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	101 Stories of the Great Ballets • George Balanchine • Francis Mason • REFERENCE • Scene-by-scene retellings of the most popular ballets from the man who revolutionized the art. (GEN262, $17.95)
	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)
	Absurdistan • Gary Shteyngart • LITERATURE • Shteyngart, a young Russian immigrant himself, riffs on the privilege and behavior of the new breed of Russian oligarchs along with many more less politically correct targets in this outrageous first novel set in the Bronx, St. Petersburg and oil-besotted Absurdsvani. (RUS321, $13.95)
	Alexander Pushkin, The Collected Stories • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin • LITERATURE • A collection of Pushkin's major prose works and many shorter pieces. (RUS196, $24.00)
	All the Views Fit to Print, Changing Images of the U.S. In Pravda Political Cartoons, 1917-1991 • Kevin J. McKenna • HISTORY • This scholarly book dissects Russian political cartoons and their depictions of America. (RUS179, $49.95)
	All Things Reconsidered, My Birding Adventures • Roger Tory Peterson • NATURAL HISTORY • This lovely selection from Bird Watcher's Digest includes Perterson's grand adventures in Alaska, Russia, Kenya and New York City. (BRD46, $14.95)
	The Amber Room, The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure • Adrian Levy • Catherine Scott-Clark • HISTORY • Two investigative journalists on the trail of a roomful of amber from the days of Peter the Great, missing since the Siege of Leningrad in 1941. (RUS244, $16.00)
	An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction, Introduction to a Culture • Nichola Rzhevsky • LITERATURE • This collection of annotated Russian literature includes an interactive multimedia CD. (RUS339, $45.95)
	Armageddon Averted, The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 • Stephen Kotkin • HISTORY • An assessment of the decline of the Soviet Empire. (RUS397, $16.95)
	Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana • Stephanie Elizondo Griest • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The offbeat memoirs of a Texan who spent four years as a volunteer in Moscow, a propaganda officer in Beijing, and a belly dancer in Havana. (RUS242, $14.95)
	The Art of the Russian Matryoshka • Rett Ertl • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A thoroughly illustrated portrait of the wooden nesting dolls of Russia. Includes a glossary of Russian and English terms. (RUS323, $49.95)
	The Awakening of the Soviet Union • Geoffrey Hosking • HISTORY • Published just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this book is a contemporary look at the upheavals and reforms facing an empire in its final days. (RUS342, $27.00)
	Balanchine, A Biography • Bernard Taper • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Taper sorts out the controversial legacy of the legendary choreographer George Balanchine. (RUS193, $29.95)
	The Ballets Russes and Its World • Lynn Garafola • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A gorgeously illustrated collection of essays on the history and influence of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. by 14 contributing writers. With lavish illustrations and an extensive bibliography. (RUS252, $60.00)
	The Baltic Revolution • Anatol Lieven • HISTORY • A Latvian correspondent for the London Times, Lieven weaves history, interviews and analysis into a vivid cultural portrait of post-Glasnost Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (BLT02, $32.50)
	Belarus, At a Crossroads in History • Jan Zaprudnik • HISTORY • A history of Belarus, with a focus on the status of the nation as the Soviet Union crumbled. (RUS123, $33.00)
	Belorussia, Western Russia, Ukraine, North Map • GeoCenter • A map of Belarus, the northern Ukraine and Western Russia at a scale of 1:750,000. (RUS137, $11.95)
	Berlitz Russian Phrase Book • Inc. Berlitz International • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • With a focus on the traveler, this combination 90-minute CD and pocket phrasebook will help you learn basic vocabulary. (RUS373, $14.95)
	Birds of Europe, Russia, China and Japan: Volume Two, nonpasserines (Divers to Woodpeckers) • Norman Arlott • FIELD GUIDE • The companion volume to Arlott's illlustrated checklist of the Birds of Europe, Russia, China and Japan (EUR276, $29.95), covering the nonpasserines (divers to woodpeckers). (EUR318, $29.95)
	Black Night White Snow, Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917 • Harrison Salisbury • HISTORY • An evocative, moving account of one of the great political tragedies of the 20th century. (RUS12, $16.95)
	Black Sea • Neal Ascherson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Ascherson weaves his own travels and impressions with a fascinating account of the history of the region in this skillful portrait. (RUS46, $18.00)
	Bloom's Literary Guide to St. Petersburg • Bradley D. Woodworth • HISTORY • A jewel of the Russian literary scene, St. Petersberg served as an inspiration for writers Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol and Aleksandr Pushkin. Here, the city is examined through the literary connections and influences that carved St. Petersberg a spot as one of the great literary cities of the world. (RUS349, $40.00)
	Borderland, A Journey Through the History of Ukraine • Anna Reid • HISTORY • 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)
	Bradt Guide Georgia • Tim Burford • GUIDEBOOK • This convenient guide is a personal, detailed overview of Georgia. It includes coverage of the Black Sea coast, Tbilisi and other major towns, as well as information on history, culture and accommodations. (CCS03, $25.99)
	The Bronze Horseman, Falconet's Monument to Peter the Great • Alexander M. Schenker • ART & ARCHITECTURE • The design, history, myth and meaning of the 18th-century monument celebrated by Pushkin. (RUS337, $50.00)
	The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoevsky • Larissa Volokhonsky • Richard Pevear • LITERATURE • Dostoyevsky's final masterpiece. (RUS108, $18.00)
	Buddha's Little Finger • Victor Pelevin • LITERATURE • In this wry political novel a St. Petersburg poet, thrust into the midst of the Bolshevik revolution, keeps awakening in a mental hospital in contemporary Moscow -- a marvelous setup for Pelevin to comment on 20th century Russia. (RUS390, $16.00)
	Burning Lights • Bella Chagall • Marc Chagall • Norbert Guterman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A memoir of growing up in the city of Vitebsk, Belarus in the beginning of the 20th century. Illustrated by Marc Chagall, the author's husband. (RUS122, $19.00)
	Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture • Nicholas Rzhevsky • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A collection of scholarly articles on Russian culture. (RUS295, $36.99)
	The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin • LITERATURE • Featuring Pushkin's novel-length masterpeice, The Captains Daughter, set against the events of the Pugachov uprising in during the reign of Catherine II. (RUS311, $11.95)
	Catherine the Great • Henri Troyat • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • One of the world's best biographers paints an unforgettable portrait of Catherine, the monarch of Russia's Enlightenment. (RUS10, $18.00)
	Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan • Freytag & Berndt • REFERENCE • A travel map of the Caucasus at a scale 1:1,000,000. (CCS01, $14.95)
	A Century of Ambivalence, The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present • Zvi Y. Gitelman • HISTORY • A strikingly illustrated history of Jewish life in Russia, featuring 200 black-and-white photographs from YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and three maps. (RUS172, $24.95)
	Child 44 • Tom Rob Smith • LITERATURE • Smith's intelligent, chilling thriller, set in Stalinist Moscow, follows the pursuit of a serial killer against all odds, including the state's denial. (RUS393, $24.99)
	Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe • Glynis Ridley • HISTORY • The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state. (FRN536, $12.00)
	The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel • Isaac Babel • LITERATURE • An authoritative edition of Isaac Babel's powerful short fiction, including his early Red Cavalry Stories and The Odessa Tales. (RUS171, $17.95)
	Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin • Ivan Bunin • Graham Hettlinger • ANTHOLOGY • In a new translation, this marvelously accessible collection of stories spans the Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer's long career. (RUS358, $19.95)
	The Coming Anarchy, Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War • Robert D. Kaplan • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Topical essays by the prolific Robert Kaplan. (WLD51, $14.95)
