101 Stories of the Great Ballets  •  George Balanchine  •  Francis Mason REFERENCE •  1975 •  PAPER  • 541 PAGES Scene-by-scene retellings of the most popular ballets from the man who revolutionized the art. Includes production notes, summaries and personal comments for various productions of each ballet. (GEN262, $17.95)
The 900 Days, The Siege of Leningrad  •  Harrison Salisbury HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 640 PAGES Salisbury's detailed account of the Nazi blockade of Leningrad (now St Petersburg). During the siege, the only open route to the city lay across Lake Ladoga, where supplies could be driven on an ice road to the starving city in the winter. Lake Ladoga is included on river voyages between Moscow and St. Petersburg. (RUS235, $27.00)
Absurdistan  •  Gary Shteyngart LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 333 PAGES • NEW 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. The scene shifts from the Bronx to contemporary St. Petersburg and oil-besotted Absurdsvani, all as viewed through the fractured lens of Misha Vainberg, "the rap-music-obsessed, grossly overweight son of the 1,238th richest man in Russia." (RUS321, $13.95)
Alexander Pushkin, The Collected Stories  •  Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin LITERATURE •  1999 •  HARD COVER  • 548 PAGES An expanded collection of Pushkin's tales, including The Captain's Daughter, The Queen of Spades, Tales of Belkin, and many shorter works. With a long introduction by John Bayley and chronology. Translated and presented by Paul Debreczeny. (RUS196, $21.00)
All the Views Fit to Print, Changing Images of the U.S. In Pravda Political Cartoons, 1917-1991  •  Kevin J. McKenna HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Arranged chronologically, this scholarly book dissects Russian political cartoons and their depictions of America. It's an interesting study of the propaganda war waged throughout the 20th century. (RUS179, $49.95)
All Things Reconsidered, My Birding Adventures  •  Roger Tory Peterson NATURAL HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES A collection of 42 of Peterson's best columns from Bird Watcher's Digest, including his 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 •  2005 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES 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. Scott-Clark and Levy have also written a book on the search for prized Burmese jade (The Stone of Heaven). (RUS244, $16.00)
Anna Karenina  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Larissa Volokhonsky  •  Richa Pevear LITERATURE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 838 PAGES Tolstoy's tragic love story of the beautiful, but married Anna, and her passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. An adulterous relationship in late 19th Century Russia is not without its harsh consequences -- Anna loses her family and is ostracized by those around her in a social downfall. Interwoven with the story of Konstantin Levin and Princess Kitty Shcerbatsky, this epic work is a timeless novel of desire, weakness, and the search for love. (RUS81, $16.00)
An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction, Introduction to a Culture  •  Nichola Rzhevsky LITERATURE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 587 PAGES A thorough, heavily annotated collection of Russian literature, this text places the works in historical and cultural context. With an interactive multimedia CD with historical and biographical information, as well exerpts from film, music, dance, and theater. (RUS339, $45.95)
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana  •  Stephanie Elizondo Griest BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2004 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES The offbeat memoirs of a native Texan who spent four years as a volunteer in Moscow, a propaganda officer in Beijing, and a belly dancer in Havana. You may have come across Griest's distinctive voice in a collection of Travelers' Tales, where she is a regular contributor. She's young, a witty observer with a way with words, and utterly passionate about travel. This is her first book, as much memoir as travel account, spanning four years and three continents. (RUS242, $14.95)
The Art of the Russian Matryoshka  •  Rett Ertl ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2003 •  HARD COVER  • 225 PAGES 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 •  1991 •  PAPER  • 246 PAGES 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, $25.50)
Balanchine, A Biography  •  Bernard Taper BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1996 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES Taper sorts out the controversial legacy of the legendary choreographer in this study of his life. A newly added epilogue to this reprint of the original 1984 work examines how ballet been affected by Balanchine's death. (RUS193, $29.95)
Ballet 101, A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet  •  Robert Greskovic REFERENCE •  1998 •  PAPER  • 512 PAGES A comprehensive, well-written primer to getting the most out of your trip to the ballet. Aimed at alleviating the intimidation often associated with the ballet, dance critic Robert Greskovic offers readers an excellent digest of the art. He includes an account of ballet's international history, a dancer's training, the logistics of performance and a detailed look at 12 influential ballets. (GEN263, $16.95)
The Ballets Russes and Its World  •  Lynn Garafola CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1999 •  HARD COVER  • 420 PAGES 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, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence  •  Anatol Lieven HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 454 PAGES Lieven explores the culture and personality of the Baltic peoples, their religious and national differences and relations with Russia and the West. Written by a London Times correspondent who interweaves interviews, observations and history to reveal post-Glasnost Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (BLT02, $32.50)
Belarus, At a Crossroads in History  •  Jan Zaprudnik HISTORY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 278 PAGES A history of Belarus, with a focus on the status of the nation as the Soviet Union crumbled. (RUS123, $32.00)
Belorussia, Western Russia, Ukraine, North Map  •  GeoCenter MAP 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 •  2008 •  AUDIO CD  • 224 PAGES (RUS373, $14.95)
