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After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking...

Chagall eventually established himself as an important force in modern art by the sheer power and fertility of his imagination, and his immense creative output. Much of his work is...

Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of...

The personal and the political collide in this masterful account of the death of a dictator. When Joseph Stalin died in 1953, he had been the unchallenged leader of the...

For its admirers, the Russian Revolution is a milestone in human progress; for its critics, it is a catastrophe of monstrous proportions. Edward Acton's stimulating study combines an introduction to...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." - Kirkus Reviews When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke...

A riveting account of courageous resistance from the bestselling author of Balcony Over Jerusalem Longlisted for the 2025 Walkley Award On 24 February 2022, residents of Kyiv, Ukraine, woke to...

Poet, cavalry officer, celebrity - Mikhail Lermontov moved in an atmosphere of political intrigue and personal recklessness, producing poetry considered second only to Pushkin's in Russian literature and a career...

When it was published this was the full, post-glasnost critical biography of Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), a great comic writer whose works are regarded as modern classics. This account of Bulgakov's...

This account of the cataclysmic events in Russia in 1917 begins with the murder of Rasputin by an Oxford-educated transvestite, and the collapse of Old Russia. It ends with the...

1942, and the battle for Stalingrad is just beginning- this is historical fiction at its finest and most epic by Simon Sebag Montefiore, global bestselling author of Stalin- The Court...

'A beautiful and profound meditation on the way landscape shapes art and life. I was entranced by The White Birch , a book that comes close to encapsulating the vast...

They stand elegant and exquisite, casually placed in simple crystal vases, primula, narcissus, a dandelion, a branch of blueberries. They invite us to touch their arched leaves. If we do,...

The new book from the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House. In Moscow, a man points on a map to the place where he was born....

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Sensational new evidence in one of the most sensational stories of the century -the fate of the Romanovs.

Each known Easter egg is documented with invoice records, correspondence, provenance and correspondence.

Shielded from St Petersburg society, the last tsar's four daughters enjoyed a simple life of almost cloudless happiness. Their evenings were spent with their parents, reading aloud and pasting snapshots...

Written by the Moscow Design Museum's Alexandra Sankova and Olga Druzhinina, this book tells the previously untold story of the VNIITE - the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics....

The award-winning historian returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured...

Arranged in five sections, one for each year of the War, this superbly illustrated book covers the fluid fighting that took place on the Russian Front from August 1914. Each...

'Dazzling . . . [An] engrossing study of a vivacious personality slipping away' THE TIMES 'Rich in detail, elusive in meaning, light in touch' MOSCOW TIMES In a small apartment...

A 12-WEEK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses." -- People magazine "The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial...

A groundbreaking, inclusive history of the Russian Revolution for "those who want to discover what really happened to Russia" ( The New York Times Book Review ) A "monumental study"...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who "dreamed of justice and then wreaked havoc," by a leading expert...

Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times- do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? On 24 February 2022, Russia shocked...

AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER- The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs Patriot is the unforgettable life story of...

A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. The story begins in Moscow...

A masterfully rendered volume of Chekhov's stories from famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more...

From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse-the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia-and her sister, Princess Ella. Their...

The epic battle of Stalingrad will be remembered as one of history's most savage conflicts. Here world-renowned military historian Edwin P. Hoyt tells the full story of this bloody battle,...

Cilka's Journey is the million copy bestselling sequel to the phenomenon The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Don't miss the conclusion to The Tattooist of Auschwitz Trilogy, Three Sisters . Available now....

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020 'Reads like a thriller, or even a spy novel...Walsh keeps you gripped' Rosamund Urwin, Sunday Times 'A turbulent...

'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's history a tender nurture of pasts we overlook, but which...

An exciting and unique popular city break travel series featuring the best-ever writing on favourite World cities. All the sights, sounds and flavours of city life with perfect gems of...

The acclaimed and harrowing bestseller that tells the true story of the fate of Russia's most powerful submarine, the Kursk - and soon to be a major motion picture, starring...

Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...

'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER 'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN The astonishing story of the ten million...

Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...

From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse-the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia-and her sister, Princess Ella. Their...

A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art. What is it like to be a child living...

It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of...

This book presents the development and operational use of the Soviet/Russian Mikoyan MiG-29. The MiG-29 was the Soviet response to the new generation of air-superiority fighter aircraft fielded by NATO,...

Frommer's Complete Guides America's #1 bestselling travel series More full-color guides than ever before Foldout maps in annual guides Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and insider tips

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray...