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Bradt Guide Ukraine

Bradt Guide Ukraine

by Andrew Evans

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 440 PAGES

This guide in the popular British series features comprehensive practical information and provides a short section on the country's history and culture. With over 30 maps. (UKR12, $25.99)

Borderland, A Journey through the History of Ukraine

Borderland, A Journey through the History of Ukraine

by Anna Reid

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

Reid, who was for three years the Kiev correspondent for The Economist, combines first-person reports, interviews and history in this vivid portrait of the region and its people. With chapters on Kiev and Odessa. (RUS84, $17.00)

Return to Ukraine

Return to Ukraine

by Ania Savage

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2000
  • HARD COVER
  • 272 PAGES

An engaging account of a return journey to Ukraine by a journalist who fled the country with her family in 1944. Savage interweaves history, modern travelogue and personal anecdote. (RUS126, $29.95)

Ukraine Map

Ukraine Map

by ITMB

  • MAP

A map of Ukraine, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (RUS86, $11.95)

 

Kiev Map


by Freytag & Berndt

  • MAP

A detailed street map (1:15,000). (UKR17, $11.95)

Culture Smart! Ukraine

Culture Smart! Ukraine


by Anna Shevchenko

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 168 PAGES

A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (UKR14, $9.95)

Lonely Planet Ukrainian Phrasebook

Lonely Planet Ukrainian Phrasebook


by Lonely Planet

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 292 PAGES

This handy pocket phrasebook includes pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary. (UKR19, $8.99)

Black Sea

Black Sea


by Neal Ascherson

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 306 PAGES

In this skillful portrait of a region, Ascherson weaves his own travels and impressions with a fascinating account of the Black Sea's history. From ancient mythology to modern politics, he admirably never loses sight of the sea itself. (RUS46, $19.00)

Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917

Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917


by Michael F. Hamm

  • HISTORY
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

From medieval center to important city in Imperial Russia, this scholarly book is a wonderfully informative cultural history of the city and especially its 19th-century legacy. (RUS56, $45.00)

Odessa, A History, 1794-1914


by Patricia Herlihy

  • HISTORY
  • 1991
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

Herlihy contrasts Odessa's rapid development as a cosmopolitan, polyglot port city, with the growing tension within its society in the years leading up to WWI in this lively scholarly history. (UKR18, $29.95)

Odessa, Genius and Death in a City of Dreams


by Charles King

  • HISTORY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 352 PAGES

King (Black Sea, The Moldovans) writes with verve not only of the history of this great port city but also of noteworthy personalities, including Alexander Puskin, Isaac Babel and Nobel Prize-winning biologist Ilya Mechnikov. (UKR21, $27.95)

The Cossacks, An Illustrated History

The Cossacks, An Illustrated History


by John Ure

  • HISTORY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES
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In this lively, beautifully illustrated overview, a career diplomat (and frequent visitor to the region) explores the history of the Cossacks in Southern Russia and Central Asia and their role in world affairs. (RUS135, $24.95)

The Reconstruction Of Nations, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999

The Reconstruction Of Nations, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999


by Timothy Snyder

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

A scholarly yet readable account of nation building in Eastern Europe since the sixteenth century. (EUR321, $24.00)

The Ukrainians, Unexpected Nation

The Ukrainians, Unexpected Nation


by Andrew Wilson

  • HISTORY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 380 PAGES

An outstanding guide to modern identity, politics and history in Ukraine, highly recommended for an understanding of the geopolitics of the region and, especially, uneasy relations with mother Russia. (RUS125, $19.00)

Everything is Illuminated

Everything is Illuminated


by Jonathan Safran Foer

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 276 PAGES

The very modern (and very funny) tale of a young man and the search for his Ukrainian heritage. Foer plumbs the humor and tragedy of the American protagonist on a journey back to Ukraine. (RUS168, $19.95)

The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel


by Isaac Babel

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 511 PAGES

An authoritative edition of Isaac Babel's powerful short fiction, including his early Red Cavalry Stories and The Odessa Tales. (RUS171, $18.95)

The Cossacks

The Cossacks


by Leo Tolstoy | Peter Constantine | Cynthia Ozick

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

A fresh translation of Tolstoy's 1863 semi-autobiographical novel about a young Muscovite and his military adventures in the rough-and-ready Caucasus. The book is, in part, a portrait of the Cossacks as well as an account of falling in love. (RUS241, $13.00)

The Fixer

The Fixer


by Bernard Malamud

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

Set in Tsarist Russia, this well-known novel by Malamud tells the story of a young Jewish boy from Kiev wrongly accused of murder. (RUS271, $15.00)

The Twelve Chairs

The Twelve Chairs


by Ilia Arnoldovich Ilf | Yevgeny Petrov

  • LITERATURE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 395 PAGES

In this classic satiric novel, an unemployed con artist and a former nobleman in post-revolution Soviet Russia travel from Moscow to Georgia in search of chairs containing hidden jewels. (RUS356, $22.00)

The White Guard

The White Guard


by Mikhail Bulgakov | Marian Schwartz

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

Set on the eve of war in Kiev in 1918, the royalist Turbin family is at the center of Bulgakov's first novel, newly translated. (RUS58, $18.00)

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