	Commonwealth of Independent States Map • Freytag & Berndt • A double-sided map of the entire CIS, divided into Western Russia (at a scale of 1:2,000,000 and eastern Russia (1:8,000,000). (RUS133, $14.95)
	Communism, A History • Richard Pipes • HISTORY • A short, fiercely critical history of communism from the ideas of Karl Marx to the end of the 20th century. (GEN367, $13.95)
	Complete Russian • Living Language • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • Geared for fast results, this four-step program includes 40 lessons on CD and a coursebook. (RUS428, $29.95)
	Con Ed • Matthew Klein • LITERATURE • Great fun, this darkly comic novel revolves around sad sack Kip, his son in (who is debt to the Russian mob) and a billionaire's wife. (RUS345, $23.99)
	A Concise History of the Russian Revolution • Peter Dimock • Richard Pipes • HISTORY • A serious but readable analysis of the Russian Revolution. (RUS98, $17.95)
	Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer • Andrei Makine • LITERATURE • The celebrated author follows two ideologically fervent boys as they grow into disillusioned men. (RUS136, $21.95)
	The Cossacks • Leo Tolstoy • Peter Constantine • Cynthia Ozick • LITERATURE • 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 -- and an account of falling in love. (RUS241, $11.95)
	The Cossacks, An Illustrated History • John Ure • HISTORY • 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)
	Cracks in the Iron Closet, Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia • David Tuller • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An intimate portrait of an emerging gay subculture in modern Russia. (RUS149, $17.00)
	The Crown Jewels, The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB's Archives • Nigel West • Oleg Tsarev • HISTORY • A lively account of Soviet intelligence in Britain from the end of World War I to the late 1950s. West is a prolific British military historian specializing in espionage. (SPY21, $55.00)
	Days of Defeat and Victory • Yegor Gaidar • HISTORY • An architect of Yeltsin's reforms offers his views. (RUS231, $30.00)
	A Dead Man's Memoir • Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov • LITERATURE • Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story about a failed writer that must deal with the theatrics of allowing his play to be taken up for production in a theater. (RUS351, $15.00)
	The Death of Achilles, A Novel • Boris Akunin • Andrew Bromfield • MYSTERY • The fourth in the series starring Russian detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin, this time in Moscow on the trail of an assassin. (RUS291, $12.95)
	The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy • LITERATURE • A collection of stories from the Russian master, including Sevastpol the novella, The Death of Ivan Ilych, about an officious bureaucrat who is diagnosed with an incurable illness. (RUS403, $6.95)
	The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories • David McDuff • Anthony Briggs • Ronald Wilks • Leo Tolstoy • LITERATURE • This collection of stories explores Tolstoy's persistent themes of life and death. More experimental than his novels, Tolstoy's stories are essential reading for anyone interested in his development as one of the major writers and thinkers of his time. (RUS377, $11.00)
	The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories • Pevear Richard • Leo Tolstoy • Larissa Volokhonsky • LITERATURE • This vibrant new translation of Tolsoy's most important short fiction captures the richness, immediacy and multiplicity of his work. This is the latest in a series of translations that includes Crime and Punishment (RUS369, $16.95), Anna Karenina (RUS81, $17.00), War and Peace (RUS391, $19.95) and The Master and Margarita (RUS44, $14.00). (RUS424, $28.95)
	Defiance, The Bielski Partisans • Nechama Tec • HISTORY • The story of Jewish partisans from Belorussia rescuing Jews from the Holocasut. (RUS120, $26.75)
	The Devils • Fyodor Dostoevsky • David Magarshack • LITERATURE • (RUS309, $14.00)
	Doctor Zhivago • Boris Pasternak • Max Hayward • Manya Harari • LITERATURE • The epic novel of life and love set against the backdrop of the first half of the 20th century in Russia. (RUS222, $16.95)
	Dreams of My Russian Summers, A Novel • Andrei Makine • LITERATURE • Makine writes evocatively of the coming of age in the Soviet Union of the 1960's and 70's in this 10th anniversary edition of his debut novel. (RUS266, $13.99)
	The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 • Norman Stone • HISTORY • A classic study of Russia's contribution to WWI. (WAR76, $16.95)
	Echoes of a Native Land, Two Centuries of a Russian Village • Serge Schmemann • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The author 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)
	Empire, The Russian Empire and Its Rivals • Dominic Lieven • HISTORY • (RUS296, $22.00)
	The Empress & the Architect, British Architecture and Gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great • Dmitri Shvidkovsky • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A gorgeous oversize survey of Catherine's Palace at Pushkin (Tsarkoye Selo) and Pavlovsk, designed by the great 18th-century Scottish architect Charles Cameron. (RUS259, $85.00)
	The End of Eurasia, Russia on the Border Between Geopolitics and Globalization • Dmitri Trenin • HISTORY • A thought provoking analysis of Russia's foreign policy and argument for Russia's' integration with Europe and the West. (RUS163, $24.95)
	Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse • James E. Falen • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin • LITERATURE • A master work by one of Russia's most respected poets. (RUS101, $9.95)
	Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin • Vladimir Nabokov • LITERATURE • In this translation of Pushkin's epic poem set in 19th-century Russia, the great novelist Nabokov brings the spark of Pushkin's original words to life. (RUS290, $24.95)
	Eurasia's New Frontiers, Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures • Thomas Simons • HISTORY • Historian and former ambasssador Simons illuminates developments and relations with Russia in the 15 successor states to the Soviet Union in this short, lucid book. (RUS389, $25.00)
	Faberge in the Royal Collection • Caroline De Guitaut • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A handsome study of Faberge art and the British Royal Family. (RUS215, $50.00)
	Failed Crusade, America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia • Stephen Cohen • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A critical and informative look at American policy in post-Cold War Russia. (RUS341, $21.95)
	Fathers and Sons • Ivan Turgenev • LITERATURE • The classic novel by the most accessible of the great Russian novelists. (RUS19, $12.00)
	The First Circle • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Thomas Whitney • LITERATURE • A powerful novel of the horrors of Soviet Russia set in Moscow in 1949. It won Solzhenitsyn the Nobel Proze for Literature in 1970. (RUS260, $16.95)
	First Person, An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President • Vladimir Putin • HISTORY • A self-portrait portrait of the Russian leader based on interviews with Russian journalists. (RUS161, $16.00)
	Five Plays • Anton Chekhov • Ronald Hingley • LITERATURE • A collection of Chekhov's major plays, including "Ivanov," "The Seagull," "Uncle Vanya," "Three Sisters," and "The Cherry Orchard." (RUS88, $8.95)
	The Fixer • Bernard Malamud • LITERATURE • 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)
	Fodor's Moscow and St. Petersburg • Salwa Jabado • GUIDEBOOK • With solid practical information on sights, excursions, restaurants, hotels and nightlife, and a chapter on the cities of the Golden Ring. (RUS03, $19.95)
	Following Balanchine • Robert Garis • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Part art criticism, part personal memoir, this work is an homage to an artist by a fan who watched his legacy unfold. (RUS194, $28.00)
	Food in Russian History and Culture • Joyce Toomre • Musya Glants • FOOD • Food is history in this compendium of essays by cultural historians. (RUS143, $34.95)
	From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories • Carl Proffer • ANTHOLOGY • A broad selection of Russian literary works from the earliest prose to the years before the revolution, featuring reliable translations of masterpieces from Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gogol, and more. (RUS08, $22.95)
	From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians • Yale Richmond • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An introduction to understanding Russian culture. (RUS96, $23.95)
	From Three Worlds, New Ukrainian Writing • Ed Hogan • Askold Melnyczuk • Michael Naydan • ANTHOLOGY • Contemporary short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels make up this anthology of writing from 15 native Ukrainians. (RUS118, $14.95)
	From Union to Commonwealth • Gail Lapidus • HISTORY • A sweeping history of the fragmentation of the Soviet Union by a team of experts, each writing from their own area of knowledge - political, historical and sociological. (RUS285, $31.99)
	Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg • Frommer's • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout. (RUS421, $19.99)
	Gadfly in Russia • Alan Sillitoe • LITERATURE • Renowned novelist Sillitoe's account of his travels from Germany to the U.S.S.R. in 1967. Sillitoe depicts his relationship with Russia, its people, and their changing fortunes over the past 40 years with grace. (RUS388, $19.30)
	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)
	The Gambler • Fedor Dostoyevsky • LITERATURE • In this darkly compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious general who falls victim to a gambling addiction. (RUS409, $13.00)
	The Gentle Axe • R. N. Morris • MYSTERY • The St. Petersburg of 1867 is brought vividly to life as investigator Petrovich unravels the mystery of a disturbing double murder. (RUS315, $14.00)
	The Georgian Feast, The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia • Darra Goldstein • Niko Pirosmani • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Historian and food expert Darra Goldstein offers up a savory introduction to the Republic of Georgia in this illustrated cultural history. She combines her love of Georgian food -- and recipes -- with information on geography, history and culture. (CCS02, $21.95)
	Gogol, The Collected Tales • Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol • LITERATURE • From the superb Pevear and Volokhonsky, a new translation of Gogol's short fiction. (RUS379, $24.00)
	Gorbachev and Yeltsin As Leaders • George Breslauer • HISTORY • An astute, balanced political analysis. (RUS156, $31.99)
	Gorbachev, On My Country and the World • Mikhail S. Gorbachev • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material and a keen sense of history and politics, Gorbachev sheds light on Russia's 1917 revolution, 1991 breakup and 21st-century future. (RUS433, $27.00)
	The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral • Robert A. Scott • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs. (EUR190, $19.95)
	The Great History of the Russian Ballet, Its Art and Choreography • Elisabeth Souritz • Evdokia Belova • E. Bocharnikova • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A nicely illustrated scholarly history of Russian ballet, translated from the Russian. (RUS195, $55.00)
	The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train through Asia • Paul Theroux • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Theroux's vintage 1970s journeys across Asia by Train, displaying all his talent for portraiture, ego and the dismissive aside. It's great fun. He takes every two-bit train he can find from London across Europe, Turkey and the Middle East, India, Japan and China, returning home via the Trans-Siberian Express. (ASA40, $14.95)
	Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky • Fyodor Dostoyevsky • LITERATURE • The shorter works of one of the world's greatest writers, including The Gambler and Notes from Underground. (RUS394, $15.99)
	Growing Pains, Russian Democracy and the Election of 1993 • Jerry F. Hough • Timothy J. Colton • HISTORY • An in-depth analysis of Russia's 1993 national election and wrangling over power. (RUS75, $26.95)
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • HISTORY • Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece, a searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression in an abridged edition, authorized by the author. (RUS385, $18.99)
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. I • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Thomas Whitney • LITERATURE • A masterpiece of literature and history, this novel documents the horrors of Russia's prison system under communism. Based on Solzhenitsyn's first-hand experiences, it is a powerful and unforgettable work of suffering and redemption. (RUS113, $21.99)
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. II • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Thomas Whitney • LITERATURE • The second (and by some considered the best) in "The Gulag Archipelago" trilogy, this novel documents the horrors of Russia's prison system under communism, based on the author's first-hand experiences. (RUS74, $21.99)
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. III • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Thomas Whitney • LITERATURE • The third volume in "The Gulag Archipelago" trilogy. (RUS114, $21.95)
	Gulag, A History • Anne Applebaum • HISTORY • A massive, fascinating and thoroughly unsettling history of Russia's infamous gulags. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, it's noteworthy for its expansive view, effortless prose and prodigious research. (SIB34, $18.00)
	Hadji Murad • Leo Tolstoy • Aylmer Maude • LITERATURE • A short novel set in the 19th-century Caucasus, concerning -- in part -- conflicts between the occupying Russians and Muslim groups in the region. (CCS18, $11.95)
	Hadji Murat • Leo Tolstoy • Colm Toibin • LITERATURE • Tolstoy short tale of the meeting of two polarized cultures -- the refined, Europeanized court of the Russian tsar and the fierce Muslim chieftains of the Chechnen hills. (RUS383, $13.95)
	The Heart of a Dog • Mikhail Bulgakov • Michael Glenny • LITERATURE • A comic tale of absurd life in the Soviet Union by a modern master. (RUS127, $14.00)
	Here Is Where We Meet • John Berger • LITERATURE • This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow. (EUR189, $15.00)
	A History of Modern Russia, From Nicholas II to Putin • Robert Service • HISTORY • Extraordinary in its scope and breadth, this lively history covers seventy years of the triumphs, upheavals and tyrannies of the Soviet Union, from the earliest days of the revolution to the social and economic questions of 21st century Russia. (RUS334, $24.95)
	A History of Russia • Nicholas Riasanovsky • HISTORY • A comprehensive, balanced history of Russia, now in its sixth edition. (RUS130, $56.00)
	A History of Russia • George Vernadsky • HISTORY • A popular college text. (RUS174, $32.00)
	The History of Russia • John Lawrence • HISTORY • A concise popular history of Russia from its pagan roots through the Tsarist period, revolution and post-Soviet realities. (RUS289, $17.00)
	A History of Russian Architecture • William Craft Brumfield • ART & ARCHITECTURE • This beautifully illustrated history covers the sweep of Russian architecture from early medieval monasteries to the prefabricated dwellings of the Stalinist era. (RUS336, $50.00)
	A History of Russian Music, From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar • Francis Maes • Arnold Pomerans • MUSIC • A scholarly, chronological history of Russian music. (RUS223, $60.00)
	A History of the Peoples of Siberia, Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990 • James Forsyth • HISTORY • An ethnohistory of the people of Siberia from Russian conquest to the 1980s. Forsyth looks at 30 indigenous groups, comparing their experience with Eskimos and Indians in North America. (SIB03, $50.00)
	A History of Twentieth-Century Russia • Robert Service • HISTORY • A lively, comprehensive history of modern Russia, and especially of the Soviet period. (RUS131, $20.95)
	Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia • Dan Healey • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Changing attitudes toward gay men and women in urban Russia, before and after 1917. (RUS145, $48.00)
	Hope Against Hope • Nadezhda Mandelstam • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of life with her husband Osip and a riveting account of Stalinist Russia. (RUS308, $31.99)
	House of the Dead • Fyodor Dostoevsky • David McDuff • LITERATURE • Dostoyevsky's semi-autobiographical novel of a man forced to endure ten years in a Siberian prison for the murder of his wife. (RUS261, $12.00)
	I, Maya Plisetskayar • Maya Plisetskaya • Antonia W. Bouis • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A memoir of dance set against a backdrop of political turmoil. Plisetskaya, a prominent Russian ballerina, bitterly describes the persecution of her family and her struggles as an artist under the Soviet Regime. (RUS254, $50.00)
	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)
	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)
	Igor Stravinsky, An Autobiography • Igor Stravinsky • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Stravinsky memoir, covering the first 50 years of his life in Russia, France and Switzerland. (MUS18, $14.95)
	An Illustrated History of the First World War • John Keegan • HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • An illustrated edition of Keegan's outstanding history of the Great War (WAR16, $50.00)
	Images of Space, St. Petersburg in the Visual and Verbal Arts • Grigory Kaganov • Sidney Monas • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A scholarly study of spatial representation in St. Petersburg and its depiction on the arts. (RUS42, $59.95)
	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)
	In Europe, Travels Through the Twentieth Century • Geert Mak • HISTORY • Don't be put off by the heft of Mak's eye-opening account of Europe on the brink of the millennium. The chapters originally appeared on the front page of a Dutch newspaper, and his deft reports from disparate locales are light in touch, bridging history, travel and opinion. (EUR254, $20.00)
	Inside Putin's Russia, Can there be Reform Without Democracy? • Andrew Jack • HISTORY • An illuminating, highly readable survey of developments in Russia since 1998 by the Moscow bureau chief of the Financial Times. (RUS283, $19.99)
	Insight Guide Russia, Belarus & Ukraine • Anna Benn • GUIDEBOOK • An engaging guide to the country and its major regions and cities with short, handsomely illustrated essays on Russian history, life, art, literature and music. The guide includes excellent full-color maps and hundreds of photographs. (RUS37, $22.95)
	iSpeak Russian Phrasebook • Alex Chapin • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • An MP3 audio disc is bundled with a 16-page phrase book in this innovative language program, where you can see and hear 1,200 phrases on your iPod, iPhone, Zune or other portable device. (RUS412, $12.95)
	Ivan the Terrible • Henri Troyat • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography of Russia's first czar. (RUS220, $21.95)
	Ivan The Terrible, First Tsar of Russia • Isabel De Madariaga • HISTORY • An important biography of the much-misunderstood 16th-century czar and his times. (RUS278, $35.00)
	Ivan Vasilievich, Back to the Future • Leonid Gaiday • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A madcap comedy, based on a Bulgakov play. (RUS246, $29.99)
	A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire • Anton Chekhov • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • OUT OF PRINT • By tramp steamer, carriage and horse, Chekhov journeyed to farthermost Siberia and the Russian Far East in the 1890s. This is a brief selection from his time in Baikal and Sakhalin. (RUS350, $10.00)
	K-19 The Widowmaker: The Secret Story of the Soviet Nuclear Submarine • Peter A. Huchthausen • HISTORY • This companion to the film of the same name describes the race against time to prevent the meltdown of a nuclear reactor aboard the first Soviet ballistic missile boat in 1961. (RUS187, $16.00)
	Khrushchev, The Man and His Era • William Taubman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the life of Nikita Khrushchev. (RUS257, $17.95)
	Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917 • Michael F. Hamm • HISTORY • 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, $42.00)
	The Kitchen Boy • Robert Alexander • LITERATURE • In the first in his series of historical novels about Tsarist Russia, Alexander hauntingly re-imagines the evening of the Romanov's assasination through the eyes of a witness. (RUS374, $15.00)
	Knopf Mapguide Moscow • Knopf Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Full-color foldout maps make this guidebook a handy and practical way to find information on where to go and what to do in the city. (RUS270, $10.95)
	Knopf Mapguide, St. Petersburg • Knopf Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps. (RUS319, $10.95)
	Kosmos, A Portrait of the Russian Space Age • Svetlana Boym • Adam Bartos • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portfolio of 100 photographs of the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with an essay by Harvard professor Svetlana Boym. (RUS184, $40.00)
	Kremlin Rising, Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution • Peter Baker • Susan Glasser • HISTORY • A critical overview of recent political change in Russia by two Washington Post journalists. (RUS273, $27.50)
	The Lady With Little Dog and Other Stories • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov • LITERATURE • FAVORITE • A collection of eleven stories written during the last 10 years of Chekhov's life. (RUS404, $14.00)
	Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance • Lynn Garafola • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A marvelously illustrated and scholarly collection of essays on the evolution of dance in the 20th century. The four sections of the book focus on the Ballet Ruses, female dancers, New York as the dance capital of the world and questions of memory and reconstruction. (RUS256, $29.95)
	The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995, Myth, Memories, And Monuments • Lisa A. Kirschenbaum • HISTORY • A poignant account of the blockade and its aftermath. (RUS398, $88.00)
	Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia • Nina Tumarkin • HISTORY • An enthralling study of the state-imposed cult of Lenin, Tumarkin's scrupulous examination follows the emergence, history and significance of Lenin's god-like representation in Soviet ideology. (RUS340, $17.95)
	Lenin, A New Biography • Dmitri Volkogonov • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A well regarded biography. (RUS250, $69.00)
	Letters from Russia • Marquis De Custine • Anka Muhlstein • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An authoritative edition of Astolphe de Custine's observant, scathing and insightful account of travels in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1839. (RUS166, $24.95)
	Life and Fate • Vasily Grossman • LITERATURE • Modeled on Tolstoy's War and Peace, this novel gives a sweeping account of Soviet life during World War II. (RUS299, $22.95)
	Literary Russia, A Guide • Anna Benn • Rosamund Bartlett • GUIDEBOOK • Organized geographically, this guide and literary companion includes the homes, museums and literary landmarks of Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Nabokov and other Russian masters. (RUS45, $37.50)
	The Living & the Dead, The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia • Nina Tumarkin • HISTORY • A captivating and readable account of the Soviet manipulation of The Great Patriotic War and its effect on the Russian people. Tumarkin astutely illustrates the lengths to which Stalin distorted, fabricated and falsified history in order to garnish support for the Communist Party after World War II. (RUS359, $24.00)
	Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • An excellent practical guide to the region geared for independent travelers. (BLT05, $25.99)
	Lonely Planet Russia • Richard Nebesky • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide to Russia. (RUS82, $29.99)
	Lost Opportunity: What has Made Economic Reform in Russia so Difficult? • Marshall Goldman • HISTORY • An astute commentator, the author looks at Yeltsin's economic reforms and the changes wrought on the complex Russian economy since the break-up of the Soviet Union. (RUS64, $13.95)
	Making Sense of War, the Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution • Amir Weiner • HISTORY • A consideration of WWII and its impact on Russia. (RUS251, $37.00)
	Mammals of Europe • Priscilla Barrett • David W. MacDonald • FIELD GUIDE • Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals. (FG61, $38.50)
	The Master of Petersburg • J.M. Coetzee • LITERATURE • Dostoyevski becomes a literary character in Coetzee's novel of 19th-century Russia, where he is ensnared in a mystery that illuminates the underworld of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. (RUS200, $15.00)
	Medieval Russia, 980-1584 • Janet Martin • HISTORY • An accessible, concise scholarly history. (RUS335, $39.99)
	The Memoirs of Catherine the Great • Catherine the Great • Mark Cruse • Hilde Hoogenboom • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This collection of memoirs begins eighteen years before the beginning of Catherine's rule, upon her arrival in Russia as a German princess in 1744, continuing until her death in 1796. (RUS277, $26.95)
	Minsk Map • Freytag & Berndt • A city plan of Minsk at a scale of 1:16,000. (RUS317, $11.95)
	Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia • Douglas R. Weiner • HISTORY • A groundbreaking study of the early, turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement, concentrating on the period from the October Revolution to the consolidation of Stalinist rule in the mid-1930s. (RUS437, $26.95)
	The Moldovans: Romania, Russia and the Politics of Culture • Charles King • HISTORY • A scholarly political and cultural history of Moldova, focusing on issues of national identity in a post-Soviet world. (EUR97, $24.95)
