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The Master and Margarita
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction - New York Times The devil makes a personal appearance in...
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.
Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia
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Author: Emmanuel Carrere Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures This is how Emmanuel...
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...
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the incredible true story of one of the most audacious and...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War
Author: Catherine Grace Katz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating...
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...
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...
Stalingrad
Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 Stalingrad is the prequel to Life and Fate, one of the twentieth century's greatest novels. This is its first...
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The No. 1 Bestseller- Hitler's ill-fated final stand, from the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day. From the...
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 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...
Demons
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 A major new translation of one of Dostoyevsky's four great novels Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ten Days That Shook the World
Author: John Reed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution Ten Days That Shook 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...
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...
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...
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...
Nostalgia
Author: Mircea Cartarescu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...