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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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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 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)
	Berlitz Russian Phrase Book & Dictionary • Berlitz Pocket Guides • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A short introduction to common Russian words and phrases, designed for the traveler. Contains more than 1,000 phrases and more than 2,000 words. (RUS107, $8.95)
	The Big Red Train Ride • Eric Newby • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • OUT OF PRINT • Newby's marvelous account of speeding across Russia with wife Wanda on the Trans-Siberian from Moscow to Khabarovsk recalls the joys, frustrations and oddities of remote Russia during the Brezhnev years. (RUS140, $18.95)
	Black Earth, A Journey Through Russia After the Fall • Andrew Meier • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Meier ventures far outside the Kremlin gates for this account of the lives typical Russians since the collapse of the Soviet Union. A vivid, insightful portrait. (RUS236, $15.95)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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 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)
	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)
	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)
	Eyewitness Guide Moscow • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • An outstanding guide to Moscow, its culture, history and attractions, with excellent local maps and site plans, and hundreds of color photographs. (RUS164, $23.00)
	Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A compact visual guide with excellent local maps and site plans. (RUS87, $23.00)
	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)
	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)
	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 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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	The Hermitage, Materpieces • Scala Masterpieces • ART & ARCHITECTURE • This slim book, featuring color illustrations on hundreds of important works, is an excellent guide to European paintings at the Hermitage. (RUS90, $29.95)
	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 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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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 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)
	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)
	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 Map • ITMB • An handy, folding map of Moscow. (RUS151, $8.95)
	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)
	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)
	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 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)
	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)
	Odyssey Guide Moscow, St. Petersburg & The Golden Ring • Masha Nordbye • Patricia Lanza • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide to the art, culture and history of two great Russian cities, filled with maps and fine color photographs. (RUS78, $26.95)
	The Oligarchs, Wealth & Power in the New Russia • David Hoffman • HISTORY • A scrupulously documented, fascinating account of six businessmen whose profiteering amid the near-anarchy and corruption that followed collapse of the Soviet Union skyrocketed them to positions of immense power in the New Russia. (RUS159, $21.95)
	On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers • Kate Marsden • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • OUT OF PRINT • Marsden's account of her 1890 mission of mercy across Russia to a Siberian leper colony. (RUS138, $16.95)
	Once Upon the River Lore • Andrei Makine • Geoffrey Strachan • LITERATURE • In this richly evocative novel, three boys growing up in a Siberian backwater in the 1970's have their lives changed by watching a film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. (SIB45, $24.95)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	Pocket Menu Reader Russia • Langenscheidt • Mario Caramitti • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A pocket guide to negotiating food and restaurants in Russian. (RUS165, $7.95)
	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)
	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, $22.95)
	Queer Sites, Gay Urban Histories Since 1600 • David Higgs • HISTORY • A scholarly history of the gay subculture in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow. (WLD32, $36.95)
	The Ransom of Russian Art • John McPhee • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • McPhee tackles a rather unusual topic for him: the story of suppressed Russian art and the man who brought it to America. (RUS91, $12.00)
	Rasputin, The Saint Who Sinned • Brian Moynahan • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A juicy biography of the notorious Russian. (RUS198, $17.95)