Birds of Europe, Russia, China and Japan: Volume Two, nonpasserines (Divers to Woodpeckers)  •  Norman Arlott FIELD GUIDE •  2009 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES • COMING IN APRIL 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 Earth, A Journey Through Russia After the Fall  •  Andrew Meier TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2003 •  HARD COVER  • 511 PAGES Meier, a journalist who covered Russia for "Time" from 1996-2001, ventures far outside the Kremlin gates for this account of typical Russians since the collapse of the Soviet Union. He focuses his report on South, North, East and West: war-torn Chechnya; the industrial northern city of Norilisk; the forgotten island of forgotten Sakhalin; and progressive St. Petersburg. An insightful portrait much in the spirit of David Remnick's "Resurrection." (RUS213, $28.95)
Black Night White Snow, Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917  •  Harrison Salisbury HISTORY •  1977 •  PAPER  • 746 PAGES A correspondent for the "New York Times" and the author of several fine books on Russia, Salisbury surveys the poets, prophets and religious fanatics that peopled this momentous era of Russian history. The book is an evocative, moving account of one of the great political tragedies of the 20th century -- brought to life in colorful detail. It begins with the execution of Lenin's brother for the attempted assassination of Tsar Alexander III, and goes on to paint a vivid picture of the fatal crush of the crowds at Tsar Nicolas II's coronation, Bloody Sunday, the abdication of the tsar, the storming of the Winter Palace in the October Revolution, the Communist takeover, and the first days of the emerging Soviet Union. (RUS12, $16.95)
Black Sea  •  Neal Ascherson CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1996 •  PAPER  • 306 PAGES A vivid and entertaining exploration of the Black Sea, with its unique mingling of cultures. Ascherson skillfully interweaves nature, politics, and culture as he describes both the history of the region and the current state of affairs. (RUS46, $18.00)
Bloom's Literary Guide to St. Petersburg  •  Bradley D. Woodworth HISTORY •  2005 •  HARD COVER 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 •  2000 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES A lively survey of the traditions and history of Ukraine, organized geographically. Reid, who was for three years the Kiev correspondent for the Economist, combines first-person reports, interviews and history in this insightful portrait of the region. (RUS84, $17.00)
Bradt Guide Georgia  •  Tim Burford GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES 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. Filled with photographs, maps and excellent travel information, including visiting Armenia on a three day visa. (CCS03, $25.99)
The Bronze Horseman, Falconet's Monument to Peter the Great  •  Alexander M. Schenker ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2003 •  HARD COVER  • 416 PAGES Schenker looks not only at the 18th-century monument, made famous by Pushkin's poem, but also its cultural significance and historical context. (RUS337, $45.00)
The Brothers Karamazov  •  Fyodor Dostoevsky  •  Larissa Volokhonsky  •  Richard Pevear LITERATURE •  1991 •  PAPER  • 832 PAGES Dostoyevsky's final masterpiece, the introspective, philosophical novel of four very different brothers dealing with the murder of their father. This edition is an acclaimed recent translation. (RUS108, $18.00)
Burning Lights  •  Bella Chagall  •  Marc Chagall  •  Norbert Guterman BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1988 •  PAPER  • 268 PAGES A memoir of growing up in the city of Vitebsk, Belarus in the beginning of the 20th century. Illustrated by the author's husband (famous artist Marc Chagall), this is a woman's story of life in traditional Belorussian society. (RUS122, $19.00)
C.I.S. and the Baltic States Map  •  Hildebrand MAP A reasonably detailed map of Western Russia and the Baltics (at a scale of 1:3.5 million) with a general all the states of the former USSR on the reverse at a scale of 1:15.7 million. The more detailed map includes not only the western portion of Russia, but much of Central Asia, right up to the Chinese border. (RUS22, $14.95)
Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture  •  Nicholas Rzhevsky CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1998 •  PAPER  • 372 PAGES A collection of scholarly articles on Russian culture. (RUS295, $31.99)
The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories  •  Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin LITERATURE •  1957 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES 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 •  1994 •  PAPER  • 377 PAGES One of the world's most notable biographers creates a grand portrait of a great monarch. This Russian-born French biographer of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Gogol weaves a rich tapestry of history that reads like a novel. Seizing power from her husband and second cousin Peter III, Catherine fights and beats the Turks, defeats rebellion, partitions Poland, raises the prestige of Russia in Europe by corresponding with French philosophers and buying western art, and brings vast new lands under her 34-year reign. (RUS10, $18.00)
Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan  •  Freytag & Berndt REFERENCE •  MAP A travel map of the Caucasus at a scale 1:1,000,000. (CCS01, $12.95)
A Century of Ambivalence, The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present  •  Zvi Y. Gitelman HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 321 PAGES A strikingly illustrated history of Jewish life in Russia, originally published in 1988 and expanded for this second edition. With two new chapters on the fate of Jews and Judaism in the former Soviet Union, 200 black-and-white photographs from YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and three maps. Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. (RUS172, $24.95)
Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe  •  Glynis Ridley HISTORY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES The entertaining history of a most unusual eighteenth-century European celebrity. Clara the Indian rhinoceros was brought to Europe in 1741 by the Dutch sea captain Douwemout Van der Meer, and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of heads of state such as Louis XV and Frederick the Great. A marvelous and unique look at the introduction of Eastern wildlife into the Western world. (FRN536, $12.00)
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel  •  Isaac Babel LITERATURE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 511 PAGES An authoritative edition of Isaac Babel's powerful short fiction, edited by his daughter Nathalie Babel and translated by award-winner Peter Constantine. This edition includes among its treasures his early Red Cavalry Stories and The Odessa Tales, masterpieces that draw on Babel's experiences. This work follows in the wake of the extraordinary Complete Works of Isaac Babel by the same team. (RUS171, $16.95)
Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin  •  Ivan Bunin  •  Graham Hettlinger ANTHOLOGY •  2007 •  PAPER In a new translation, this marvelously accessible collection of stories spans the Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer's long career. (RUS358, $19.95)
The Collected Tales  •  Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 464 PAGES From the superb Pevear and Volokhonsky, a new translation of Gogol's short fiction. (RUS379, $24.00)
The Coming Anarchy, Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War  •  Robert D. Kaplan TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES Topical essays by the prolific Robert Kaplan. (WLD51, $13.95)
Commonwealth of Independent States Map  •  Freytag & Berndt MAP 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). The map of Western Russia is the same plate as that for Eastern Europe (Item EUR36). (RUS133, $12.95)
Communism, A History  •  Richard Pipes HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 192 PAGES A short, fiercely critical history of communism from the ideas of Karl Marx to the end of the 20th century by the Harvard historian and critic of the Soviet Union (which is the focus of much of the book). A volume in the excellent Modern Library chronicles series. (GEN367, $13.95)
Con Ed  •  Matthew Klein LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 350 PAGES Kip comes home one day to find his son on his couch. Kip hasn't seen his son in years. Guess what' His son owes money to the Russian Mob. Kip can't say he saw that coming. And his son is short, well, the whole amount. Kip's monthly gross from the website generally tops out at twelve bucks. And suddenly Lauren's proposal isn't looking half bad. This is Kip's chance to start over, to save his son, to afford a brand new life. But Kips knows that in any heist things never go as planned, and if you don't improvise you'll be caught faster than a one-legged bank robber. But suddenly Kip doesn't know who's conning who'and if he doesn't figure it out, his life could be the ultimate failed con. (RUS345, $23.99)
A Concise History of the Russian Revolution  •  Peter Dimock  •  Richard Pipes HISTORY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 431 PAGES A scholarly analysis of the Russian revolution by Harvard Scholar Richard Pipes, from the events that catalyzed the revolution, to its conclusion and aftermath. Includes glossary, chronology, and photographs of important players of the Revolution. (RUS98, $17.00)
Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer  •  Andrei Makine LITERATURE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES The celebrated contemporary Russian author follows two ideologically fervent boys, Arkady and Alyosha, as they come of age in post-Stalin Soviet Union. (RUS136, $21.95)
The Cossacks  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Peter Constantine  •  Cynthia Ozick LITERATURE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 192 PAGES A fresh translation of Tolstoy's 1863 semi-autobiographical novel about a young Muscovite and his military adventures in the rough and ready Caucasus. The book is, in part, a portrait of the Cossacks -- and an account of falling in love. (RUS241, $11.95)
The Cossacks, An Illustrated History  •  John Ure HISTORY •  2001 •  HARD COVER  • 288 PAGES 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. With 105 color and 30 black and white illustrations. Interestingly, Ure challenges the notion that the Cossacks are no longer influential (or evident), detailing their involvement in Chechnya, Bosnia and other places. (RUS135, $45.00)
Cracks in the Iron Closet, Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia  •  David Tuller TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1997 •  PAPER  • 344 PAGES A soul-searching reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle out and about in 1990s Russia. Tuller mixes travelogue with history, social analysis, and lots of comentary on his circle of friends and aquaintances (including the lesbian he fell for). It's an intimate, slightly surreal portrait of an emerging gay subculture in modern Russia. (RUS149, $15.00)
The Crown Jewels, The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB's Archives  •  Nigel West  •  Oleg Tsarev HISTORY •  1999 •  HARD COVER  • 384 PAGES A lively account of Soviet intelligence activity in Britain from the end of World War I to the late 1950s. West is a prolific British military historian specializing in espionage. (SPY21, $50.00)
Culture Smart! Russia, A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette  •  Anna King GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 168 PAGES A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (RUS361, $9.95)
Days of Defeat and Victory  •  Yegor Gaidar HISTORY •  1999 •  HARD COVER  • 342 PAGES Gaidar, an architect of Yeltsin reforms, offers his lively, candid views on the dramatic events of the 1990s in this eyewitness account and memoir. (RUS231, $30.00)
A Dead Man's Memoir  •  Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES 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, $14.00)
The Death of Achilles, A Novel  •  Boris Akunin  •  Andrew Bromfield MYSTERY •  2006 •  PAPER The fourth book in the series starring Russian detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin, set in Moscow in 1882. (RUS291, $12.95)
The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Forty Years that Shook the World, from Stalin to Yeltsin  •  Fred Coleman HISTORY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 480 PAGES Having spent three years in Russia as a correspondent for the Associate Press, Coleman provides an insightful account of post-Stalin Russia. Coleman's main argument is that the disintegration of communism was inevitable with the death of Stalin. He also argues that the US overestimated Soviet power and Western influences could have facilitated the fall of the Soviet Union, prior to 1990. (RUS97, $19.95)
Defiance, The Bielski Partisans  •  Nechama Tec HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES Led by Tuvia Bielski and his brothers, a group of Jews in 1940s Belorusssia, known as the Bieleksi Partisans, mounted an armed rescue Jewish Europeans, saving hundreds from the Holocaust. This is their story, as gathered through interviews by Holocaust surviver Nechama Tec. (RUS120, $26.75)
