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	101 Stories of the Great Ballets • George Balanchine • Francis Mason • REFERENCE • Scene-by-scene retellings of the most popular ballets from the man who revolutionized the art. (GEN262, $17.95)
	The 900 Days, The Siege of Leningrad • Harrison Salisbury • HISTORY • Salisbury's detailed account of the three-year-long Nazi blockade of Leningrad (now St Petersburg). (RUS235, $27.00)
	Alexander Pushkin, The Collected Stories • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin • LITERATURE • A collection of Pushkin's major prose works and many shorter pieces. (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 • This scholarly book dissects Russian political cartoons and their depictions of America. (RUS179, $49.95)
	The Amber Room, The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure • Adrian Levy • Catherine Scott-Clark • HISTORY • Two investigative journalists on the trail of a roomful of amber from the days of Peter the Great, missing since the Siege of Leningrad in 1941. (RUS244, $16.00)
	Among the Russians • Colin Thubron • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The marvelous account of a 10,000-mile journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia in 1981. A gifted writer and intrepid traveler, Thubron grapples with the complex Russian identity in this lyrical book. (RUS106, $14.00)
	Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy • Larissa Volokhonsky • Richa Pevear • LITERATURE • Pevear and Volokhonsky have brilliantly reinvented Tolstoy's epic tale of an adulterous affair between an aristocratic woman and an officer in late 19th Century Russia for a new generation of readers, capturing the rhythms, repetitions and speech of the original Russian. (RUS81, $16.00)
	Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana • Stephanie Elizondo Griest • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The offbeat memoirs of a Texan who spent four years as a volunteer in Moscow, a propaganda officer in Beijing, and a belly dancer in Havana. (RUS242, $14.95)
	The Art and Architecture of Russia • George Hamilton • Judith Gordon • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An elegantly written introduction to the art and architecture of Russia. Published in 1954, it's a good handbook for the traveler that goes beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg. Includes 314 black-and-white illustrations. (RUS38, $32.00)
	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)
	Balanchine, A Biography • Bernard Taper • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Taper sorts out the controversial legacy of the legendary choreographer George Balanchine. (RUS193, $29.95)
	Ballet 101, A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving the Ballet • Robert Greskovic • REFERENCE • 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. (GEN263, $16.95)
	The Ballets Russes and Its World • Lynn Garafola • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A gorgeously illustrated collection of essays on the history and influence of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. by 14 contributing writers. With lavish illustrations and an extensive bibliography. (RUS252, $60.00)
	The Baltic Revolution, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence • Anatol Lieven • HISTORY • A Latvian himself and a correspondent for the London Times, Lieven mixes history, interviews and analysis in this vivid portrait of post-Glasnost Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (BLT02, $32.50)
	Belarus, At a Crossroads in History • Jan Zaprudnik • HISTORY • A history of Belarus, with a focus on the status of the nation as the Soviet Union crumbled. (RUS123, $32.00)
	Belorussia, Western Russia, Ukraine, North Map • GeoCenter • A map of Belarus, the northern Ukraine and Western Russia at a scale of 1:750,000. (RUS137, $11.95)
	Black Earth, A Journey Through Russia After the Fall • Andrew Meier • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 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. (RUS213, $28.95)
	Black Night White Snow, Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917 • Harrison Salisbury • HISTORY • An evocative, moving account of one of the great political tragedies of the 20th century. (RUS12, $16.95)
	Black Sea • Neal Ascherson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Ascherson weaves his own travels and impressions with a fascinating account of the history of the region in this skillful portrait. (RUS46, $18.00)
	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. (RUS84, $17.00)
