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  • Shklovsky: Witness to an Era

    by Serena Vitale ...
    Translated by Jamie Richards ...
    Series series Russian Literature
    Shklovsky: Witness to an Era is a blend of riotous anecdote, personal history, and literary reflection, collecting interviews with Viktor Shklovsky conducted by scholar Serena Vitale in the '70s, toward the end of the great critic's life, and in the face of interference and even veiled threats of violence from the Soviet government. Shklovsky's answers are wonderfully intimate, focusing ... Read more

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  • The Real Stalin

    by Andrew Curry ...
    Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a combination of political savvy and cold-blooded brutality. He crushed the spirit of his own people while conquering half of Europe. What made the greatest murderer of the twentieth century tick? ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kremlin Wives

    The Secret Lives of the Women Behind the Kremlin Walls—From Lenin to Gorbachev

    by Larissa Vasilieva ...
    Translated by Cathy Porter ...
    For over seventy years the Kremlin was the bastion of the all-powerful Soviet rulers. A great deal is known about the men who held millions of fates in their iron grip, yet little is known about the women-the wives and mistresses-who shared their lives. They took part in the Revolution and its aftermath, bore children, and suffered abuse; some were arrested and sent to Siberia, driven to suicide, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

    by Carol Garrard, John Garrard ...
    "A definitive treatment of one of the Soviet Union's most significant writers."—The Russian ReviewVasily Grossman (1905–64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report "The Hell of Treblinka," was the first eyewitness ... Read more

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  • The House of Government

    A Saga of the Russian Revolution

    by Yuri Slezkine ...
    On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Suitcase

    A Novel

    by Sergei Dovlatov ...
    Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn–out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Zhivago Affair

    The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book

    by Peter Finn, Petra Couvée ...
    Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit Russia’s greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the original manuscript of Pasternak’s first ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

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  • Natasha's Dance

    A Cultural History of Russia

    by Orlando Figes ...
    The New York Times Notable Book of 2002Finalist for the Samuel Johnson PrizeFinalist for the Mark Lynton History PrizeHistory on a grand scale—an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations.A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I ... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Imprisoned

    Drawings from Nazi Concentration Camps

    by Arturo Benvenuti ...
    In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional journey. His plan-his own Viae Crucis-was to meet with as many former prisoners of Nazi-fascist concentration camps as he could. He wanted not only to learn their stories, but to learn from their stories.He met with dozens of survivors from Auschwitz, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Word for Word

    A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia

    by Lilianna Lungina ...
    A remarkable memoir of living in the Soviet Union and working as a literary translator.In the early twentieth century, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when she was thirteen, her parents moved to the USSR—where Lungina became witness to many of the era's greatest upheavals.Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ilya Repin

    The Russian Soul on Canvas

    by Grigori Sternin, Jelena Kirillina ...
    Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as “The Itinerants”. When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov’s studio to learn the icon-painter’s craft. Religious representations always remained of great importance for him. From 1864 to 1873 Repin studied at the Academy of the Arts in Saint Petersburg under Kramskoï. Repin also studied in Paris for two years, where he was ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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