	Mortal Crimes: The Greatest Theft in History, Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project • Nigel West • HISTORY • West draws on recently de-classified documents, including the famous Venona files, to deliver a fascinating study and Soviet-era atomic espionage. (SPY26, $27.00)
	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)
	Moscow, Governing the Socialist Metropolis • Timothy J. Colton • HISTORY • A comprehensive scholarly history of Moscow. (RUS157, $31.50)
	Murder on the Leviathan • Boris Akunin • Andrew Bromfield • MYSTERY • A mystery on the high seas starring the young detective Erast Fandorin, set in 1878. (RUS225, $14.00)
	National Geographic St. Petersburg • Jeremy Howard • GUIDEBOOK • (RUS318, $22.95)
	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)
	Nicholas and Alexandra • Robert Massie • HISTORY • This entertaining and well-researched history traces the royal relationship and explores how a disease determined the destiny of rulers, the disintegration of the empire and the course of Russian history. (RUS69, $18.95)
	Nights at the Circus • Angela Carter • LITERATURE • This wildly inventive, bawdy tale follows an enchanted circus and its six-foot-two winged star across Russia on the Trans-Siberian. (RUS189, $15.00)
	No Fixed Points, Dance in the Twentieth Century • Malcolm McCormick • Nancy Reynolds • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A comprehensive history of 20th century dance in Europe and America. It's a readable, illustrated reference that offers both biographies of major dancers and choreographers, and critical analysis. (RUS255, $60.00)
	Northern Europe Map • Freytag & Berndt • A colorful shaded relief map of Scandinavia and the Baltic States at a scale of 1:2,000,000. It shows the entire Baltic Sea region. (EUR19, $12.95)
	Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevsky • Richard Pevear • LITERATURE • Dostoevsky's darkly funny and psychological character study set in nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, originally published in 1864. (RUS230, $12.00)
	Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler • Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov • NATURAL HISTORY • A celebrated drama critic and man of letters in 19th-century Moscow, Aksakov was also a keen observer of nature, and especially of birds. This book collects his notes on the natural history of Russian birdlife. (RUS60, $39.00)
	Oblomov • Ivan Goncharov • David Magarshack • LITERATURE • (RUS310, $15.00)
	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • LITERATURE • The poignant story of an inmate in one of Stalin's Siberian labor camps struggling to maintain his dignity under the oppression of a Communist prison. This short novel became an overnight classic, still resonant today. (RUS26, $14.00)
	Operation Solo, The FBI's Man in the Kremlin • John Barron • HISTORY • The story of Morris Childs, Soviet advisor and covert American spy. (SPY15, $14.95)
	The Orthodox Church • Kallistos Ware • RELIGION • A comprehensive, clear overview of the origins, historical development and practice of Eastern Christianity by a British scholar and Archbishop. With chapters on Byzantium, conversion of the Slavs, the Church under Islam and the contemporary Orthodox world. (GEN261, $17.00)
	Passport to Russian • Charles Berlitz • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A basic Russian dictionary and phrasebook for the traveler. (RUS224, $6.99)
	Pavlovsk, The Life of a Russian Palace • Suzanne Massie • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A biography of the palace from its role in 18th-century Tsarist Russia to the revolution, public park, Nazi military headquarters and restoration. It's a great story, well told by Massie, who also wrote Land of the Firebird. (RUS154, $28.00)
	The People's Act of Love • James Meek • LITERATURE • Meek draws on his experiences as a journalist in Russia to evoke the isolation and changing fate of Siberia in this novel set in an isolated village during the last days of the revolution. (SIB52, $14.95)
	A People's Tragedy, A History of the Russian Revolution • Orlando Figes • HISTORY • A monumental, engrossing account of the Russian Revolution. (RUS181, $25.00)
	Peter the Great • Paul Bushkovitch • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A revised view of the legendary modernizer of Russia. (RUS169, $24.95)
	Peter the Great, His Life and World • Robert Massie • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling history of the great Westernizer of Russia. Massie portrays a giant of history on the monumental canvas of Europe as he transforms Russia from backwater tsardom to major empire. (RUS11, $8.99)
	Peter the Great, Part 1 • Robert Massie • LITERATURE • Part one of the unabdriged audio version, available on cassette tape only, of Massie's hugely entertaining, authorritative biography, as read by Frederick Davidson. (RUS328, $99.95)
	Peter the Great, Part 2 • Robert Massie • LITERATURE • Part two of the unabdriged audio version, available on cassette tape only, of Massie's hugely entertaining, authorritative biography, as read by Frederick Davidson. 15 tapes. (RUS329, $95.95)
	Petersburg • Andrei Bely • John E. Malmstad • Robert A. Maguire • LITERATURE • This novel, written in 1916, conjures a whirlwind of impressions and impulses in a kinetic meditation on the nature of the city. (RUS134, $20.95)
	Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution • Katarina Clark • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A case study of cultural changes in Petersburg in the years 1913-1931 and how they coincided with the Russian Revolution. (RUS43, $27.50)
	Pimsleur Quick & Simple Russian • Pimsleur Language Method • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A package of eight 30-minute lessons in basic Russian, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations. (RUS112, $19.95)
	Piratization of Russia, Russian Reform Goes Awry • Marshall Goldman • HISTORY • The distressing tale of the making of oligarchs in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. (RUS211, $44.95)
	Plays and Petersburg Tales • Nikolai Gogol • Christopher English • LITERATURE • Two plays (Marriage and The Government Inspector) and six short stories written by the Russian master, all set in St. Petersburg. (RUS300, $10.95)
	Please to the Table, The Russian Cookbook • Anya Von Bremzen • FOOD • An illustrated collection of 400 recipes. Includes descriptions of feasts from literary works, sample menus, as well as a short description and history of the region were each dish originated. (RUS325, $19.95)
	Pocket Menu Reader Russia • Langenscheidt • Mario Caramitti • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A pocket guide to negotiating food and restaurants in Russian. (RUS165, $7.95)
	The Pocket Oxford Russian Dictionary • Colin Howlett • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A succinct English-Russian, Russian-English dictionary, featuring 70,000 useful words and phrases for the student, traveler or businessman. (RUS272, $17.95)
	Poems of Akhmatova: Izbrannye Stikhi • Max Hayward • Kunitz, Stanley • Anna Akhmatova • LITERATURE • Witness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia's troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Here is the essence of Akhmatova -- a landmark selection and translation. (RUS395, $14.00)
	Prodigal Son, Dancing for Balanchine in a World of Pain and Magic • Edward Villella • Larry Kaplan • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The memoir of the great male star of American ballet who found fame in the age of Balanchine. (USE283, $19.95)
	Putin's Russia • Lilia Shevtsova • HISTORY • An analysis of the character of Putin's leadership by a top political analyst and award-winning Russian journalist. Shevtsova has also written Yelsin's Russia (RUS268, $19.95)
	The Queen of Spades • Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky • MUSIC • The full score of one of Tchaikovsky's most popular operas. (RUS219, $39.95)
	Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other • Laurie Essig • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An engaging, scholarly portrait of post-perestroika gay culture. (RUS146, $23.95)
	Queer Sites, Gay Urban Histories Since 1600 • David Higgs • HISTORY • A scholarly history of the gay subculture in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow. (WLD32, $39.95)
	The Ransom of Russian Art • John McPhee • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • McPhee tackles a rather unusual topic for him: the story of suppressed Russian art and the man who brought it to America. (RUS91, $12.00)
	Rasputin's Daughter • Robert Alexander • LITERATURE • In this suspenseful tale rich in historical detail, Alexander re-imagines the controversial mystic Rasputin, narrating the last week of his life from the perspective of his teenaged daughter. (RUS375, $14.00)
	Rasputin, The Saint Who Sinned • Brian Moynahan • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A juicy biography of the notorious Russian. (RUS198, $17.95)
