Russia

Alexander Solzhenitsyn / One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Vintage Paperback)

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Anton Chekhov / The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

In the final years of his prominent life, Chekhov had reached the height of his powers as a dramatist, and also produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces. The poignant 'The Lady...

Bill Browder / Red Notice : How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy

 I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they...

Boris Akunin / The Death of Achilles (Large Paperback) ( Erast Fandorin Detective - Book 4 )

Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow, and he just can't seem to keep out of trouble... The fourth novel in the bestselling crime series from the author of THE WINTER QUEEN. Erast Fandorin returns to...

Catherine Merridale / Ivan's War

 'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday TimesThey died in their millions, shattered by...

Christopher Wilson / The Zoo (Hardback)

There are certain things that Yuri Zipit knows:That being official food-taster for the leader of the Soviet Union requires him to drink too much vodka for a 12-year-old. That you do not have to be an...

Conor O'Clery / The Shoemaker and his Daughter

   O'Clery takes us into the hidden heart of Soviet Russia... An arresting and evocative story.' Keggie Carew, author of Dadland'A tour de force ... Love, politics, murder, wars, and the...

Daniel Kalder / Lost Cosmonaut (Large Paperback)

PB 2006 Lost Cosmonaut documents Daniel Kalder's travels in the bizarre and mysterious worlds of Russia's ethnic republics. Obsessed with a quest he never fully understands, Kalder boldly goes where...

Darryl Cunningham / Putin's Russia (Large Paperback)

The Rise of a Dictator Author of more than six acclaimed graphic novels and well-known for his economical drawing and clear, explanatory narrative, Cunningham shows how the West and its leaders have...

Edvard Radzinsky / Rasputin: The Last Word

 Sensational new biography - using the discovery of long lost contemporary documents - of the Russian peasant mystic whose malign influence helped lead to the downfall of the Romanovs. An...

Edward Topol / Dermo! (Large Paperback)

Dermo!: The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used Edward Topol, Kim Wilson Brandt (Illustrator), Laura E. Wolfson (Translator)     Not even Tolstoy would dare...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky / Crime and Punishment

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a...

Garry Kasparov / Winter Is Coming (Large Paperback)

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped The stunning story of Russia’s slide back into a dictatorship—and how the West is now paying the...

Gary Shteyngart / Little Failure: A Memoir (Large Paperback)

 Gary Shteyngart's loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and...

Heidi Blake / From Russia with Blood (Large Paperback)

The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination  “A compelling...

Helen Rappaport / Ekaterinburg

 A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely...

Igor Korchilov / Translating History : 30 Years on the Front Lines of Diplomacy with a Top Russian Interpreter (Hardback)

Mikhail Gorbachev's former interpreter gives an insider's views on Gorbachev's meetings and power struggles with the world's leaders.      All of our books are second hand, and while...

Ilan Berman / Implosion : The End of Russia and What It Means for America (Hardback)

Crises—political, social, and economic—run rampant within Mother Russia’s borders. Russian troops infiltrate the Crimean peninsula, the UN Security Council attempts to mediate...

Isaac Deutscher - The Prophet Unarmed Trotsky 1921-29 - PB

Published by OUP in this edition, 1970. First published 1959.  The upper r/h corner is creased and dogeared, tanning to pages, otherwise no flaws noted.  Examines the life of Leon Trotsky...

Ivan Turgenev / Home of the Gentry (Vintage Paperback)

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John Simpson / Moscow, Midnight (Large Paperback)

 Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong.Jon Swift is from the old stock of journos - cynical, cantankerous...

Julia Phillips / Disappearing Earth (Hardback)

One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern tip of Russia, two girls – sisters, ages eight and eleven – go missing. The police investigation that...

Marcus Wheeler - The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary - HB Revised 1978

Hardcover in dustjacket, originally published in 1972, this is a 1978 revision with corrections.  Note that this is Russian to English only ( ie not the reverse ) and is aimed at someone with a...

Mark Hollingsworth, Stewart Lansley / Londongrad: From Russia with Cash: The Inside Story of the Oligarchs (Large Paperback)

A group of buccaneering Russian oligarchs made colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism—and many of them came to London to enjoy their new-found wealth. Londongrad tells for the first...

Mark Urban / The Skripal Files: Putin, Poison and the New Spy War (Large Paperback)

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Martin McCauley / The Longman Companion To Russia Since 1914 (Large Paperback)

This new Companion , by a leading historian of Russian and Soviet history, covers the period 1914 to the modern day taking in the twilight years of Tsarist Russia, communist Russia and new Russia...

Masha Gessen / The Man Without a Face (Large Paperback)

Since coming to power in 1999, Vladimir Putin has ruthlessly seized control of media, exiled or killed political rivals and dismantled Russia's fragile electoral system, transforming Russia once more...

Maxim Gorky - The Life of a Useless Man - HB

Sunfade to spine, which is faded from red to a light pale pink. Hardcover, this edition first published 1972, originally 1908.  The story tells the life of loner and orphan Yevsey Klimkov who...

Michael Mullen / The Last Days of the Romanovs

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Mikhail Sholokhov / And Quiet Flows the Don (Vintage Paperback)

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Morry Sofer / Russian Business Dictionary: English-Russian (Large Paperback)

American and Russian Business Terms for the Internet Age     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very...

Moshe Lewin / The Gorbachev Phenomenon (Large Paperback)

The "Gorbachev phenomenon" is seen as the product of complex developments during the seventy years—developments that changed the Soviet Union from a primarily agrarian society into an urban,...

Orlando Figes / A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 (Large Paperback)

 It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of...

Orlando Figes / The Story of Russia

From “the great storyteller of Russian history” (Financial Times), a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia’s identity and politics from its...

Owen Matthews / Stalin's Children : Three Generations of Love and War (Hardback)

An indelible portrait of Russia over seven decades and an unforgettable memoir about how we struggle to define ourselves in opposition to our ancestry only to find ourselves aligning with it.On a...

Penguin Books / Soviet Short Stories (Vintage Paperback)

Dual Language Book     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.   Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an...

Philip Short / Putin (Large Paperback)

'Magisterial' - Guardian'Outstanding' - Ian KershawVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear...

Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope: Reminiscences and Reflections (Hardback)

The First Lady of the USSR recalls her childhood and education, marriage to Mikhail Gorbachev, experiences during his rise to political power, meetings with world leaders, and dramatic changes in...

Sergei Lukyanenko / The Night Watch (Large Paperback)

The phenomenal Russian bestseller. A vampire novel set in a richly realized post-apocalyptic Soviet Moscow. In The Night Watch , the first of a trilogy, and reminiscent of Philip Pullman’s...

Siegfried Kohls / Business Russian (Large Paperback)

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Simon Morrison / Bolshoi Confidential (Large Paperback)

Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today In this “incredibly rich” ( New York Times ) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage...

Simon Sebag Montefiore / Young Stalin

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Steven Lee Myers / The New Tsar

In this account of Vladimir Putin's rise from obscurity to power, the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief explains how the Russian leader established his popularity by restoring order after the...

Suzanne Massie / Pavlovsk: The Life of a Russian Palace (Coffee Table Book)

During the 900-day siege of Leningrad, Pavlovsk, the 18th-century Russian palace, built by Catherine the Great's daughter-in-law, was burned to the ground. This book tells the story of various...

Tom Rob Smith / Child 44

1953. In Stalin's Soviet Union, crime does not exist. But still millions live in fear. The mere suspicion of disloyalty to the State, the wrong word at the wrong time, can send an innocent person to...

Vladimir Kilinkarov / Doing Business in Russia 2nd Edition (Large Paperback)

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