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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.
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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) |
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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) |
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Alexander Pushkin, The Collected Stories
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
LITERATURE
A collection of Pushkin's major prose works and many shorter pieces.
(RUS196, $24.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Armageddon Averted, The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
Stephen Kotkin
HISTORY
An assessment of the decline of the Soviet Empire.
(RUS397, $16.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Balanchine, A Biography
Bernard Taper
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Taper sorts out the controversial legacy of the legendary choreographer George Balanchine.
(RUS193, $29.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Larissa Volokhonsky
Richard Pevear
LITERATURE
Dostoyevsky's final masterpiece.
(RUS108, $18.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture
Nicholas Rzhevsky
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A collection of scholarly articles on Russian culture.
(RUS295, $36.99) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
Freytag & Berndt
REFERENCE
A travel map of the Caucasus at a scale 1:1,000,000.
(CCS01, $14.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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.
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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A Concise History of the Russian Revolution
Peter Dimock
Richard Pipes
HISTORY
A serious but readable analysis of the Russian Revolution.
(RUS98, $17.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Days of Defeat and Victory
Yegor Gaidar
HISTORY
An architect of Yeltsin's reforms offers his views.
(RUS231, $30.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Defiance, The Bielski Partisans
Nechama Tec
HISTORY
The story of Jewish partisans from Belorussia rescuing Jews from the Holocasut.
(RUS120, $26.75) |
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The Devils
Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Magarshack
LITERATURE
(RUS309, $14.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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The Eastern Front, 1914-1917
Norman Stone
HISTORY
A classic study of Russia's contribution to WWI.
(WAR76, $16.95) |
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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) |
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Empire, The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
Dominic Lieven
HISTORY
(RUS296, $22.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Faberge in the Royal Collection
Caroline De Guitaut
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A handsome study of Faberge art and the British Royal Family.
(RUS215, $50.00) |
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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) |
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Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
LITERATURE
The classic novel by the most accessible of the great Russian novelists.
(RUS19, $12.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians
Yale Richmond
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An introduction to understanding Russian culture.
(RUS96, $23.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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.
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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) |
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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) |
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Gorbachev and Yeltsin As Leaders
George Breslauer
HISTORY
An astute, balanced political analysis.
(RUS156, $31.99) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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.
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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) |
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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.
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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) |
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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) |
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. III
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Thomas Whitney
LITERATURE
The third volume in "The Gulag Archipelago" trilogy.
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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) |
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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.
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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A History of Russia
Nicholas Riasanovsky
HISTORY
A comprehensive, balanced history of Russia, now in its sixth edition.
(RUS130, $56.00) |
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A History of Russia
George Vernadsky
HISTORY
A popular college text.
(RUS174, $32.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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.
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Ivan the Terrible
Henri Troyat
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A biography of Russia's first czar.
(RUS220, $21.95) |
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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) |
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Ivan Vasilievich, Back to the Future
Leonid Gaiday
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A madcap comedy, based on a Bulgakov play.
(RUS246, $29.99) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Knopf Mapguide, St. Petersburg
Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(RUS319, $10.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Lenin, A New Biography
Dmitri Volkogonov
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A well regarded biography.
(RUS250, $69.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK
An excellent practical guide to the region geared for independent travelers.
(BLT05, $25.99) |
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Lonely Planet Russia
Richard Nebesky
GUIDEBOOK
A practical guide to Russia.
(RUS82, $29.99) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Medieval Russia, 980-1584
Janet Martin
HISTORY
An accessible, concise scholarly history.
(RUS335, $39.99) |
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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) |
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Minsk Map
Freytag & Berndt
A city plan of Minsk at a scale of 1:16,000.
(RUS317, $11.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Moscow, Governing the Socialist Metropolis
Timothy J. Colton
HISTORY
A comprehensive scholarly history of Moscow.
(RUS157, $31.50) |
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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) |
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National Geographic St. Petersburg
Jeremy Howard
GUIDEBOOK
(RUS318, $22.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov
David Magarshack
LITERATURE
(RUS310, $15.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Passport to Russian
Charles Berlitz
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A basic Russian dictionary and phrasebook for the traveler.
(RUS224, $6.99) |
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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) |
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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) |
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A People's Tragedy, A History of the Russian Revolution
Orlando Figes
HISTORY
A monumental, engrossing account of the Russian Revolution.