	Reading Chekhov, A Critical Journey • Janet Malcolm • LITERATURE • An extended essay of Chekhov and his work interweaving literary criticism, biography and a journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow and Yalta -- all significant to the plays, stories and life of Chekhov. (RUS155, $13.95)
	Reagan and Gorbachev, How The Cold War Ended • Jack Matlock • HISTORY • An eyewitness account of the relationship between the U.S. and Russia in the 1980s by Reagan's adviser on Soviet affairs and ambassador to the Soviet Union. (RUS282, $16.95)
	The Red Stuff, The True Story of the Russian Race for Space • Leo De Boer • SCIENCE • The dramatic tale of the early Russian Space Program by a Dutch film maker with archival footage, shots of Space City and interviews with some of the original cosmonauts. (RUS265, $19.98)
	The Reforms of Peter the Great, Progress through Coercion in Russia • Evgenii Anisimov • John Alexander • HISTORY • How Peter the Great's reforms shaped Russia. (RUS102, $34.95)
	Resurrection, The Struggle for a New Russia • David Remnick • HISTORY • Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick insightfully explores the powers shaping the creation of a new Russia. The book follows the ruin of the USSR, up to the 1996 elections. (RUS23, $16.00)
	The Revolution of Peter the Great • James Cracraft • HISTORY • A concise and effective portrayal of Peter the Great as a cultural revolutionary. (RUS399, $19.00)
	The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire • John Dunlop • HISTORY • A history of Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. (RUS68, $42.00)
	The Romanovs, The Final Chapter • Robert Massie • HISTORY • Written like a good detective story, this riveting scientific thriller examines the evidence and international dispute linking the skeletons exhumed in 1991 in Siberia with the last of the Romanovs killed in the early period of the Russian Revolution. (RUS14, $15.95)
	Romanovs: Autocrats of all the Russians • Lincoln Bruce • HISTORY • A history of the rise and fall of the Romanov dynasty in Russia, from their ascension to the throne in 1613 to the Russian Revolution. (RUS25, $24.00)
	Rough Guide Moscow • Rough Guide • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, no-nonsense guide to the culture, history and attractions of Moscow. (RUS129, $18.99)
	Rough Guide Music Russia • Various Artists • MUSIC • A carefully chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of Russia, including Cossack folk, Gypsy songs, and balalaikas performed by the Terem Quartet. (RUS314, $14.95)
	Rough Guide St. Petersburg • Dan Richardson • GUIDEBOOK • An extensive guide to St. Petersburg in the hip, literate and very infomative Rough Guide style. It's divided cleanly between practical information and illuminating background on culture and history. (RUS372, $18.99)
	Running with Reindeer, Encounters in Russian Lapland • Roger Took • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An absorbing account of travels among the reindeer herding Saami in 1990s Russia. Took captures the wide landscapes, people and political instability of the wilderness surrounding Murmansk. (RUS221, $17.95)
	Russia and the Russians, A History • Geoffrey Hosking • HISTORY • This ambitious history tackles with clarity the scope and breadth of the Russian empire from its Kievan beginnings through Imperial expansion, revolution and the Soviet period all the way to the 21st century. An engaging history by a leading scholar, noteworthy for its big ideas, ambition and clarity. (RUS208, $24.50)
	The Russia Hand, a Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy • Strobe Talbott • HISTORY • An insider's view of the U.S. role in Russia's transition from communism to democracy. (RUS234, $16.95)
	The Russia House • John Le Carre • LITERATURE • Espionage in the age of Gorbachev delivered with traditional Le Carrean panache. (RUS186, $7.99)
	Russia in Search of Itself • James H. Billington • HISTORY • An analysis of modern Russia by the Librarian of Congress and expert on Russia. (RUS229, $24.95)
	Russia in Space, The Failed Frontier? • Brian Harvey • HISTORY • Can Russia once again lead the world into space? (RUS182, $49.95)
	Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great • Isabel De Madariaga • HISTORY • A classic scholarly history of 18th-century Russia. (RUS144, $21.95)
	Russia in the Age of Peter the Great • Lindsey Hughes • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography of Peter the Great and an account of Russia in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. (RUS103, $90.00)
	Russia Map • International Travel Maps • A double-sided map of all of Russia, including the best available coverage for travelers on the Trans-Siberian, at a scale of 1:6,000,000. (RUS264, $11.95)
	The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics • Bruce Grant • Adele Barker • ANTHOLOGY • COMING IN AUGUST • This expansive primer includes memoirs, folktales, letters, poems, stories and more, depicting borth everyday life and historical events. Witrh maps, paintings and photographs. (RUS440, $29.95)
	Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections • James H. Billington • ART & ARCHITECTURE • The companion to an audacious exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum, featuring reproductions of 300 Russian masterworks from the medieval period to the present. (RUS279, $75.00)
	Russia's Unfinished Revolution, Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin • Michael McFaul • HISTORY • A political history and analysis of Russian democracy and institutions since the mid 1980s. (RUS160, $21.95)
	Russia, A History • Gregory Freeze • HISTORY • An illustrated survey of the full scope of Russian political history from Ivan the Terrible to Yeltsin. (RUS40, $29.95)
	Russia, Experiment With a People • Robert Service • HISTORY • An authoritative survey of the transformation of Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Service casts a wide net, looking at not just political and economic change but also the influence of society, culture and belief. (RUS284, $21.00)
	Russia, People and Empire, 1552-1917 • Geoffrey Hosking • HISTORY • Historian Geoffrey Hosking writes elegantly and vehemently on the history of Russia under the czars. Hosking argues that Imperial Russia pursued empire building at the expense of national identity. (RUS29, $24.00)
	Russian Ark • Alexander Sokurov • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A mesmerizing film by the Russian master, shot entirely within the Hermitage Museum. (RUS237, $19.95)
	The Russian Century, A History of the Last Hundred Years • Brian Moynahan • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A lively survey of Russian history and people from the Tsars through the Revolution, the dark days of Stalin, the Cold War and the tumultuous events of the 1990s by a British historian and journalist. (RUS167, $16.95)
	The Russian Empire, A Multiethnic History • Andreas Kappeler Kappeler • HISTORY • (RUS298, $51.60)
	Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922 • Camilla Gray • Marian Burleigh-Motley • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A handsome illustrated volume in the "World of Art" series, this book documents a critical period in the history of Russian art in a series of insightful essays and hundreds of color illustrations. (RUS17, $18.95)
	The Russian Far East and Pacific Asia, Unfulfilled Potential • Michael J. Bradshaw • HISTORY • Bradshaw offers a comprehensive analysis of the resources, economy and political situation of the Russian Far East, concluding with scenarios for the future development of the RFE. (RUS355, $175.00)
	Russian Folk Art • Alison Hilton • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated survey of traditional Russian folk art. (RUS104, $27.95)
	Russian Foreign Policy, The Return of Great Power Politics • Jeffrey Mankoff • HISTORY • Mankoff thoughtfully examines the development of Russian foreign policy since the end of the Cold War and Russia's interactions with major global actors, including the United States, the European Union and China. (RUS429, $34.95)
	The Russian Heritage Cookbook • Lynn Visson • FOOD • A thorough and authentic guide to traditional Russian cooking with 360 recipes. (RUS233, $28.95)
	A Russian Journal • John Steinbeck • Robert Capa • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Steinbeck's moving account of the people and everyday life in Russia, the Ukraine and Cau-casus circa 1948, with striking photographs by the great Robert Capra. (RUS275, $15.00)
	Russian Journal • Andrea Lee • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An unforgettable, straight-forward account of day-to-day life in Soviet Leningrad and Moscow, originally published in 1981. (RUS307, $14.95)