	Bradt Guide Georgia • Tim Burford • GUIDEBOOK • This convenient guide is a personal, detailed overview of Georgia. It includes coverage of the Black Sea coast, Tbilisi and other major towns, as well as information on history, culture and accommodations. (CCS03, $25.99)
	The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoevsky • Larissa Volokhonsky • Richard Pevear • LITERATURE • Dostoyevsky's final masterpiece. (RUS108, $18.00)
	Burning Lights • Bella Chagall • Marc Chagall • Norbert Guterman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A memoir of growing up in the city of Vitebsk, Belarus in the beginning of the 20th century. Illustrated by Marc Chagall, the author's husband. (RUS122, $19.00)
	C.I.S. and the Baltic States Map • Hildebrand • A map of all the states of the former USSR. (RUS22, $14.95)
	Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture • Nicholas Rzhevsky • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A collection of scholarly articles on Russian culture. (RUS295, $31.99)
	The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin • LITERATURE • Featuring Pushkin's novel-length masterpeice, The Captains Daughter, set against the events of the Pugachov uprising in during the reign of Catherine II. (RUS311, $11.95)
	Catherine the Great, A Short History • Isabel De Madariaga • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A brief survey of the reign of Catherine the Great that nicely balances biography with descriptions of the economic, political and social life of the period. (RUS105, $14.95)
	Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan • Freytag & Berndt • REFERENCE • 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 • 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)
	Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe • Glynis Ridley • HISTORY • The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state. (FRN536, $12.00)
	The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel • Isaac Babel • LITERATURE • An authoritative edition of Isaac Babel's powerful short fiction, including his early Red Cavalry Stories and The Odessa Tales. (RUS171, $16.95)
	The Coming Anarchy, Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War • Robert D. Kaplan • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Topical essays by the prolific Robert Kaplan. (WLD51, $13.95)
	Commonwealth of Independent States Map • Freytag & Berndt • A double-sided map of the entire CIS, divided into Western Russia (at a scale of 1:2,000,000 and eastern Russia (1:8,000,000). (RUS133, $12.95)
	Communism, A History • Richard Pipes • HISTORY • A short, fiercely critical history of communism from the ideas of Karl Marx to the end of the 20th century. (GEN367, $13.95)
	A Concise History of the Russian Revolution • Peter Dimock • Richard Pipes • HISTORY • A serious but readable analysis of the Russian Revolution. (RUS98, $17.00)
	Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer • Andrei Makine • LITERATURE • The celebrated author follows two ideologically fervent boys as they grow into disillusioned men. (RUS136, $21.95)
	The Cossacks • Leo Tolstoy • Peter Constantine • Cynthia Ozick • LITERATURE • A fresh translation of Tolstoy's 1863 semi-autobiographical novel about a young Muscovite and his military adventures in the rough and ready Caucasus. The book is, in part, a portrait of the Cossacks -- and an account of falling in love. (RUS241, $11.95)
	The Cossacks, An Illustrated History • John Ure • HISTORY • In this lively, beautifully illustrated overview, a career diplomat (and frequent visitor to the region) explores the history of the Cossacks in Southern Russia and central Asia and their role in world affairs. (RUS135, $45.00)
	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, $15.00)
	The Crown Jewels, The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB's Archives • Nigel West • Oleg Tsarev • HISTORY • A lively account of Soviet intelligence in Britain from the end of World War I to the late 1950s. West is a prolific British military historian specializing in espionage. (SPY21, $50.00)
	Culture Smart! Russia, A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette • Anna King • GUIDEBOOK • A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (RUS361, $9.95)
	Days of Defeat and Victory • Yegor Gaidar • HISTORY • An architect of Yeltsin's reforms offers his views. (RUS231, $30.00)
	The Death of Achilles, A Novel • Boris Akunin • Andrew Bromfield • MYSTERY • The fourth in the series starring Russian detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin, this time in Moscow on the trail of an assassin. (RUS291, $12.95)
