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Baroque and Rococo Art
• Germain Bazin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An excellent illustrated survey of Baroque and Rococo art and architecture, this volume in the acclaimed "World of Art" series is a good companion to the golden age of Middle Europe.
(EUR53, $16.95)
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Belarus, At a Crossroads in History
• Jan Zaprudnik
• HISTORY
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A history of Belarus, with a focus on the status of the nation as the Soviet Union crumbled.
(RUS123, $32.00)
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Birds of Europe
• Killian Mullarney
• Lars Svensson
• Dan Zetterstrom
• Peter J. Grant
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent.
(FG47, $29.95)
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Black Night White Snow, Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917
• Harrison Salisbury
• HISTORY
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An evocative, moving account of one of the great political tragedies of the 20th century.
(RUS12, $16.95)
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The Black Sea, A History
• Charles King
• HISTORY
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A brisk narrative history of the region showing the Black Sea as uniting diverse cultures in the Balkans, Central Asia and Middle East.
(EUR173, $29.95)
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Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays
• Stanislaw Baranczak
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Essays on writers and writing from an Eastern European intellectual and poet.
(EUR139, $12.50)
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Burning Lights
• Bella Chagall
• Marc Chagall
• Norbert Guterman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A memoir of growing up in the city of Vitebsk, Belarus in the beginning of the 20th century. Illustrated by Marc Chagall, the author's husband.
(RUS122, $19.00)
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Bury Me Standing
• Isabel Fonseca
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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This marvelous portrait of the Roma, also known as the Gypsies, offers insight into their music, foods, religions, folk traditions, and examines their influential but complex relationship with Eastern Europe.
(EUR09, $14.95)
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Catherine the Great
• Henri Troyat
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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One of the world's best biographers paints an unforgettable portrait of Catherine, the monarch of Russia's Enlightenment.
(RUS10, $18.00)
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Central Europe Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A colorful physical relief map of Central Europe at a scale of 1:2,000,000.
(EUR12, $11.95)
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Central Europe, Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
• Lonnie Johnson
• HISTORY
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An academic survey of the social, political, and economic past of Central Europe, and the conflicts that stir modern-day European politics.
(EUR69, $39.95)
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A Century of Ambivalence, The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present
• Zvi Y. Gitelman
• HISTORY
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A strikingly illustrated history of Jewish life in Russia, featuring 200 black-and-white photographs from YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and three maps.
(RUS172, $24.95)
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
• HISTORY
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The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state.
(FRN536, $12.00)
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Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
• Trevor Royle
• HISTORY
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A well-researched military and diplomatic history of the Crimean War. Thorough and detailed yet readable, Royle's battlefield descriptions are especially well-done.
(CCS33, $24.95)
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Defiance, The Bielski Partisans
• Nechama Tec
• HISTORY
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The story of Jewish partisans from Belorussia rescuing Jews from the Holocasut.
(RUS120, $26.75)
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Dynamo, Triumph and Tragedy in Nazi-Occupied Kiev
• Andy Dougan
• HISTORY
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The history of the 1939 Dynamo Kiev football team, who played a match against their German captors in a poignant allegory of resistence.
(RUS326, $14.95)
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Eastern Europe Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A detailed travel map of Eastern Europe and the Black Sea, at a scale of 1:2,000,000.
(EUR36, $11.95)
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Echoes of a Native Land, Two Centuries of a Russian Village
• Serge Schmemann
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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The author draws on his knowledge of Russia, family photographs, letters and memoirs to tell the story of the czarist past and present realities of his ancestral home outside Moscow.
(RUS27, $19.00)
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The Face of Russia: Anguish, Aspiration and Achievement in Russian Culture
• James H. Billington
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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The history of Russia as reflected in its sumptuous art and architecture.
(RUS54, $16.00)
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Fathers and Sons
• Ivan Turgenev
• LITERATURE
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The classic novel by the most accessible of the great Russian novelists.
(RUS19, $12.00)
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Flashman at the Charge
• George MacDonald Fraser
• LITERATURE
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In this installment in the rollicking, masterfully researched series of historical novels our disreputable hero finds himself in Crimea -- and a participant in the Charge of the Light Brigade.
(CCS29, $15.00)
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From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories
• Carl Proffer
• ANTHOLOGY
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A broad selection of Russian literary works from the earliest prose to the years before the revolution, featuring reliable translations of masterpieces from Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gogol, and more.
