Russia category: 2582 books
by Alexander Pushkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This early anthology of Russian poetry was compiled and translated by Deutsch and Yermolinksy and was originally published in 1921. It provides a fascinating and absorbing collection of some of the work of Russia’s greatest poets from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Deutsch and Yermolinksy...
Eight Pieces of Empire
A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it.
Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. Lawrence...
A People Passing Rude
British Responses to Russian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements—in music, art and particularly literature—achieved widespread recognition in...
America's Secret War against Bolshevism
U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
From the Russian revolutions of 1917 to the end of the Civil War in 1920, Woodrow Wilson's administration sought to oppose the Bolsheviks in a variety of covert ways. Drawing on previously unavailable American and Russian archival material, David Foglesong chronicles both sides of this secret war...
by Mark Carter
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Originally published in 1959, this is the true story of Mark Carter, who was born in Czarist Russia and experienced first-hand the aborted revolution of 1905, the Kerensky Revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution of October, 1917, and witnessed the coming of communism to the largest country on...
by Chaim Potok
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
"REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."
--The Boston Globe
The father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father held dear. Now, Chaim Potok, beloved...
To the Edge of the World
The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World's Greatest Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
To the Edge of the World, is an adventure in travel-full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of engineering. Christian Wolmar passionately recounts the improbable origins of the Trans-Siberian railroad,...
by Alexandra Popoff
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The new book from the critically acclaimed author of The Wives and ?Sophia Tolstoy sheds light on one of the strangest and most unusual relationships in literary history—which has been steeped in secrecy for more than a century.
On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg secret...
by Simon Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
In this “incredibly rich” (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.
A critical triumph, Simon Morrison’s “sweeping and authoritative” (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi...
Twenty Letters to a Friend
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In this riveting, New York Times-bestselling memoir—first published by Harper in 1967—Svetlana Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan’s critically acclaimed biography, Stalin’s Daughter, describes the surreal experience of growing up in the Kremlin in the shadow of her father, Joseph Stalin.
Svetlana...
The Unquiet Ghost
Russians Remember Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’s reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless...
Spymaster
Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Tennent Bagley’s Spymaster is the single most revealing book about espionage to emerge from the Cold War.” -Edward Jay Epstein, author of Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA
From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major...
Building Utopia
Erecting Russia's First Modern City, 1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2000
Perhaps the most challenging project under Stalin's first five-year plan was the race to build Europe's largest automobile factory and an adjacent city in just 18 months. The site was Nizhny Novgorod, later named Gorky. To design and construct both factory and city, Soviet officials approached the...
by Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927.
It was the author, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch, who spearheaded the underground Jewish resistance to Stalin’s ideological Final Solution — and paid for it by brutal incarceration...