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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
The Possessed



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“The seven essays here are expansive, wide-ranging, almost impossible to categorize, merging criticism and personal experience, scholarship and life. Although bounded by the author’s devotion to Russian literature, The Possessed is really a kind of autobiography in reading, in which the characters are Tolstoy, Isaac Babel and Pushkin.”—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
The Crimean War: A History
The Crimean War



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"A huge success . . . In The Crimean War Orlando Figes restores the conflict—which predated the American Civil War by eight years—as 'a major turning point' in European and Middle Eastern history . . . Figes artfully uses painstaking archival work to expose the secret machinations of statesmen, but he never overlooks the awful human costs—The Crimean War remains alarmingly relevant."—Gary J. Bass, The New York Times Book Review
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
Just Send Me Word



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"A book to astonish readers:  never before has Stalin’s Gulag been the setting for a love affair. This powerful narrative by a distinguished historian will take its place not just in history but in literature."—Robert K. Massie, author of Catherine the Great
Travels in Siberia:
Travels in Siberia


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"[Travels in Siberia is] an uproarious, sometimes dark yarn filled with dubious meals, broken-down vehicles, abandoned slave-labor camps and ubiquitous statues of Lenin—On the Road meets The Gulag Archipelago . . . As he demonstrated in Great Plains, Frazier is the most amiable of obsessives . . . he peels away Russia's stolid veneer to reveal the quirkiness and humanity beneath . . . Frazier has the gumption and sense of wonder shared by every great travel writer, from Bruce Chatwin to Redmond O'Hanlon, as well as the ability to make us see how the most trivial or ephemeral detail is part of the essential texture of a place . . . [An] endlessly fascinating tale."—Joshua Hammer, The New York Times Book Review
Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
Red Cloud at Dawn



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“Gordin zeros in on the crucial years from Hiroshima to the first flash of ‘Joe 1’ in 1949, the first Russian bomb and the ninth nuclear explosion. Using a spectacular variety of sources from Soviet and American sources, Gordin gives us a book that must be read to understand how we came to the sprawling nuclear proliferation in which we now live.”—Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University
The Hunger Angel: A Novel
The Hunger Angel



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“A wonderful, passionate, poetic work of literature . . . Herta Muller is a writer who releases great emotional power through a highly sophisticated, image studded, and often expressionistic prose.”—Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books
East of the West: A Country in Stories
East of the West



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“Miroslav Penkov has successfully trapped two elusive creatures: the absurd beauty of Eastern Europe and the emotional paradox of self-exile from that absurdity. His sense of history, his sense of humor, and his ability to create lasting characters make this book a dark yet hilarious pleasure.”—Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian

Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History
Molotov's Magic Lantern



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"Perceptive and erudite . . . [Polonsky] has produced a spectacular and enjoyable display of intellectual fireworks for the general reader . . . Ms. Polonsky wears her considerable learning lightly . . . She has a knack for putting herself into other people's shoes with empathy and skill . . . The contempt she feels for the greed, filth and viciousness that she encounters is all the more compelling for being understated. Her sympathy and affection for the finest bits of Russia's past and present shine through . . . The reader catches only fleeting glimpses of Ms. Polonsky herself. That contrasts pleasingly with the self-centeredness that is present in so much other Western writing about Russia. As her book shows, the author has grit, charm and style—and a gift for traveller’s tales."—The Economist
Day of the Oprichnik: A Novel
Day of the Oprichnik



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“Might this be something of a Sorokin moment in the Anglophone world? Is the pope German?”—Stephen Kotkin, The New York Times Book Review

Red Plenty:
Red Plenty


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"Red Plenty ranks as one of the strangest books ever written on the Soviet Union. From start to finish, the book is an eccentric delight; absorbing, pleasingly digressive and superbly written."—Ian Thomson, Financial Times
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Voices from Chernobyl



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"Alexievich has not merely given us a work of documentation but of excavation, of revealed meaning. It is hard to imagine how anyone in the West will read these cantos of loss and not feel a sense of communion, of a shared humanity in the face of this horror . . . The stories collected here are not only haunting but illuminating."—Andrew Meier, The Nation
Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky
Night Wraps the Sky



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"The translations—by a new generation of Russian American poets—are consistently wonderful. Rachel Cohen's essay concisely and brilliantly describes the Futurists, the Formalists, the Acmeists, and the Symbolists-all artistic groups surrounding Mayakovsky. The book further explores Mayakovsky's relationships with Lili Brik and Tatiana Yakovleva, explains his propaganda work, and addresses his mixture of the surreal, the lyric, and the sarcastic . . . Encompassing the excitement and glory of the revolution's generation."—Gene Shaw, Library Journal

Black Sea:
Black Sea


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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History In this study of the fateful encounters between Europe and Asia on the shores of a legendary sea,...
Grief of My Heart: Memoirs of a Chechen Surgeon
Grief of My Heart



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"Spectacular . . . Khassan Baiev's autobiographical tale of his work as a field surgeon in both Chechen wars . . . provides not only a detailed account of the effects of modern warfare on its victims, but also a story of a Caucasian coming-of-age in the old USSR."—Christian Caryl, The New York Review of Books
Natasha: And Other Stories
Natasha



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A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Commonwealth Prize

"An authority one usually finds only in more seasoned writers."—Meghan O’Rouke, The New York Times Book Review
The Stone Fields: Love and Death in the Balkans
The Stone Fields



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"Harrowing . . . The Stone Fields is more than a memoir of the latest Balkan bloodletting. It is also an intimate history of the Balkans since the end of World War I. In sections entitled 'Herzegovina 1918-1931,' 'Sarajevo 1933-1945,' and 'Liberation 1945-1959,' Brkic re-creates the battered lives of her father's parents and sisters under the succession of regimes and circumstances that followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire with an almost folkloric intensity . . . Brkic establishes character and complexity, including her own, with the authority of an experienced novelist."—Elinor Langer, The Oregonian
Collected Poems in English:
Collected Poems in English


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"Gathers up all of Brodsky's finest poems in one heftily elegant volume . . . Brodsky charged at the world with full intensity and wrestled his perceptions into lines that fairly vibrate with what they are asked to hold. There is no voice, no vision, remotely like it."—Sven Birkerts, The New York Times Book Review
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
Red Moon Rising



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“In his exuberant narrative of the superpower space race . . . [Brzezinski] tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic—even...
Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia
Lenin's Private War



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“Ms. Chamberlain, a British historian and the author of Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia, brings these forgotten figures back to life with great skill and sympathy, reconstructing their intellectual milieu and making a strong case for the importance of their banishment as a turning point in the road from revolution to Communist tyranny.”—William Grimes, The New York Times
Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War
Prague in Danger



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A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia’s great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his...
The Brothers Karamazov:
The Brothers Karamazov


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"This acclaimed English version of Dostoevsky's magnificent last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention: as murder mystery, black comedy, pioneering work of psychological realism, and enduring statement about freedom, sin, and suffering . . . [The translators] come as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as possible."—Joseph Frank, Princeton University
Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia
Forgotten Land



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Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire’s farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the...
Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
Great Catherine



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From the moment the fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst agreed to marry the heir to the Russian throne, she was mired in a quicksand of...
Alexandra: The Last Tsarina
Alexandra



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Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true...
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