(RUS08, $22.95)
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From Three Worlds, New Ukrainian Writing
• Ed Hogan
• Askold Melnyczuk
• Michael Naydan
• ANTHOLOGY
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Contemporary short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels make up this anthology of writing from 15 native Ukrainians.
(RUS118, $12.95)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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Growing Pains, Russian Democracy and the Election of 1993
• Jerry F. Hough
• Timothy J. Colton
• HISTORY
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An in-depth analysis of Russia's 1993 national election and wrangling over power.
(RUS75, $26.95)
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The Haunted Land, Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
• Tina Rosenberg
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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In this groundbreaking book, a journalist reports on how the newly democratized people of East Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic have confronted the horrors of their former governments.
(EUR54, $16.95)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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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)
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Historical Atlas of Central Europe
• Paul Mogocsi
• HISTORY
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An atlas illuminating the shifting borders and alliances in the region.
(EUR33, $45.00)
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The Icon and the Axe, An Interpretive History of Russian Culture
• James H. Billington
• HISTORY
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This cultural and artistic history, written by the Librarian of Congress, maps the spiritual and ideological forces that led to the development of Russia.
(RUS09, $23.00)
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Insight Guide Russia
• Anna Benn
• GUIDEBOOK
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An engaging guide to the country and its major regions and cities with short, handsomely illustrated essays on Russian history, life, art, literature and music. The guide includes excellent full-color maps and hundreds of photographs.
(RUS37, $22.95)
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Inventing Eastern Europe, The Map of Civilization on the Mind of Enlightenment
• Larry Wolff
• HISTORY
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The author, a professor of history, looks back to Catherine the Great, Rousseau, Voltaire and Western (mis)perceptions of Eastern Europe during the late 18th century.
(EUR34, $29.95)
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The Jew in the Modern World, A Documentary History
• Paul Mendes-Flohr
• Johan Reinhard
• RELIGION
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A big collection of primary documents on Jewish thought and history in the modern period. It's a sourcebook (and popular university text) illustrating the transformation of religion, culture, and identity from the 17th century to 1948.
(GEN224, $64.95)
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Land of the Firebird, The Beauty of Old Russia
• Suzanne Massie
• HISTORY
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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Massie pays careful attention to telling details as well as to the larger movements in pre-Revolutionary Russian art, literature and daily life in this affectionate overview of 19th-century palaces, courts and culture.
(RUS21, $35.00)
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Lenin's Tomb
• David Remnick
• HISTORY
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A gripping eyewitness tale of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Remnick, the Washington Post reporter on the scene, combines fine historical scholarship with great storytelling.
(RUS07, $16.95)
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Lonely Planet Russia & Belarus
• Richard Nebesky
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to Russia, including Ukraine & Belarus.
(RUS82, $29.99)
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The Magic Lantern, The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
• Timothy Garton Ash
• HISTORY
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An astute journalist's vivid eyewitness account of the fall of the Berlin Wall and other dramatic events of 1989.
(GER36, $13.95)
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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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)
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Nicholas and Alexandra
• Robert Massie
• HISTORY
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This entertaining and well-researched history traces the royal relationship and explores how a disease determined the destiny of rulers, the disintegration of the empire and the course of Russian history.
(RUS69, $18.95)
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Noah's Flood, The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History
• William Ryan
• Walter Pitman
• SCIENCE
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Yes, there was a flood! So reports the scientist-authors in this vivid account of the geology of the Black Sea. They draw on biblical history, marine geology, archaeology and mythology to demonstrate that the Black Sea was breached by the Mediterranean 7,600 years ago.
(BLK42, $15.00)
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Northern Europe Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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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)
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Odessa, A History, 1794-1914
• Patricia Herlihy
• HISTORY
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Herlihy contrasts Odessa's rapid development during the nineteenth century with the growing tension within its society up to the First World War.
(UKR18, $30.50)
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Peter the Great, His Life and World
• Robert Massie
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling history of the great Westernizer of Russia. Massie portrays a giant of history on the monumental canvas of Europe as he transforms Russia from backwater tsardom to major empire.
(RUS11, $8.99)
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Peter the Great, His Life and World
• Robert Massie
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Massie portrays the giant of history who transformed Russia from backwater tsardom to major empire.
(RUS48, $19.95)
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Resurrection, The Struggle for a New Russia
• David Remnick
• HISTORY
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Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick insightfully explores the powers shaping the creation of a new Russia. The book follows the ruin of the USSR, up to the 1996 elections.