The Devils  •  Fyodor Dostoevsky  •  David Magarshack LITERATURE •  1954 •  PAPER  • 704 PAGES (RUS309, $14.00)
Doctor Zhivago  •  Boris Pasternak  •  Max Hayward  •  Manya Harari LITERATURE •  1997 •  PAPER  • 592 PAGES This epic story of life and love -- set against the backdrop of the first half of the 20th century -- takes in both World Wars and the Revolution. Banned in Russia upon publication in the 1950s, it was later made into the classic film by David Lean. (RUS222, $15.95)
Dreams of My Russian Summers, A Novel  •  Andrei Makine LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES In this widely praised first novel, Makine writes evocatively of the coming of age of a young boy in the Soviet Union of the 1960's and 70's. (RUS266, $13.99)
Dynamo, Triumph and Tragedy in Nazi-Occupied Kiev  •  Andy Dougan HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES When Hitler's forces surrounded, invaded, and ravaged Kiev in 1941, among the city's many captured defenders were members of the 1939 Dynamo Kiev football team -- the best team in Europe before the war. But the athletes continued to play in captivity, and the German authorities organized a match against the Luftwaffe. The half-starved Ukranians lost the match (it was refereed by an S.S. officer), but the game survived in Ukranian history as a poignant allegory of resistence. (RUS326, $14.95)
The Eastern Front, 1914-1917  •  Norman Stone HISTORY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES A classic study of Russia's contribution to the First World War. First published in 1975, before Soviet archives were opened, this work details the Russian defeat and how it affected the 1917 revolution. (WAR76, $16.95)
Echoes of a Native Land, Two Centuries of a Russian Village  •  Serge Schmemann CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1999 •  PAPER  • 350 PAGES The author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist based in Moscow, draws on his knowledge of Russia, family photographs, letters and memoirs to tell the story of the czarist past and present realities of his ancestral home outside Moscow. (RUS27, $19.00)
Empire, The Russian Empire and Its Rivals  •  Dominic Lieven HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 528 PAGES (RUS296, $22.00)
The Empress & the Architect, British Architecture and Gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great  •  Dmitri Shvidkovsky ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1996 •  HARD COVER  • 273 PAGES A gorgeous oversize survey of the 18th-century palaces, towns, parks and gardens in Russia designed by Charles Cameron, the Scottish architect to the court of Catherine the Great. With 190 black-and-white and 100 color illustrations, including architectural drawings and engravings, watercolors and modern color photographs. Shvidkovsky is a leading historian of Russian architecture. Appropriate attention is devoted to Catherine's Palace at Pushkin (Tsarkoye Selo) and Pavlovsk. (RUS259, $80.00)
The End of Eurasia, Russia on the Border Between Geopolitics and Globalization  •  Dmitri Trenin HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 345 PAGES A thought provoking analysis of Russia's foreign policy by the deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center (and a retired Russian army officer). Trenin -- who argues for a Euro-centered Russia and integration with the West -- looks at Russia's western face, its southern borders with the Islamic republics of Central Asia and the far east, increasingly dominated by China. (RUS163, $24.95)
Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse  •  James E. Falen  •  Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin LITERATURE •  1998 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES A master work by one of Russia's most respected poets. Set in early 19th-century Russia, Pushkin's verse novel tells the tale of three men and three women, interwoven with a variety of literal philosophical and autobiographical tangents. (RUS101, $9.95)
Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse  •  Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin  •  Vladimir Nabokov LITERATURE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 362 PAGES 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, $22.95)
Eurasia's New Frontiers, Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures  •  Thomas W., Jr. Simons HISTORY •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 200 PAGES • COMING IN NOVEMBER Simons, a distinguished veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service with extensive experience in the Communist and post-Communist worlds, assays the political, economic, and social developments in the fifteen successor states to the Soviet Union that comprise Eurasia-from Estonia to Azerbaijan and from Tajikistan to Ukraine, centered on Russia. (RUS389, $25.00)
Faberge in the Royal Collection  •  Caroline De Guitaut ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2003 •  HARD COVER  • 240 PAGES A handsome study of Faberge art and the British Royal Family. Includes essays on the history of the collection, royal collectors, and Faberge's enduring influence. With 220 illustrations, 200 in color. (RUS215, $50.00)
The Face of Russia: Anguish, Aspiration and Achievement in Russian Culture  •  James H. Billington ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 296 PAGES A companion volume to the PBS television series, this is a well informed, entertaining guide to key figures in the history of Russian art and culture. The book is divided into three parts: The Monks, Aristocrats and Masses. Billington covers icon painting, literature of Gogol, Musogsky's music and Eisentstein's ground-breaking films. (RUS54, $16.00)
Failed Crusade, America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia  •  Stephen Cohen CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2001 •  PAPER  • 349 PAGES A sharply critical look at recent American policy in Russia, particularly the failure to distinguish between the redeemed nation of post-Cold War popular mythology and the less encouraging reality. (RUS341, $14.95)
Fathers and Sons  •  Ivan Turgenev LITERATURE •  1975 •  PAPER  • 295 PAGES This book is the original exploration of the generation gap, where the progressive, atheistic and scientific nihilism of the radical Bazarov clashes with the traditional values of his elders. The most accessible of the great Russian novelists, Turgenev was the first to create the modern revolutionary, the outsider, and the first to structure his story around the psychology of his characters instead of plot. More accurately translated than other Turgenev classics (RUS19, $12.00)
