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Condition remarks: Condition: VG. Jacket: VG Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and intact. In the turbulent years of 1860–1861, Imperial Russian Navy Officer Pavel N. Golovin embarked...

Eight hundred years ago a Crusader in the Holy Land discovered a gold box. Under a veil of secrecy it was transported to England and hidden, the clues to its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of post-revolutionary Russia, Cruelty is a morally charged novella that chronicles the story of Venka Malyshin, a...

This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind barbed wire and beneath a merciless Soviet sky, a single day becomes an act of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Text: English. Slightly crushed spine - otherwise internally sound, clean text. A suffocating portrait of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. The pages show age-related tanning and yellowing. The binding appears intact. No dust jacket present. A frontispiece portrait photograph of Maxim Gorky is visible....

Hilarious, intelligent and moving, Pnin is the tale of a generation irrevocably severed from its past Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart...

When the Revolution broke out in 1917, Sergei Golitsyn was just 8 years old. His memoir of the Revolution and the years that followed constitute one of the most powerful...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work in the literature of classical dance, Anna Pavlova by V. Svetloff...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with some wear on edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. A landmark work of Marxist literary criticism,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the barbed wire of Stalin's brutal labour camp system, one man refused to surrender his mind — and what he wrote there changed...

Nabokov's biography of this other Russian literary giant, now part of this new Penguin Modern Classics series Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in modern history have cast as long and dark a shadow as Joseph Stalin, and Boris Souvarine's Stalin: A Critical...

Edition: 7th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: 2 vols. in 1. very uncommon in DJ. Boards faded....

Condition remarks: Worn but not faded - jacket still in good condition. In this essential counter-narrative, Vladimir Lakshin offers an intimate and piercing defense of Alexander Tvardovsky, the celebrated editor...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew writers of the twentieth century provoked as much controversy, admiration, and political fury as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and...