(RUS23, $16.00)
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Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II
• Joseph Rothschild
• HISTORY
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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An opinionated, well-written and clear political history of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania since WWII, completely revised for this third edition to reflect post-Soviet realities.
(EUR31, $34.95)
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Revolution in Orange, The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough
• Ander Aslund
• HISTORY
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(UKR15, $16.95)
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The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
• John Dunlop
• HISTORY
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A history of Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.
(RUS68, $37.50)
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The Romanovs, The Final Chapter
• Robert Massie
• HISTORY
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Written like a good detective story, this riveting scientific thriller examines the evidence and international dispute linking the skeletons exhumed in 1991 in Siberia with the last of the Romanovs killed in the early period of the Russian Revolution.
(RUS14, $15.95)
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Russia, A Concise History
• Ronald Hingley
• HISTORY
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Well-known scholar Hingley sketches Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to a multi-ethnic empire in this highly readable, well-illustrated brief history.
(RUS04, $19.95)
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Russia, A History
• Gregory Freeze
• HISTORY
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An illustrated survey of the full scope of Russian political history from Ivan the Terrible to Yeltsin.
(RUS40, $29.95)
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Russia, People and Empire, 1552-1917
• Geoffrey Hosking
• HISTORY
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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, $22.50)
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Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922
• Camilla Gray
• Marian Burleigh-Motley
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A handsome illustrated volume in the "World of Art" series, this book documents a critical period in the history of Russian art in a series of insightful essays and hundreds of color illustrations.
(RUS17, $18.95)
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Russian Phrasebook & Dictionary
• Hippocrene
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A handy phrasebook and basic dictionary featuring transliterations of all the Russian words.
(RUS65, $11.95)
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The Russian Revolution
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• HISTORY
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A concise provocative summary of events in Russia between 1917 and 1939. Fitzpatrick makes an admirable effort to rescue from politics the greatest upheaval of modern times and reclaim it for history.
(RUS39, $14.95)
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Russian, A Language Map
• Kristine K. Kershul
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers.
(RUS276, $7.95)
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Soviet Blitzkrieg, The Battle for White Russia, 1944
• Walter S. Dunn
• HISTORY
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A history of the Russian campaign to regain control of Belarus from the Germans in 1944.
(RUS121, $55.00)
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Ten Days That Shook the World
• John Reed
• HISTORY
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An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution by an American journalist, a political classic that captures the spirit of those heady days of excitement and idealism before disillusion and cynicism set in.
(RUS13, $12.00)
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
• Danilo Kis
• LITERATURE
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Mr. Kis offers us a set of seven chilling stories of Eastern Europe, mostly set under Communism, all based on actual events. He succeeds in evoking the pall cast over Russian-dominated Europe.
(CEU28, $11.95)
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A Travel Guide to Jewish Russia & Ukraine
• Ben G. Frank
• GUIDEBOOK
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A focused, informative guide to both historical and contemporary sites of Jewish interest. The author follows in the footsteps of the 12th-century Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela. With historical context, practical travel information and brief descriptions of synagogues, museums, monuments, and schools.
(RUS173, $25.00)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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A Traveller's History of Russia
• Peter Neville
• HISTORY
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An impressively compact, lively survey of Russian history from the coming of the Slavs to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
(RUS47, $14.95)
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Treasury of Ukrainian Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs in Ukranian and English
• Helene Turkewicz-Sanko
• ANTHOLOGY
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A short selection of Ukrainian writing (generally poetry) on the subject of love.
(RUS117, $11.95)
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Tsar, The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
• Peter Kurth
• Peter Christopher
• Edvard Radzinsky
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A tribute to the last of the Romanovs, featuring a treasure trove of never-published photographs and illuminating text. It brings to life in sumptuous detail the tumultuous life and times of Nicholas and Alexandra. Masterful.
(RUS79, $29.99)
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War and Peace
• Leo Tolstoy
• Constance Garnett
• LITERATURE
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Tolstoy's great historical and philosophical novel set in the age of Napoleon.
(RUS20, $10.95)
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Woman from Hamburg And Other True Stories
• Hanna Krall
• Madeline G. Levine
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Krall reveals the lives and strange trajectories of her compatriots in these poignant stories, profiles and interviews of survivors of WWII.
(PLD49, $14.95)
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Yiddish Folktales
• Beatrice Weinreich
• LITERATURE
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A collection of 178 tales, many very short, of princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe.
(CEU33, $18.00)
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