	Reading Chekhov, A Critical Journey • Janet Malcolm • LITERATURE • An extended essay of Chekhov and his work interweaving literary criticism, biography and a journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow and Yalta -- all significant to the plays, stories and life of Chekhov. (RUS155, $13.95)
	Reeling in Russia, An Angler's Paradise • Fen Montaigne • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A wonderfully written, entertaining and insightful portrait of modern Russia, and more specifically fishing in places like Baikal, Kamchatka and Kolyma. (RUS61, $15.95)
	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, $32.95)
	Resurrection, The Struggle for a New Russia • David Remnick • HISTORY • Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick insightfully explores the powers shaping the creation of a new Russia. The book follows the ruin of the USSR, up to the 1996 elections. (RUS23, $16.00)
	Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book & Dictionary • Rick Steves • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary. (EUR142, $9.95)
	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, $34.95)
	The Romanovs, The Final Chapter • Robert Massie • HISTORY • Written like a good detective story, this riveting scientific thriller examines the evidence and international dispute linking the skeletons exhumed in 1991 in Siberia with the last of the Romanovs killed in the early period of the Russian Revolution. (RUS14, $15.95)
	Romanovs: Autocrats of all the Russians • Lincoln Bruce • HISTORY • A history of the rise and fall of the Romanov dynasty in Russia, from their ascension to the throne in 1613 to the Russian Revolution. (RUS25, $24.00)
	Rough Guide Moscow • Rough Guide • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, no-nonsense guide to the culture, history and attractions of Moscow. (RUS129, $16.99)
	The Routledge Atlas of Russian History • Martin Gilbert • HISTORY • A fantastically interesting, useful survey of the history of Russia in maps. This revised edition follows the fate of Russia since the demise of the Soviet Union, with 161 maps covering rebellion, famine, expansion, trade, the military, communism's collapse and myriad other topics. (RUS176, $29.95)
	Russia from St. Petersburg to Moscow Map • Falk Maps • A detailed map of northwest Russia at a scale of 1:750,000, well suited for a river cruise between St. Petersburg and Moscow. It covers all but the northernmost extent of the route. (RUS06, $14.95)
	The Russia Hand, a Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy • Strobe Talbott • HISTORY • An insider's view of the U.S. role in Russia's transition from communism to democracy. (RUS234, $16.95)
	The Russia House • John Le Carre • LITERATURE • Espionage in the age of Gorbachev delivered with traditional Le Carrean panache. (RUS186, $7.99)
	Russia in Search of Itself • James H. Billington • HISTORY • An analysis of modern Russia by the Librarian of Congress and expert on Russia. (RUS229, $24.95)
	Russia in Search of Itself • James H. Billington • HISTORY • An analysis of modern Russia by the Librarian of Congress and expert on Russia. (RUS229, $24.95)
	Russia in Space, The Failed Frontier? • Brian Harvey • HISTORY • Can Russia once again lead the world into space? (RUS182, $39.95)
	Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great • Isabel De Madariaga • HISTORY • A classic scholarly history of 18th-century Russia. (RUS144, $21.95)
	Russia in the Age of Peter the Great • Lindsey Hughes • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography of Peter the Great and an account of Russia in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. (RUS103, $90.00)
	Russia'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, $19.95)
	Russia, A History • Gregory Freeze • HISTORY • An illustrated survey of the full scope of Russian political history from Ivan the Terrible to Yeltsin. (RUS40, $29.95)
	Russia, Experiment With a People • Robert Service • HISTORY • An authoritative survey of the transformation of Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Service casts a wide net, looking at not just political and economic change but also the influence of society, culture and belief. (RUS284, $18.95)
	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, $21.00)
	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)
	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, $16.95)
	Russian Folk Art • Alison Hilton • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated survey of traditional Russian folk art. (RUS104, $27.95)
	The Russian Heritage Cookbook • Lynn Visson • FOOD • A thorough and authentic guide to traditional Russian cooking with 360 recipes. (RUS233, $28.95)
	A Russian Journal • John Steinbeck • Robert Capa • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Steinbeck's moving account of the people and everyday life in Russia, the Ukraine and Cau-casus circa 1948, with striking photographs by the great Robert Capra. (RUS275, $15.00)
