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  • Atomic Backfires

    When Nuclear Policies Fail

    Edited by Stephen Herzog, Giles David Arceneaux, Ariel F. W. Petrovics ...
    Series series Belfer Center Studies in International Security
    A sobering edited volume on how efforts to reduce nuclear weapons dangers may sometimes wind up exacerbating them.The existential risks posed to the world by nuclear weapons are growing. Efforts to halt nuclear proliferation, manage crises, promote arms control, and build alliances are all considered fundamental to reducing the likelihood of nuclear catastrophe. Yet, no tool is guaranteed to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Doctor Levitin

    by David Shrayer-Petrov ...
    Translated by Arna B. Bronstein, Aleksandra I. Fleszar, Maxim D. Shrayer ...
    The story of a doctor's family torn apart by Soviet politics, persecution, and the Jewish struggle for freedom during the Cold War.Available now for the first time in English, Doctor Levitin is a modern classic in Jewish literature. A major work of late twentieth-century Russian and Jewish literature since its first publication in Israel in 1986, it has also seen three subsequent Russian editions. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Domestic Judicial Treatment of European Court of Human Rights Case Law

    Beyond Compliance

    by David Kosař, Jan Petrov, Katarína Šipulová, Hubert Smekal, Ladislav Vyhnánek, Jozef Janovský ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) suffers from the burgeoning caseload and challenges to its authority. This two-pronged crisis undermines the ECtHR’s legitimacy and consequently the functioning of the whole European human rights regime. Domestic courts can serve as welcome allies of the Strasbourg Court. They have a potential to diffuse Convention norms domestically, and therefore ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Jonah and Sarah

    Jewish Stories of Russia and America

    by David Shrayer-Petrov ...
    Series series Library of Modern Jewish Literature
    From the deceptively simple narrative (Apple Cider Vinegar, Hurricane Bob) to the surrealist story (Dismemberers) and the magical tale (Jonah and Sarah and Lanskoy Road), the tempo fluctuates, but throughout, Shrayer-Petrov seamlessly preserves familiar voices. The stories have a genuine feel of the setting and epoch—the Russian stories work as narratives of everyday life, while the American ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories

    by David Shrayer-Petrov ...
    Series series Library of Modern Jewish Literature
    These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory. Both an ... Read more

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  • The End of Days

    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackWinner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Monumental Propaganda

    by Vladimir Voinovich ...
    From Vladimir Voinovich, one of the great satirists of contemporary Russian literature, comes a new comic novel about the absurdity of politics and the place of the individual in the sweep of human events.Monumental Propaganda, Voinovich’s first novel in twelve years, centers on Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina, a true believer in Stalin, who finds herself bewildered and beleaguered in the relative ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Pushkin Hills

    by Sergei Dovlatov ...
    An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to the West with their daughter Masha, but during Alikhanov's stay in the rural estate of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Five

    A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa

    by Vladimir Jabotinsky ...
    Translated by Michael R. Katz ...
    "The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years also coincided with our own personal springtime, in the sense that we were all in our youthful twenties. And both of these springtimes, as well ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

    Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World?

    by Sverre Lodgaard ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book examines the current debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, notably the ... Read more

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  • Secondhand Time

    The Last of the Soviets

    by Svetlana Alexievich ...
    Translated by Bela Shayevich ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LOS ANGELES TIMESBOOK PRIZE WINNEROne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Autocrats vs. Democrats

    China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder

    by Michael McFaul ...
    "A history, an analysis, and a set of prescriptions for the greatest geopolitical challenge of our time: the threat to the democratic world posed by China and Russia." —Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy, Inc."A monumental account of contemporary geopolitics"—Francis Fukuyama, author of Liberalism and Its DiscontentsFrom New York Times bestselling author and former ambassador to Russia Michael ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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