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  • Man and His Surroundings

    by Fazil Iskander ...
    Translated by Alexander Rojavin ...
    Man and His Surroundings irreverently explores Soviet and post-Soviet identity, politics, and history. In what Iskander himself calls the book’s seminal novella, the narrator meets a man who believes himself to be Lenin, thawed out after decades of cryogenic storage. The narrator endures a phantasmagorical account of what “Lenin” thought and did during the October Revolution of 1917 and how ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dovlatov and Surroundings

    A Philological Novel

    by Alexander Genis ...
    Translated by Alexander Rojavin ...
    Dovlatov and Surroundingsis a literary ode by one of the most consequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, to another: Sergei Dovlatov. Though the book’s focus is ostensibly the man himself, the text unfolds as a comprehensive look at the Soviet, post-Soviet, and American cultures that shaped him and which he shaped.Dovlatov and Surroundingsconstantly, but effortlessly shifts ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Russian Cinema as a Battleground in Russia's Information War

    Edited by Alexander Rojavin, Helen Haft ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    This book explores how modern Russian cinema is part of the international information war that has unfolded across a variety of battlefields, including social media, online news, and television. It outlines how Russian cinema has been instrumentalized, both by the Kremlin's allies and its detractors, to convey salient political and cultural messages, often in subtle ways, thereby becoming a tool ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Russian Function Words: Meanings and Use

    Conjunctions, Interjections, Parenthetical Words, Particles, and Prepositions

    by Marina Rojavin, Alexander Rojavin ...
    Russian Function Words: Meanings and Use is a collection of 463 prepositions, conjunctions, particles, interjections, and parenthetical words.This book provides a semantic, syntactic, and stylistic analysis of each word, accompanying the explanation with examples of the word’s usage in discourse in contemporary, everyday Russian and analogous translations into English. Consequently, it allows ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Russian Nouns of Common Gender in Use

    by Marina Rojavin, Alexander Rojavin ...
    Russian Nouns of Common Gender in Use is a unique collection of more than 150 nouns that mainly have grammatical features of the feminine gender, but refer to both male and female persons.This book provides the meanings of the words and explains their use in discourse with the help of examples from literature, media, and everyday speech. Each entry includes parallel English translations, which are ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    Before retiring from the literary world and relinquishing all copyright to his work in 2003, Kirill Medvedev had published two collections of poetry with a traditional publishing house. His poems are autobiographical free verse, unusual in Russia, and were dismissed by some critics as not really poetry. Medvedev's poetry – casual, often explicitly political, irreverent – fiercely diagnose the ... Read more

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  • The Possessed

    Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

    by Elif Batuman ...
    One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearFrom the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted—Absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully!—to the Russian Classics.No one who read Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)

    How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

    by Masha Gessen ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITINGWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD**The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Award-winning journalist Masha ... Read more

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  • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

    In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

    by George Saunders ...
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  • Lost in Translation

    A Life in a New Language

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age ... Read more

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  • Too Late to Awaken

    What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    **The "most dangerous philosopher in the West" returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament.Žižek's most urgent and accessible book yet asks us all to imagine that catastrophe is a foregone conclusion—so that we can actually save the world.**We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective ... Read more

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  • Steering The Craft

    A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    From the celebrated Ursula K. Le Guin, "a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller" (Boston Globe), the revised and updated edition of her classic guide to the essentials of a writer's craft.Completely revised and rewritten to address modern challenges and opportunities, this essential creative writing handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing.Le ... Read more

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