The First Circle  •  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  •  Thomas Whitney LITERATURE •  1997 •  PAPER  • 580 PAGES Set in Moscow, Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle follows the fate of Gleb Nerzhin, his scientist colleagues and fellow prisoners and how they negotiate the horrors of Soviet Russia in the years following WWII. Like his protagonist, the author was a mathematician forced to work in a Stalinist-era prison run as a research institute. Solzhenitsyn was the winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature. (RUS260, $16.95)
First Person, An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President  •  Vladimir Putin HISTORY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES A book-length series of interviews with Russia's leader, organized chronologically. The question and answer sessions cover the man, his politics and rise to power. Translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. (RUS161, $16.00)
Five Plays  •  Anton Chekhov  •  Ronald Hingley LITERATURE •  1998 •  PAPER  • 294 PAGES A comprehensive 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 •  2004 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES Set in Tsarist Russia, this well-known novel by Malamud tells the story of a young Jewish boy from Kiev wrongly accused of murder. Based on true events, the book confronts anti-semitism in Russia during the first decades of the 20th century. This classic novel (first published in 1966) was the first book ever to win both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. (RUS271, $15.00)
Fodor's Moscow and St. Petersburg  •  Christopher and Melanie Rice GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 275 PAGES This comprehensive guide in the Fodor's Gold series features solid practical information on sights, excursions, restaurants, hotels and nightlife. With a chapter on the cities of the Golden Ring. Fifth edition. (RUS03, $19.95)
Following Balanchine  •  Robert Garis BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1997 •  PAPER  • 260 PAGES Part art criticism, part personal memoir, this work is an homage to an artist by a passionate fan who watched his legacy unfold. English professor and dance critic Robert Garis describes how Balanchine's ballets prompted his own self-discovery. (RUS194, $28.00)
Food in Russian History and Culture  •  Joyce Toomre  •  Musya Glants FOOD •  1997 •  PAPER Food is the chosen lens for the 14 cultural historians who contributed essays to this scholarly, wide-ranging book. Topics range from Tolstoy's vegetarianism to starvation under Stalin to Soviet restaurants. (RUS143, $19.95)
From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians  •  Yale Richmond CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2003 •  PAPER  • 219 PAGES A cultural portrait of the Russians for the traveler, covering Russia's geography and culture, character, state and society. With chapters on "Personal Encounters" and "Negotiating with Russians." Richmond is a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer who spent 20 years in Russia. (RUS96, $23.95)
From Three Worlds, New Ukrainian Writing  •  Ed Hogan  •  Askold Melnyczuk  •  Michael Naydan ANTHOLOGY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 282 PAGES Contemporary short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels make up this anthology of writing from 15 native Ukrainians. (RUS118, $12.95)
From Union to Commonwealth  •  Gail Lapidus HISTORY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 127 PAGES 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, $27.99)
Gadfly in Russia  •  Alan Sillitoe LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Renowned novelist Sillitoe's recounts his travels from Germany to the U.S.S.R. in 1967 in an intriguing snapshot of the region under the Soviet stronghold. Relating stories of vodka and camaraderie, police checks and motor rallies in his deceptively simple voice, Sillitoe details his relationship with Russia, its people, and their changing fortunes over the past 40 years in a work of poignancy and substance. (RUS388, $16.95)
Galina, A Russian Story  •  Galina Vishnevskaya BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1985 •  PAPER  • 568 PAGES 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 Gentle Axe  •  R. N. Morris MYSTERY •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 320 PAGES The St. Petersburg of 1867 is brought vividly to life as investigator Porfiry Petrovich tries to unravel the dark mystery of a disturbing double murder case. Morris draws the reader through a world of squalor and corruption, skillfully capturing it with great spirit and empathy. (RUS315, $24.95)
The Georgian Feast, The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia  •  Darra Goldstein  •  Niko Pirosmani CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1999 •  PAPER  • 229 PAGES 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)
Gorbachev and Yeltsin As Leaders  •  George Breslauer HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 3831 PAGES An astute, balanced political analysis. Breslauer -- a professor at Berkeley -- has also published Khrushchev and Brezhnev as Leaders: Building Authority in Soviet Politics (1982). (RUS156, $27.99)
The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral  •  Robert A. Scott ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 307 PAGES Scott, whose interest in the history of cathedrals began when he first saw the magnificent Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Salisbury, England, takes his reader on a historical, architectural and sociological tour of the magnificent spires and stained-glass windows that dot the landscape of Europe. It's an accessible, personable overview. (EUR190, $17.95)
The Great History of the Russian Ballet, Its Art and Choreography  •  Elisabeth Souritz  •  Evdokia Belova  •  E. Bocharnikova ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1999 •  HARD COVER  • 208 PAGES An illustrated history of the Russification of ballet. For over two centuries the Russians have revolutionized and made this imported art form their own. This work, compiled by a team of scholars, chronicles the history of the discipline under the guidance of Petipa, Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev and more. With illustrations, designs, portraits and photographs. (RUS195, $55.00)
The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train through Asia  •  Paul Theroux TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES 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)
Growing Pains, Russian Democracy and the Election of 1993  •  Jerry F. Hough  •  Timothy J. Colton HISTORY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 745 PAGES An in-depth analysis of Russia's 1993 election -- the first since the collapse of the Soviet Union -- with attention given to campaigns, parties, personalities and the electoral process. (RUS75, $26.95)
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956  •  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 470 PAGES Solzhenitsyn's searing, Pulitzer Prize-winning record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression in an abridged edition, authorized by the author. (RUS385, $18.95)
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. I  •  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  •  Thomas Whitney LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 672 PAGES 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. This is the first volume in "The Gulag Archipelago" trilogy. (RUS113, $21.95)
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. II  •  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  •  Thomas Whitney LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 712 PAGES 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. This is the second (and by some considered the best) in "The Gulag Archipelago" trilogy. (RUS74, $21.95)
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. III  •  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  •  Thomas Whitney LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 570 PAGES 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. This is the third volume in "The Gulag Archipelago" trilogy. (RUS114, $21.95)
Gulag, A History  •  Anne Applebaum HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 677 PAGES A massive, fascinating and thoroughly unsettling history of Russia's infamous gulags by Anne Applebaum, noteworthy for its expansive view, effortless prose and prodigious research. Instituted in the aftermath of the Revolution and expanded during the reign of Stalin, this system of prison camps was simultaneously the Soviet Union's darkest secret and their greatest industrial asset. Millions died and millions more slaved in mines and factories. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (SIB34, $16.95)
Hadji Murad  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Aylmer Maude LITERATURE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 192 PAGES A short novel set in the 19th-century Caucasus, concerning -- in part -- conflicts between the occupying Russians and Muslim groups in the region. Tolstoy, who spent four years in the Russian army in the Caucasus, based his story on a real-life mountain warrior. Originally published posthumously in 1923, this edition includes an introduction by John Burt Foster that puts the novel in its historical context. (CCS18, $11.95)
Hadji Murat  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Colm Toibin LITERATURE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 130 PAGES In Hadji Murat, Tolstoy recounts the extraordinary meeting of two polarized cultures -- the refined, Europeanized court of the Russian tsar and the fierce Muslim chieftains of the Chechnen hills. This brilliant, culturally resonant fiction was written towards the end of Tolstoy's life, but the conflict it describes has obvious, ironic parallels with current affairs today. It is 1852, and Hadji Murat, one of the most feared mountain chiefs, is the scourge of the Russian army. When he comes to surrender, the Russians are delighted. Or have they naively welcomed a double-agent into their midst? With its sardonic portraits -- from the inscrutable Hadji Murat to the fat and bumbling tsa -- Tolstoy's story is an astute and witty commentary on the nature of political relations and states at war. (RUS383, $13.95)
The Heart of a Dog  •  Mikhail Bulgakov  •  Michael Glenny LITERATURE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 82 PAGES A comic tale -- and deadpan parable of the Russian revolution -- this novella opens with the memorable line: Ooow-ow-ooow-owow. Oh, look at me, I'm dying. Bulgakov makes great fun of boring everyday life in the Soviet Union in this high-spirited story of a dog who receives the testicles and pituitary glands of a recently decreased man. By the author of the superb "Master and Margarita." (RUS127, $13.00)
Here Is Where We Meet  •  John Berger LITERATURE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES 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. "The dead don't stay where they are buried," the protagonist's mother tells him, and this becomes the mantra for this most unusual journey through Europe's history and people. (EUR189, $14.00)
A Hero of Our Time  •  Mikhail Lermontov  •  Vladimir Nabokov  •  Dmitri Nabokov LITERATURE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 210 PAGES The story of the bored and cynical antihero Pechorin. A subtle, psychological, and brooding masterpiece of Russian Romanticism originally published in 1840, it influenced later 19th century greats including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov. (RUS316, $13.95)
Hippocrene Language and Travel Guide to Ukraine  •  Linda Hodges  •  George Chumak GUIDEBOOK •  2004 •  PAPER  • 387 PAGES • COMING IN NOVEMBER An insightful, personal travel guide to the region with chapters on Kiev, Crimea and Odessa, as well as an overview of the history of Ukraine. It opens with a chapter entitled "Developing a Ukrainian Perspective" and includes key phrases and language instruction throughout the book. This is the guide to getting the most out of an extended visit. Fourth edition. (RUS52, $18.95)
A History of Modern Russia, From Nicholas II to Putin  •  Robert Service HISTORY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 704 PAGES 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, $23.50)
The History of Russia  •  John Lawrence HISTORY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES A concise popular history of Russia from its pagan roots through the Tsarist period, revolution and post-Soviet realities. Seventh edition. (RUS289, $17.00)
A History of Russia  •  Nicholas Riasanovsky HISTORY •  2000 •  HARD COVER  • 776 PAGES First published nearly 40 years ago, this comprehensive history of Russia -- now in its sixth edition -- remains a popular survey for students and travelers with a serious interest in history. It's a scholarly, balanced survey from Russia's Kievan origins through Imperial and Soviet Russia to Yeltsin and the new Russian Federation. (RUS130, $56.00)
A History of Russia  •  George Vernadsky HISTORY •  1986 •  PAPER  • 520 PAGES A popular college text. (RUS174, $30.00)
A History of Russian Architecture  •  William Craft Brumfield ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 664 PAGES 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 •  2001 •  HARD COVER  • 440 PAGES A scholarly social history of Russian music and the influence of notable Russian composers starting in the early 19th century with Mikhail Glinka and covering up through the 1970s with the works of Shostakovich. (RUS223, $60.00)
A History of the Peoples of Siberia, Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990  •  James Forsyth HISTORY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 455 PAGES An ethnohistory of the people of Siberia from Russian conquest to the 1980s. Forsyth looks at 30 indigenous groups, comparing their experience with the Eskimos and Indians of North America. Along with the Yakuts, Tatars and Chukchis, this comprehensive study also features the peoples of Lake Baikal, Manchuria and the Russian-Chinese border. With 16 halftones and 12 maps. (SIB03, $48.00)
A History of Twentieth-Century Russia  •  Robert Service HISTORY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 651 PAGES A lively, comprehensive history of modern Russia and particularly the Soviet period, which draws on recent archival material. Perhaps daunting in size, Service skillfully combines scholarship (including much Russian scholarship and primary sources), anecdotes, facts, personality and analysis into a big but thoroughly readable narrative history. With a few maps and drawings, notes and index. (RUS131, $20.95)
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia  •  Dan Healey CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2001 •  HARD COVER  • 376 PAGES This study unearths the legal, medical and political attitudes toward gay men and women before and after 1917. Healey, a lecturer in Russian social history in Wales, reveals the changing homosexual subculture in Moscow and St. Petersburg in this fascinating, scholarly book. (RUS145, $45.00)
Hope Against Hope  •  Nadezhda Mandelstam BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1999 •  PAPER  • 480 PAGES Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of life with her husband Osip and a riveting account of Stalinist Russia. One of Russia's greatest 20th-centuiry poets, Osip Mandelstam died in Stalin's Great Purge of 1937-38. (RUS308, $23.00)
House of the Dead  •  Fyodor Dostoevsky  •  David McDuff LITERATURE •  1986 •  PAPER  • 362 PAGES Dostoyevsky's semi-autobiographical novel of a man forced to endure ten years in a Siberian prison for the murder of his wife. Accused as a political subversive, Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in a prison camp. (RUS261, $12.00)
I, Maya Plisetskayar  •  Maya Plisetskaya  •  Antonia W. Bouis BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2001 •  HARD COVER  • 448 PAGES 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, $48.00)
Icon and Devotion, Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia  •  Oleg Tarasov RELIGION •  2003 •  HARD COVER  • 416 PAGES A well-illustrated, scholarly overview of the techniques, history, myth and meaning of Russian Icons in the context of religious and popular culture. (RUS332, $40.00)
The Icon and the Axe, An Interpretive History of Russian Culture  •  James H. Billington HISTORY •  1970 •  PAPER  • 786 PAGES From Kievan beginnings through 600 years to the Soviet era, this book presents the intellectual currents that have shaped Russia and her traditions. It's a cultural and artistic history, written by the Librarian of Congress: a comprehensive, intellectual investigation of the spiritual and ideological forces that led to the development of Russia. (RUS09, $23.00)
Igor Stravinsky, An Autobiography  •  Igor Stravinsky BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1998 •  PAPER  • 176 PAGES A brief account of the life and work of Stravinsky (1882-1971), by the conductor himself, covering the first 50 years of his life in St. Petersburg, France and Switzerland. Originally published in 1956. (MUS18, $14.95)
Images of Space, St. Petersburg in the Visual and Verbal Arts  •  Grigory Kaganov  •  Sidney Monas ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1997 •  HARD COVER  • 238 PAGES A slim, academic study, featuring 75 black-and-white engravings, paintings and illustrations. This is not an architectural guide to St. Petersburg in the traditional sense. Instead of studying the buildings, parks, and bridges of the historic city, Kaganov delves into changing ideas about spatial representation, looking at the way St. Petersburg's urban spaces -- and the depiction of them in art and literature-- have changed over the centuries. (RUS42, $57.95)
Imperium  •  Ryszard Kapuscinski HISTORY •  1995 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES An account of the rise to power and fall of the Soviet Union, and the challenges faced thereafter by the resulting democracies. (RUS376, $15.00)
In Europe, Travels Through the Twentieth Century  •  Geert Mak HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 896 PAGES Dutch journalist Mak's big, bold account of Europe on the threshold of the 21st century bridges travel, journalism and history. He reports from Lisbon and Helsinki to Moscow, Istanbul, the D-day beaches and other momentous sites, deftly profiling the people and events that have defined modern Europe. (EUR254, $20.00)
Inside Putin's Russia, Can there be Reform Without Democracy?  •  Andrew Jack HISTORY •  2005 •  PAPER An illuminating, highly readable survey of developments in Russia since 1998 by the Moscow bureau chief of the Financial Times. (RUS283, $17.95)
Insight Guide Russia  •  Anna Benn GUIDEBOOK •  2002 •  PAPER  • 383 PAGES 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)
Ivan the Terrible  •  Henri Troyat BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2002 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES The author of biographies of Catherine the Great and Tolstoy, Henri Troyat illuminates the life and fear-inspiring reign of Russia's first czar, the aptly named Ivan the Terrible. (RUS220, $21.95)
Ivan The Terrible, First Tsar of Russia  •  Isabel De Madariaga HISTORY •  2005 •  HARD COVER  • 384 PAGES An important biography of the much-misunderstood 16th-century Russian czar and his times, including a consideration of the role of religion, magic and astrology at the royal court. (RUS278, $35.00)
Ivan Vasilievich, Back to the Future  •  Leonid Gaiday CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1973 •  DVD In this madcap comedy, based on a play by Mikhail Bulgakov, finds Vasilievich transported from Soviet-era Moscow to the palace of Ivan the Terrible. (RUS246, $29.99)