	Russian Literature, A Very Short Introduction • Catriona Kelly • LITERATURE • A pocket guide to Russian literature and its impact on Russian culture and national identity by Oxford University Press. (RUS333, $11.95)
	The Russian Museum, A Centennial Celebration of a National Treasure • Vladimir Gusyev • Yevgenia Petrova • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An overview of Russian art from the Christianization of Russia in 989 to present. (RUS199, $60.00)
	Russian Phrasebook & Dictionary • Hippocrene • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A handy phrasebook and basic dictionary featuring transliterations of all the Russian words. (RUS65, $11.95)
	The Russian Revolution • Sheila Fitzpatrick • HISTORY • A concise provocative summary of events in Russia between 1917 and 1939. Fitzpatrick makes an admirable effort to rescue from politics the greatest upheaval of modern times and reclaim it for history. (RUS39, $14.95)
	Russian, A Language Map • Kristine K. Kershul • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers. (RUS276, $7.95)
	Russian, Start Speaking Today! • Language/30 • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A highly effective crash course for travelers. Na zdorovye! (RUS192, $24.95)
	Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867 • Lydia Black • HISTORY • A masterful overview of the ordinary men and women of the first Russian colony in Alaska. (ALA241, $29.95)
	Russka • Edward Rutherfurd • LITERATURE • In this absorbing, complex novel Rutherfurd transforms Russian history into an epic saga. The bestseller follows the fate of interconnected families over 800 years. Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, Pushkin and Rasputin all make appearances. (RUS175, $19.00)
	Sacred Sea, A Journey to Lake Baikal • Peter Thomson • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Senior editor of National Public Radio's Living on Earth, Thomson blends personal tales with anecdote, journalism, natural history and culture in this lyrical account of a six-month journey. (SIB56, $29.95)
	Saint Petersburg, Museums Palaces and Historic Collections • Cathy Giangrande • John Julius Norwich • GUIDEBOOK • An illustrated guide to cultural attractions. (RUS338, $12.95)
	Sashenka • Simon Sebag Montefiore • LITERATURE • Historian Montefiore puts previous research to good use in this densely plotted thriller about a privileged Russian Jew caught up in the romance of the Russian revolution and brought low by the Stalinist secret police. (RUS408, $27.00)
	The Sexual Revolution in Russia, From the Age of the Czars to Today • Igor Kon • HISTORY • A groundbreaking, fascinating history of sex, sexuality and attitudes in Russia. (RUS147, $25.50)
	The Shaman's Coat, A Native History of Siberia • Anna Reid • HISTORY • Reid interviewed hunters, reindeer herders, storytellers and dozens of other original inhabitants across Siberia for this eye-opening book. With chapters on the Khant, Buryat, Tuvans, Sakha, Ainu and Chukchi people. (SIB28, $13.00)
	Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays • Valentin Rasputin • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A resident of Irkutsk, Rasputin combines great insight with supple prose and passion for his homeland in this collection of fiction and non-fiction. (SIB04, $18.00)
	Siberia, Siberia • Valentin Rasputin • EXPLORATION • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • A sweeping account of the exploration, conquest and colonization of Russia's "West," beginning with the crossing of the Ural Mountains by the Cossacks in 1580. (SIB01, $22.95)
	Siberian BAM Railway Guide: Rails, Rivers & Road • Athol Yates • Nicholas Zvegintzov • GUIDEBOOK • A handbook to the Russian North-East from the Pacific to Lake Baikal. An excellent guide to the region, with strip maps covering the 3,400-km rail trip. (SIB27, $23.95)
	The Siege • Helen Dunmore • LITERATURE • The 1941 siege of Leningrad is the backdrop for this affecting novel of one Russian family's attempts to survive during the darkest hours of World War II. (RUS258, $13.00)
	Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia • Kira Van Deusen • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An absorbing account of spiritual traditions, tales and religions among the Turkic peoples of Tuva and Khakassia in southern Siberia. (SIB43, $25.00)
	Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel • Boris Akunin • MYSTERY • In this third book in Akunin's Sister Pelagia mystery series, the Russian nun investigates the faked murder of a Jewish sect leader aboard a Jerusalem-bound steamer, following the hunted man from the Russian forests to the Holy Land. (RUS410, $15.00)
	Sleeping Beauty, A Legend in Progress • Tim Scholl • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A history of the popular ballet, prompted by the response to a controversial 1999 production. (RUS253, $40.00)
	Solovki, The Story of Russia Told through Its Most Remarkable Islands • Roy Robson • HISTORY • A remarkable amount of Russian history has played out among these remote arctic islands in Russia's White Sea. Robeson traces the story of the Solovetski Archipelago from settlement by early monks, though its 17th-century expansion into one of the largest monasteries in the world and its 20th-century infamy as fortress and prison camp. (SIB41, $30.00)
	Soviet Blitzkrieg, The Battle for White Russia, 1944 • Walter S. Dunn • HISTORY • A history of the Russian campaign to regain control of Belarus from the Germans in 1944. (RUS121, $55.00)
	The Soviet Space Race With Apollo • Asif A. Siddiqi • HISTORY • Perhaps the most significant space history, Siddiqi's book is the first complete account of the Soviet space program, from the end of World War II through the mid-1970s (RUS304, $34.95)
	Space Race, The Epic Battle Between America And the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space • Deborah Cadbury • HISTORY • Cadbury's history follows the stories of the two most important men involved in the design of the Soviet space program: the cold, authoritarian Werner von Braun and Sergei Korolev, a survivor of the Stalinist gulag. (RUS303, $24.95)
	Special Assignments • Boris Akunin • LITERATURE • Peopled by a rich cast of eccentric characters, and with plots that are as surprising as they are inventive, "Special Assignments "will delight Akunin's many fans, while challenging the gentleman sleuth's brilliant powers of detection. (RUS371, $14.00)
	Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge • Asif A. Siddiqi • HISTORY • An amazing accomplishment in the writing of space history, Siddiqi's book scratches beneath the surface of the Soviet space history to understand its methods and implications in detail. (RUS305, $34.95)
	St. Petersburg, A Cultural History • Solomon Volkov • Antonina Bouis • HISTORY • This intimate cultural history, written by a native historian and musician of the city, includes profiles of its artists and writers over the last 300 years. (RUS72, $38.95)
	St. Petersburg, Russia's Window to the Future • Arthur George • HISTORY • A history of the city, and especially its cultural life, published in celebration of its 300th anniversary. (RUS248, $35.00)
	Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland : An Illustrated History, 1928-1996 • Robert Weinberg • Bradley Berman • HISTORY • This fascinating, illustrated book tells the bizarre story of a failed national experiment to create a Jewish homeland near the Russian-Chinese border. (RUS343, $26.95)
	Stalin, Breaker of Nations • Robert Conquest • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A well known biography by Robert Conquest. (RUS249, $17.00)
	Stalingrad, The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 • Antony Beevor • HISTORY • (RUS297, $18.00)
	Stories from a Siberian Village • Vasily Shukshin • Laura Michael • John Givens • Kathleen Parthe • LITERATURE • A series of 25 stories from Russian author, actor and filmmaker Vasily Shukshin. Set in rural Siberia, these tales are not so much about the landscapes of the region, as they are about the people that inhabit them. (SIB19, $18.00)
	The Storks' Nest, Life and Love in the Russian Countryside • Laura Williams • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Williams' evocative memoir recounts four life-changing seasons in remote western Russia, where she worked at one of the largest intact forests in European Russia and fell in love with the the director of the Brysky Les Reserve, now her husband. (RUS438, $16.95)
	A Summer on the Yenesei, 1914 • Maud D. Haviland • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An amateur British ornithologist on an expedition down the Yenesei in 1914. (SIB08, $23.95)
	Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin • LITERATURE • This sampling of Pushkin's short stories includes his autobiographical "A Journey to Arzrum," the tale of travels from Moscow across the Caucasus and Georgia to Turkey during the war of 1829. (RUS232, $13.00)
	Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter, Peter the Great's Blackamoor • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin • LITERATURE • Four of Pushkin's best works of fiction, including The Queen of Spades, long acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. Translated by Alan Myers. (RUS400, $11.95)
	The Taste of Dreams, An Obsession with Russia and Caviar • Vanora Bennett • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A detailed history of caviar within the context of the complex history of modern Russia. (RUS226, $14.95)
	Tchaikovsky Through Others' Eyes • Alenander Poznansky • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Recollections of the master composer from his contemporaries. (RUS324, $39.95)
	Teach Yourself Beginner's Russian Script • Daphne West • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A step-by-step guide to reading and writing Cyrillic. (RUS207, $10.95)
	Teach Yourself Beginner's Russian, An Easy Introduction • Rachel Farmer • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A helpful introduction to the Russian language. (RUS110, $22.95)
	Teach Yourself Beginner's Russian, An Easy Introduction (Book) • Rachel Farmer • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A helpful introduction to the Russian language. (RUS124, $9.95)
	Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories • Sholem Aleichem • LITERATURE • A winning collection of Yiddish tales. (RUS170, $15.95)
	Thomas Cook Travellers Moscow & St Petersburg • Chris Booth • GUIDEBOOK • (RUS293, $14.95)
	To the Finland Station • Edmond Wilson • HISTORY • Wilson's fascinating account of the romance of revolution, originally published in 1940. (RUS206, $19.95)
	Track of the Tiger, Legend and Lore of the Great Cat • Maurice Hornocker • NATURAL HISTORY • A visually stunning celebration of the tiger. (BST19, $30.00)
	Tragedy of Russia's Reforms, Market Bolshevism Against Democracy • Peter Reddaway • Dmitri Glinsky • HISTORY • A provocative, comprehensive analysis. (RUS162, $29.95)
	Trans-Siberian Handbook • Bryn Thomas • GUIDEBOOK • This compact guide features maps, history and practical details for cities and sights from Moscow to Irkutsk and Vladivostok. (RUS73, $19.95)
	Transitional Citizens, Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia • Timothy J. Colton • HISTORY • A scholarly, sophisticated account of Russian citizens and the vote since the collapse of the Soviet Union. (RUS158, $35.50)
	A Travel Guide to Jewish Russia & Ukraine • Ben G. Frank • GUIDEBOOK • A focused, informative guide to both historical and contemporary sites of Jewish interest. The author follows in the footsteps of the 12th-century Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela. With historical context, practical travel information and brief descriptions of synagogues, museums, monuments, and schools. (RUS173, $25.00)
	Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe • Marybeth Bond • Mary Morris • ANTHOLOGY • Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris. (EUR160, $17.95)
	A Traveller's Companion To Moscow • Laur Kelly • ANTHOLOGY • A splendid introduction to the city. (RUS294, $16.95)
	A Traveller's History of Russia • Peter Neville • HISTORY • An impressively compact, lively survey of Russian history from the coming of the Slavs to the collapse of the Soviet Union. (RUS47, $14.95)
	Travels with Myself and Another, A Memoir • Martha Gellhorn • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In Gellhorn's collection of unforgettable journeys, first published in 1979, the incisive writer often traveled with Ernest Hemingway, the "another" of the title, who was her husband at the time. (TVL25, $15.95)
	The Treasures of Hermitage • Museums of the World • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The six-part documentary showcasing the Hermitage Museum and its magnificent collection of European art. (RUS238, $49.99)
	Treasury of Ukrainian Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs in Ukranian and English • Helene Turkewicz-Sanko • ANTHOLOGY • A short selection of Ukrainian writing (generally poetry) on the subject of love. (RUS117, $11.95)
	Two Sides of the Moon, Our Story of the Cold War Space Race • Tom Hanks • Neil Armstrong • Alexei Leonov • David Randolph Scott • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Astronaut David Scott and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov provide a unique perspective on the space race in this dual autobiography. (RUS302, $16.95)
	Ukraine Map • ITMB • A map of Ukraine, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (RUS86, $11.95)
	Ultimate Spy • H. Keith Melton • Markus Wolf • DK Publishing • Richard Helms • HISTORY • A treasure trove for espionage buffs, this ingeniously arranged collection of gadgets, documents and archival photographs is drawn from the Cold War peak of international intrigue. (SPY16, $30.00)
	The Unmaking of Soviet Life, Everyday Economies After Socialism • Caroline Humphrey • HISTORY • These ten anthropological essays, organized geographically, cover life and economy in Central Russia, Siberia and Mongolia. (RUS378, $19.95)
	Valery Gergiev and the Kirov, A Story of Survival • John Ardoin • MUSIC • Both a sumptuously illustrated history of St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater (aka the Kirov) and a portrait of its enthusiastic and talented artistic director, Valery Gergiev. (RUS212, $34.95)
	Valse des Fleurs, A Day in St Petersburg in 1868 • Sacheverell Sitwell • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A celebrated mediation on the court life in the Russian Imperial capital, originally published in 1941. In this extended essay Sitwell conjures snow and gilt, courtiers, music and pageantry, a military parade, sledges, sables, and Cossacks during the reign of Alexander II. (RUS209, $22.95)
	Voices from Chernobyl, The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster • Svetlana Alexievich • HISTORY • These powerful eyewitness accounts include ordinary citizens, firefighters and politicians. (RUS434, $15.00)
	The Volga River • Tim McNeese • HISTORY • YOUNG ADULTS • A cultural and economic history of 2,300 mile Volga River, a river that has served an important role in the lives and culture of the Russian people. (RUS348, $32.50)
	War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy • Constance Garnett • LITERATURE • Tolstoy's great historical and philosophical novel set in the age of Napoleon. (RUS20, $10.95)
	War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy • LITERATURE • This new translation by Peaver and Volokhonsky of Tolstoy's great historical and philosophical novel captures the rhythm and mood of Tolstoy's original Russian. (RUS367, $37.00)
	We Now Know, Rethinking Cold War History • John Lewis Gaddis • HISTORY • An analytical synthesis of Cold War events presented with the value of hindsight. (RUS191, $24.99)
	A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories • Andrew Broomfield • Victor Pelevin • LITERATURE • Pelevin's Kafkaesque stories are beautifully rendered in Broomfield's translation. The dark title story concerns a stranded Russian traveler who is beset by a pack of chatty werewolves. (RUS384, $12.95)
	Western Russia, Belarus, Ukraine Map • Falk Maps • COMING IN MARCH • This double-sided regional map shows a slice of Russia from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Belarus, Ukraine and the southern shores of the Black Sea at a scale of 1:2,000,000. It's the most detailed view of the Black Sea. (RUS313, $15.95)
	With the Armies of the Tsar, A Nurse at the Russian Front in War and Revolution, 1914-1918 • Frances Farmborough • HISTORY • A WWI memoir by a witness to the Russian revoltuion. (RUS139, $19.95)
	A Woman in Amber • Agate Nesaule • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • In this American Book Award-winning memoir, Nesaule recounts the horrors she witnessed and experienced as a young girl during World War II in Latvia. A gripping testimony of survival. (RUS30, $16.00)
	Women of the Four Winds • Elizabeth Olds • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A collection of four lively biographies of four 20th-century American explorers. (EXP19, $21.95)
	Worlds Apart, An Anthology of Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction • Alexand Levitsky • ANTHOLOGY • Drawn from a wide range of sources and periods, this collection illuminates the development of the genre through the course of Russian history and the influence of political, technological and social changes. (RUS427, $23.95)
	Writing the Siege of Leningrad, Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose • Cynthia Simmons • LITERATURE • These journals and other writings depict the horrors endured by women in Leningrad over the course of WWII's 900 day seige. (RUS396, $21.95)

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