bely   • LITERATURE  •  This novel, written in 1916, conjures a whirlwind of impressions and impulses in a kinetic meditation on the nature of the city. (RUS134, $17.00)
 		  
Russian Short Stories  •  Robert Chandler   • LITERATURE  •  This fine collection of tales captures the sweep and soul of Russian literature, including works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy along with lesser-known greats. (RUS288, $18.00)
 		  
The Winter Queen  •  Boris Akunin  •  Andrew Bromfield   • LITERATURE  •  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. The series continues with: The Turkish Gambit (RUS263), set during the 1877 Russo-Turkish War; Murder on the Leviathan (RUS225), an homage to Christie; and The Death of Achilles (RUS291), back in Moscow. Fandorin is deputy to the governor-general of czarist Moscow in Special Assignments (RUS371), facing a serial murder and a swindler. (RUS210, $15.00)
 		  
War and Peace  •  Leo Tolstoy   • LITERATURE  •  Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky restore Tolstoy's texture and rhythm for English speakers in this major new translation of his masterpiece. They've won three PEN awards and acclimation for translations that also include Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Bulgakov. (RUS391, $20.00)
 		  
 
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