	The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Forty Years that Shook the World, from Stalin to Yeltsin • Fred Coleman • HISTORY • Insightful analysis of Russia history and politics, post Stalin. (RUS97, $19.95)
	Defiance, The Bielski Partisans • Nechama Tec • HISTORY • The story of Jewish partisans from Belorussia rescuing Jews from the Holocasut. (RUS120, $26.75)
	The Devils • Fyodor Dostoevsky • David Magarshack • LITERATURE • (RUS309, $13.00)
	Dreams of My Russian Summers, A Novel • Andrei Makine • LITERATURE • 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, $14.00)
	The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 • Norman Stone • HISTORY • A classic study of Russia's contribution to WWI. (WAR76, $16.95)
	Echoes of a Native Land, Two Centuries of a Russian Village • Serge Schmemann • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The author draws on his knowledge of Russia, family photographs, letters and memoirs to tell the story of the czarist past and present realities of his ancestral home outside Moscow. (RUS27, $19.00)
	Empire, The Russian Empire and Its Rivals • Dominic Lieven • HISTORY • (RUS296, $22.00)
	The Empress & the Architect, British Architecture and Gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great • Dmitri Shvidkovsky • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A gorgeous oversize survey of Catherine's Palace at Pushkin (Tsarkoye Selo) and Pavlovsk, designed by the great 18th-century Scottish architect Charles Cameron. (RUS259, $80.00)
	The End of Eurasia, Russia on the Border Between Geopolitics and Globalization • Dmitri Trenin • HISTORY • A thought provoking analysis of Russia's foreign policy and argument for Russia's' integration with Europe and the West. (RUS163, $24.95)
	Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse • James E. Falen • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin • LITERATURE • A master work by one of Russia's most respected poets. (RUS101, $9.95)
	Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin • Vladimir Nabokov • LITERATURE • In this translation of Pushkin's epic poem set in 19th-century Russia, the great novelist Nabokov brings the spark of Pushkin's original words to life. (RUS290, $22.95)
	Faberge in the Royal Collection • Caroline De Guitaut • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A handsome study of Faberge art and the British Royal Family. (RUS215, $50.00)
	The Face of Russia: Anguish, Aspiration and Achievement in Russian Culture • James H. Billington • ART & ARCHITECTURE • The history of Russia as reflected in its sumptuous art and architecture. (RUS54, $16.00)
	Fathers and Sons • Ivan Turgenev • LITERATURE • The classic novel by the most accessible of the great Russian novelists. (RUS19, $12.00)
	The First Circle • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Thomas Whitney • LITERATURE • A powerful novel of the horrors of Soviet Russia set in Moscow in 1949. It won Solzhenitsyn the Nobel Proze for Literature in 1970. (RUS260, $16.95)
	First Person, An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President • Vladimir Putin • HISTORY • A self-portrait portrait of the Russian leader based on interviews with Russian journalists. (RUS161, $16.00)
	Five Plays • Anton Chekhov • Ronald Hingley • LITERATURE • A collection of Chekhov's major plays, including "Ivanov," "The Seagull," "Uncle Vanya," "Three Sisters," and "The Cherry Orchard." (RUS88, $8.95)
	The Fixer • Bernard Malamud • LITERATURE • Set in Tsarist Russia, this well-known novel by Malamud tells the story of a young Jewish boy from Kiev wrongly accused of murder. (RUS271, $15.00)
	Fodor's Moscow and St. Petersburg • Christopher and Melanie Rice • GUIDEBOOK • With solid practical information on sights, excursions, restaurants, hotels and nightlife, and a chapter on the cities of the Golden Ring. (RUS03, $19.95)
	Following Balanchine • Robert Garis • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Part art criticism, part personal memoir, this work is an homage to an artist by a fan who watched his legacy unfold. (RUS194, $28.00)
	Food in Russian History and Culture • Joyce Toomre • Musya Glants • FOOD • Food is history in this compendium of essays by cultural historians. (RUS143, $19.95)
	From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories • Carl Proffer • ANTHOLOGY • A broad selection of Russian literary works from the earliest prose to the years before the revolution, featuring reliable translations of masterpieces from Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gogol, and more. (RUS08, $21.95)