(RUS181, $25.00) |
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Peter the Great
Paul Bushkovitch
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A revised view of the legendary modernizer of Russia.
(RUS169, $24.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Pocket Menu Reader Russia
Langenscheidt
Mario Caramitti
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A pocket guide to negotiating food and restaurants in Russian.
(RUS165, $7.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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The Queen of Spades
Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
MUSIC
The full score of one of Tchaikovsky's most popular operas.
(RUS219, $39.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Rasputin, The Saint Who Sinned
Brian Moynahan
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A juicy biography of the notorious Russian.
(RUS198, $17.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Rough Guide Moscow
Rough Guide
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive, no-nonsense guide to the culture, history and attractions of Moscow.
(RUS129, $18.99) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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The Russia House
John Le Carre
LITERATURE
Espionage in the age of Gorbachev delivered with traditional Le Carrean panache.
(RUS186, $7.99) |
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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) |
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Russia in Space, The Failed Frontier?
Brian Harvey
HISTORY
Can Russia once again lead the world into space?
(RUS182, $49.95) |
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Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great
Isabel De Madariaga
HISTORY
A classic scholarly history of 18th-century Russia.
(RUS144, $21.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Russian Ark
Alexander Sokurov
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A mesmerizing film by the Russian master, shot entirely within the Hermitage Museum.
(RUS237, $19.95) |
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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) |
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The Russian Empire, A Multiethnic History
Andreas Kappeler Kappeler
HISTORY
(RUS298, $51.60) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Russian Folk Art
Alison Hilton
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An illustrated survey of traditional Russian folk art.
(RUS104, $27.95) |
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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) |
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The Russian Heritage Cookbook
Lynn Visson
FOOD
A thorough and authentic guide to traditional Russian cooking with 360 recipes.
(RUS233, $28.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Russian Phrasebook & Dictionary
Hippocrene
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A handy phrasebook and basic dictionary featuring transliterations of all the Russian words.
(RUS65, $11.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Russian, Start Speaking Today!
Language/30
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A highly effective crash course for travelers. Na zdorovye!
(RUS192, $24.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Saint Petersburg, Museums Palaces and Historic Collections
Cathy Giangrande
John Julius Norwich
GUIDEBOOK
An illustrated guide to cultural attractions.
(RUS338, $12.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Stalin, Breaker of Nations
Robert Conquest
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A well known biography by Robert Conquest.
(RUS249, $17.00) |
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Stalingrad, The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943
Antony Beevor
HISTORY
(RUS297, $18.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Tchaikovsky Through Others' Eyes
Alenander Poznansky
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Recollections of the master composer from his contemporaries.
(RUS324, $39.95) |
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Teach Yourself Beginner's Russian Script
Daphne West
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A step-by-step guide to reading and writing Cyrillic.
(RUS207, $10.95) |
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Teach Yourself Beginner's Russian, An Easy Introduction
Rachel Farmer
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A helpful introduction to the Russian language.
(RUS110, $22.95) |
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Teach Yourself Beginner's Russian, An Easy Introduction (Book)
Rachel Farmer
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A helpful introduction to the Russian language.
(RUS124, $9.95) |
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Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
Sholem Aleichem
LITERATURE
A winning collection of Yiddish tales.
(RUS170, $15.95) |
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Thomas Cook Travellers Moscow & St Petersburg
Chris Booth
GUIDEBOOK
(RUS293, $14.95) |
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To the Finland Station
Edmond Wilson
HISTORY
Wilson's fascinating account of the romance of revolution, originally published in 1940.
(RUS206, $19.95) |
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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) |
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Tragedy of Russia's Reforms, Market Bolshevism Against Democracy
Peter Reddaway
Dmitri Glinsky
HISTORY
A provocative, comprehensive analysis.
(RUS162, $29.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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A Traveller's Companion To Moscow
Laur Kelly
ANTHOLOGY
A splendid introduction to the city.
(RUS294, $16.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Ukraine Map
ITMB
A map of Ukraine, at a scale of 1:1,000,000.
(RUS86, $11.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Constance Garnett
LITERATURE
Tolstoy's great historical and philosophical novel set in the age of Napoleon.
(RUS20, $10.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Women of the Four Winds
Elizabeth Olds
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A collection of four lively biographies of four 20th-century American explorers.
(EXP19, $21.95) |
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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) |
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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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