	The Russian Museum, A Centennial Celebration of a National Treasure • Vladimir Gusyev • Yevgenia Petrova • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An overview of Russian art from the Christianization of Russia in 989 to present. (RUS199, $60.00)
	Russian Phrasebook & Dictionary • Hippocrene • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A handy phrasebook and basic dictionary featuring transliterations of all the Russian words. (RUS65, $11.95)
	The Russian Revolution • Sheila Fitzpatrick • HISTORY • A concise provocative summary of events in Russia between 1917 and 1939. Fitzpatrick makes an admirable effort to rescue from politics the greatest upheaval of modern times and reclaim it for history. (RUS39, $14.95)
	Russian Short Stories • Robert Chandler • LITERATURE • NEW • This fine collection of tales captures the sweep and soul of Russian literature, including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy along with lesser-known greats. (RUS288, $17.00)
	Russian, Start Speaking Today! • Language/30 • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A highly effective crash course for travelers. Na zdorovye! (RUS192, $21.95)
	Russka • Edward Rutherfurd • LITERATURE • In this absorbing, complex novel Rutherfurd transforms Russian history into an epic saga. The bestseller follows the fate of interconnected families over 800 years. Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, Pushkin and Rasputin all make appearances. (RUS175, $19.00)
	The Sexual Revolution in Russia, From the Age of the Czars to Today • Igor Kon • HISTORY • A groundbreaking, fascinating history of sex, sexuality and attitudes in Russia. (RUS147, $25.50)
	The Shaman's Coat, A Native History of Siberia • Anna Reid • HISTORY • Reid, a talented journalist and intrepid traveler, interviewed hunters, reindeer herders, storytellers and dozens of other original inhabitants across Siberia for this eye-opening book. With chapters on the Khant, Buryat, Tuvans, Sakha, Ainu and Chukchi people. (SIB28, $13.00)
	Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays • Valentin Rasputin • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A resident of Irkutsk, Rasputin combines great insight with supple prose and passion for his homeland in this collection of fiction and non-fiction. (SIB04, $18.00)
	Siberia, Siberia • Valentin Rasputin • EXPLORATION • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • A sweeping account of the exploration, conquest and colonization of Russia's "West," beginning with the crossing of the Ural Mountains by the Cossacks in 1580. (SIB01, $22.95)
	Siberian BAM Railway Guide: Rails, Rivers & Road • Athol Yates • Nicholas Zvegintzov • GUIDEBOOK • A handbook to the Russian North-East from the Pacific to Lake Baikal. An excellent guide to the region, with strip maps covering the 3,400-km rail trip. (SIB27, $23.95)
	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)
	Speak, Memory • Vladimir Nabokov • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A richly imagined memoir of Nabokov's early years. First published in 1951, it wonderfully evokes cultural life among the well-to-do in turn-of-the-century St. Petersburg. (RUS28, $14.95)
	St. Petersburg Map • Borch Maps • A detailed, laminated city plan of St. Petersburg, with street index inset. Place names are in transliterated English. (RUS89, $7.95)
	St. Petersburg, A Cultural History • Solomon Volkov • Antonina Bouis • HISTORY • This intimate cultural history, written by a native historian and musician of the city, includes profiles of its artists and writers over the last 300 years. (RUS72, $26.50)
	St. Petersburg, Architecture of the Tsars • Dmitri Shvidkovsky • Alexander Orloff • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Organized chronologically, this definitive book illustrates the Baroque masterpieces of Peter the Great, Neoclassic confections of Catherine the Great and Art Nouveau glitter of Nicholas II in splendid color photographs. (RUS152, $95.00)
	Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar • Simon Sebag Montefiore • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An enthralling, comprehensive portrait of Joseph Stalin and his court, drawing on archival material and interviews with surviving figures. At 800 pages, there is ample room for personal and anecdotal information about Stalin. (RUS228, $19.95)
	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)
	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)
	Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia • W. Bruce Lincoln • HISTORY • A wonderfully written, informative portrait of St. Petersburg, focusing on the city's development in the 18th and 19th centuries as Russia's window on the West. Highly recommended for travelers with an interest in the character and significance of the city and its monuments. (RUS128, $19.95)
	Teach Yourself Beginner's Russian Script • Daphne West • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A step-by-step guide to reading and writing Cyrillic. (RUS207, $10.95)
	Teach Yourself Beginner's Russian, An Easy Introduction