	From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians • Yale Richmond • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An introduction to understanding Russian culture. (RUS96, $23.95)
	From Three Worlds, New Ukrainian Writing • Ed Hogan • Askold Melnyczuk • Michael Naydan • ANTHOLOGY • Contemporary short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels make up this anthology of writing from 15 native Ukrainians. (RUS118, $12.95)
	From Union to Commonwealth • Gail Lapidus • HISTORY • A sweeping history of the fragmentation of the Soviet Union by a team of experts, each writing from their own area of knowledge - political, historical and sociological. (RUS285, $27.99)
	Galina, A Russian Story • Galina Vishnevskaya • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Born in St. Petersburg, the great Soprano (and wife of Mstislav Rostropovich) recounts her extraordinary life in this bestseller (turned into an opera in 1996). (RUS312, $26.00)
	The Gentle Axe • R. N. Morris • MYSTERY • 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. (RUS315, $24.95)
	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, $19.95)
	Gorbachev and Yeltsin As Leaders • George Breslauer • HISTORY • An astute, balanced political analysis. (RUS156, $27.99)
	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, $17.95)
	The Great History of the Russian Ballet, Its Art and Choreography • Elisabeth Souritz • Evdokia Belova • E. Bocharnikova • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A nicely illustrated scholarly history of Russian ballet, translated from the Russian. (RUS195, $55.00)
	The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train through Asia • Paul Theroux • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Theroux's vintage 1970s journeys across Asia by Train, displaying all his talent for portraiture, ego and the dismissive aside. It's great fun. He takes every two-bit train he can find from London across Europe, Turkey and the Middle East, India, Japan and China, returning home via the Trans-Siberian Express. (ASA40, $14.95)
	Growing Pains, Russian Democracy and the Election of 1993 • Jerry F. Hough • Timothy J. Colton • HISTORY • An in-depth analysis of Russia's 1993 national election and wrangling over power. (RUS75, $26.95)
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: 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, $26.00)
	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, $28.00)
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Vol. III • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Thomas Whitney • LITERATURE • (RUS114, $26.00)
	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, $16.95)
	Hadji Murad • Leo Tolstoy • Aylmer Maude • LITERATURE • A short novel set in the 19th-century Caucasus, concerning -- in part -- conflicts between the occupying Russians and Muslim groups in the region. (CCS18, $11.95)
	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, $13.00)
	Here Is Where We Meet • John Berger • LITERATURE • This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow. (EUR189, $14.00)
	A Hero of Our Time • Mikhail Lermontov • Vladimir Nabokov • Dmitri Nabokov • LITERATURE • The story of the bored and cynical antihero Pechorin. A masterpiece of Russian Romanticism originally published in 1840. (RUS316, $13.95)
	Hippocrene Language and Travel Guide to Ukraine • Linda Hodges • George Chumak • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN SEPTEMBER • 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. (RUS52, $18.95)
	A History of Russia • Nicholas Riasanovsky • HISTORY • A comprehensive, balanced history of Russia, now in its sixth edition. (RUS130, $56.00)
	A History of Russia • George Vernadsky • HISTORY • A popular college text. (RUS174, $30.00)
	The History of Russia • John Lawrence • HISTORY • A concise popular history of Russia from its pagan roots through the Tsarist period, revolution and post-Soviet realities. (RUS289, $17.00)
	A History of Russian Music, From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar • Francis Maes • Arnold Pomerans • MUSIC • A scholarly, chronological history of Russian music. (RUS223, $60.00)
	A History of the Peoples of Siberia, Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990 • James Forsyth • HISTORY • An ethnohistory of the people of Siberia from Russian conquest to the 1980s. Forsyth looks at 30 indigenous groups, comparing their experience with Eskimos and Indians in North America. (SIB03, $48.00)
	A History of Twentieth-Century Russia • Robert Service • HISTORY • A lively, comprehensive history of modern Russia, and especially of the Soviet period. (RUS131, $20.95)
	Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia • Dan Healey • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Changing attitudes toward gay men and women in urban Russia, before and after 1917. (RUS145, $45.00)
	Hope Against Hope • Nadezhda Mandelstam • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of life with her husband Osip and a riveting account of Stalinist Russia. (RUS308, $23.00)
	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)
	How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism • Steven G. Marks • HISTORY • This wide-ranging book focuses on Russian contributions to art, literature, politics and ideas of 19th- and 20th-century Europe and America. (RUS245, $24.95)
	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, $48.00)
	The Icon and the Axe, An Interpretive History of Russian Culture • James H. Billington • HISTORY • A cultural and artistic history, written by the Librarian of Congress. This book is 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 • Stravinsky memoir, covering the first 50 years of his life in Russia, France and Switzerland. (MUS18, $14.95)
	An Illustrated History of the First World War • John Keegan • HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • An illustrated edition of Keegan's outstanding history of the Great War (WAR16, $50.00)
	Images of Space, St. Petersburg in the Visual and Verbal Arts • Grigory Kaganov • Sidney Monas • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A scholarly study of spatial representation in St. Petersburg and its depiction on the arts. (RUS42, $57.95)
	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, $17.95)
	Insight Guide Russia • 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)
	Ivan the Terrible • Henri Troyat • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography of Russia's first czar. (RUS220, $21.95)
	Ivan The Terrible, First Tsar of Russia • Isabel De Madariaga • HISTORY • An important biography of the much-misunderstood 16th-century czar and his times. (RUS278, $35.00)
	Ivan Vasilievich, Back to the Future • Leonid Gaiday • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A madcap comedy, based on a Bulgakov play. (RUS246, $29.99)
	K-19 The Widowmaker: The Secret Story of the Soviet Nuclear Submarine • Peter A. Huchthausen • HISTORY • This companion to the film of the same name describes the race against time to prevent the meltdown of a nuclear reactor aboard the first Soviet ballistic missile boat in 1961. (RUS187, $16.00)
	Khrushchev, The Man and His Era • William Taubman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the life of Nikita Khrushchev. (RUS257, $17.95)
	Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917 • Michael F. Hamm • HISTORY • From medieval center to important city in Imperial Russia, this scholarly book is a wonderfully informative cultural history of the city and especially its 19th-century legacy. (RUS56, $34.95)
	Kosmos, A Portrait of the Russian Space Age • Svetlana Boym • Adam Bartos • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portfolio of 100 photographs of the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with an essay by Harvard professor Svetlana Boym. (RUS184, $40.00)
	Kremlin Rising, Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution • Peter Baker • Susan Glasser • HISTORY • A critical overview of recent political change in Russia by two Washington Post journalists. (RUS273, $27.50)
	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)
	Lenin, A New Biography • Dmitri Volkogonov • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A well regarded biography. (RUS250, $48.00)
	Letters from Russia • Marquis De Custine • Anka Muhlstein • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An authoritative edition of Astolphe de Custine's observant, scathing and insightful account of travels in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1839. (RUS166, $22.95)
	Life and Fate • Vasily Grossman • LITERATURE • Modeled on Tolstoy's War and Peace, this novel gives a sweeping account of Soviet life during World War II. (RUS299, $22.95)
	Literary Russia, A Guide • Anna Benn • Rosamund Bartlett • GUIDEBOOK • 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)
	Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • An excellent practical guide to the region geared for independent travelers. (BLT05, $25.99)
	Lonely Planet Russia & Belarus • Richard Nebesky • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide to Russia, including Ukraine & Belarus. (RUS82, $29.99)
	Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook • James Jenkin • Inna Zaitseva • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A handy shirtpocket phrasebook for Russian basics focusing on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (RUS111, $8.99)
	Lost Opportunity: What has Made Economic Reform in Russia so Difficult? • Marshall Goldman • HISTORY • An astute commentator, the author looks at Yeltsin's economic reforms and the changes wrought on the complex Russian economy since the break-up of the Soviet Union. (RUS64, $13.95)
	Making Sense of War, the Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution • Amir Weiner • HISTORY • A consideration of WWII and its impact on Russia. (RUS251, $32.95)
	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, $34.95)
	The Master and Margarita • Mikhail Bulgakov • Mirra Ginsberg • LITERATURE • Bulgakov spins an elaborate allegory to convey his anti-Stalinist message. (RUS44, $11.95)
	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)
	Masterpieces of the Hermitage • Scala Masterpieces • ART & ARCHITECTURE • OUT OF PRINT • Born out of Catherine the Great's private art collection, the Hermitage is one of the world's great museums. This beautiful book, featuring 80 color illustrations, highlights some of its best-known pieces. (RUS90, $29.95)
	The Memoirs of Catherine the Great • Catherine the Great • Mark Cruse • Hilde Hoogenboom • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This collection of memoirs begins eighteen years before the beginning of Catherine's rule, upon her arrival in Russia as a German princess in 1744, continuing until her death in 1796. (RUS277, $26.95)
	Minsk Map • Freytag & Berndt • A city plan of Minsk at a scale of 1:16,000. (RUS317, $10.95)
	The Moldovans: Romania, Russia and the Politics of Culture • Charles King • HISTORY • A scholarly political and cultural history of Moldova, focusing on issues of national identity in a post-Soviet world. (EUR97, $24.95)
	Moscow Diary • Walter Benjamin • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A major figure in German literature and criticism spends two winter months in Moscow and records his observations. (RUS41, $21.50)
	Moscow Map • ITMB • An handy, folding map of Moscow. (RUS151, $8.95)
	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, $19.95)
	Moscow, Governing the Socialist Metropolis • Timothy J. Colton • HISTORY • A comprehensive scholarly history of Moscow. (RUS157, $31.50)
	Murder on the Leviathan • Boris Akunin • Andrew Bromfield • MYSTERY • A mystery on the high seas starring the young detective Erast Fandorin, set in 1878. (RUS225, $12.95)
	Natasha's Dance, A Cultural History of Russia • Orlando Figes • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • In this lively cultural history, Figes looks at both the great works by Russian masters and longstanding folk traditions. The title is drawn from a scene of Tolstoy's War and Peace in which a European-educated countess performs a peasant dance. (RUS180, $20.00)
	National Geographic Traveler St. Petersburg • Jeremy Howard • GUIDEBOOK • (RUS318, $22.95)
	Nicholas and Alexandra • Robert Massie • HISTORY • This entertaining and well-researched history traces the royal relationship and explores how a disease determined the destiny of rulers, the disintegration of the empire and the course of Russian history. (RUS69, $18.95)
	Nights at the Circus • Angela Carter • LITERATURE • This wildly inventive, bawdy tale follows an enchanted circus and its six-foot-two winged star from London to St. Petersburg and Siberia. Ever since reading this novel, we've wanted to take the Trans-Siberian Express. (RUS189, $15.00)
	No Fixed Points, Dance in the Twentieth Century • Malcolm McCormick • Nancy Reynolds • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A comprehensive history of 20th century dance in Europe and America. It's a readable, illustrated reference that offers both biographies of major dancers and choreographers, and critical analysis. (RUS255, $60.00)
	Northern Europe Map • Freytag & Berndt • A colorful shaded relief map of Scandinavia and the Baltic States at a scale of 1:2,000,000. It shows the entire Baltic Sea region. (EUR19, $11.95)
	Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevsky • Richard Pevear • LITERATURE • Dostoevsky's darkly funny and psychological character study set in nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, originally published in 1864. (RUS230, $11.95)
	Notes of a Provincial Wildfowler • Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov • NATURAL HISTORY • A celebrated drama critic and man of letters in 19th-century Moscow, Aksakov was also a keen observer of nature, and especially of birds. This book collects his notes on the natural history of Russian birdlife. (RUS60, $39.00)