A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire  •  Anton Chekhov TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 110 PAGES By tramp steamer, carriage and horse, Chekhov journeyed to the far reaches of Siberia and the Russian Far East in the 1890s. The first part of this brief account, taken from A Life in Letters, focuses on his adventures around Baikal. The second half, from The Island, A Journey to Sakhalin," is a piercing account of exiled convicts and native peoples. (RUS350, $10.00)
K-19 The Widowmaker: The Secret Story of the Soviet Nuclear Submarine  •  Peter A. Huchthausen HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 243 PAGES 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. Former U.S. Navy antisubmarine expert Peter Huchthausen tells this stunning true story of captain Nikolai Zateyev and crew's life saving heroics. Includes rare archival photographs, movie stills and an afterward by director Kathryn Bigelow. (RUS187, $16.00)
Khrushchev, The Man and His Era  •  William Taubman BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2004 •  PAPER  • 908 PAGES A definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the life of Nikita Khrushchev, which also serves a detailed portrait of Soviet Russia and the legacy of Stalin. Taubman is professor of political science at Amherst (RUS257, $17.95)
Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917  •  Michael F. Hamm HISTORY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES From medieval center to important city in Imperial Russia, this scholarly book is a wonderfully informative cultural history of the city and especially its 19th-century legacy. (RUS56, $37.50)
The Kitchen Boy  •  Robert Alexander LITERATURE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 229 PAGES The first in Alexander's series of historical novels of Tsarist Russia, The Kitchen Boy tells the secret history of the assasination of Nicholas II and his family by the Bolsheviks. Misha, the only living witness to an event which remains mysterious, reveals the events of that fateful night. Alexander's prose is haunting and rich with detail. (RUS374, $14.00)
Knopf Mapguide, St. Petersburg  •  Knopf Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 48 PAGES 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 •  2001 •  HARD COVER  • 176 PAGES A portfolio of 100 photographs of the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with an accompanying essay by Harvard professor Svetlana Boym. The somber photographs were taken between 1995 and 1997 in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. (RUS184, $40.00)
Kremlin Rising, Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution  •  Peter Baker  •  Susan Glasser HISTORY •  2005 •  HARD COVER  • 453 PAGES A critical overview of recent political change in Russia by two Washington Post journalists. (RUS273, $27.50)
Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance  •  Lynn Garafola CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2005 •  PAPER  • 468 PAGES 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)
Lenin Lives!, The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia  •  Nina Tumarkin HISTORY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 337 PAGES 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 •  1994 •  HARD COVER  • 529 PAGES A well regarded biography. (RUS250, $69.00)
Life and Fate  •  Vasily Grossman LITERATURE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 896 PAGES 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 •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 528 PAGES Back in print! 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 •  1995 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES 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 •  2006 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES In its hallmark style, this practical guide to the Baltic nations by Lonely Planet features maps, a good overview of culture, history and language, and much nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. With color photographs and excellent travel information. (BLT05, $25.99)
Lonely Planet Russia & Belarus  •  Richard Nebesky GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 704 PAGES A practical guide to Russia, including Ukraine & Belarus, featuring a good overview of culture and history and, more significantly, detailed travel information on where to go and what to do. (RUS82, $29.99)
Lost Opportunity: What has Made Economic Reform in Russia so Difficult?  •  Marshall Goldman HISTORY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 308 PAGES 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. Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard, the author is none too optimistic about the prospects for genuine reform. (RUS64, $13.95)
Making Sense of War, the Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution  •  Amir Weiner HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES A consideration of WWII and its impact on Russia. (RUS251, $32.95)
Mammals of Europe  •  Priscilla Barrett  •  David W. MacDonald FIELD GUIDE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES 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, it's a comprehensive handbook, with detailed descriptions, range maps and commentary on behavior. (FG61, $34.95)
The Master of Petersburg  •  J.M. Coetzee LITERATURE •  1995 •  PAPER  • 250 PAGES Celebrated author Fyodor Dostoyevski becomes a literary character in Coetzee's novel of 19th-century Russia. Dostoyevski is summoned to St. Petersburg to investigate the suicide of his stepson. The mystery he soon becomes ensnared in illuminates the underworld of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. (RUS200, $15.00)
Medieval Russia, 980-1584  •  Janet Martin HISTORY •  1995 •  PAPER  • 480 PAGES An accessible, concise scholarly history. (RUS335, $39.99)
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great  •  Catherine the Great  •  Mark Cruse  •  Hilde Hoogenboom BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2005 •  HARD COVER  • 352 PAGES Catherine The Great's rule lasted from 1762 until her death in 1796; this collection of her memoirs begins some years before, upon her arrival in Russia as a German princess in 1744. An intimate insight into the life of the world-renowned ruler and her often uneasy adjustment to the world of Russian royalty. (RUS277, $26.95)
Minsk Map  •  Freytag & Berndt 2006 •  MAP A city plan of Minsk, the capital of Belarus and its largest city, at a scale of 1:16,000. (RUS317, $10.95)
The Moldovans: Romania, Russia and the Politics of Culture  •  Charles King HISTORY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 294 PAGES A scholarly political and cultural history of Moldova, focusing on issues of national identity in a post-Soviet world. (EUR97, &#