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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 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...
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...
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...
Russian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky
Author: Bryan Karetnyk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A landmark anthology that will introduce many extraordinary, unknown Russian writers to an English-language readership for the first time....
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton...
Russian Thinkers
Author: Isaiah Berlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface Isaiah Berlin witnessed the...
Petersburg
Author: Andrei Bely Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg is a vivid, striking story set at the heart of the 1905 Russian revolution. This...
The Cossacks and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a...
Dead Souls
Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in...
Fathers and Sons
Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...
Selected Poetry
Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA...
Novels, Tales, Journeys
Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, translated by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. 'At that moment it seemed to him that...
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately a host of enchanting recollections came flooding back to him; of his...
A Double Life
Author: Charlotte Philby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Times Thrillers of the Year 2020 'Superbly crafted with heart-stopping twists and chills galore. A new star has...
Single & Single
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A complex, psychological novel about familial loyalty, new to Penguin Modern Classics. A corporate lawyer from the House...
Russian Gem Dictionary: The world's favourite mini dictionaries (Collins Gem)
Author: Collins Dictionaries Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The home of trusted Russian dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy and affordable Russian to English and English...
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction showcasing Alexander Pushkin's application of Romantic...
The People's Train
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 "'Thomas Keneally is one of the historical novel's most expert practitioners, and his new book sees him back on...
Private Moscow: (Private 15)
Author: James Patterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Jack Morgan is battling to uncover a conspiracy that leads him all the way to Russia in the heart-stopping...
The State and Revolution
Author: Vladimir Lenin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 This translation by acclaimed historian Robert Service is faithful to the style of Lenin's original work, while his introduction...
Red Cavalry and Other Stories
Author: Isaac Babel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his...
By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia
Author: Nancy Shields Kollmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture...
The Russia House
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 In his first post-glasnost novel, le Carre captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary...