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My Life
An Attempt at an Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
The only Bolshevik leader to write his memoirs, Leon Trotsky published this remarkable book in 1930, the first year of a perilous, decade-long exile that ended with his assassination in Mexico. Expelled from the Communist party and deported from the Soviet Union, the former People's Commissar for...
by Vladimir Lenin, Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Vladimir Lenin•Over a dozen of Lenins work, like Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism, The State and Revolution, The April Theses, and more!Capitalism has triumphed...
Behind The Urals
An American Worker In Russia’s City Of Steel
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
John Scott left the University of Wisconsin for the Soviet Union in 1931. Appalled by the depression and attracted by what he had heard concerning the effort to create a “new society” in the Soviet Union, he obtained training as a welder and went abroad to join the great crusade. Assigned to construction...
Open Mic Night in Moscow
And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
The raucous and surprisingly poignant story of a young, Russia-obsessed American writer and comedian who embarked on a solo tour of the former Soviet Republics, never imagining that it would involve kidnappers, garbage bags of money, and encounters with the weird and wonderful from Mongolia to Tajikistan.
Kazakhstan,...
City of Rogues and Schnorrers
Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
“Outstanding . . . A delightfully written work of serious scholarship.” —Jewish Book World
Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked...
Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context
Folklore or Fakelore
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore include its frequently intensely political aspect and it preoccupation with chimerical cultural authority. These issues are dramatically displayed in Soviet epic compositions of the 1930s and 1940s, the so-called noviny (“new songs”),...
The Most Dangerous Art
Poetry, Politics, and Autobiography after the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
At a time in Russia's history when poets could be (and sometimes were) killed for a poem, the autobiographies of three prominent poets, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Boris Pasternak, became a courageous defense of poetry. The Most Dangerous Art shows how these autobiographies trace an emotional...
The Gentleman from Finland
Adventures on the Trans-Siberian Express
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Two days aboard what he believes is the Trans-Siberian Express, the author discovers he’s on the wrong train. It is 1987, and he is traveling in the Soviet Union, holding a train ticket that mistakenly identifies him as a Finn. In fact, he is a short, dark-skinned Mexican-American-Russian-Jew, who...
Thirteen Years at the Russian Court
A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Tsar Nicholas II, and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
In September 1905 Pierre Gilliard entered Tsar Nicholas II’s household as the French tutor of Duchesses Olga Nicolaievna and Tatiana Nicolaievna.
He would go on to spend a further thirteen years in the close company of the Romanov family.
Within that time he would be a witness to one...
Tattered Banners
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
“With his eye for detail, his taste for anecdote, and his sheer delight in the process of living, Rodzianko has created a delightful, if often sad, work.”―Gary Saul Morson, from his new foreword for this first American edition
"Capacious, powerful, and subtle―a forgotten work with...
Molotov's Magic Lantern
Travels in Russian History
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was the ruthless apparatchik Vyacheslav Molotov, a henchman for Stalin who was a participant in the collectivizations...
Another Winter, Another Spring
A Love Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1987
Set at the turn of the twentieth century and spread across the enormous canvas of Russia itself, Another Winter, Another Spring is a tale of love and loyalty tested against great hardship and suffering.
Strange Telescopes
Following the Apocalypse from Moscow to Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
The acclaimed author of Lost Cosmonaut “takes us into a world of exorcism, cults and oddballs” living in Ukraine, Siberia, and the catacombs beneath Moscow (The Guardian).
In Lost Cosmonaut, travel writer and anti-tourist Daniel Kalder ventured into the most distant republics of the former...
by Sergio Pitol
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
"Sergio Pitol is not only our best active storyteller, he is also the bravest renovator of our literature."—Álvaro Enrigue in Letras Libres
"Pitol is probably one of Mexico's most culturally complex and composite writers. He is certainly the strangest, most unfathomable, and...