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The Brothers Karamazov
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes...
Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 864
Penguin Classics relaunch The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.
The Communist Manifesto
Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important...
In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
Author: Jeffrey Tayler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...
Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies. 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy...
Borderland A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium,...
The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy
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Author: Mark Urban Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine...
Life and Fate
Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during...
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton...
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by the winner of the Nobel prize in literature On 26 April...
Pale Fire
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita,...
Notes From Underground
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Notes from Underground establishing Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in...
Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...
Notes from Underground and the Double
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes...
The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
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Author: Daniel Kalder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown. --The Washington Post A...
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
Author: Simon Jenkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe...
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A unique and enchanting collection of Russian folk tales collected over the last two centuries In these tales, young...
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Those people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian...
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world...
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Author: Adam Higginbotham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival...
Doctor Zhivago
Author: Boris Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A new translation of one of the greatest love stories ever told, in a beautiful gift edition. From the...
The Heart Of A Dog
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
Gypsy Music The Balkans and Beyond
Author: Alan Ashton-Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 248 The figure of the gypsy is simultaneously vilified and romanticized. Gypsies have for centuries been associated with criminality and...
The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...
Conversations With Stalin
Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read But Probably Didn't
Author: John Atkinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 A collection of irreverent summations of more than 100 well-known works of literature, from Anna Karenina to Wuthering Heights, cleverly described...
Resurrection
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'You want to use me to save your soul . . . You disgust me' Serving on the jury...
The Little Demon
Author: Fyodor Sologub Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'He wanted to do something to her, be it pleasant or painful, tender or shameful - but what? Should...
Plays
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by...
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
Author: Aleksandr Fursenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth...
The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
Author: James Carl Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5,000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow....
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge...
The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov
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Author: Alex Beam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of...
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...
A Confession and Other Religious Writings
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Magnificent new translation of Tolstoy' fiction by the acclaimed duo behind War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich...
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
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Author: Simon Morrison (Princeton University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 On a freezing night in January 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director...
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In this new translation, Stanley Mitchell captures the cadences and lightness of the original poem, and discusses in his...
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Book of 2020
Author: Sophy Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times and Spectator book of 2020, and a major new literary voice. Siberia's history is traditionally...
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The poems are presented in stunning modern translations by Robert Chandler and many others, with individual introductions to each...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition
Author: Robert Service Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in...
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...