	Oblomov • Ivan Goncharov • David Magarshack • LITERATURE • (RUS310, $15.00)
	Odyssey Guide Georgia • Robert Rosen • Jeffrey Jay Foxx • Eduard Shevardnadze • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive travel guide to Georgia and the Caucasus, extensively revised, with maps, color photographs, and an excellent overview of culture and history. (CCS04, $23.95)
	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • H. T. Willetts • 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, $13.00)
	Open Lands, Travels Through Russia's Once Forbidden Places • Mark Taplin • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • OUT OF PRINT • A witty travelogue about regions of Russia suddenly thrown open to the West, including gulags, Siberian archipelagos, Kamchatka and Vladivostok. (RUS62, $18.00)
	Operation Solo, The FBI's Man in the Kremlin • John Barron • HISTORY • The story of Morris Childs, Soviet advisor and covert American spy. (SPY15, $14.95)
	The Orthodox Church • Kallistos Ware • RELIGION • A comprehensive, clear overview of the origins, historical development and practice of Eastern Christianity by a British scholar and Archbishop. With chapters on Byzantium, conversion of the Slavs, the Church under Islam and the contemporary Orthodox world. (GEN261, $17.00)
	Passport to Russian • Charles Berlitz • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A basic Russian dictionary and phrasebook for the traveler. (RUS224, $6.99)
	Pavlovsk, The Life of a Russian Palace • Suzanne Massie • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A biography of the palace from its role in 18th-century Tsarist Russia to the revolution, public park, Nazi military headquarters and restoration. It's a great story, well told by Massie, who also wrote Land of the Firebird. (RUS154, $28.00)
	A People's Tragedy, A History of the Russian Revolution • Orlando Figes • HISTORY • A monumental, engrossing account of the Russian Revolution. (RUS181, $25.00)
	Peter the Great • Paul Bushkovitch • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A revised view of the legendary modernizer of Russia. (RUS169, $24.95)
	Peter the Great, His Life and World • Robert Massie • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling history of the great Westernizer of Russia. Massie portrays a giant of history on the monumental canvas of Europe as he transforms Russia from backwater tsardom to major empire. (RUS11, $8.99)
	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, $19.95)
	Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution • Katarina Clark • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A case study of cultural changes in Petersburg in the years 1913-1931 and how they coincided with the Russian Revolution. (RUS43, $24.50)
	Pilgrimages, The Great Adventure of the Middle Ages • John Ure • HISTORY • (EUR202, $15.95)
	Pimsleur Quick & Simple Russian • Pimsleur Language Method • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A package of eight 30-minute lessons in basic Russian, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations. (RUS112, $19.95)
	Piratization of Russia, Russian Reform Goes Awry • Marshall Goldman • HISTORY • The distressing tale of the making of oligarchs in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. (RUS211, $41.95)
	Plays and Petersburg Tales • Nikolai Gogol • Christopher English • LITERATURE • Two plays (Marriage and The Government Inspector) and six short stories written by the Russian master, all set in St. Petersburg. (RUS300, $10.95)
	Pocket Menu Reader Russia • Langenscheidt • Mario Caramitti • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A pocket guide to negotiating food and restaurants in Russian. (RUS165, $7.95)
	The Pocket Oxford Russian Dictionary • Colin Howlett • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A succinct English-Russian, Russian-English dictionary, featuring 70,000 useful words and phrases for the student, traveler or businessman. (RUS272, $17.95)
	Prodigal Son, Dancing for Balanchine in a World of Pain and Magic • Edward Villella • Larry Kaplan • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The memoir of the great male star of American ballet who found fame in the age of Balanchine. (USE283, $19.95)
	Putin's Russia • Lilia Shevtsova • HISTORY • An analysis of the character of Putin's leadership by a top political analyst and award-winning Russian journalist. Shevtsova has also written Yelsin's Russia (RUS268, $19.95)
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